Abstract
In recent years, the land subsidence due to different phenomena such as excessive withdrawal of groundwater resources has lead to significant damages to farmlands, residential buildings, roads and transmission lines. Inattention to the land subsidence results in the ruining of buildings which in turn causes the migration of people and imposes financial and social costs on the government. In this paper a case study is performed for Marvdasht plain and rural regions of Fars province, Iran. All affecting parameters and their related damages are considered in the study. The variation of groundwater level and the conditions of rainfall and drought processes in recent years are investigated. The effects of faults and the seismic vulnerability of the regions are also studied by seismic methods. Such factor as groundwater level drop, thickness of clay layers, variation in the thickness of layers at the hillsides and the coincidence of the direction of created cracks and fissures with direction of available faults in the studied area have been investigated as the main factors affecting the soil settlement. At the end of the research, appropriate solutions for the land subsidence prevention and consequently the reduction of the related damages are presented.
Highlights
The land subsidence consists of the collapse or settlement of the surface level that can be accompanied by a small amount of horizontal displacement
The land subsidence due to different phenomena such as excessive withdrawal of groundwater resources has lead to significant damages to farmlands, residential buildings, roads and transmission lines
In this paper a case study is performed for Marvdasht plain and rural regions of Fars province, Iran
Summary
The land subsidence consists of the collapse or settlement of the surface level that can be accompanied by a small amount of horizontal displacement. The variation of groundwater level and the conditions of rainfall and drought processes in recent years are investigated. A study about the effects of faults and the seismic vulnerability of the regions has been studied by seismic methods. Such factors as groundwater level drop, the thickness of clay layers,. MIRASI variation in the thickness of layers at the hillsides and the coincidence of the direction of created cracks and fissures with the direction of available faults in the studied area have been investigated as the main factors affecting the soil settlement. At the end of the paper, appropriate solutions for the land subsidence prevention and the related damages reduction are presented
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