Natural divisibility of the Earth surface and of the landscape sphere

Abstract

The principal contribution of the geomorphology to the geographical problems solving is that it creates a topological basis for systematics, formalizing and mapping of soil, biogeographic and landscape-ecologic units which are strictly controlled by the relief. Elementary natural-territorial complexes are restricted to unambiguously identify elementary surfaces, which are classified in accordance with four criteria corresponding to principal geomorphic parameters. Besides, the geotopological parameters include the vectorial lines azimuth and their angle with subhorizontal flows of water, air and mineral masses. The geotopological parameters analysis permits to obtain a complexes location with reference to flows of matter and energy in the landscape sphere; it makes also possible to predict some properties of a practical value.