RECENT GEOMORPHOLOGIC REGIMES OF THE EAST EUROPEAN AND WEST SIBERIAN PLAINS: SIMILARITY AND DISSIMILARITY

Abstract

The regimes similar for both plains and specific are distinguished as result of cluster analysis applied concurrently for both plains. In particular, for the East-European plain (EE) the intense denudation regimes are characteristic (erosion, karst, slide, complex denudation), whereas for West Siberian plain (WS) - weak denudation and accumulation regimes (thermokarst, bog, weak erosion). For WS regimes distribution zonality is more representative than for EE and WS regimes occupy more compact regions. The observed similarity of three zonal and two regional WS and EE regimes apparently follows from morphoclimatic zonality.