Quantitive Assessment of Salty Geomorphosites in Semnan Province Using brilha method

Nowadays, along with other social and cultural attractions, the geomorphological and climate ýattraction, curative waters and caves, and water stream have the special importance for ýeconomical studies and policy making. Geotourism is a new approach to explain the earth ýplanet and its natural capital. In addition to educational and scientific roles, it can cause to ýdevelopment of regional tourism and offer strategies for sustainable development in the ýgeotourism sites. Geotourism is one of the new area in tourism that follow tourism principles ýcompletely and compose of geology, geomorphology, natural landscapes, landforms, stones ýand minerals with emphasis on processes that create these shapes. This branch of tourism ýintroduce the phenomenon result from geology and geomorphology to tourists by observing ýthe international rules and standards along with keeping the local identity and also arrange and ýorganize this treasure observation and preventing from it’s destroying by human and pave the ýway for region developing. Therefore, it emphasize on a set of geographical, geology, bio–ýenvironmental, cultural and ancient in heritage characterizations and including every part of ýland surface that relate to better perception of land meaning and it’s history. It is necessary for ýdeveloping the geotourism of each region to identify the various geotourist attractions such as ýdesert, coastal, volcanic, mountainous regions and it’s development need to programming and ýcost spending that finally result in developing the region geotourism. This activity, not only ýhave economical, ecological and cultural – social benefits but also provide the employment of ýextensive range of students in mine, bio–environment , geography, geology areas and etc. ýGeomorphotourism is an approach that emphasizes on the use of geomorphological and ýgeological features and their ability with a focus on saving these features and forms and ýsustainable use of them (Reynard, 2008: 226). This approach also places an emphasis on ýmaintaining the geographical identity (Ranjbar, 1388) and referring to relationship between ýgeotrourism and historic - cultural signs and reminders (De Waele and Melis, 2009: 578ýþ þºPanizza and Piacente, 2008)ýþ þand also interactions between geomorphology and tourism .That ýeventually would be related to human activities and the history of the human life..So, ýgeomorphotourism is a combination of tourism goods, services, and foundations that are ýpromoted in the specific region and cultural elements which are related to them (Reynard, ýý2008: 225).Geomorphosite assessment is an issue that all geographers are interesting to ýfocusing on and developing it (Comanescu et al., 2011: 1164).The various studies have been ýcarried out in internal and world level about estimating the geomarphosites in two past decade ýand at the present they are doing with evolutional trend. In this research, the capability of ýlandforms result from salty diapirism in developing tourism in Semnan have been estimated. ýSemnan have been known as a salty tourism pole but unfortunately, there isn’t any research ýabout tourism result from salty diapirism in this city and even Iran.
Semnan province is located between 51◦ 51′ 51″ E and 57◦ 03′ 00″ E from prime meridian and ýý34◦ 13′ 00″ N and 37◦ 20′ 00″ from Equator. In this study, descriptive - analytical indicators ýand brilha method are used to analyze the data. Salty Geomorphosites of Semnan Province, ýwith using the satellite image processing and combined with topographical and geological ýmaps identified, then with help of library and field studies, geomorphological Properties of ýthe sites based on brilha method had been studied. The instrument used in this study consists ýof Digital Elevation Model (DEM), ETM Satellite Images, IRS Images, and Topography Maps ýin scale of 1:50000 produced by Iran Geographical Organization of the Armed Forces and ýGeological Maps in the Scale of 1:150000. In the first stepýþ þý35 cases of the most important ýattractions of geo-tourism features in the Semnan province was selected then value and ýcriteria according to brilha method determined and then each geomorphosite evaluated. Brilha ýmethod is a Quantitive technique to primary evaluation of geomorphosites from the view ýpoint of planning and sustainable management of natural heritage sites and turning them into ýtourist destinations. This method include 4 criteria such as Scientific, Educational, touristic ýand degredation risk and 37 indicators.ý
Landforming is one of the tectonical effects of salty diapiar in large and small scales. ýGeomorphological landform is a geomorphological event that have scientific, cultural – ýhistorical , geology and social – economical values according to human identification. In this ýresearch salty capabilities of Semnan province in order to geotourism development evaluated. ýFrom the salty landforms finally 35 geomorphosite in the semnan province in order to ýevaluation, selected. In order to select these features, some criteria such as ýRepresentativeness, rarity, integrity and Scientific Knowledge had been considered. Results ýshow that in the Scientific and Educational Criteria, Geomorphosite of southern of Semnan ýSalty dome get the highest value (3.8, 3.73) and then is placed on the first order, in the ýtouristic criteria, Geomorphosite of Kohdasht Kohan Salty dome get the highest value (3.63) ýand then is placed on the first order.ý
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In this research , we tried to estimating the capability of salty domes geomorphosite in the ýSemnan Province from geological and geomorphological point of view by using brilha ýmodel. Results show that salty geomorphosites have high scientific, protective and aesthetic ývalues but from the view point of tourism services and foundation are faced to several ýproblems and there isn’t enough facilities in this field. High protection level in this area is not ýrelated to administrative and scientific protection but is related to lack of awareness of these ýgeomorphosites and this means that officials and planners in the field of introducing the ýdesert geomorphosites of the Semnan province Limited efforts have been done.ý