سلما امی

One of the main issues in drainage watersheds is erosion and sediment yield. Lack of proper management in this field can be environmental hazards and even a threat to human life. The purpose of this study is fingerprinting the sources of sediment yield in sub-basins 1 and 2 of Talar drainage basin in Mazandaran province.140 soil samples in first approach and 80 samples in second approach collected respectively sub-basin 1 (77) and (47), sub-basin 2 (63) and (33) of lithological units and range of peak ground acceleration and 20 drape sediment samples at the outlet sub-basins and 28 geochemical elements measured as tracers in the samples. Using the Kruskal-Wallis test and discriminant function analysis, the composite fingerprints was determined. The largest relative contribution of sediment yield based on the Bayesian un-mixing model is in the first approach (sub-basin 1 unit sandstone and conglomerate with 59.1%, sub-basin 2 unit marl and shale with 47.2%), in the second approach (sub-basin 1 unit the range of peak ground acceleration at the level (0.51-0.6) g with 50.3%, and sub basin 2 units channel bank with 64.6%). The results of this study showed that the range of peak ground acceleration have a direct effect on control of sediment yield and erosion processes. Also, division of lithological groups as sources sediment yield based on range of peak ground acceleration, which have a great impact on sediment yield, as a new approach, can be of great help in understanding sediment yield processes.