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Nature of change of relief of the mountain territory by avalanche activity

E. V. Kyul

Science federal state budgetary institution Kabardin-Balkar Scientific Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Center of geographical researches, 360000, KBR, Nalchik, 2, Balkarov street

Abstract: In this article the author considers some aspects of change of a relief by avalanche activity. By results of landscape-geomorphological division into districts the character and intensity of manifestation of signs of avalanche activity in a relief that allow to estimate extent of transformation of a relief avalanches are defined.

Keywords: mountain landscape, landscape components, natural hazards, landscape and geomorphological division into districts, territory subject to avalanches, avalanche accumulator, regional and typological division into districts, morfostructural analysis.

UDC: 911.6+551.435

Received: 24.12.2013

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