Open AccessGeomorphological Development of the Memphite Floodplain Over the Past 6,000 Years
Author(s) -
Judith Bunbury
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
studia quaternaria
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.295
H-Index - 14
eISSN - 2300-0384
pISSN - 1641-5558
DOI - 10.2478/squa-2013-0005
Subject(s) - floodplain , geography , delta , memphis , physical geography , archaeology , geology , cartography , paleontology , aerospace engineering , engineering
The Memphite ruin mounds around the modern town of Mit Rahina in northern Egypt form a part of a region around which the capital of Egypt mi grated through time. Some of these migrations were the responses to landscape changes and the area is one that is subject to a number of types of landscape change. The delta and river systems as well as the deserts that surround Memphis changed profoundly as global temperatures rose at the end of the last ice age. This paper summarises the main landscape processes that affected the area and pro poses a model for river migration and delta-head change in the Memphite floodplain.