Landforms stability and development in the road landscape (the Low Don steppe and Norh Caucasus as an exapmle)

Abstract

Technogenic landforms are one of the main factors of bad environmental situation in the road landscapes. The constructing of banquettes, ditches etc. cause the changes of type and intensity of exogenic processes, the redistribution of the runoff, the rise of groundwater table and the appearance of processes not incident to the territory. The accumulation and denudation processes change the stability of the landforms. The methods of evaluation of such stability may be improved by analysis of dynamic running of relief.