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People have been fascinated by volcanoes since time immemorial. This is mainly due to the serious consequences that volcanic eruptions represent for human society. Volcanic activity develops in various ways. Therefore, evolutionary trends and the history of the volcanic system should be well understood when future hazards must be predicted and their impact on human society reduced. A volcano's history can be reconstructed from its deposits, their superposition and spatial relationships. Geological mapping is the crucial method for acquiring this information. Unfortunately, large areas in volcanic zones are inaccessible for research directly in the field. In these areas, the geological setting must be investigated by a combination of remote sensing methods and field observations from accessible outcrops. Surface methods such as remote sensing and morphological analysis provide fast and relatively cheap information, complementary to classical field geology for studying the subsurface geology. These methods can be beneficial, especially for areas with poor accessibility and/or dense vegetation cover. Volcanoes or volcanic complexes quite often represent such areas. Land forms are a result of geologic and geomorphologic processes that occur on the earth’s surface thus land forms are not chaotic, but have been structured by geologic and geomorphologic processes over time. The geomorphology of volcanic formations as a whole seems to be a reflection of the underlying geology with steep-sided land forms occurring at each of the “strong” rock units and long, with gentle slopes and topographic breaks found on „soft“ rocks. To support this theory, we employed and tested new methodology combining information arising from field surveys together with visual interpretation and statistical spatial analysis of morphometric slope-depending classes to define the spatial extent of various volcanic formations and to identify major tectonic phenomena from features derived from the geomorphology in more accurate way.

Slope Dependent Morphometric Analysis as a Tool Contributing to Reconstruction of Volcano Evolution