Studies in Hungarian geographical sciences (Budapest, 1960)
STUDIES IN HUNGNRIIN GEOGRAPHICAL SCIENCES This volume contains the lectures of Hungarian geographers for the 1960 Stockholm Congress of the International Geographical Union, partly in English, partly in French, with abstracts in Russian. The papers deal with some problems of physical and economical geography the Hungarian geographers are mostly interested in. The papers on physical geography seek, on the basis of new data, new approaches to the much debated problems of the Quaternary, such as the climatical types of the periglacial period and their landscape-forming influence, or the manifold possibilities of genesis of the Hungarian loesses. One paper considers the fossil tropical karst forms of Hungary, with conclusions upon the palaeoclimatical conditions, another deals with the terrace system of the Hungarian section of the Danube valley with references to young crustal movements. One of the papers on economic geography points out the close relations that have developed in Hungary between the location of energy-absorbing branches of industry and of the energy carriers. Since 1959, Hungarian geographers have contributed to the research in soil utilization, going on at a lively pace all over the world. A paper deals with methodological results arrived at in this field. Finally, a paper reports on the Hungarian atlas under preparation. It discusses in detail the principles governing the drafting of the atlas, the methods of map construction, etc. Distributor: KULTURA Budapest 62 P. O. Box 149