The Bahluieţ catchment. Geomorphological divisioning

Authors

  • Ionela Popa Department of Geography,Faculty of Geography and Geology,“Alexandru Ioan Cuza” University of Iași, Romania
  • Ioniță Ion Department of Geography,Faculty of Geography and Geology,“Alexandru Ioan Cuza” University of Iași, Romania

Keywords:

Bahluieţ catchment, cuesta, geomorphological divisioning, double structural asymmetry

Abstract

Located in the Moldavian Plateau, at the contact between the Jijia Rolling Plain, the Suceava Plateau and the Central Moldavian Plateau, the Bahluieţ catchment is 54,866 hectares in size. All the specific landforms developed in a hilly rolling region within a general homocline structure have been identified in the study area. The highest extension belongs to the sculptural (fluvio-denudational) landforms (79%), followed by depositional (15%) and structural-lithological topography (6%). Due to the lithology, double structural asymmetry and the varied landscape fragmentation, three areas with distinct characteristics have been identified within the Bahluieț catchment. The northern compartment highlights the first order structural asymmetry, revealed by the subsequent valleys of Bahluieţ and Valea Oilor. The southern compartment is stretching firstly in the southern part of Jijia Rolling Plain, where the right tributaries of the Bahluiet sculptured mostly obsequent valleys, and secondly in the Coasta Iaşilor. The western compartment overlays the eastern border of Suceava Plateau, where the structural-lithological topography is prevailing.

DOI: 10.15551/lsgdc.v40i0.02

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2015-10-15

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