INFLUENCE OF QUANTITATIVE INDEXES OF RELIEF ON GEODYNAMIC TENSITY FEATURES                                         OF MOUNTAIN AREAS OF THE AZERBAIJANIAN PART OF THE MINOR CAUCASUS                           (BY THE EXAMPLE OF THE NORTHEASTERN SLOPE)

Mamiyeva Sevinj Alim gizi, Researcher, department of landscape studies and landscape planning, Institute of Geography named after academician G. Aliev of the National Academy of Sciences of Azerbaijan (31 G. Dzhavida avenue, Baku, Azerbaijan), depart608@rambler.ru, elgeom@mail.ru

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Background. In the modern relief of the area under investigation one may quite obviously observe an anthropogenic impact that significantly changes the relief and ecogeomorphological situation. Morphometric features of the territory determine the development mode of exogenous processes. In order to reveal morphometric tensity the article analyzes morphometric data that allow to use the latter as indexes at complex ecogeomorphological estimation of mountain countries’ relief.
Materials and methods. On the basis of processing literary and archival materials, field data, obtained as a results of decoding images from space of 1:1 000 000 and 1:200 000 in scale, as well as author’s laboratory and field materials, collected over a period from 1998 to 2013, the researcher performed mapping of horizontal and vertical ruggedness of averaged inclinations of the northeastern slope of the Minor Caucasus.
Results. Morphometric tensity of the northeastern slope of the Minor Caucasus has been estimated according to the accepted 5-point scale. 5 points has been given to the territory embracing steep slopes within 900–1200 m. Differentiation is especially strong in the dividing zone in the region of the Gyamysh and Murovdag mountains. Areals of the Pantsky ridge and the Geygelskoe plato are distinguished by the 4-point tensity. Relatively medium tensity of 3 points is typical for the territories embracing the Bashkend-Dastafyurskaya kettle. Weak tensity of 2 points is typical for the territory of Shamkirskoe rising, and the territory embracing the Predmalokavkazskaya plain is distinguished by the weakest tensity of 1 point.
Conclusions. The results of the morphometric tensity analysis of the modern relief allow to quantitatively substantiate the selected blocks-segments. The results are extremely necessary at geomorphological research in mountain countries, as well as general estimation of the ecogeomorphological situation.

ecogeomorphological situation, morphometrically tense areas, morphostructures, exodynamic processes.

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