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Landscapes and Landforms of Hungary pp 209–218Cite as

Beehive Rocks in the Bükk Foothills: A Landscape Born in Fire

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The southern foothills of the overwhelmingly carbonaceous Bükk Mountains (a member of the North Hungarian Mountain Range) are mostly built up of silicic volcanic rocks. The majority of tuffs welded to various degrees (from soft tuffs to hard welded ignimbrites) are of rhyolitic composition and derive from Miocene Plinian or Ultraplinian eruptions—the type with the highest energy release in Earth history. Quaternary geomorphic evolution (fluvial incision and lateral erosion, aeolian action, sheet wash and weathering processes, primarily frost shattering) dissected tuff sheets into groups of conical mounds and ridges, into which the people of the remote past carved niches and transformed them into the so-called “beehive rocks”.

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Baráz, C. (2015). Beehive Rocks in the Bükk Foothills: A Landscape Born in Fire. In: Lóczy, D. (eds) Landscapes and Landforms of Hungary. World Geomorphological Landscapes. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-08997-3_24

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