Fosilní termokras v jižních Čechách

0500492 - ARÚB 2019 RIV CZ cze J - Článek v odborném periodiku
Hošek, J. - Pokorný, P. - Prach, J. - Šída, Petr - Křížek, M.
Fosilní termokras v jižních Čechách.
[Fossil thermokarst in South Bohemia (Czech Republic).]
Zprávy o geologických výzkumech = Geoscience Research Reports. Roč. 51, č. 2 (2018), s. 131-139. ISSN 0514-8057
Institucionální podpora: RVO:68081758
Klíčová slova: lake sediments * Late Glacial * permafrost * thermal erosion * thermokarst basins
Obor OECD: Archaeology
http://www.geology.cz/img/zpravyvyzkum/fulltext/27_Hosek_180903.pdf

V severní části Třeboňské pánve bylo doposud zdokumentováno 27 jezerních depresí s průměrem od několika desítek až do několika stovek metrů a hloubkou až 12 m. Největší pánve vznikaly na konci pleniglaciálu, menší v průběhu pozdního glaciálu a na počátku holocénu, a to patrně v důsledku degradace permafrostu. Zkoumané deprese s největší pravděpodobností představují reliktní pánve typu alas, které recentně vznikají v aktivních termokrasových oblastech, jakou je např. centrální Jakutsko. Na základě dlouhodobého kvartérně geologického a paleoekologického výzkumu lze konstatovat, že nehluboko pod povrchem současné, zemědělsky a rybníkářsky intenzivně využívané krajiny Třeboňska se nachází fosilní termokras - fenomén popsaný v Evropě doposud pouze ze severních a severozápadních oblastí.

Thermokarst is a geomorphologic/genetic designation for areas where thawing of permafrost leads to local or widespread collapse, subsidence, erosion, and instability of the ground surface. Although thermokarst processes are recently peculiar to regions underlain by permafrost, i.e. in particular to lowlands of high latitudes Arctic areas (Alaska, Canada, northern and eastern Siberia), geomorphology and sediments reflecting former thermokarst presence can also be found in middle latitudes, far from the recent permafrost areas. The so-called “fossil thermokarst” features, including thermokarst gullies, lakes and other kind of depressions, have been documented from many areas of northern and northwestern Europe as well as from Northern America. In contrast to those areas, the knowledge on the thermokarst processes and landscapes along the southern margin of the Last Glacial permafrost zone is still relatively fragmental. The presented paper deals with the Late Pleistocene geomorphological and sedimentological evolution of the Třeboň region in South Bohemia located during the Last Glacial Maximum ~ 110 km north of the Alpine piedmont glaciers and ~ 420 km from the southern edge of the North European Ice Sheet. The geological basement of the flat landscape of the Třeboň region consists of Cretaceous sandstones and Miocene sandy/ clayey fluvio-lacustrine sediments. Periglacial features like fossil polygons, nets or ice-wedge pseudomorphs documented in the study area prove the presence of permafrost in the region during the Late Pleistocene. We have also observed involution features (ball-and-pillow structures, injection tongues, and festoons) formed in unpaved sandy sediment, which testify permafrost degradation processes, probably during the Late Weichselian. Moreover, besides these periglacial features, we have discovered a total of 27 depressions filled with lacustrine sediments and peat. Most of them are covered by artificial fishponds of Medieval and Modern origin and thus hardly recognized in the landscape. These basins vary in size (tens up to hundreds of meters in diameter) in the depth of their infilling (1–12 m). Nevertheless, they share several common features such as their location on Miocene sedimentary bedrock, elongated shape, and the presence of tectonic faults that often run along their major axis. According to radiocarbon and relative palynological dating, the largest basins were formed along the Pleniglacial/Late Glacial transition (~ 16–15 ka), whereas the smaller depressions originated during the Late/ Glacial/Early Holocene. Based on detail geomorphological investigations (approx. 300 hand drilling) and comparison of the geological and hydrogeological setting of the study area with the classicthermokarst landscape of Central Yakutia, we assume that these basins are the result of the complex of thermokarst processes, including formation and collapse of alases and consequent surface degradation of the permafrost, which occurred here during periglacial conditions of the Late Weichselian.
Trvalý link: http://hdl.handle.net/11104/0292554