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PROBLEMS OF GEOMORPHOLOGICAL MAPPING Geographical Studies No. 46, Warszawa 1963

MIECZYSŁAW KLIMASZEWSKI

Kraków

THE PRINCIPLES OF GEOMORPHOLOGICAL MAPPING IN POLAND

The idea of the ‘Geomorphological Map of Poland’ on a scalę of 1 : 50,000 arose in 1946 ¹, and it has been performed within the scientific plan of the Institute of Geography of the Polish Academy of Sciences, sińce 1950. The geomorphological mapping is being carried out by scientific workers at almost all of the Geographical Institutes (of the Polish Academy of Sciences and of the Universities) in Poland, 30-40 partici-pants annual.

The conception of a geomorphological survey of Poland resulting in the geomorphological map arose,

1) because of the reąuest to gain a morę accurate knowledge of the elements of the geographical environment

2) because of the desire to become acąuainted with the relief not me-rely from a qualitative aspect but also from a quantitative one.

In order to obtain a complete picture of the relief and a knowledge of the geomorphological development of a particular area the examination of all the forms and even the forms’ elements is necessary.

The investigation of all the forms occurring in a particular area com-pels us to plot these forms on a topographical map, to map these forms, to make use of the method of the geomorphological survey.

The geomorphological survey is based on plotting all of the landforms stated during the field investigations on a topographical map by means of signs, having first given their description and dimensions as well as their genetical and chronological classification.

This geomorphological survey resulted in the ‘Geomorphological Map of Poland’. It is not an outline map but a detailed map on a scalę of 1 : 25,000 (in the field) and 1 : 50,000 (in press). This map has been performed in the field (just as the geological one). It cannot be compiled at the desk.

Lectures on the principles of geomorphological mapping and the importance of the detailed geomorphological map for both science and practise were presented by the author in Poland and in Budapest (1953), Moscow (1955), Freienwalde and Leipzig (1955), Strasbourg (1956), Rio de Janeiro (1956), Góttingen (1957), Madrid (1957), Peking, Nanking and in Kanton (1958), in Berlin (1959), in Stockholm (1960), in Amsterdam and in Utrecht (1961).