NEW MAPS OF GULLY EROSION

Abstract

This paper describes a project undertaken by Moscow University geographers to evaluate and map the natural gully erosion hazard for plains areas of European Russia. Compilation of a series of maps on specific natural characteristics with a bearing on gully formation serves as the basis for the creation of a map depicting the natural susceptibility of areas to gully erosion used in forecasting the potential maximum density of the gully network. Translated by Anna Luchanskaya, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI 49008 from: Geomorfologiya, 1992, No. 3, pp. 25–31.