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Landslide Fens as a Sensitive Indicator of Paleoenvironmental Changes Since the Late Glacial: A Case Study of the Polish Western Carpathians

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 July 2018

Włodzimierz Margielewski
Włodzimierz Margielewski*
Affiliation:
Institute of Nature Conservation, Polish Academy of Sciences, Adama Mickiewicza Ave. 33, 31-120 Kraków, Poland
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*Corresponding author. Email: [email protected].
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Abstract

In the sequences of landslide fen (mire) deposits of the Polish Western Carpathians, Late Glacial-Holocene paleoenvironmental changes were recorded. Downpours and/or continuous rains cyclically repeated during phases of climate humidity growth, causing supplies of mineral material to the minerogenic mires. In effect, illuvial or mineral horizons were formed in landslide fen deposits, as well as mineral covers overly fens in some sites. Sedimentological records reflect various, overlapping factors, as climatic changes, human activity (e.g. accelerating erosion), as well the specificity of the sedimentary environment in each studied landslide fens. The reconstruction and interpretation of the paleoenvironmental changes recorded in landslide fen sediments must be supported by multiproxy analysis of the sequences using pollen, lithological (loss on ignition, grain size and petrography) analyses of samples accurately dated by numerous radiocarbon (14C) dates.

Keywords

landslide fenminerogenic horizonsLate Glacial and Holocenepaleoenvironmental changesPolish Western Carpathians
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Soil
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Radiocarbon , Volume 60 , Issue 4: 2nd Radiocarbon in the Environment Conference Debrecen, Hungary, July 3–7, 2017 Part 1 of 2 , August 2018 , pp. 1199 - 1213
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