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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, ...
ANALYSIS OF EARTH PRESSURE AT RETAINING WALLS REINFORCED WITH GEOSYNTHETICS
(STEF92 TECHNOLOGY LTD, 2014)
Recent design methods of reinforced retaining walls are based on several approaches at the earth pressure determination. Newer methods are developed to bring the design model closer to real conditions. The monitoring of ...
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 ...
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 ...
Quantification of the Quaternary Geological Structure Using Geological Cross-Sections in a Selected Part of the Moravian-Silesian Region for Geotechnical Purposes
(IOP PUBLISHING LTD, 2019)
The article deals with the quantification of the Quaternary geological structure of a selected part of the Moravian-Silesian region for geotechnical purposes (Ostrava glacigenous basin). The geological structure was ...
DEFORMATION ANALYSIS OF GABION WALLS ON TRANSPORT STRUCTURES
(STEF92 TECHNOLOGY LTD, 2014)
Gabion walls bring convenient way to realize the retaining walls with high level of global stability and aesthetic value. The design methods are based on the exerted approaches for gravity walls without reflection that ...
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 ...