Journal of the Bulgarian Geographical Society 40: 3-9, doi: 10.3897/jbgs.2019.40.1
About the formation of Hridsko lake in Bogićevica Mountains, Montenegro
Emil Gachev‡, Predrag Djurović, Krasimir Stoyanov, Galina Bezinskа, Miroslav Ivanov‡, Stefan Petrov‡ South-West University "Neofit Rilski", Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria
© Emil Gachev, Predrag Djurović, Krasimir Stoyanov, Galina Bezinskа, Miroslav Ivanov, Stefan Petrov. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Citation:
Gachev E, Djurović P, Stoyanov K, Bezinskа G, Ivanov M, Petrov S (2019) About the formation of Hridsko lake in Bogićevica Mountains, Montenegro. Journal of the Bulgarian Geographical Society 40: 3-9. https://doi.org/10.3897/jbgs.2019.40.1 |  |
Abstract
The article presents the latest views about the origin of Hridsko lake in the mountain range Bogicevica, an eastern part of Prokletije massif (Dinaric range). Previous studies define the lake, which is situated at 1980 m a. s. l., and occupies an area about 3,5 ha, as a cirque lake, formed after the retreat of wuermian glaciers following the classical mechanism of glacial lakes formation. In result of our researches, which started in 2013, a new hypothesis evolved that the lake lies inside a large relict rock glacier, formed in the period after the termination of glaciers, which means that the lake depression has a rather periglacial origin. The new bathymetry mapping of the lake done in 2017 provides a support to this hypothesis.
Keywords
Bogićevica, Hrid lake, rock glacier, formation, bathymetry