Spatio-temporal patterns of recurrent slope instabilities affecting undercut slopes in flysch: A dendrogeomorphic approach using broad-leaved trees

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Authors

ŠILHÁN Karel PÁNEK Tomáš TURSKÝ Ondřej BRÁZDIL Rudolf KLIMEŠ Jan KAŠIČKOVÁ Lucie

Year of publication 2014
Type Article in Periodical
Magazine / Source Geomorphology
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Faculty of Science

Citation
Doi http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.geomorph.2014.01.016
Field Earth magnetism, geography
Keywords dendrogeomorphology; tree-ring eccentricit; bedrock landslides; hydrometeorological triggers; flysch Carpathians
Description The undercut slope of the Skalická Strážnice/Vrchy hill situated in the piedmont of the Carpathian Mountains (Czech Republic) is a regional landslide "hotspot", notorious for its repeated recent and historical sliding reactivations. We performed tree-ring analysis of a large number (n=274) of broad-leaved trees to reconstruct the spatio-temporal patterns of landslide reactivation for a period spanning more than one hundred years (1884-2011). Although tree rings of broad-leaved trees are less-reliable archives of landslide activity than those of conifers, the application of a methodology based on the weighting of disturbance signals within eccentricity series generated a usable dataset of sliding activity affecting anisotropic flysch bedrock.
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