4. Types of landforms

4.6. Forms of mass wasting

Forms of mass wasting are slope deformations of various types such as landslides, rock falls. Their occurrence is chiefly related to the geological conditions and climate factors.

The most vulnerable areas can be found in: Cretaceous rocks in the Polabí Lowland, volcanic rocks of the České Středohoří, Mesozoic and tertiary deposits in the Most Basin, sedimentary rocks in the Pilsen Basin, Outer West Carpathians (flysch complex) and glacial deposits in the Ostrava region.

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Fig. 1. Map of the mass wasting deformations in the Czech Republic. Red dots represent the localities of landslides (https://vesmir.cz/cz/casopis/archiv-casopisu/2014/cislo-9/svahove-nestability-jejich-dopady-krajinu-spolecnost.html).


Stavba D8: Příroda si vzala část toho, co jí patří.
Fig. 2. Landslide in the volcanic rocks destroyed new motorway D8 in the České Středohoří Mts in 2013.

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Fig. 3. Landslide near the village Brumova-Bylnice in the Carpathians, 2006.