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Cultural Geomorphological Landscapes of the East Sudetes
The chapter focuses on anthropogenic transformation of relief in two subregions of the East Sudetes—the Śnieżnik Massif and the Złote Mountains. They...
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Hills, Gravelly Floodplains and Peat Bogs of the Podhale—A Unique Landscape Mosaic Between the Tatra, the Beskidy and the Pieniny Mountains
The Podhale region is located between the Tatra Mountains, the Pieniny and the Beskidy Mountains in southern Poland. Its northern part—the...
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Tatra Mountains—The Only High-Mountain Landscape in Poland
The Tatra Mountains represent the only high-mountain range in Poland, with a typical alpine landscape shaped by Pleistocene glaciersGlacier. They...
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Karkonosze Mountains and Jelenia Góra Basin—Unique Variety of Granite Landforms
This chapter presents the essential geomorphological characteristics of the Karkonosze Mts. and Jelenia Góra Basin in southwestern Poland. These two...
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The Kamienne Mountains—Late Palaeozoic Volcanic Terrain Shaped by Late Quaternary Landslides
The Kamienne Mountains are an elongated medium-altitude mountain range in the central part of the Sudetes, built mainly of volcanic and subvolcanic...
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Lednica Landscape Park—A Geoarchaeological Landscape in Central Wielkopolska
This chapter presents the Lednica Landscape Park as an example of distinct transformations of natural lowland relief that resulted from long-term,...
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The Stołowe Mountains—A Unique Sandstone Tableland
The Stołowe Mountains, underlain by alternating sandstones and fine-grained rocks of Upper Cretaceous age, are a classic stepped tablelandTableland,...
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Mount Ślęża—The Highest Inselberg in the Sudetic Foreland and Its Glacial-Periglacial Morphogenesis
Mt. Ślęża is a striking landmark of the Sudetic Foreland in SW Poland, rising as a distinctive inselbergInselberg more than 500 m above the...
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Upper Silesian Region—An Example of Large-Scale Transformation of Relief by Mining
The Upper Silesian Region stands out from other areas of Poland because of its rich natural resources—hard coal, zinc and lead ores, iron ores,...
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Kraków-Częstochowa Upland—Monadnocks and Relic Caves in the Karst Landscape
The Kraków-Częstochowa Upland is the largest carbonate karst area in Poland and belongs to the largest in Central Europe. It is built of...
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Chalk Karst in the Lublin Region
The Lublin chalkland, located in eastern Poland, is one of only a few compact areas in the world where, on the basement of soft carbonate rocks of...
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Sandstone Crags and Blockfields in the Świętokrzyskie (Holy Cross) Mountains
The majority of ca. 90 sites of sandstoneSandstone cragCrag groups and individual cragsCrag in the Świętokrzyskie (Holy Cross) Mts. region are built...
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Geomorphological Heritage of Poland—Diversity, Conservation and Promotion
Geomorphological heritage of Poland includes landforms and landscapes of various origin and age, but also of varying clarity of expression. This...
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Glacial and Postglacial Landforms of the Drawsko Lakeland
The Drawsko Lakeland is situated in the morphogenetic young glacial zone of north-western Poland. In general terms, the landforms of this area have...
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Thermobaric Conditions in the South Caspian Basin
The most important feature of the South Caspian basin is that its section contains intervals with anomalous high pores and reservoir pressures....
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Environmental Conditions, Sedimentation Cyclicity, and Architecture of the Productive Series Reservoirs
The orogenic processes took place at the end of the Pontian and gave rise to the Caspian surrounding land areas, and enormous sea-level lowering,...
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Climate Change Effects on Debris Flows
In mountain areas with human infrastructure, debris flows are a curse. They are abundant and dreaded as they arrive, usually without warning, and...
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Warning Systems and Instrumentation
In the last two decades, sensors and techniques for debris-flow monitoring and their application for warning purposes have progressed significantly...
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Debris-Flow Risk Assessment
Risk assessments can inform a wide variety of decisions related to debris flows, such as: Is the community safe enough? Where is mitigation needed?...
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Fatalities from Debris Flows: Worldwide Distribution and Trends
Debris flows are the extremely rapid (often channelized) movement of unconsolidated and saturated slope forming materials. Once triggered, these mass...