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ASSESSMENT OF THE ECOLOGICAL-GEOMORPHOLOGIC HAZARD IN THE BELGOROD REGION

Белоусова Л.И., Киреева-Гененко И.А., Петина В.И., Шевченко В.Н., Фурманова Т.Н.
Differentiated newest and modern tectonic movements in combination with various landscape-climatic conditions of the Belgorod region determine the different manifestation of modern exogenous relief formation processes, the diversity of which is expressed in eroding, denudation, accumulation and their anthropogenic modification. At that the denudation processes are dominated, but they occur with varying degrees of intensity in the region, due to territorial differences manifestations of landscape-climatic conditions and the main types and degree of human influence. Schematic diagram of the algorithm and regional ecological-geomorphologic analysis of the investigated area based on the scale of geomorphologic risk allowed to discover four groups of hazard and risk areas: 1) with low geomorphological risk (river floodplains, watershed space and slightly slanting slopes with the angle of inclination of the earth’s surface to 2-30); 2) with middle geomorphological risk (при near watershed slopes with gradients of up to 50); 3) with high-geomorphological risk (slopes of the river valleys and a large ravine and gully systems with gradients from 5-100 and more), as well as coastal terraces of reservoirs; 4) with a very high geomorphological risk (residential and mining territories).