Landscapes and landforms of the Czech Republic /
The book aims to present the unique geomorphological landscapes of the Czech Republic. The geomorphic uniqueness of this country benefits from the proximity to two distinct European geological domains: the old cratonized Bohemian Massif and the relatively young Tertiary fold and thrust belt of the W...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Switzerland :
Springer,
2016.
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| Series: | World geomorphological landscapes.
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| Online Access: | CONNECT |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Geology and tectonic development of the Czech Republic
- Climate in the past and present in the Czech Lands (Central European Context)
- Long-term geomorphological history of the Czech Republic
- The geomorphological evolution and environmental hazards of the Prague area
- The Bohemian Karst: A condensed record of landscape and living nature evolution
- Brdy Highland: A landscape shaped in the periglacial zone of Quaternary glacials
- Bohemian Forest: landscape and people on the frontier
- Morphology of the youngest little volcanoes in western Bohemian Massif
- The Krušné hory Mountains
- the longest mountain range of the Czech Republic
- Elbe Sandstones
- Neovolcanic terrain of the České Středohoří Mountains
- The Kokořín Area: Sandstone Landforms Controlled by Hydrothermal Ferruginization
- Jizerské hory
- an Interplay of Rock Control, Faulting and Inland Glaciation in the Evolution of a Granite Terrain
- Krkonoše Mountains: a case study of polygenetic relief
- Bohemian Paradise: Sandstone Landscape in the Foreland of a Major Fault
- Adršpach-Teplice Rocks and Broumov Cliffs
- Large Sandstone Rock Cities in the Central Europe
- Žďárské vrchy Highland
- geomorphological landscape in the top part of the Bohemian-Moravian Highland with the unique crystalline rocks forms
- The Dyje canyon-like valley: geomorphological landscape of deep valley at the eastern part of marginal slope of the Bohemian Massif
- The Moravian Karst: An interconnection between surface and subsurface natural sceneries
- Region of the Rychlebské hory Mountains
- tectonically controlled landforms and unique landscape of granite inselbergs (Sudetic Mountains)
- Periglacial landforms of the Hrubý Jeseník Mountains
- Litovelské Pomoraví
- landscape around anastomosing river pattern
- The Nízký Jeseník
- Highland with Abandoned Deep Mines
- Black land: The mining landscape of the Ostrava-Karviná region
- Poodří
- Landscape of Ponds and a Preserved Meandering Belt of the Odra River
- Landslide Landscape of the Moravskoslezské Beskydy Mountains and Their Surrounding
- Strážnické Pomoraví
- Holocene evolution of unique floodplain and aeolian landforms
- Limestone Klippen of the Pavlov Hills
- Geomorphological heritage and geoconservation in the Czech Republic
- Promoting geomorphological heritage: bringing geomorphology to people.
