Особливості антропогенних форм рельєфу гірничопромислового комплексу Полонського району Хмельницької області

Abstract

The paper analyses the aspects of formation of anthropogenic landforms of the mining complex in Polonsky district in Khmelnitsky region in Ukraine. The morphological and morphometric features of denudative and accumulative forms of anthropogenic relief, which develop as a result of mining, are explored. In particular, the Glibochiv kaolin quarry near the urban-type settlement of Poninka and granite-migmatic quarries near Polonne town, as well as dumps of loose rocks, mounds of broken stone, grus, sand and soil, and numerous wells, drilling holes and hollows in places of unauthorized extraction of sand and clay are investigated. It was established that anthropogenic landforms, which appear on the sites of mining, are constantly changing under the influence of exogenous processes of relief formation. On their surfaces and slopes the development of erosion (which is especially active on the slopes of dumps), scree formation and aeolian processes take place. These, in turn, lead to the formation of numerous erosive gullies, furrows, talus deposits, separate humps of necks and wind ripples. It was found that on the slopes of quarries, made up of loose material, and adjacent to them areas (especially covered with vegetation), a significant role in the relief formation is performed by a biota. Here, in particular, there are such forms of biogenic relief as turf nano-hills and micro-strands, holes and twisty nano-strands and nano-basins, which are the result of activity of field mice, separate earth anthills, burrowing nests and mounds created by coastal swallows. In addition, near the individual quarries and places of unauthorized use of the bowels of the earth there are “cow trails”.