Late-Holocene evolution of a floodplain impounded by the Smrdutá landslide, Carpathian Mountains (Czech Republic)

0389162 - GLÚ 2013 RIV GB eng J - Journal Article
Pánek, T. - Smolková, V. - Hradecký, J. - Sedláček, J. - Zernitskaya, V. - Kadlec, Jaroslav - Pazdur, A. - Řehánek, T.
Late-Holocene evolution of a floodplain impounded by the Smrdutá landslide, Carpathian Mountains (Czech Republic).
Holocene. Roč. 23, č. 2 (2013), s. 218-229. ISSN 0959-6836. E-ISSN 1477-0911
Institutional support: RVO:67985831
Keywords : Flysch Carpathians * landslide dam * late Holocene * recurrent landslide * sedimentary archive
Subject RIV: DE - Earth Magnetism, Geodesy, Geography
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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.
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