Present-day denudation processes at the Eastern Carpathians

Abstract

Many paleo-geomorphological concepts (including conclusions on origin and age of planation sutfaces, interfluvial areas etc.) are based on some ideas about importance and type of denudation processes. In the Eastern Carpathians like in most part of middle mountains a set of denudation processes works: water stream and mudflows, mass movement, avalanches, biogenic processes, wind action, splash erosion, chemical denudation. Stationary observations of the processes during several years allowed to estimate the processes intensity and total value of the material removed by denudation.