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	Carpathian Mountains
		Ukrainians at the fringes), the Eastern Carpathians are settled by
		Slavic Carpathians, as distinguished from the Southern or Romanian Carpathians.
		The climate of the Carpathians is determined by the climate of the adjacent plateaus, the height of the mountains, and the relief.
	www.encyclopediaofukraine.com /pages/C/A/CarpathianMountains.htm (4247 words)

	Romania - Printer-friendly - MSN Encarta
		The Eastern Carpathians extend from the northern border to the center of the country and contain the forested region of Bukovina; the Southern Carpathians, also known as the Transylvanian Alps, stretch westward from the Eastern Carpathian range; and the Western Carpathians traverse the western portion of Romania.
		To the east of central Romania, stretching from the Carpathians to the Prut River along the Moldovan border, lies the region of Moldavia.
		Southern Romania contains the region of Walachia, which stretches from the southernmost mountains to the Danube and contains the city of Bucharest.
	encarta.msn.com /text_761559516___2/Romania.html (1029 words)

	ABOUT THE CARPATHIANS - Carpathian Heritage Society
		The boundary between the Western and the Southeastern Carpathians occurs at the narrowest part of the mountain range, marked by the valley of the San River to the north and the Lupków Pass (2,100 feet) and the Laborec Valley to the south.
		The Outer Western Carpathians are generally of low altitude; the highest elevation is Mount Babia (5,659 feet) in the Beskid Range, straddling the borders of Poland, the Czech Republic, and Slovakia.
		The western part of the Southern Carpathians - that is, the Banat Mountains and the mountains of eastern Serbia (which, at the Iron Gate, are split apart by the gap valley of the Danube) - do not exceed an altitude of 5,000 feet.
	www.carpathians.pl /carpathians01.html (872 words)

	Travel in Ukraine's Carpathians - geography, climate, hiking, access, culture, accommodations
		The Carpathians are a crescent-shaped mountain system that was formed by the same forces that lifted the higher Alps to the west.
		The Carpathians are moist mountains with between 800 and 1600 mm (31 to 58 inches) of precipitation spread quite evenly throughout the year.
		The Carpathians and Transcarpathian region (basically, west of the main ridge of the Carpathians) are quite interesting culturally and historically, with a mixture of ethnic groups and historical ties.
	www.tryukraine.com /carpathians.shtml (1121 words)

	Romania - GEOGRAPHY
		The west-central region, known as Transylvania, is delimited by the arc of the Carpathians, which separates it from the Maramures region in the northwest; by the Crisana area, which borders Hungary in the west; and by the Banat region of the southwest, which adjoins both Hungary and Yugoslavia.
		The Western Carpathians are the most densely settled, and it is in the northernmost area of this range, the Apuseni Mountains, that permanent settlements can be found at the highest altitudes.
		The Carpathians serve as a barrier to Atlantic air masses, restricting their oceanic influences to the west and center of the country, where they make for milder winters and heavier rainfall.
	www.mongabay.com /reference/country_studies/romania/GEOGRAPHY.html (1752 words)

	Romania - Search View - MSN Encarta
		Romania’s landscape is dominated by the Carpathian Mountains, a great mountain system that cuts through the country in a circular arc and covers about one-third of Romania’s total area.
		Popular attractions include skiing and hiking in the Carpathian Mountains; the Danube delta region, which draws fishing enthusiasts and birdwatchers from around the world; the medieval castles of Transylvania and the painted monasteries of Bukovina; and the seaside resorts and beaches of the Black Sea.
		The Romanian army reclaimed Bessarabia and Bukovina and advanced as far as southern Ukraine, but suffered heavy losses in the Battle of Stalingrad in 1942 and 1943.
	encarta.msn.com /text_761559516__1/Romania.html (9611 words)

	Carpathians Geology
		The Carpathians are part of the Alpine-Himalayan chain, formed only about 35 million years ago in the Tertiary alpine orogeny, but there is as yet no explanation for the S-shape of the Carpathian-Balkan system.
		The Carpathian system is as long as the Alps (1.300 Km, but with its ends on the Danube, at Bratislava and the Iron Gates, only 500 Km apart) but only half their height, making it easier to cross.
		For the most part the Carpathians are 35-40 Km wide (double that in the Paring area and three times that in the Rodnas) and generally consists of three distinct bands with Flysch (or tubidite) sediments on the outside, young crystalline massifs in the centre in some volcanic intrusions on the inner side.
	www.outdoorholiday.com /geology.php (661 words)

