Assessment of urban morpholithosystems (with special .reference to Moscow and Bratislava)

Abstract

The morpholithologic approach seems promising when used in the geomorphological studies of urban relief, it permits to consider the «relief - geological substratum» as a morpholithosystem, and the «city-relief-substratum» system as a technogenic morpholithosystem. The studies focus on the morpholithosystems' stability - a characteristic which indicates whether the area in question is suitable for construction and how reliable it is in performing socioeconomic functions. The system suggested for the stability assessment permits to judge the state of morpholithosystems and to recommend measures on the regulation of the technogenic load on various natural morpholithosystems.