Artigo Revisado por pares

La moyenne montagne. Essai de définition, milieux physiques, typologie (Middle moutain, as a whole)

1980; Association de Geographes Francais; Volume: 57; Issue: 468 Linguagem: Inglês

10.3406/bagf.1980.5174

ISSN

2275-5195

Autores

Pierre Bozon, Max Derruau, Annie Reffay, Bernard Valadas,

Resumo

Abstract. - « Middle mountain » designates either an altitudinal belt or the whole of a definite mountain, which stretches, for its major part, though possibly no entirely, throughout the said belt. The lower as well as the upper limit are discussed in the paper. - In the middle mountain, at least at mid latitudes, frost, at the present time, plays a moderate part ; agricultural erosion is active and consequently lynchets are a usual feature. - Different types of middle mountains may be distinguished according to the combination of four factors : altitude, slope gradient, isolation and cohesion of the rural society (examples taken in the French Central Massif).

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