Agriculture ; Rural area ; Slovenia ; Terrace cultivation
Slovenia is a country of exceptionally diverse landscapes at the intersection of four major European macroregions: the Alpine, Pannonian, Dinaric, and Mediterranean regions. Terraces, which are a characteristic Mediterranean landscape element, occur
in all landscape types, but they vary in terms of density, purpose, and current function. Terraces, which define the most characteristic terraced landscape, are most common in the Mediterranean environment. - (L'A.).
Sequences and genesis of the Yellow River terraces from Sanmen Gorge to Kouma
China ; Chronostratigraphy ; Climatic change ; Climatic cycle ; Fluvial terrace ; Huang He ; Loess ; Palaeosol ; Quaternary ; Sedimentary ; Sedimentary sequence ; Vertical movement
Based on field landscape investigations, thermoluminescence (TL), magnetostratigraphy and loess-paleosol sequence, the AA. found that there are at least 4 Yellow River terraces in Yuxi Fault-Uplift (from Sanmen Gorge to Mengjin) and at least 3
Yellow River terraces in Huabei Fault Depression (from Mengjin to Kouma). All the terraces have a similar structure that several meters of paleosols directly develop on the top of fluvial silt. It shows that the Yellow River incised and consequently
abandoned floodplain converted to terrace during the interglacial period. Therefore, there may be a link between the formation of terraces and glacial-interglacial climatic cycles. However, the differences in the Yellow River terrace sequences and ages
between Yuxi Fault-Uplift and Huabei Fault Depression indicate that the surface uplift should play an important role in the formation of these terraces.
The aims of this study were : 1) to analyze the physical and chemical properties of the soils developed on a stepped terrace system and their evolution during the Pleistocene; 2) to establish relationships between time of development and the form
The AA. examined the geochemistry and micromorphology of the soils on a suite of morphologically well-defined and visually distinct fluvial terraces, up to 40 m elevation above the current riverbed, at Thangbi in the upper Bumthang Valley, Bhutan
. The soils are interpreted mainly as a monoclinal post-incisive chronosequence. The overall impression is of limited pedogenesis, even in the soils on the higher terraces. The AA. examine possibilities that the immaturity of the soils is due to pedogenic
Anatolia ; Fault ; Fluvial terrace ; Geomorphogenesis ; Graben ; Isotope dating ; Meander ; Pleistocene ; Quaternary ; Tectonics ; Turkey ; Valley ; Vertical movement
and the rate of vertical displacement in Eskişehir region. The Porsuk River flows in a meandering valley incised mostly in an ancient fluvial plain. One abandoned meandering valley and two patchy but widespread terraces in the present meandering valley
of Porsuk River at 900m and 850m altitudes also were mapped. The younger terrace dated by cosmogenic methods was displaced vertically about 40m by several active faults in the south of the graben. Determination of the total offset from fault scarp
This study examines the tectonic activity of the Ierapetra fault during the Late Quaternary, based on the deformation of the marine terraces in space and time and on morphotectonic observations along the fault. Moreover based on submerged
of the terraces provided an opportunity to access the bedrock incision rate of the river and to draw chronological framework of the neotectonic activity. A geological map is presented after extensive regional fieldwork during the last one decade. Survey of India
of 137Cs activity in different land uses decreases sequentially from mature forest to grass to young forest to orchard to terrace crop, indicating that the mature forests had the lowest erosion rates while the terraced cropland produced the highest erosion
partir de quelques exemples d'écomusées (le Musée Gavalochori en Crète et les écomusées de Hirano-Cho au Japon, Kalyna County dans l'Alberta et de Terraces and the Vine de Cortemilia en Italie). Pour terminer, l'A. teste sa théorie afin de savoir si les
This paper describes the methods used in carrying out the geomorphological survey and its results and interpretations, which include the definition of the basic geomorphic units across the upper Samaca Basin, the nature of the relict river terrace
are determined by optically stimulated luminescence (OSL) dating on quartz grains from 3 sediment samples collected from a quaternary alluvial terrace fills. OSL dating results, morphometric analyses of topography, and field results indicate that the stormy
selected, all located within the territory of the Novosil experimental station (the Orel Region, central European Russia). One slope in each pair undergone creation of artificial terraces with forest shelter belts located parallel to topography contour
The Souar lithologic formation in semi-arid Tunisia is undergoing severe gully erosion which is threatening soil and water resources. Soil conservation strategies have focused more on terracing than on gully control techniques. This paper reports
, and measurements of transport of fine and coarse sediment, as well as of floodplain and terrace deposition. The results imply a build-up of sediment in the valleys catchment. However, extreme flood events may flush large amounts of sediment stored in the lower
in the floodplain and a terrace surface. Sinkhole susceptibility models have been elaborated analysing the statistical relationships between the sinkholes of the 2005 inventory and a set of potential conditioning factors. The independent evaluation (validation