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The highest and the lowest annual precipitation and the statistical medians for Mosul, Tel-Afer and Sinjar weathering stations for the period 1941-2002 (after Rasheed, 2010)
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The last four decades
weather forecasting data marks the precipitation declination and increase dry years, in
addition to the desertification migration on
the west and northwestern Mosul city. This
led to studying the Al-Shor Wadi area to try
to make use of the karstic spring water flow
through it and to harvest the rainfall flow
water. These need...
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... dry years pass through Mosul reflected the rainfall declination which eventually affected the agricultural activities particularly in the northeastern part of Mosul and Al-Jazeera, weathering stations display by Mosul, Sinjar and Tel-Afer (Rasheed, 2010; Table 2). As well as, there is limited opportunity to recharge groundwater in Jazeera area due to existence of gypsum layers (Ab- dullah Al-Ansari & Laue, 2020), which are belong to Fat'ha Formation. ...Citations
To understand the sources of water quality variations of both Abu-Maria spring and Al-Saja'a sinkhole which are located geologically within Afgani anticline, about 55 km. northwest Mosul city, it is important to study the geological and geomorphological nature of the anticline and its associated karstification phenomena. The study revealed that both water resources are located within Lower Fars (Fat'ha) aquifer. This aquifer displays alternations of gypsum/anhydrite with limestone and marly limestone beds in a cyclic form within the upper member of Fat'ha Formation. In addition, the sinkhole evolution cycle and their hydrologic situations contributed to some extents by the slight variations of both situations. Anyhow, the water in general is classified as hard water. The study compared with previous work conducted on Al-Jezera though the seventieth and no remarkable signs of water quality variations were detected.
