Chemical denudation as a geomorphich process

Abstract

In the paper the discrepancy between a significant part (one-fifth to one-sixth) of solutes in total river load and the insignificant percentage of solutional landforms identified in geomorphology is treated. The abundance of data on chemical denudation in the predominant impermeable carbonates on the southern border of the Pannonian basin shows that solution is also the prevailing process there, but local erosion and soil denudation prevent the formation of proper solutional features. The solution of the noncarbonatic sediments is almost overlooked in geomorphogenetics. The second reason for the discrepancy is that geomorphology had identified landforms before sufficient knowledge on solutes accumulation. Some measurements of water chemistry have shown the solution to be an additional process, not only in blind valleys and allogenic caves, but also in through valleys previously regarded as solely erosional or/and glacial landforms.