Geomorphological analysis of the Stožecká hornatina (Mountains)

Abstract

This study has been based on the field research carried out in the northwestem part of Trojmezenská homatina in the mainly structurally based Stožecká homatina . Hs aim was a complex geomorphological analysis of the relief. This region has never yet been object of a more detailed geomorphological research, which enabled to study a large spectrum of macrorelief, mesorelief and microrelief forms. A large and at many placed denuded exfoliation dome with a pedectly developed fissure system became in the Pleistocene an ideal place for cryogenic processes. They have formed there a whole spectrum of cryogenous forms - frost cIiffs, pseudo-cirques, cryoplanation plateaux, small cryoplains, rock seas, rock and solifluction streams. Structural relief features and a high number of cryogenous forms give to that territory an original geomorphological character, which is only seldom to be found in our territory. The whole territory was in detail geomorphologically mapped and a generalized geomorphological map forms a part of this study.