Landslides in the Piedmontan Basin of Potop River (Romania)

Abstract

Abstract The morphographic and morphometric particularities of the landscape in the drainage basin of Potop river, the climatic elements, vegetation, excessive (atmospheric) precipitation, has contributed and still contributes to the development of present-day geomorphological processes. The number of geomorphological processes in the drainage basin of Potop derives from the complex particularities of the land surface. The structure of the landscape has been the main factor of the natural setting, from which the other physico-geographical components have been modified. All together had left a significant footprint on the way of manifestation of the natural hazard along side the rural settlements located in the drainage basin of Potop river. The geomorphological hazards represented by landslides, falls, deep and surface erosion occurred especially in the following villages: Potocelul, Scheiu de Jos, Scheiu de Sus and Butoiu de Sus. This kind of hazards also occurs in other villages from the basin of Potop, but here are the most powerful in intensity.