USING THE PEDOGEOMORPHOLOGICAL INDECES TO CHARACTERIZATION AND CLASSIFICATION OF DESERTIFICATION SENSITIVITY IN AREA SURROUNDING FOR SOME CONSTRICTION FACTORIES IN AL-ANBAR GOVERNORATE

Abstract

To characterization and classifying the environmental desertification sensitivity for some area surrounding the constriction factories within Al-Anbar governorate, and knowledge the effect of these factories emissions on desertification sensitivity range. Three cement factories they are falloji, Qubasi and A-Qaim, in addition to three plaster factories in Falloji, Al-Romadi and Heet were selected. We tried the selected all studying regions fall in the same environmental and physiographic unit. Quantities analysis method for data was used depending on some pedogeomorphological index included (parent material: slope gradient; soil depth and soil texture) all these index represent soil quality index in addition to ( vegetation cover and drought resistance) which represent vegetation quality index.Results showed the studied regions sensitivity for desertification were distributed between 0.23 -0.80 according to limited class, they fall within very sensitive and low sensitive to desertification, with clear effect for industrialization operation which illustrated at falloji plaster factory which transformed from low sensitive to sensitive also falloji cement factory which transformed from sensitive to very sensitive to desertification.