Marine Coastline Polygonal Ridges and Surface Roughness Development on a Salt-Crusted Playa: Recognition by Structure-from-Motion Photogrammetry

Author:

Geng Yuyang,Shao Yun,Gong Huaze,Brisco Brian,Zhi Yang,Li Meng,Liu Qingbo

Abstract

Salt crust is a normal landform in drying-out salt lake basins or marine regression coastlines, but the surface evolution processes over a decadal or even centenary period are not well understood due to poor data records. Microrelief characteristics control erodibility and erosivity, which will significantly influence wind erosion and dust emission. It is essential to classify the microrelief pattern of salt crust for mapping its spatial distribution and evaluating the environmental process. A desiccated inland tail-end lake would be an example of the coastline surface evolution after regression and represent a good case study of salt crust because of the fewer exogenic process interruptions. For this paper, field work was performed in the Lop Nur playa in China, about 90° E, 40° N, which used to be a salt lake half a century ago. Ground-based photos of the salt crust were acquired and imported into structure-from-motion (SfM) software to produce a fine centimeter-scale digital elevation model (DEM). Two indexes were introduced and extracted from the digital elevation model to classify various types of salt crust: roughness was calculated to evaluate the magnitude and the gray-level co-occurrence matrix (GLCM) score was derived to describe the structure pattern of the salt crust. Moreover, in this paper, sedimentary features during different parts of a playa evaporation cycle are reviewed and peculiar kinds of salt crust found on Lop Nur are further discussed.

Funder

National Natural Science Foundation of China

CAS Knowledge Innovation Program

Publisher

MDPI AG

Subject

Ocean Engineering,Water Science and Technology,Civil and Structural Engineering

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