Fig. 4



Conditioning factors for soil erosion susceptibility analysis: (a) elevation (b) lithology (c) land use (d) slope (e) drainage density (f) distance to road (g) population density (h) R factor, (i) soil depth, (j) SAWC and (k) hydrologic soil group (The data used to create the figures (a), (b), (c), (d), (e) and (f) were obtained from Iran National Cartographic Center (https://ncc.gov.ir), the data for the figure (g) were obtained from Statistical Centre of Iran (https://amar.org.ir), the data for the figure (h) were obtained from Iran Water Resources Management (WRM) company (https://data.wrm.ir), the data for figures (i), (j) and (k) were obtained from field study, finally the figures were generated using ArcGIS software (version 10.8, https://www.esri.com).