Gulley

As a gully, even Gully, in geomorphology, a linear hollow shape of the ablation is called. The term is used either for a mostly jungholozäne erosion ravine with kerbenförmigem cross section in the highlands or in Lösslandschaften or for a resulting effluent by precipitation furrow in the high mountains.

Gullies within the meaning of gullies may be natural or arise as a consequence of anthropogenic interventions in the landscape (mainly deforestation and overgrazing ).

Smaller structures are called flush gutters, gullies of is when they have a size that no longer allows a normal agriculture in this area.

Gullies are numerous in the Central German Uplands and grow up to 15 meters deep and several 100 meters long. From other parts of the world like forms with up to 50 meters depth are known, for example, on the Chinese Loess Plateau.

To a gully usually belongs to an alluvial fan or alluvial fan on which the removed soil and debris material is deposited. The main development time take Geographers at the 11th and 12th century and the 17th and 18th century, when the deforestation caused by significant agricultural and forestry use in many regions of Europe was far advanced. A special role plays the disaster in 1342 a flood with the Magdalene. Alone in the summer of this year to after a heavy storm (Vb - weather) several 100 gullies in the Central German Uplands have come into being ( Bork et al., 1998).

Furthermore, the term gully the trough-shaped hollow form of a Murabgangs in the high mountains. The English and international name is Gully.