Week 7 · Published May 31, 2026 · Paper 41 of 383
The Fertile Crescent serves as a regional-scale structural system containing interconnected basins, elevation transitions, drainage networks, and tectonic boundaries.
This paper develops a formal framework for describing regional geological coherence. Structural continuity, basin connectivity, directional relationships, and regional organization are treated as measurable geometric characteristics.
Rather than emphasizing cultural or historical significance, the focus remains on observable geological structure and repeatable spatial descriptors.
The resulting framework allows large regional systems to be compared with basin-scale, mountain-scale, and ocean-scale structures using a common descriptive language.
This paper formalizes regional structural coherence as a distinct analytical category within the ABC Sequencing framework.