Function of Agricultural Terraces in Mediterranean Conditions - Selected Examples From the Island of Ikaria (The Southern Sporades, Greece) The aim of the research was to define the influence of agricultural terraces on slope erosion. There have been selected three plots located on the Greek island Ikaria. On the plots detailed geomorphological mapping was done, spatial relief models were created based on the measurements taken using GPS RTK, georadar profiles were made using RAMAC/GPR and the extent of destruction of terrace resistance walls was evaluated. In comparison with similar forms on other Aegean islands, Ikarian terraces are narrow and high. Their stability depends on: lihtology, slope gradient, height and spatial arrangement of particular terrace steps and the current way of their usage. It was acknowledged that the most stable are the forms created on crystalline schists and gneisses, whereas the slopes, which erode the easiest, are the terraced ones consisting of carbonate rocks. The obtained results indicate that on Ikaria similarly to numerous other regions the most significant factor facilitating erosion on the terraced slopes is the cessation of their agricultural usage.
The purpose of this article is to present the role of human impact in the forming and transformation of the relief of the Aegean Islands. The most significant changes (with a displacement of more than 10 bln m3 of rock material) are related to the creation of road infrastructure and the construction of agricultural terraces. In order to create stone buildings, 20 mln m3 of rock material was used; for the purposes of air transport a surface area of nearly 2.5 km2 was levelled; many kilometres of artificial shorelines were created and at least 4.5 mln m3 of material was displaced for the purposes of the construction of artificial reservoirs of a total capacity of more than 25 mln m3. A huge amount of material was removed as a result of mining activities. The indirect impact of economic activities on the relief of the discussed area includes mainly slope, fluvial and coastal processes.
tsermegas i., effects of human impact on the beds of minor watercourses of the Aegean Island of Icaria (Greece). Quaestiones Geographicae 31(1), Bogucki Wydawnictwo Naukowe, Poznań 2012, pp. 91-98. 8 Figs. DOI 10.2478 abstract. The aim of the work was to show the scale of changes of riverbeds in the conditions of Mediterranean climate and many ages of human impact, on the example of Icaria, an island situated in the eastern part of the Aegean Sea. The most altered riverbed fragments were selected and the main types of conversion were defined based on the terrain mapping and the interviews with the inhabitants. They are as follows: the increase in the seasonality of tides, the transformation of the riverbed fragments into paths, the narrowing of the riverbeds, the strengthening of their bottoms and banks, the partitioning of the riverbeds with the proprietary boundaries, the inclusion of the riverbeds into the irrigation system and the creation of infrastructure to be used by watermills. The riverbeds that were altered the most were the ones within villages, up to 400 m above sea level. Changes described were taking place in stages. In antiquity they concerned only the estuary parts. Until the 1950s they covered arable areas inside the island. After 1970 there followed a drastic diminishing of flows in the riverbeds and there appeared riverbeds with artificial bottoms. key words: Icaria, river bed, human impact
Wpływ osadnictwa olęderskiego na morfologię nadwiślańskich obszarów zalewowych -na przykładzie Kępy KiełpińskiejOlęder settlement impact on morphology of the Vistula river floodplain. Kępa Kiełpińska case study Urszula Zawadzka-Pawlewska*, Irena Tsermegas Uniwersytet Warszawski, Zakład Geomorfologii; *urszula.zawadzka@uw.edu.pl Zarys treści: W rejonie Warszawy i w samej stolicy występuje wiele śladów osadnictwa olęderskiego. Tekst prezentuje wyniki pilotażowych badań nad wpływem tej kolonizacji na ukształtowanie rzeźby Kępy Kiełpińskiej, zagospodarowanej na początku XIX w. Bezpośrednie skutki antropopresji określono na podstawie porównania archiwalnych map topograficznych z lat: 1783, 1794, 1843,[1914][1915] 1936 oraz mapy współczesnej. W oparciu o dwa wiercenia porównano cechy litologiczne (uziarnienie i zawartość materii organicznej) podłoża po dwóch stronach olęderskiej grobli. Wykazano, że w pierwszej fazie modyfikacja rzeźby polegała na utworzeniu nowych form -grobli, rowów, nasypów, które są do dziś wyraźnie widoczne w terenie. W późniejszych etapach wpłynęło to na cechy gruntów użytkowanych rolniczo -groble i pasy zarośli wierzbowo-topolowych oraz płotki z wikliny zatrzymywały grubszy materiał, a na ich zapleczu osadzały się drobniejsze frakcje, wzbogacone w materię organiczną, transportowane w zawiesinie. Uzyskane wyniki uzasadniają potrzebę dalszych badań nad morfologicznymi skutkami osadnictwa olęderskiego w rejonie Warszawy.Słowa kluczowe: Kępa Kiełpińska, olędrzy, antropopresja, terasa zalewowa Wisły Abstract: In Warsaw and its vicinity, many signs of the Olęder settlement are present. Paper presents the results of the pilot study on the Olęder settlement impact on the relief of the Kępa Kiełpińska, which was brought into cultivation in the beginning of the XIX century. Direct results of the human impact were specified on basis of the archival and modern topographic maps. On basis of two drills the lithology features of the ground on both sides of the Olęder causeway were compared (grain size distribution and LOI). In the first phase, relief modification consisted of the creation of new forms -causeways, trenches, embankments, which are still visible in landscape. In later phases, above mentioned modifications, had impact on features of the land used for agriculture -causeways and osier fences and belts composed from poplar and willow were stopping more coarse material, and on their back, more fine, enriched in organic matter, material transported in suspension was deposited. Obtained results justify the need of the future research on the impact of the Olęder settlement in the vicinity of Warsaw.
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