Effects of glaciation on the clinometry and hypsometry of the Romanian Carpathians

SRTM1 Digital Elevation Model for many mountain ranges in Romania were processed to provide slope gradient distributions for each 50 m band of altitude. The effects of cirques are seen in an increase in standard deviation of gradient, and a spread in all percentiles, especially an increase in the 95th, at relevant altitudes. Otherwise, variations in median gradient with altitude differ between ranges, and do not show the general increase found in the Alps below cirque floor altitudes by several authors.

Mihai N, Evans IS. 2018. Effects of glaciation on the clinometry and hypsometry of the Romanian Carpathians. PeerJ Preprints 6:e27076v1 https://doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.27076v1