Wadi Channel in the Moab Mountains, Ghor Al-Haditha
Rob Watson
University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
A surface stream channel, or wadi, connecting the Moab Mountains to the east to the Dead Sea in the west at Ghor Al-Haditha, Jordan. During flash flood events, the channel is inundated with floodwater carrying poorly sorted alluvial sediment, which it deposits in fans on the Dead Sea shore. These flash flood events can be extremely hazardous: in October 2018, a large storm event caused a flood which took away a bus full of school-children at Wadi Mujib, a few kilometers north of where this photo was taken along the Jordanian Dead Sea Highway. More than 20 children were killed during this flood event.
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JPG
Size
7.7 MB
Width
6000 px
Height
4000 px
Aspect
3:2
Brand
Nikon
Model
D5300
Exposure
18 mm f/22 1/100 s ISO 100
Taken
26 October 2018
Coordinates
31.3300, 35.5400
Tint
Very light purplish blue
Submitted
7 August 2019
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CC BY 3.0
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Rob Watson (distributed via imaggeo.egu.eu)
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