Effects of glaciation on the clinometry and hypsometry of the Romanian Carpathians
1
Geography, Universitatea Alexandru Ioan Cuza, Iasi, Iasi, Romania
2
Geography, Durham University, Durham, United Kingdom
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- Subject Areas
- Computational Science, Spatial and Geographic Information Science
- Keywords
- geomorphometry, glaciation, Romanian Carpathians
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- © 2018 Mihai et al.
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- This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, reproduction and adaptation in any medium and for any purpose provided that it is properly attributed. For attribution, the original author(s), title, publication source (PeerJ Preprints) and either DOI or URL of the article must be cited.
- Cite this article
- 2018. Effects of glaciation on the clinometry and hypsometry of the Romanian Carpathians. PeerJ Preprints 6:e27076v1 https://doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.27076v1
Abstract
SRTM1 Digital Elevation Model for many mountain ranges in Romania were processed to provide slope gradient distributions for each 50 m band of altitude. The effects of cirques are seen in an increase in standard deviation of gradient, and a spread in all percentiles, especially an increase in the 95th, at relevant altitudes. Otherwise, variations in median gradient with altitude differ between ranges, and do not show the general increase found in the Alps below cirque floor altitudes by several authors.
Author Comment
This paper belongs with the geomorphometry 2018 Conference, which is in the process of being set up.