Geografie 1971, 76, 47-51
Alpine Mountain Ranges in Geomorphology
Natural historians of different scientific branches consider the term "Alpine Mountain Ranges" as a rule from quite different points of view. In this paper the author treats of the individual viewpoints, and reaches the conclusion that neither glacial nor periglacial modellation is the deciding factor for this specification. As alpine ranges he considers those ranges formed by any geomorphological process accompanied by a striking uplift above the local erosion base if this uplift enabled a whole series of external factors to take part in an intensive areal and down-ward destruction of the original uplifted mass. At the same time the high intensity of destruction - due to gravitation - (from the energetic point of view the highest among morphogenetic processes) is a function of potential energy of the surface to be transformed. From the geological point of view "Alpine Mountain Ranges" always belong to the youngest uplifts. The unity of development of alpine areas in different geographical conditions may be sought in the intensity of exogenetic destruction, and not in the combination of modelling elements.
