I researched a master's thesis in the Department of Geography / Faculty of Education for Human Sciences / University of Basra _ Geomorphological Characteristics of the Wadi Al-Ather Basin in southern Iraq _ For the student (Mohammed Adnan Abdul Zahra)
The thesis dealt with the study of the geomorphological characteristics of the Wadi Al-Ather basin and the extent to which these characteristics affect the construction of terrestrial shapes and the geomorphological processes that contributed to their creation, as well as the impact of geomorphological characteristics on the nature and size of sediments as well as their distribution in the basin.
The thesis included the theoretical evidence and the introduction followed by four chapters followed by the results reached. The first chapter included the study of the geographical characteristics of the study area (natural and human), as well as the analysis of soil according to its physical and chemical properties and the statement of its types, role and impact on the geomorphological properties of the valley basin .The study concluded that the waterways of the Wadi Al-Ather basin run from the southwest side within the borders of Saudi territory towards the northeast, which ends in the lands of the sedimentary plain inside Iraqi territory, forming an area of 5685.3 km2 distributed among the secondary valleys contained in the valley with varying areas each. It was 226.4 km long and 70.78 km wide and its circumference was 761.6 km. The total river ranks in the Wadi Al-Ather basin were (five) levels, which are 8519 waterways distributed throughout the territory of the basin, while the total length of the waterways for all riverbeds in the basin amounted to 32949.5km
