Small Landslides on the Flysch of Istria

This piece of work presents the “small” landslide occurrences in the part of the Istrian peninsula, named “Grey Istria”, where the Paleogene flysch sediments shaped the terrain. This is the area of the very significant exogenetic processes, like erosion and accumulation of material. The fore mentioned landslides are of the relatively small dimensions and with landslide body volume lesser than 20.000 m3. The sliding of material regularly occurs inside the weathering zone or in slope formations, while the slide surface is formed in the contact with the flysch bedrock. This paper deals with the landslide in the vicinity of the Krusvari settlement, which caused the damage of the local road in the section of Cerovlje-Buzet. It could be said that particular landslide is the typical one for the “Grey Istria” area, while its causes and sliding phenomena are similar to the numerous landslides in this region.