Slope erosion in the Crimean valleys within the conglomerate zone

Abstract

About 2384 m³ (or 4990 tons) are yearly removed from the Voron River drainage basin (15.73 km²), situated within the Upper Jurassic conglomerate zone. A considerable volume of solid runoff and small mudflows are known only from those gullies and valleys of the 3--4 order which cut relatively weak varieties of conglomerates and brecchias, their slopes are 28 to 90^o steep.