About the book:
The monograph offers an original mobilistic model of the Balkan Рeninsula eastern part pattern, morphotectonic origin and evolution. The concept of the role of tectonic plates, the continuous changes in the model of the earth’s crust and in the course of tectonic processes is advocated. The youngest of those processes control the modern morphostructural features of the relief. Its formation depends on the current state of the earth’s crust and partly on the regional geodynamics of the upper mantle. The energy source for these processes is the constantly releasing asthenospheric energy in the earth’s mantle. The colorful relief of the eastern part of the Balkan Peninsula is due to the complex and continuous geological and geomorphological development, the diverse rock base, different climatic conditions and complex tectonic processes. The relief formation and its change in the studied lands are a result of the combined action of exogenous and mainly of the endogenous earth-moving processes. Attached to the book is a color atlas of 70 carnivorous sheets of the morphotectonic cutter on the eastern part of the Balkan Peninsula at a scale of 1: 250 000.
About the Authors:
Svetla Dimitrova Stankova
Born in the town of Shumen, Bulgaria (1974). Master’s degree (Ma) in geography at the Konstantin Preslavski University of Shumen (1997). Ph. D. in Geomorphology and Paleogeography at the Konstantin Preslavski University of Shumen (2010). Worked as an Assistant (1998); Chief Assistant (2005-2011), Associate Professor (2012-2017) and Professor of Geomorphology and Paleogeography at the University of Shumen (since 2018). Head of the Department of Geography, Regional Development and Tourism at the Faculty of Natural Sciences at the University of Shumen (2017-2021). Member of the Union of Scientists in Bulgaria, the Bulgarian Geographical Society, the Association of Professional Geographers and Regionalists, the Union of Women in Science and others. Language skills: intermediate level – Russian, English. Research interests: Geomorphology, Structural geomorphology, Morphotectonics, Paleogeography, Natural geography. Author and co-author of over 120 scientific papers, of which 15 monographs, textbooks and teaching aids. She has participated in over 25 scientific national and international research projects. Reads university courses in geomorphology, geology and geomorphology of Bulgaria, General and regional geology and Geomorphology, Oceanology, Natural geography of the continents, Natural geography of Bulgaria, Natural geography of the Black Sea, Natural tourist resources and others.
Tzanko Vassilev Tzankov
Born in Sofia, Bulgaria (1936). Master degree (Ma) of geology in Sofia University “St. Climent Ohridski” (1958). Post-graduate student of structural analysis in the Geotectonic institute in Berlin (1965 – 1966) and in Erlangen University (Alexander von Humboldt stipendiant -1968 – 1969). Ph. D. (1967) and Dr. Sci. of Geotectonics (1986) in Sofia University “St. Climent Ohridski”. Geologist in the Comittee of Geology in Sofia (1958); research associate (1960-77), associate research professor (1978-90), research professor in Tectonics and Regional Geology (since 1991) and Head of the Problem Laboratory of Seismotectonics in the Geological Institute of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (since 1993); regional geologist and tectonician in Algeria (1972-1973) and in Cuba (1979-1982). Fondation member of Alexander von Humboldt’s Union of Bulgaria (1992). Language knowledge: well – German, Russian, Spanish, English; mean level – French and Serbian. Published more than 400 articles (author or co-author of over than 35 monographs and books) and more than 250 scientific reports on Geotectonics and Regional Tectonics, Structural Analysis, Regional Geology and Lithostratigraphy of Balkan Peninsula, Tell Atlas, Cuba and Middle and Eastern Europe. Working and publishing about the Phanerozoic Paleogeodynamics, Regional Tectonics, Morphotectonics of the eastern part of the Balkan Peninsula. Editor on 8 and author on 15 sheets of Geological map of Bulgaria in a scale 1:100 000 (1989 – 1995). Leading author and editor of the first Neotectonic (Quaternary) Мap of Bulgaria – scale 1:500 000. Co-author of tectonic and geological maps different scales of Bulgaria, Carpathian-Balkan region, Europe, Cuba. Reading the university courses of Geology, Geomorphology, Geomorphology of Bulgaria, Seismotectonics, Geodynamics, Geotectonics. Honorary Professor of the South-Western University “Neofit Rilski” – town of Blagoevgrad and the Shumen University “Episkop Konstantin Preslavski”- Shumen (Bulgaria). Visiting Professor in the University of Erlangen, Torino, Massacusets Technological Institute –Boston (USA).
