On prospects of local structures searches within the Kopet-Dag foredeep based on structural geomorphological interpretation of aerial photographs

Abstract

The sand desert of the southern Low Kara-Kums and Kopet-Dag piedmont plain has been studied using paleogeomorphological, morphological and hypsometric analysis as well as geological-geomorphological and hydro geological interpretation of aerial photographs. Some morphogenetic varieties of relief and their spatial pattern were revealed as well as elongated swell at the Kopet-Dag foreland, the South Kara-Kum depression was traced, a number of buried structures were distinguished controlling the probable oil and gas deposits, disjunctive dislocations were also traced and revealed.

As a result, a detailed gravimetric survey and seismic prospecting is recommended with the purpose of checking the availability and the structure of the revealed forms.