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Recent Landform Evolution in the Dinaric and Pannonian Regions of Croatia

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This chapter deals with main geomorphological properties of Croatia. The key elements of the geological predispositions are outlined as well as those of geodynamic evolution which, in conjunction with numerous exogenous processes, result in recent landform development. The main points of all important exogenous processes and landforms are presented: coastal, fluvial and fluvio-denudation, slope, aeolian and polygenetic. The main attention has been paid to karst and fluviokarst which cover almost 44% of the territory (the submerged karst excluded) therefore numerous recent research topics are outlined such as the development of structural geomorphological methods in karst, the research on coastal karst, glaciokarst, karst denudation measurements and cave microclimate. All this made a good basis for a detailed geomorphological regionalisation given in the chapter as well.

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The research presented in the paper was supported by the Ministry of Science, Education and Sport of Republic of Croatia (Geomorphological and geoecological investigation of the karst area in Croatia No. 119-1191306-1305 and Geomorphological mapping of the Republic of Croatia No. 119-0000000-1299). We would like to thank Ivica Rendulić from the Geography Department at the Zagreb University for the drawing of maps.

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Bognar, A., Faivre, S., Buzjak, N., Pahernik, M., Bočić, N. (2012). Recent Landform Evolution in the Dinaric and Pannonian Regions of Croatia. In: Lóczy, D., Stankoviansky, M., Kotarba, A. (eds) Recent Landform Evolution. Springer Geography. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-2448-8_12

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