Author(s): Niko Pano; Bardhyl Avdyli
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Abstract: In this paper it is attempted to present a general evaluation of the sediment transport regime in Seman river system and its impact on the river mouth geomorphology in the Adriatic sea. The Seman river basin is one of the most complicated natural area in the Europe because of its physiogeographical conditions: a mountainous region, a particular land cover with small vegetation and important flysch formation presence, a typical Meditteranean climatic regime with intensive precipitation, a hydrological regime with intensive surface water flow, etc. Calculation of suspend and bed load discharge and their principal components, determination of the sediment granulometric structure, analyses of relation between the suspend load discharge and water discharge for various hydrological conditions, the riverbed deformation, evaluation of sediment transport changes and their causes, including human impact, and its riverbed geomorphplogy are presented in this paper. The classification and zoning of Seman river basin, in relatively homogenous physiographical regions, is based on the evaluation and determination of the natural factors, participating in the erosion processes, as a component of this paper. Many hydrological partial studies have been carried out to evaluate the suspended and load sediment of the Semani river system (Pano N. -1971,76,84; Saraci R. 1967,1984) etc. From the existing several studies in this paper it is attempted to present a general and global evaluation of the sediment transport regime in Semani river system, including the geomorphology of the Semani river mouth in the Adriatic sea as a component of this evaluation.
Year: 2004