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Title: A digital database of faults and fractures in the Maltese archipelago
Authors: Sultana, Kristian
Keywords: Faults (Geology) -- Malta
Rocks -- Fracture -- Malta
Geographic information systems -- Malta
Issue Date: 2016
Abstract: Even if the geology of the Maltese islands is relatively simple, It is well known that the archipelago are home to a number of faults and fractures that cover the entire island. Fractures and faults are the resultant action of applied natural stress at different scales and are never formed accidentally .Fractures occur mostly upon Upper Coralline Limestone due to it overlying Blue Clay, whilst Faults occur due to the local tectonic stress regime. In order to improve the knowledge about this phenomena within the Maltese archipelago, I collected and developed a Geographic Information System of this data to be used for further studies. Furthermore quantitative measurements were taken on fractures on the North-West coast of Malta. A comprehensive summary of the Maltese geology was presented in order for the reader to be able to understand the concept of the study this was followed by a detailed section on Lateral Spreading which is the main factor of Fracturing in the Maltese archipelago. In this study the main aim was to build a data repository of fractures and fault of the Maltese archipelago, this was done by the use of virtual globes and Arc GIS platform in order to have different formats of the data for it to be used by a wide spectrum of users and data analysts. Data collected was measure in order to extract a number of results such as length, surface areas and volumes. The substantial amount of data was changed into different formats such as .KML and .LYR to better facilitate future studies.
Description: B.SC.(HONS)EARTH SYSTEMS
URI: https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar//handle/123456789/22067
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