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		Encircling like a crown the Transylvanian Tableland (400-600 m altitude), the Carpathian Mountains rise up to 2,500 m (the highest elevation in the country is Moldoveanu Peak in the Fagaras massif -2,544 m), being in their turn surrounded by a belt of hills and elevations which rise no higher than 1,000 m.
		Between the Carpathians and the Danube lies the Romanian Plain, the principal granary of the country, and to the west stretches the Western Plain, which is crossed by many rivers.
		The southern part of the territory was afflicted by long droughts and extremely high temperatures (35-40ºC), the result being the desertification of large portions of land.
	www.roembus.org /weblinks/Romania/Geography.htm (1451 words)

	Romania - Topography
		Romania's Carpathians are differentiated into three ranges: the Eastern Carpathians, the Southern Carpathians or Transylvanian Alps, and the Western Carpathians.
		To the south and east of the Carpathians, the Sub-Carpathians form a fringe of rolling terrain ranging from 396 to 1,006 meters in elevation.
		In the southern parts of the country, the lower Danube Plain is divided by the Olt River; east of the river lies the Romanian Plain, and to the west is the Oltenian or Western Plain.
	countrystudies.us /romania/33.htm (1032 words)

	PZ-Home
		The fold-thrust belt of the Eastern Carpathians is a former accretionary wedge that originated at a convergent margin at which the Carpathian flysch basin was subducted underneath the continental Tisia-Dacia block.
		The Tisia-Dacia block was assembled in the Cretaceous by closure of the Transylvanian ocean (a segment of the Mesozoic ?Vardar-Transylvanian-Meliata-Hallstatt ocean) and continental collision of the Tisia block (corresponding to Southern Alpine units) with the Getides (corres-ponding to the Central Western Carpathians and the Austroalpine).
		Closure of the Carpathian flysch basin was driven between the Karpatian and the Badenian (17 to 13 Ma) by a heavy slab causing subduction zone retreat.
	homepages.uni-tuebingen.de /uni/ep/epiwa01/diss.html (1396 words)

	Terrestrial Ecoregions -- Carpathian montane forests (PA0504)
		, the Eastern Carpathians (Vihorlat, Bukovské Vrchý, Bieszczady) and the Southern Carpathians.
		However, the number of endemic plants in the Carpathians is lower than in the Alps, Pyrenees or the mountain ranges of the Balkan Peninsula, primarily due to the fact, that the flora of the Carpathians was largely impoverished by glaciation.
		Biodiversity in the Carpathians is threatened by the common practice of reforestation with spruce monocultures and the rapid abandonment of the traditional forms of agriculture.
	www.worldwildlife.org /wildworld/profiles/terrestrial/pa/pa0504_full.html (1638 words)

	Carpathians
		The Retezat Mountains, on the western side of the southern Carpathians, are the rockiest massif of Romania.
		The Muierii Cave (Cave of the Women), is on the southwestern slope of the Capatanii mountains in the southern Carpathians.
		on the southern slope of the Rodna mountains of the northern Carpathians, near the town of Nasaud.
	romania-europe.tripod.com /carpathians.html (568 words)

	Carpathian Mountains (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The mountain chain is divided geographically into three basic parts: the Western Carpathians (in Slovakia and Poland); the Eastern Carpathians (in Ukraine and Romania); and the Southern Carpathians (in southern Romania).
		The great arc of the Carpathians is a kind of complement to the northern branch of the Alpine belt; its highest peak is Gerlachovský štit (2,655 meters) in the Tatra range in Slovakia.
		Among the highest peaks in those ranges of the Carpathians inhabited by Rusyns (all on the southern slopes) are: Hoverla (2061 m.), Pop Ivan (2026 m.), Petros (2020 m.), Blyznytsia (1881 m.), and Popadia (1742 m.), which are all in the eastern part of Subcarpathian Rus’.
	www.rusyn.org /pop_carp_mount.htm (220 words)

