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GEOPHYSICAL AND HYDROGEOLOGICAL STUDIES ON QATAR PENINSULA
Titre : GEOPHYSICAL AND HYDROGEOLOGICAL STUDIES ON QATAR PENINSULA
Auteur : AL NAIMI LATIFA SHAHEEN KHALIFA
Etablissement de soutenance : Ain Shams University
Grade : Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Science Geology 1994
Résumé partiel
Qatar State occupies an arid peninsula of about 11 600 km2,
extends along the western coast of Arabian Gulf from the main land mass
of Arabia and is enclosed between latitudes 24’ 27’, 26’ 10’ North and
longitudes 50’ 45’, 51’ 40’ East. The peninsula is about 180 km along its
north-south axis and is about 85 km along its east-west axis (Fig. 1).
The surface of Qatar peninsula is of low moderate relief with the
highest altitudes of about 100m in southern Qatar. Meanwhile Northern
Qatar is a plain having altitudes of about 30-40 m.
The economy of Qatar depends mainly on oil and gas production.
Nowadays the government of Qatar seeks for additional resources and
priority is now given to agricultural production to satisfy basic food
stuffs. Increasing agricultural production needs increasing water
demand.
As grc ndwater is the only water source for Qatar, then there is
utmost need for exploring groundwater aquifers besides importing water
from neigh·, 1uring countries and importing severe strains on the
available groundwater resources.
The present work deals with the hydrogeology, the
hydrogeochemistry, groundwater resources, management and planning
in Qatar Peninsula.
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