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lineaments application obtained valleys within catchment area can be applicated in the interpretation of river network using rose diagram representation.

Sincerely.

You can construct rose diagrams for both lineaments and drainages and try to compare. In many areas where we have conducted river basin studies integrating remote sensing and hydrogeomorphology, it has been observed that the lineaments are controlled by drainages or lineaments are along the major drainage alignments.

Remember, drainage occurs along areas of bedrock surface weaknesses which are controlled by regional jointing patterns in the rock surfaces. Even in areas that are glaciated, the streams will stack over patterns of regional jointing. there are typically two sets at approximately 90 degrees from each other and then often a second set approximately 45 degrees off from those. Using Rose diagrams to plot the directions of the regional joints as reflected in the drainage patterns is a time honored way of representing the lineaments whether being measured in the field by Brunton Compass, off aerial photographs or satellite overflights. Typically hydrogeologists looking to drill bedrock wells will choose locations of joint intersections for highest groundwater yields.

The most visible lineaments on satellite image or aerial photo are a fairly reliable indicator of the most fractured areas, whatever their direction.

Such zones can constitute a drilling objective (especially where two lineaments intersect, as Julie Weatherington-Rice rightly points out).

It is one of the most suitable tool for borehole siting in crystalline rocks (granite, migmatites, gneiss), where lineaments often mark more intense erosion along potentially productive fractures.

It is also a rather suitable tool for borehole siting in karst aquifers (limestone and dolomite), where lineaments often mark the vegetation that develops in fracture zones.

However, this type of tool has no interest in alluvial aquifers or in sandy / sandstone aquifers.

We use this technique all over Ohio for groundwater development which is about 1/2 carbonate and 1/2 shales/sandstone Mississippian-Pennsylvanian coal sequences. In addition, we are approximately 2/3 glaciated. The best results are in the carbonate areas but are still reliable in other settings. While our firm lirerally has worked all over the world, we have consistently been successful in developing groundwater public water supplies in our home state for more than 50 years. We use other techniques as well, but looking for intersecting lineaments is often a first reconosence technique beginning a new investigation. Plotting those patterns on Rose diagrams is a technique many of us learned in our introductory geomorphology classes at Ohio universities. I personally have been using the technique for almost 50 years.

I agree with the previous comments, especially those of Julie Weatherington-Rice. I found a few references which also support the relationship:

https://pubs.er.usgs.gov/publication/pp594A

Stratigraphy of the Wind River Formation in south-central Wind River Basin, Wyoming. Professional Paper 594-A by P.E. Soister

Report number: 2010:33 ISSN: 2000-0456

Available at www.stralsakerhetsmyndigheten.se

Lineament interpretation Short review and methodology

www.manitoba.ca/iem/geo/field/roa15pdfs/GS-7.pdf

Lineament mapping of the Hudson Bay Lowland using remote-sensing methods, northeastern Manitoba

Kyle A. Houston, Chester W. Jackson, and Charles H. Trupe. "Correlation of Drainage Patterns and Lineaments from Lidar Digital Elevation Models, Southeast Georgia Coastal Plain" Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs 46.3 (2014): 82.

source: https://gsa.confex.com/gsa/2014SE/webprogram/Paper237412.html

The interpretation and characterisation of lineaments identified from Landsat TM imagery of SW England by Rogers, John David

http://hdl.handle.net/10026.1/2022

Satellite Imagery for Structural Geological Interpretation in Western Sirt Basin, Libya: Implication for Petroleum Exploration.

Abdunaser K. M. Geosciences 2015, 5(1): 8-25. DOI: 10.5923/j.geo.20150501.02

Report of Investigations 8217. Methods of Determining the Orientations of Bedrock Fracture Systems in Southwestern Pennsylvania and Northern West Virginia By B. M. Bench, W. P. Diamond, and C. M. McCulloch.

Lineament extraction and analysis, comparison of LANDSAT ETM

and ASTER imagery. Case study: Suoimuoi tropical karst catchment, Vietnam by Hung L.Q., Batelaan O., and De Smedt F.

Remote Sensing for Environmental Monitoring, GIS Applications, and Geology V, edited by Manfred Ehlers, Ulrich Michel, Proc. of SPIE Vol. 5983, 59830T, (2005). 0277-786X/05/$15 · doi: 10.1117/12.627699

Analysis of lineament swarms in a Precambrian metamorphic rocks in India. By Acharya1, T. and Mallik, S.B. J. Earth Syst. Sci. 121, No. 2, April 2012, pp. 453–462.

I agree with the explanations of Dr. Julie and Dr. Bernard. We have also carried out many integrated hydrogeological and Remote sensing studies to demarcate groundwater potential zones. Some of the published literature are enclosed:

Thanks a lot for the comments and answers.

Please, In the same track

i want to interpret if rose diagram for lineaments not matching with streams direction ..