Geographia Technica, No. 2/2009, pp. 58 - 66

AN ANASTOMOSED SECTION OF THE CRISUL REPEDE RIVER IN THE OLD MILITARY SURVEY MAPS

 Judit Petrovszki

ABSTRACT: In this paper the planform of the Crisul Repede (Sebes-Körös) River is analyzed. Downstream of Oradea, along the present Romanian-Hungarian border, a surprising feature is found on the pre-regulation maps. A part of the river has anastomosed pattern albeit the all other section on the Great Hungarian plain is meandering. The natural evolution of this river section is followed in the sheets of the First and the Second Military Surveys, between 1783 and 1859. Some changes on the maps are because of the errors of the surveys but surprisingly a lot of them can be verified even the modern maps. The river regulation was done between the Second and Third Surveys, so these latter sheets from the 1880s shows both the last natural and the planned regulated forms of the river.
Keywords: river dynamics, river planform, Great Hungarian Plain, Crisul Repede River, anastomosed planform, Romania, Hungary.

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