Stages of gullies development in connection with stages of the land cultivation (with special reference to the Seim drainage basin)

Abstract

Morphologic and morphometric studies together with the deposits analysis of small flat-bottom valleys within the Seim drainage basin confirmed the probability of multivariate character of the linear erosion landforms evolution; the latter may begin from a gully as well as may leave the gully stage out. Radiocarbon dating the soils at the valleys bottoms and terraces reveals the stages of erosion activation to be connected with the stages of cultivation of the area.