The Devil's City is a unique geomorphological site well known regarding strangely sculptured stony pillars or soil (clayey) pyramids, abandoned mines and two rare hydrologic occurrences. The present landscape is partly inherited from the paleo-volcanic topography and shaped afterwards by erosion, particularly linear erosion. Soil pyramids owe their origin to the differential erosion of a more compact andesitic level on less cohesive pyroclastic material and disintegrate relatively quickly when they lose their protective "cap". The pyramids are located along the two gullies, Devil's and Hell's. In the latter, also known as "The young Devil's City" the erosion process is in the beginning. The results of combined petrological and geomorphological studies permitted us to reconstruct past geological processes and predict the future evolution of the Devil's City. Geographic information system (GIS) and digital topographic modeling are becoming powerful tools not only in geographic sciences b...ut also in geomorphological and geological modeling.
Keywords:
Devil's City / volcanic / digital topography / erosion / pyramids / GIS
TY - JOUR
AU - Valjarević, Aleksandar
AU - Srećković-Batočanin, Danica
AU - Živković, Dragica
AU - Perić, Marija
PY - 2015
UR - https://gery.gef.bg.ac.rs/handle/123456789/693
AB - The Devil's City is a unique geomorphological site well known regarding strangely sculptured stony pillars or soil (clayey) pyramids, abandoned mines and two rare hydrologic occurrences. The present landscape is partly inherited from the paleo-volcanic topography and shaped afterwards by erosion, particularly linear erosion. Soil pyramids owe their origin to the differential erosion of a more compact andesitic level on less cohesive pyroclastic material and disintegrate relatively quickly when they lose their protective "cap". The pyramids are located along the two gullies, Devil's and Hell's. In the latter, also known as "The young Devil's City" the erosion process is in the beginning. The results of combined petrological and geomorphological studies permitted us to reconstruct past geological processes and predict the future evolution of the Devil's City. Geographic information system (GIS) and digital topographic modeling are becoming powerful tools not only in geographic sciences but also in geomorphological and geological modeling.
PB - Berg Fac Technical Univ Kosice, Kosice
T2 - Acta Montanistica Slovaca
T1 - GIS analysis of dissipation time of landscape in the Devil's city (Serbia)
VL - 20
IS - 2
SP - 148
EP - 155
DO - 10.3390/ams20020148
UR - conv_945
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journal = "Acta Montanistica Slovaca",
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Valjarević, A., Srećković-Batočanin, D., Živković, D.,& Perić, M.. (2015). GIS analysis of dissipation time of landscape in the Devil's city (Serbia). in Acta Montanistica Slovaca
Berg Fac Technical Univ Kosice, Kosice., 20(2), 148-155.
https://doi.org/10.3390/ams20020148
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Valjarević A, Srećković-Batočanin D, Živković D, Perić M. GIS analysis of dissipation time of landscape in the Devil's city (Serbia). in Acta Montanistica Slovaca. 2015;20(2):148-155.
doi:10.3390/ams20020148
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Valjarević, Aleksandar, Srećković-Batočanin, Danica, Živković, Dragica, Perić, Marija, "GIS analysis of dissipation time of landscape in the Devil's city (Serbia)" in Acta Montanistica Slovaca, 20, no. 2 (2015):148-155,
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