Hydrological Characteristics of the Sulaibate Depression (Southern Iraq)

Abstract

The Sulaibate Depression is one of the important depressions located in the south of Iraq, specifically in the governorates of Muthanna and Dhi Qar, at a close distance from the course of the Euphrates River. Tectonically, the depression is located within the contact range between the stable pavement (the sedimentary plain) and the unstable pavement represented by the (Western Plateau). The region was affected by the tectonic movements that extended from the Tertiary eras until the Holocene of the Quaternary time, and the impact of these movements had a major role in the formation of the depression.