Relict landslides, gullies and geoheritage sites - Băiceni village

Cucuteni – Cetăţuia site is located at the edge of the Laiu plateau, on a promontory cut by a gully, and is bounded on north, east and south sides by deep-seated landslide scarps [1]. The main inhabitation of the settlement is attributed to Cucuteni A. This settlement is related to the Băiceni – Dâmbul Morii settlement, located downstream, at the base of the hillslope, on the relict landslide deposits, between Recea and Morii rivers (Fig. 1). The site was populated in the Cucuteni A and AB phases. The complex landslides that affect the north, west and south hillslopes are retrogressive landslides which generated the slide of the sandstone layer over the underlying claystones and sands (Fig. 2).