Oles Ridush

Chernivtsi National University · Department of Geography

We reconstruct snow-avalanche (SA) activity along three adjacent avalanche paths in the northern part of the Rodna Mountains (Eastern Carpathians, Romania) using tree-ring analyses. We sampled a total of 238 disturbed Norway spruce (Picea abies (L.) Karst.) trees and used the growth anomalies found in tree rings to obtain an avalanche chronology at...

Our observations on the Chorny Dil Range, situated in the upper reaches of the White Cheremosh River (the highest mark is 1483 m), indicate the possible existence of glacial processes here in the past.

The Emine-Bair-Khosar Cave is situated on the Chatyrdag karst plateau on the Crimea peninsula. The 13 m deep and 7-8 m wide pit-entrance to the cave is situated on the northern edge of the lower plateau northern slope (982 m a.s.l.). At least since the Middle Pleistocene, the entrance shaft has functioned as a huge trap for numerous animals, mainly...