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Conservation of Selected Churches in the Most Region and Karvina Region and Their Significance for Geotourism
(ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV, 2016)
Coal mining in the Czech Republic has left significant marks on the geomorphology of the regions. Simultaneously, it has also affected the lives of people who have lived there for centuries. This article selects two areas, ...
Monuments of The Czech Republic On The UNESCO World Heritage Site List and Their Significance for Geotourism
(ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV, 2016)
The article presents the monuments from the Czech Republic enlisted on the UNESCO World Heritage Site List. Each country tries to choose representative sites and monuments that document the structural and architectural ...
Morphometric and geological features of karstic depressions in gypsum (Sivas, Turkey)
(SPRINGER, 2016)
Gypsum covers an area of approximately 5 % in Turkey and is mainly found in Sivas basin. Gypsum in the Sivas basin includes many karst structures with various sizes and has a variety of forms that present different conditions ...
Listing a Geological Rarity of 'Stone Balls' in Kysuce Among World Geotourism Destinations
(IOP PUBLISHING LTD, 2016)
Kysuce, situated on the border with the Czech Republic and Poland, belongs among distinctive regions in the Slovak Republic. This region offers tourism many interesting sites. Few decades ago, Kysuce offered tourists and ...
Analysis of The Loess Geological Environment in Terms of Engineering-Geological and Geotechnical Purposes and Application in Geotourism
(IOP PUBLISHING LTD, 2016)
Loess sediments, formed via wind action, are important geological environments both for the engineering geology as well as for the newly developing field in the geosciences, i.e. geotourism. The paper aims to give the basic ...
Analysis the Purposes of Land Use Planning on the Hard Coal Tailing Dumps
(IOP PUBLISHING LTD, 2016)
The aim of this publication is to analyse the purposes of land use planning on hard coal tailing dumps. This issue is very topical because there are 46 tailing dumps and 281 reservoirs in the Ostrava-Karvina Mining District. ...
Natural Oil Seep in Korna - Significant Locality for Geotourism
(IOP PUBLISHING LTD, 2016)
From the geological point of view, Kysuce does not have such a varied structure as other parts of Slovakia as flysch dominates in the region. Still, there are a number of geological formations, and were included among ...
Geodetic monitoring of roads as a tool for determination of hazard zones in areas influenced by deep coal mining
(SPRINGER HEIDELBERG, 2016)
The main objective of this study is to equip engineering geology with a new, independent tool of determination of zones of potential hazard in the linear direction in order to assess the influence induced by underground ...
A fuzzy classification routine for fine-grained soils
(GEOLOGICAL SOC PUBL HOUSE, 2016)
Soil classification is one of the most important stages in preliminary studies for design applications in geotechnical engineering. The classification of fine-grained soils is mostly determined using Casagrande's plasticity ...
Churches Influenced by Underground Mining in the Karvina Region Used for the Purposes of Geotourism
(ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV, 2016)
The article aims to point out the mutual relations between underground mining and its manifestations on the ground surface. For the purpose, churches in the Karvina Region were selected. The buildings have been affected ...
