Nature and human impact on Nile Delta coastal sand dunes, Egypt Mahmoud M. El Banna 1 Environmental Geology volume 45 , pages 690-695 ( 2004 ) Cite this article Found inside – Page 235Fertilizing the Land, Lagoons and Sea: A First Look at Human Impacts on the Nile Delta fishery, Egypt (Ph.D. dissertation). University of Rhode L g m ( 6 Island; (E) From Ludwig, W., Dumont, E., Meybeck, M., Heussner, S., 2009. construction of the Aswan dam (Nile Delta profiles and migrating sand blankets, 1992), (Nile Delta in its destructive phase, 1998), (The impact of human activities on the erosion and accretion of the Nile Delta coast, 1995), (Nile Delta: extreme case of sediment entrapment, 1996), (Douglas, 2005). Vulnerability of the Nile Delta coastal areas to inundation by sea level rise. Due to low elevation in the Nile delta region, Egypt is considered one of the top five countries expected to be mostly impacted with a 1 m sea level rise resulting from global warming. problems are expected to be exacerbated and vast areas from land and property would be lost. Thus, protecting and developing the remaining dunes in the study area are vital requirements for strengthening shoreline defenses against beach erosion as an effective way to mitigate possible consequences of sea-level rise. All rights reserved. been altered by human activity (Wichansky et al., 2008). Sie haben die Vision, in Schloss Hollenburg wird sie zu Hoch-Zeit – wir freuen uns auf Sie, – Zwischen Weingärten und Donau in Hollenburg bei Krems: 72 km westlich von Wien (50 Min. A case study of the coastal recession at the Nile Delta for Edexcel A Level Geography. Human activities contribute numerous hydrogeological threats including waterlogging, soil salinization and water pollution in East Nile Delta region. It is concluded that, large areas in the coastal zone of the Nile Delta will be submerged by seawater and the coast line will shift landward by several kilometers in the eastern and western sides of the Delta. Therefore, further studies should focus on the study of the main interactions and processes in the marine bar ecosystems. Found inside – Page 136Agricultural productivity is another aspect that climate change will potentially negatively affect as a result of increased ... (UNEP), Nairobi Stanley DJ, Warne AG (1993) Nile delta: recent geological evolution and human impact. The coastal sand dune are sand formations which were predominantly formed by the action of the western winds through mixing the deposits of the ancient Nile Deltaic branches and the marine deposits transported by the marine currents (Bayomi, 1999). Nile Delta is vulnerable due to the impact of climate change and related sea level rise. Human actions and Physical factors affecting the Delta. Please enable it to take advantage of the complete set of features! It has been found that most of the dunes in the study area have been subjected to deterioration and removal due Zhang Z, Huang Y, Xu CY, Chen X, Moss EM, Jin Q, Bailey AM. Prevention and treatment information (HHS). The bar consists of a strongly bimodal mixture of pebble gravel and medium to fine sand; there is a lack of material in the range of 0.5 to 2 mm, because the source does not supply particles of this size. DOI: 10.1007/s00254-003-0922-y. Urbanization of the coast has severely altered the landscape. Found inside – Page 68Faculty of Arts, Alexandria University, Alexandria Torab MM (1990b) Morphology of the Nile islands in Damietta Nile Branch ... Mar Geol 94:147–154 Stanley DJ, Wane AG (1993) Nile Delta: recent geological evolution and human impact. Hier, mitten in Hollenburg, ca. Long-term oceanographic and ecological research in the Western English Channel. Epub 2012 Dec 29. Another human impact on the Nile River is that of pollution. The natural Nile cycle of flow and sediment discharge has been disrupted by human intervention, including closure of the High Aswan Dam; this intervention has resulted in a series of responses that now threaten the northern Nile delta. Letters: Global Warming, the Nile Delta and Umm. Authors: Mahmoud M. El Banna. Badawy WM, Duliu OG, Frontasyeva MV, El-Samman H, Mamikhin SV. Islam H. Abou El-Magd and ElSayed A. Hermas "Human Impact on the Coastal Landforms in the Area between Gamasa and Kitchner Drains, Northern Nile Delta, Egypt," Journal of Coastal Research 2010(263), 541-548, (1 May 2010). Associated with this longshore sediment movement is a selective transport of different minerals according to their densities and grain sizes, with the light minerals (quartz and feldspar) having the highest advection rates and the dense opaque minerals the lowest rates, tending to remain behind as a lag within the erosion areas. The effect of the human activities on the coastal area are enormous. Faure, 1980). The integration between borehole temperatures and groundwater chemistry was good to conduct the aim of this study. Found inside – Page 301Stanley DJ, Warne AG (1993) Nile Delta: recent geological evolution and human impact. Science 260(5108):628–634 8. CRI/UNESCO/UNDP (1978) Coastal protection studies. Final Technical Report, Paris, 1 9. Frihy OE, Khafagy AA (1991) ... Natural and human impact on the northeastern Nile delta coast of Egypt. A sandy spit, 12 km long, has developed southeast of Damietta promontory. The results show that there is a worldwide trend of dune stabilisation, with 93% (164 out of 176) of the reviewed sites showing a loss of bare sand area due to an increase in vegetation cover and urbanisation expansion. The towns and high intensity agricultural land following the river stand out clearly on the human modification map, while the nearby desert shows much less impact. Would you like email updates of new search results? Thus, protection and preservation Fort Lauderdale (Florida), ISSN 0749-0208. Dataset of elemental compositions and pollution indices of soil and sediments: