Speological fund
The North West area of Gorj county is the confluence area of Getic Plateau with the Southern Carpathians and geologycal is very interesting and well represented in speleology terms.
Located in the Central-Western parth of Carpathians, Valcan Mountains extend for 45 km length between Motru and 20 km wide average Jiu and between Petrosani Depression at North and the Carpathian basin Oltenia in South.
They are made of one main asymmetric peak East-West oriented, which dominates the Western Jiu and from which start to south secondary ridges extend. The Southern ridges are almost entirely composed of dolimotes and Jourasic- Cretaceous limestones (carsificable rocks) in tectonic contact with the depression. But the karst forms are less well represented in these limestones.
Across the limestone, rivers Şuşiţa, Sohodol, Tismana and Cheia formed spectacular gorges, whose natural potential has been more or less exploited. The infiltrations of meteoric waters and of those from the hydrographic network generated an intense underground flow. Returning to the surface of these waters is made either in the valleys or in the contact of the mountains with the depression, under karst forms with large debts.
The underground flow of waters led to the appearances of caves, some of them could being explored: Moistii Water Cave, Cave of Stone Pocruia, Fusteica Cave, Gura Plaiului Cave, about 20 caves in the Gorge Runcu, others, such as caves and potholes related to Gorge Susita, being unexplored yet speological, arcaheological and even geomorphological.
Great Depression Subcarpathian of Oltenia consists of a series of small depressions: Polovragi, Cernadia, Novaci, Stancesti-Aninisu, Tg-Jiu, Stanesti, Runcu, Tismana. Most recent deposits, created by river action belong to meadows and dejection cones.
The river meadows have result from the action of accumulation of debris carried by water and dejection cones were formed by the depositing of silt once transmission power of river has become void.
CCIRJ is an association constituted as a Romanian legal entity, private law and non-profit, operating in the chamber system, and governed by the Law no. 335/2007 of the Chambers of Commerce in Romania.
The Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Development, in the European ecological network NATURE 2000, designated as Administrator of the site "North of Western Gorj" the Chamber of Commerce and Industry Romania - Japan CCIRJ.
The Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Development, in the European ecological network NATURE 2000, designated as Administrator of the site "North of Western Gorj" the Chamber of Commerce and Industry Romania - Japan CCIRJ.
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313 Splaiul Unirii, Sector 3, 030138 Bucharest, Romania
Phone: +4021 346 7244
Fax: +4021 346 7257