Geomorphological Features, Sediment Distribution and Transport Along Ash Shuqayq-Al Huraydah Coastal Area, Southern Red Sea, Saudi Arabia

2005 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 57-80 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. Al-Washmi ◽  
A. GHEITH ◽  
A. Nabhan
Keyword(s):  
Saudi Arabia ◽  
Red Sea ◽  
Coastal Area ◽  
Sediment Distribution ◽  
Geomorphological Features

scholarly journals APPLICATION OF GIS AND REMOTE SENSING TO MONITOR THE IMPACT OF DEVELOPMENT ACTIVITIES ON THE COASTAL ZONE OF JAZAN CITY ON THE RED SEA, SAUDI ARABIA

2018 ◽  
Vol XLII-3/W4 ◽  
pp. 45-50 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. G. Al-Zubieri ◽  
R. A. Bantan ◽  
R. Abdalla ◽  
S. Antoni ◽  
T. A. Al-Dubai ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Remote Sensing ◽  
Saudi Arabia ◽  
Coastal Zone ◽  
Red Sea ◽  
Coastal Area ◽  
Google Earth ◽  
Gis And Remote Sensing ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The City

<p><strong>Abstract.</strong> Jazan city is a fast-growing coastal city in the southern part of Saudi Arabia, Red Sea. Recently, it has encountered quick industrial development activities. To monitor these activities, the changes in coastal zone morphology explore over the last 30 years (1987&amp;ndash;2017) using GIS and remote sensing techniques. Four satellite images (TM and ETM) acquired during these intervals were performed. Furthermore, a development and growth of the city were created based on direct digitizing from Google Earth Pro to identify the extension and expansion of the area of study during this period. The magnitudes of erosion, deposition, and landfilling at differential scales through the period of study were determined using photo-interpretation on the changes of surface area and the extension of the city landward. The results illustrated remarkable changes and shifting of shoreline seaward along the coast and extending of dwelling zone in the city. Erosion and accretion take place mostly in the earlier interval (1987&amp;ndash;2000) in some parts of the coast followed by landfilling occurring in the northern and middle parts of the coastal area in the interval (2000&amp;ndash;2013). However, the magnitudes were different from interval to interval. The relative changes were 14.33, 58.56, and 27.11&amp;thinsp;% at the periods from 1987&amp;ndash;2000, 2000&amp;ndash;2013, and 2013&amp;ndash;2017, respectively. However, dwelling zone extended dramatically from 23.31&amp;thinsp;km<sup>2</sup> in 1987, to 25.32&amp;thinsp;km<sup>2</sup> in 2000, 63.37&amp;thinsp;km<sup>2</sup> in 2013, and to reach 67.90&amp;thinsp;km<sup>2</sup> in 2017. These changes probably attributed to human activities in the coastal area due to construct a new economic city in the northern part during the period between 2003 and 2013 along with different socio-economic activities. The tidal flat in front of the city is shrunk due to this landfilling. This landfilling has been destructed a wide range of mangrove ecozones and possibly impacted the biotics in the area.</p>

Roads of Arabia: New finds of Aqaba amphorae in the Red Sea from a newly discovered wreck site at Jeddah/Eliza shoals

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rupert Brandmeier
Keyword(s):  
Saudi Arabia ◽  
Red Sea ◽  
Saudi Arabian ◽  
Maritime Archaeology ◽  
Western Coast ◽  
Research Activities ◽  
Red Sea Coast ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
Sea Coast

This paper concerns a probable shipwreck cargo of Aqaba amphorae, which was discovered during the second season of the survey project along the Saudi Arabian coast, initiated by nautical archaeologists of Philipps-University Marburg and conducted in cooperation with members of the Saudi Commission for Tourism and Heritage in autumn 2013. Seafaring and sea trade was, according to the few ancient sources and modern research activities, a hazardous endeavor in antiquity. Transport containers like the Aqaba Amphorae played a major role in sea trade, a significant number of which have been detected on various sites along the Red Sea coast and its hinterland. The chronological classification as well as the application is far from complete, and recent archaeometrical investigations help to clarify the logistical aspects of manufacturing and distribution of Aqaba amphorae. Finding a number of remains of Aqaba amphorae at a supposed shipwreck site close to Jeddah delivers new insight into the maritime routes and activities along the western coast of Saudi Arabia. The documentary material currently available is the baseline for further research in the field of maritime archaeology as it pertains to trade in the Red Sea.

A Nabatean port on the Red Sea: note on the pottery finds from al-Qusayr (al-Wajh, Saudi Arabia)

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Caroline Durand
Keyword(s):  
Saudi Arabia ◽  
19Th Century ◽  
Red Sea ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
The Other ◽  
Trade Routes ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Roman Egypt ◽  
Pottery Sherds ◽  
First Time

Al-Qusayr is located 40 km south of modern al-Wajh, roughly 7 km from the eastern Red Sea shore. This site is known since the mid-19th century, when the explorer R. Burton described it for the first time, in particular the remains of a monumental building so-called al-Qasr. In March 2016, a new survey of the site was undertaken by the al-‘Ula–al-Wajh Survey Project. This survey focused not only on al-Qasr but also on the surrounding site corresponding to the ancient settlement. A surface collection of pottery sherds revealed a striking combination of Mediterranean and Egyptian imports on one hand, and of Nabataean productions on the other hand. This material is particularly homogeneous on the chronological point of view, suggesting a rather limited occupation period for the site. Attesting contacts between Mediterranean merchants, Roman Egypt and the Nabataean kingdom, these new data allow a complete reassessment of the importance of this locality in the Red Sea trade routes during antiquity.

Annotated list to the flora of Farasan Archipelago, Southern Red Sea, Saudi Arabia

Taeckholmia ◽  
2002 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-33 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ahmed Alfarhan ◽  
Turki Al-Turki ◽  
Jacob Thomas ◽  
R. Basahy
Keyword(s):  
Saudi Arabia ◽  
Red Sea ◽  
Annotated List

Eine Neubetrachtung vonmw-qd „das umgewandte/umgekehrte/abbiegende Wasser“

2020 ◽  
Vol 147 (1) ◽  
pp. 19-29
Author(s):  
Marc Brose
Keyword(s):  
Red Sea ◽  
Coastal Area

SummaryThis article takes a fresh at the geographical term mw-qd, usually transcribed as “inverted/reverse/encircling water” (or the like) and often identified with the river Euphrates in Mesopotamia or the Red Sea or a part of it. After an overview of the attestations of the term, the former ideas of the researchers and the discussion of grammatical and lexical details, a new effort tries to show that there would have been at least two or three locations bearing this name: the region on the Upper Nile in Nubia between the Fourth Cataract and Kurgus, where the Nile takes a characteristic bend in its course, further a region on the northern coastal area of the Red Sea, perhaps the region of Qoseir, and at last a river in Asia, perhaps the Euphrates.

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