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months later without any charges being levelled against him. He discharged a sustained research activity within the newly founded Geography Team of the Romanian Academy, his interests focussing on the Geography of Agriculture. From 1958 on, he was the Head of the Physical Geography Section of the Romanian Academy’s Institute of Geology and Geography. Between 1968 and 1973 Professor Tufescu developed a remarkable activity as Head of Chair at the Faculty of Geology and Geography, University of Bucharest. After 1989 he continued activating in the capacity of consultant professor. His work, which contains over 300 scientific studies published in this


country and abroad, tackles a wide range of physical, human and regional geography topics. In his very first articles and ever since, the Professor mani- fested a particular interest for geomorphological research, studying the impact of basement tectonics in distinguishing the regional relief of the Moldavian Plateau (1934, 1942), the Lower Siret Plain (1945, 1974) and the Banat- Crişana Plain (1957). His approach to the issue of erosion platforms and their importance for the genesis and evolution of landform was made in terms of advances in geological studies (The Problem of Erosion Platforms, 1974 and Old Levelled Surfaces in the Carpathians, 1971). Much of Victor Tufescu’s work is devoted to aspects of present-day


relief dynamics, dealt with in correlation with all the factors, the physical- geographical conditions and the human activities involved in this process. His scientific works have permanently contributed to maintaining the


integrative spirit and identity of the object of geographical research. His insights into the extreme phenomena and their impact on the envi-


ronment and on the network of settlements outlined a research domain that was to be subsequently enlarged (Flooding on the Bahlui River, 1935). Ap- praising water resources in the Moldovian Plateau connected with the possi- bility for water supply to settlements (1936) and analysing river modelling processes (1946) bespeaks of the Professor’s preoccupations for the river network and related issues.


Over 1948-1956 (when he has banned from publishing in specialist journals), Victor Tufescu continued his research activity and elaborated a se- ries of monographs on the towns of Timişoara, Piatra Neamţ and Botoşani analysing in detail local geographical conditions. Numerous works, which deal with land degradation in various relief units, are based on an impressive factic material gathered in the years spent at the Institute of Forestry Research and Management (1952-1955). His articles,


discussing problems of mass


movements on slope (1959; co-author 1960), became reference material for the classification of these processes (Typologie des glissements de Roumanie, 1964). Some other works represent contributions to the understanding of piping mechanisms (1959, 1963) and to the assessment of the dynamics of gully processes. In his fundamental work Natural Relief Modelling and Accelerated Ero-


sion (1966), which won the “Gh. Munteanu-Murgoci Prize” of the Romanian 10


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