TY - GEN N1 - 24 cm N2 - The upper sections of avalanche paths (avalanche starting zones) in the Tatras are being transformed by morphogenetic processes, both secular and rapid mass movements, which include avalanches. The erosion niches and scars occurring within the avalanche starting zones are most exposed to these processes. A three-year monitoring of the impacts of these processes leads to the conclusion that, in the absence of dirty avalanches, the efficiency of secular geomorphological processes is low (max. a few cm/year). Such avalanches can clearly transform the relief as is demonstrated by the results of analyses of erosion niches and scars on orthophotomaps. Furthermore, it was found that the direction of relief changes (accumulation or erosion) in the Tatras is spatially and temporally varied, as well as varying within individual avalanche starting zones, and sometimes within individual erosion niches or scars. L1 - http://www.rcin.org.pl/igipz/Content/58253/PDF/WA51_78427_r2016-t89-no1_G-Polonica-Raczkowsk.pdf M3 - Text J2 - Geographia Polonica Vol. 89 No. 1 (2016) PY - 2016 IS - 1 EP - 29 KW - morphodynamics KW - slopes KW - avalanche KW - starting zones KW - Tatra Mountains A1 - Rączkowska, Zofia A1 - Rojan, Elzbieta A1 - Długosz, Michał PB - IGiPZ PAN VL - 89 CY - Warszawa SP - 17 T1 - The morphodynamics of slopes within the snow avalanche starting zones in the Tatras UR - http://www.rcin.org.pl/igipz/dlibra/publication/edition/58253 ER -