Lichenometric dating of landslide episodes in the Western part of the Polish Flysch Carpathians
CarpathianMountains ; Dating ; Flysch ; Holocene ; Landslide ; Lichenometry ; Mass movement ; Poland ; Slope
This paper presents the basics of lichenometry as well as its applications in geomorphological research. Also presented are results of lichenometric dating of landslide-rockfall walls in the western part of the Polish Flysch Carpathians. The study
The research on slope deformations in the Vsetín district, in the Outer Western Carpathians, activated by extreme precipitations (July 1997). More than 500 localities of slope-failures were recorded. The slope failures disturbed the landscape
Main socio-economic and environmental trends in the Carpathian region
CarpathianMountains ; Environment ; Europe ; Impact study ; Region ; Regional economy ; Social geography ; Socio-economic system
The AA. aim at analysing major socio-economic and environmental processes in the Carpathian region which represents a unique macro-region in Central Europe. The Carpathian countries have experienced major political, economic, social
and presents the main macro-economic and structural policy trends of Carpathian countries. Decoupling impacts on the environment were also analysed. - (AM)
CarpathianMountains ; Mountain ; Romania ; Structural geomorphology
The Căpăţinii Mountains lie in the middle region of the Southern Carpathians in Rumania. Their rocks are very varied in type. From the geographical point of view the mountain can be divided into four parts (according to the A.). The biggest part
of the mountains are the main ridge. The E-SE part is called Muntii Olăneştilor, it is made up mainly of detritic sedimentary rocks. The most interesting part is the massif called Buila-Vînturariţa. It is made of Jurassic limestone. Piatra Tîrnovului on the NE edge
of the mountains is also made up of Jurassic limestone. It is much smaller in area than Buila-Vînturariţa Massif. - (ZK)
Author investigates the geomorphological characteristics of the Apuseni mountains (Romania). Among others the types of relief structures and the petrological characteristics of the different ranges of the mountains are examined. - (JS)
The aim of this study is to give a general description of fog frequency, as well as to indicate the potential role of pollutant deposition via fog in the environmental processes ongoing in the Carpathians. The annual number of days with fog (NDF
) depends on altitude, station location in regard to circulation patterns and distance from the sea, terrain morphology at a given station site and in its wider neighbourhood. The large NDF observed in the Carpathians suggest that this region
Thermal differentiation of winters in the CarpathianMountains altitudinal profile during the period 1961/62-1990/91
Advection ; Air temperature ; Altitude ; Atmospheric circulation ; CarpathianMountains ; Cracow ; Frost ; Mountain ; Poland ; Temperature ; Urban effect ; Winter
This paper attempts an evaluation of winter thermal differentiation in the Carpathian altitudinal profile in relation to some external and internal factors of the montane climatic system. Mean monthly, mean daily and daily maximum air temperature
The author used morphometrical methods in the investigation of volcanic depressions in the Carpathians. The results encouraged him to contradict the « erosion caldera » theory in the region and to set up a new hypothesis about the origin of some
This paper is a case study of the changes in the Raba, a mountain gravel-bed river, which have followed its channel regulation during the present century, especially in the last 40 years. The paper has two main aims: 1) to show the complex nature
Magmatic and metamorphic events, imprinted in the crystalline rocks of the so-called core mountains inside the Alpine structure of the Inner Carpathians, allow the re-construction of the history of the Rheic Ocean opening, its development and its
final closure. All magmatic suites, mafic and felsic, present in the Carpathians core mountains, show similarities to those found in the European Variscan Belt. All described- and dated metamorphic and magmatic events also have equivalents
in the evolution of the Caledonian-Variscan Belts of Europe. The Carpathian core-mountains, currently dispersed inside the Alpine mountain chain, can be considered the broken fragments of the eastern prolongation of the Variscan orogenic belts – possibly part
The Subcarpathian region, formed at the external margin of the Carpathian geosyncline, is the youngest mountain unit in Romania : this new Carpathian wave represents one more trait that distinguishes the Carpathians from the other sectors
Apatite fission track and (U-Th)/He dating of teschenite intrusions gives time constraints on accretionary processes and development of planation surfaces in the Outer Western Carpathians
concepts, which stipulate that a large regional planation surface of Pannonian age developed in the whole Western Carpathians. The data indicate : a dynamic basin setting with an active accretionary process in a subduction zone; accretionary processes
in the Outer Western Carpathians were active already during Late Eocene times.
The absolute chronology of the Plio-Pleistocene alluvial sequence overlying the pediment of the Matra Mountains in Problems of the Neogene and Quaternary in the Carpathian Basin.
The North Hungarian Mountain Range consists mainly of Miocene volcanics. In the foreland of one of its members, the Matra Mountains, biostratigraphic, morphochronological and paleomagnetic dating of sediments enabled authors to establish
The present fauna of the Tatra includes more than 20 subspecies and one species endemic to the Tatra; over 20 endemic to the Carpathians; 12 glacial relics; and two Tertiary relics. More than 75 % of Tatra vertebrates are placed under protection
Europe ; International organization ; Mountain ; Resource management ; Sustainable development
between interested parties, and encourages education, public awareness, and technical assistance related to the first goal. In 1998, the European Mountain forum had over 460 members and local nodes in the Carpathians, the Caucasus, the Mediterranean
Discussion of the European section of the Mountain Forum, a global network committed to sustainable development in mountain regions. The european section promotes sustainable development and management of Europe's mountains, facilitates exchange
Mountains (including North Africa), and the Middle Mountains of Central and Western Europe. See WWW.europe.mtnforum.org. - (SLD)
Research on present-day geomorphic processes in the Polish Carpathians. State-of-the-art
CarpathianMountains ; Geomorphology ; Mountain ; Poland ; Research ; Research technique
The purpose of this paper is to provide an overview of the present-day geomorphic studies carried out in the Polish part of the Carpathians, their trends and directions during the recent 15 years. A significant progress in the research is evident
This paper describes changes in flood flows passing the Raba, a mountain gravel-bed river of the temperate zone, subsequent to regulation of its channel. The results of the case study are next confronted with data from other Carpathian rivers