ЗАКОНОМЕРНОСТИ РАСПРОСТРАНЕНИЯ И ФОРМИРОВАНИЯ СЕМИАРИДНЫХ ПЕДИМЕНТОВ ЧЕТВЕРТИЧНОГО ВОЗРАСТА В ЗАРУБЕЖНОЙ ЕВРОПЕ (БИБЛИОГРАФИЧЕСКИЙ ОБЗОР)

Abstract

The review of the Russian and foreign literature made possible localizing the distribution of the relict planation surfaces in the foreign Europe. These surfaces are semiarid Quaternary pediments forming one of the youngest and lowest denudation levels. They are distributed over the Central and South Europe; northward they reach the boundary of maximum Pleistocene glaciation. Within this area, semiarid pediments occur discreetly, as more or less detached surfaces of flat gradient and different height. They are absent in the regions with maritime climate and in the axial zones of epigeosyncline mountains. The pediments formed under dry conditions during 600-800 millennia at the turn of the Eopleistocene and beginning of the Neopleistocene. The results obtained are in good correspondence with the earlier data for East Europe.