Publication details
Late-Holocene evolution of a floodplain impounded by the Smrduta landslide, Carpathian Mountains (Czech Republic)
| Authors | |
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| Year of publication | 2013 |
| Type | Article in Periodical |
| Magazine / Source | The Holocene |
| MU Faculty or unit | |
| Citation | |
| web | http://hol.sagepub.com/content/23/2/218.abstract?rss=1 |
| Doi | http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0959683612455539 |
| Field | Geology and mineralogy |
| Keywords | Czech Republic; Flysch Carpathians; landslide dam; late Holocene; recurrent landslide; sedimentary archive |
| Description | We present here a detailed study of the sedimentary archive within a landslide-controlled impounded floodplain (Smrdutá site, Czech Flysch Carpathians) using geochronological (14C and 137Cs), sedimentological and pollen evidence. A sedimentary sequence deposited above the landslide dam points to three highly discontinuous and instantaneous depositional events dated to 4.6 and 2.0 cal. ka BP, whereas the last cycle started approximately in the 17-18th centuries and has continued to recent times. Stages of mass movement activity revealed by the Smrdutá landslide correlate well with major humid late-Holocene oscillations suggesting its high sensitivity to century-scale climatic deteriorations. The character of lithological units forming individual sedimentary pulses, erosional hiatuses and sedimentary traces caused by the July 1997 extreme flood indicate a decisive role of large flood events during accretion and erosion of the floodplain-impounded section. |