The largest prehistoric landslide in northwestern Slovakia: Chronological constraints of the Kykula long-runout landslide and related dammed lakes

Geomorphology

Volumn 120, Issue 3-4, 2010, Pages 233-247

  Pánek, Tomáš ^a   Hradeckỳ, Jan ^a   Smolková, Veronika ^a   Šilhán, Karel ^a   Minár, Jozef ^a,b   Zernitskaya, Valentina ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSTRAVA   (Czech Republic)

^b Physics and Informatics   (Slovakia)

^c Institute for Nature Management   (Belarus)

Author keywords

Dating; Flysch Carpathians; Landslide impoundments; Late Glacial Holocene transition; Long runout landslide; Pollen analysis

Indexed keywords

GEOCHRONOLOGY; HOLOCENE; LANDSLIDE; LATE GLACIAL; PALYNOLOGY; RADIOCARBON DATING; SEDIMENTOLOGY;

BESKYDY MOUNTAINS; CARPATHIANS; SLOVAKIA;

EID: 77954816750     PISSN: 0169555X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geomorph.2010.03.033     Document Type: Article

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