Page 11 - Life & Land Use on the Bahrain Islands (Curtis E Larsen)

Illustrations

1. Location Map 7
2. Nonurban Population Distribution 9
3. Forecast of Water Level Decline in Bahrain and the
Arabian Coast 15
4. Static Water Levels for the Khobar Aquifer 18
5. Average Annual Static Head versus Cumulative Number of
Producing Wells in the Khobar Aquifer (1942-1966) 19
6. Extent of Cultivated Land 21
7. Archeological Sites 26
8. Regional Correlation with Early Bahrain 42
9. Chronological Chart of Bahrain and the Islamic World 73
10. Neolithic and Protohistoric Archeological Sites 75
11. Barbar Period Archeological Sites 79
12. Neo-Assyrian through Parthian Archeological Sites 82
13. Early and Medieval Islamic Archeological Sites 86
14. Late Islamic Archeological Sites 89
15. Modern and Abandoned Irrigation Systems 91
16. Holocene Land Use Fluctuations 93
17. Furthest Garden vs. Number of Villages 97
18. Rank-Size Relationships of Bahraini Settlements 102
19. The Role of External Trade in Land Use 106
20. Distance Relationships between Manama, Bahraini
Villages, and Artesian Springs 113
21. Stratigraphic Column for Eastern Arabia 116
22. Geological Map of Bahrain and the Adjacent
Saudi Arabian Coast 118
23. Contour Diagram of Joints in Bahrain 124
24. LANDSAT Image of Bahrain and the Arabian Coast 126
25. Subsurface Topography 127
26. Surficial Geology 129
27. Geological Profile AA’ Sihlat al-Fukiya to Galali 130
28. Tentative Potentiometric Map of the Umm er
Radhuma Aquifer 135
29. Long Term Depletion of the Alat-Khobar Aquifer 140
30. Location of Stratigraphic Sections 156
31. Bahrain Sediment Samples 158

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