Stone stripes and thufurs in the Krkonoše
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.26485/BP/1956/4/12Keywords:
stone stripes, weathering, thufurs, Lucna horaAbstract
On the main ridge of the Krkonose stone stripes composed of confused boulders have been encountered. Fine particles have been completely washed out of them. The stripes occur in channels most often along fissures. They developed in result of weathering processes and gravitational mass movements. The authors believe that they are of postglacial, subrecent age. On the slopes of Lucna hora (1555 m) occur thufur hummocks. They are smaller than similar phenomena in the Tatras and as such masked by vegetation. Thufurs are believed to be fossil phenomena.
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