	Central Europe
		To the south of the Southern Carpathians lies the Wallachian Plain, bounded by the Danube.
		In the northwest the Carpathians collide with earlier mountains of the Hercynian or Variscian (Carboniferous) orogeny.
		The Magyars determined to escape the turmoil of the steppes, and assembled east of the Carpathians for their invasion of the Hungarian Plain, which they had determined was very thinly populated with the remnants of Avars and Gepids.
	www.du.edu /~etuttle/misc/europe.htm (23125 words)

	GO 568 Central Europe II
		The Carpathians are a classic thrust mountain belt with associated flysch and molasse phases of development.
		Paleozoic crust north of the Carpathians was strongly affected during mountain thrusting.
		Structural phases display a systematic age trend along the Carpathian system--oldest in the west, younger in the east, and youngest in the south.
	academic.emporia.edu /aberjame/struc_geo/euro_central/carp.htm (830 words)

	Southern Carpathians - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Southern Carpathians (Romanian: Carpaţii Meridionali), also called the Transylvanian Alps, are a group of mountain ranges which divide central and southern Romania.
		They cover part of the Carpathian Mountains that is located between the Prahova River in the east and the Timiş and Cerna Rivers in the west.
		The Southern Carpathian group are the second highest group of mountains in the Carpathian Mountain range, having heights of over 2000m, some peaks reaching as far as over 2500m.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Southern_Carpathians (265 words)

	Benutzer\Vasile\WWW final\Romania\Romania.html
		The southern and eastern portions of Romania consist of fertile plains that are drained by the Danube and its tributaries.
		The Carpathians in Romania may be divided into the Eastern Carpathians, the Southern Carpathians (or the Transylvanian Alps), and the Western Carpathians; they occupy about 30 percent of the country's total area.
		The eastern and southern plains occupy one-third of the country's total area and formed the populated cores of historic Moldavia and Walachia, respectively.
	www.physik.uni-greifswald.de /~varto/Romania/Romania.html (2306 words)

	EMN Congress 2004
		The Carpathians, denominated in ancient times "Corona Montium", form a third of the country's territory, and represent the second European mountain chain after the Alps.
		Placed as an arch inside the country, the Carpathians are formed of three mountains chains (Oriental, Southern and Western Carpathians), each of them with its particular beauty and hospitable landscapes.
		The second mountains chain, the Southern Carpathians, is placed between Prahova Valley and the Timis-Cerna corridor.
	www.rsn.ro /emn/carpati.htm (509 words)

	The Carpathians
		It caused upwelling of the hot asthenosphere below the thinned continental lithosphere of the Carpathians, inducing uplift of the lithosphere and internal decoupling at the Moho by isostatic and thermal effects.
		The different curves represent the subsidence of Focsani foreland, the uplift of the Carpathian chain and the hinterland subsidence leading to the Brasov, Ciuc and Gheorghieni basin formation, while straight lines represent the age intervals of the Late Miocene-Quaternary volcanic activity and of shortening of the internal part of the foreland basin.
		Tomographic imaging of deep velocity structure beneath the Eastern and Southern Carpathians, Romania: Implications for continental collision.
	www.mantleplumes.org /Carpathians.html (1305 words)

	Cycling in Ukraine's Carpathians
		The Carpathians are great for cycling, but have not yet been assimilated by cyclists like Crimea.
		The Carpathians have not yet been turned into a massive tourist attraction, so you're pretty much on your own to plan and execute your trip.
		The Carpathians are suitable for both long-distance trips of up to 400 km (see below) and short day trips from any town or village that you stay in.
	www.tryukraine.com /carpathians/cycling.shtml (951 words)

	GORP - Outdoor Romania - National Parks and Complex Reservations
		The rockiest mountain massif of the country on the western side of the Southern Carpathians.
		Solitary in the Eastern Carpathians, surrounded by water courses and dam lakes.
		Located on the western side of the Southern Carpathians, overlooking the town and spa of Baile Herculane on the Cerna valley The first forest reservation in the country (1932): rare forest, less know butterflies, cavern fauna: corned vipers and turtles.
	gorp.away.com /gorp/location/europe/romania/parks.htm (717 words)