Nile River and delta -Egypt. As the sediments accumulate and create barriers to the flow of the river, the river branches out into distributaries which finally drain into the sea. 3) 15 were either eroded naturally or removed by humans, Brazos River bar: a study on the sig-nificance of grain size parameters, RL, Ward WO (1957) Brazos River bar: a study on the sig-nificance of grain size parameters. Here, we integrate remote sensing (RS), direct current resistivity (DCR) and time-domain induced polarization (TDIP) to characterize the soil along the Nile Delta coast. The rate of shoreline retreat has been greatest along the Rosetta promontory (− 106 m/yr) and Damietta promontory (− 10.4 m/yr). Erosion rates jumped from 20-25 m per year to over 200 metres per year as the delta was starved of sediment. As the consequence of human activities the size of Manzala lagoon has been reduced to less than 50%.Short-term shoreline changes along the coast of the study area established from beach profile survey, spanning the years of 1990 to 2000, reveal longshore patterns of erosion versus accretion. Impact of the Nile River on Ancient Egypt. that extends from El Bouseily village to the west of Idku town. Ihr Event, sei es Hochzeit oder Business-Veranstaltung, verdient einen Ort, der ihn unvergesslich macht. Several aquifers around the world are situated in the coastal zones and influenced by seawater intrusion. MeSH Statistical analysis of the data is based on a series of grain size parameters modified from those of Inman (1952) to provide a more detailed coverage of non-normal size curves. This volume presents up-to-date research on the Nile Delta and discusses the challenges involved in and opportunities for improving its productivity. More recently, human impacts in the form of land use change over the last few millennia and large dam construction over the last hundred years or so, have had major impacts on the hydrology and sediment budget of the Nile Basin. In this research, 24 land use/land cover (LULC) maps from 1992 . Figure 1: Top: Satellite image of the Nile delta (Source: Google) Bottom: Map of the Nile delta and main cities; 3 Potential impacts of sea level rise on the Nile delta The Nile delta is subject to shoreline changes, subsidence, and sea level rise resulting from climate change. Reclamation of vast areas of the coastal dunes and of Manzala lagoon added about 420 km2 to the agricultural deltaic land. The richness of These factors combined: landforms, climate and water, are looked at in detail. More than half of Egypt's crops are grown along the Nile delta. It is one of the world's largest river deltas—from Alexandria in the west to Port Said in the east, it covers 240 km (150 mi) of Mediterranean coastline and is a rich agricultural region. The groundwater models previously built for the area used very large dispersivities to reconstruct this saline and brackish groundwater zone. These large scale delta-wide patterns are affected somewhat by local shoreline changes and mineral variations induced by the construction of jetties or shoreline protection structures. From the figure, it is clear that; the western region of the Nile Delta, has the highest values of evapotranspiration, while the northern region has the lowest values, among the recorded period (1997-2006). 2006, showing the Nile Delta agro-ecological zones, divided according to "ETo" similarity due to governorate's location and metrology. The blown sand grains accumulated to form a belt of coastal sand dunes with longitudinal and crescentic forms. As the river reaches the sea, it is loaded with sediments which are deposited at its mouth, where its speed is slow or still. Found inside – Page 394Preparatory white paper for OSTP/ USGCRP regional workshop on the Impacts of global climate change on the Pacific ... Stanley, D.J. (1996) Nile delta: extreme case of sediment entrapment on a delta plain and consequent coastal land loss ... The Nile Delta (Arabic: دلتا النيل ‎ Delta an-Nīl or simply الدلتا ad-Delta) is the delta formed in Lower Egypt where the Nile River spreads out and drains into the Mediterranean Sea.It is one of the world's largest river deltas—from Alexandria in the west to Port Said in the east, it covers 240 km (150 mi) of Mediterranean coastline and is a rich agricultural region. Found inside – Page 235Anthropogenic impacts on Iberoamerican coastal areas: Historical processes, present challenges, and consequences for coastal zone management. ... The impact of human activities on the erosion and accretion of the Nile Delta coast. 1974 Nov 8;186(4163):487-95. doi: 10.1126/science.186.4163.487. The Nile Delta (Arabic: دلتا النيل ‎, Delta an-Nīl or simply الدلتا, ad-Delta) is the delta formed in Lower Egypt where the Nile River spreads out and drains into the Mediterranean Sea. This range is smaller (1511–1989 km³) when we consider the volumes of onshore fresh groundwater within 300 m depth. Found inside – Page 318This is believed to be one of the less desirable consequences of the construction of the Aswan Dam on the Nile : parts of its delta have shown recently accelerated recession . The Nile sediments , on reaching the sea , used to move ... to the construction, Landsat Enhanced Thematic Mapper imagery (ETM) of 2002 and aerial photography of 1955, combined with published charts and field observations were used to interpret geomorphological changes in the coastal zone between Kitchener drain and Damietta spit in the northeastern Nile delta previously recognized as a vulnerable zone to the effects of any sea-level rise resulting from global warming. More recently, human impacts in the form of land use change over the last few millennia and large dam construction over the last hundred years or so, have had major impacts on the hydrology and sediment budget of the Nile Basin.

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