Cvijić's karst geomorphology (Das Karstphänomen)
Geomorfología kárstica de Cvijić (Das Karstphänomen)
- Date
- 1893 · confidence high
- Place
- Belgrade, Serbia
- Credited to
- Jovan Cvijić
- Field
- Cosmos & Earth
What was discovered
A monograph in which the Serbian geographer studies the Dinaric karst and sets up a typology of its landforms (dolines, uvalas, poljes) and its cycle of evolution. It is the founding text of karstology.
Cvijić presented his thesis in Vienna in 1893; the fieldwork was in the western Balkans. The place given is that of his later career as a professor at Belgrade; the karst studied lies mainly in Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Montenegro.
What it led to
- international karst terminology with Serbo-Croatian words (doline, polje, uvala)
- karstology as a branch of geomorphology
- studies of karst aquifer hydrogeology