	:: STRIX TOURS ::
		Romania's topography is dominated by the Carpathian Mountains, that divided into three parts: the Eastern, Southern and Western Carpathians.
		The Eastern Carpathians extend from the northern frontier to the Prahova river valley, reaching their maximum height in the Rodna mountains.
		The Southern Carpathians lie between the Prahova river valley to the east and the Timis and Cerna river valleys to the west.
	www.birdingdelta.com /sites.html (2215 words)

	Romania World
		Some peaks in the Eastern Carpathians reach more than 7,500 feet (2,280 meters) in height, while the Southern Carpathians reach 8,346 feet (2,544 meters) at the peak of Moldoveanul, the highest point in Romania.
		To the east of the Eastern Carpathians there is the Moldovan Plateau, while to the west is the large Transylvanian Plateau.
		In the west of the country the smaller Tisza River plain extends from the Western Carpathians to the Hungarian border.
	www.geocities.com /Heartland/Park/8982/romania.html (2176 words)

	ROMANIA
		The Southern Carpathians contain the country’s highest peak, Moldoveanu, which reaches an elevation of 2,543 m (8,343 ft).
		The geological structure of the Carpathians has given rise to severe earthquakes: in 1977 an earthquake with a magnitude of 6.5 on the Richter scale inflicted serious damage on Bucharest and claimed more than 1,500 lives.
		Western Romania is dominated by the Tisza Plain, which borders both Hungary and Serbia; the section of the plain that borders Serbia is generally known as the region of Banat, while the section that borders Hungary is commonly referred to as Crisana-Maramures.
	www.trcargo.ro /HTML/romania.htm (7373 words)

	Land and Climate of Romania
		The Moldavian, or Eastern, Carpathian range extends from the northern border to the center of the country.
		The Transylvanian Alps, or Southern Carpathians, stretch westward from the Moldavian range.
		Bukovina, northeast of Transylvania, is a thickly forested region in the Moldavian Carpathian Mountains.
	www.public.asu.edu /~orlich/land.html (694 words)

	Geological View
		The geology of Romania is dominated by the Carpathian Orogen of Alpine age, and its foreland which includes several platforms and also the North Dobrogea orogen of Cimmerian age.
		The calc-alkaline volcanism progress from Western to Eastern Carpathians (18 Ma in W to 0 Ma in East).
		The Carpathian Foredeep is filled with Upper Pliocene - Lower Pleistocene molasse from the erosion of the Carpathians.
	www.geo-strategies.com /activepages/colmap5.pl?9 (655 words)

	Permafrost monitoring and prediction in Southern Carpathians, Romania
		Geocryological Database for Romanian Carpathians is based on both BTS measurements (bottom temperature of winter snow cover) and on summer temperatures of springs situated at the base of rock glaciers.
		The former were made using digital thermometers in February and March, the latter using digital and mercury thermometers in August and September at the end of the period of estival melting.
		The Retezat Mountains are situated in the Southern Carpathians (Transylvanian Alps), where many peaks are higher than 2500 m.
	nsidc.org /data/docs/fgdc/ggd30_perm_romania (967 words)

	Virtual Meeting Place Romania
		The Carpathians represent almost one third of the entire Romanian territory (to be exact 31% of it), and they are considered to be the second mountainous chain in Europe after the Alps.
		Even if they are not as tall as these, Carpathians have a good fame for their spectacular views, the wonderful opportunities for climbing or for practicing winter sports.
		The Southern Carpathians are placed between Prahova Valley and Timis-Cerna corridor having the highest peaks in Romania : Moldoveanu Peak (2,544 m), Negoiu Peak (2,535 m), Paringu Mare Peak (2,519 m), Peleaga Peak (2,509 m) and Omu Peak (2,505 m).
	www.meetromania.info /uk_winter_2003.html (1618 words)

	The Southern Carpathians Romania
		The Southern Carpathians offer the highest peaks, Moldoveanu Peak (2,544 meters) and Negoiu (2,535 meters) and more than 150 glacial lakes.
		The Retezat Mountains (literally: Hewed Mountains) are a fantastic stone "fortress" with the highest average altitude of the Romanian Carpathians range (more than 60 peaks reaching an altitude of over 2,200m, culminating with the Peleaga Peak, 2,509 m).
		The Piatra Craiului Mountains are further known for the abundance and diversity of flowers and plants.
	www.brasovtravelguide.ro /en/romania/mountains/southern-carpathians.php (997 words)

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