Late Glacial and Holocene paleoenvironmental records in the Tatra Mountains, East-Central Europe, based on lake, peat bog and colluvial sedimentary data: A summary review

Kłapyta, Piotr; Zasadni, Jerzy; Pociask-Karteczka, Joanna; Gajda, Agnieszka; Franczak, Paweł

doi:10.1016/j.quaint.2015.10.049

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“…This fact is confirmed in particular by the analyses of lake sediments (Owens, Slaymaker, 1994;Kotarba, 1996;Šporka et al, 2002;Irmler et al, 2006;Rybníčková, Rybníček, 2005;Hamerlík, Bitušík, 2009;Mîndrescu et al, 2010;Hutchinson et al, 2016;Kłapyta et al, 2015), and also by the results of other studies (Kotarba, 2004;Kapusta et al, 2010;Hreško et al, 2012;Necsoiu et al, 2013;Kohler et al, 2014;Gądek et al, 2015;Kubinský et al, 2015;Gallik, Bolešová, 2016). In particular, smaller and shallower lakes react much more sensitively to changes than larger lakes because of their small volume of the water.…”

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Water Surface Overgrowing of the Tatra’s Lakes

Kapusta

Hreško

Petrovič

et al. 2018

Ekológia (Bratislava)

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Kapusta J., Hreško J., Petrovič F., Tomko-Králo D., Gallik J.: Water surface overgrowing of the Tatra's lakes. Ekológia (Bratislava), Vol. 37, No. 1, p. 11-23, 2018. Tatra's lakes are vulnerable ecosystems and an important element of the alpine landscape. Mainly some shallow lake basins succumb to intense detritus sedimentation, fine fractions of material from the catchment area or to the overgrowing of water level by vegetation. In this paper, changes and dynamics of the 12 Tatra's lake shorelines that were selected based on the detailed mapping of their extent are pointed out. Changes were assessed by accurate comparisons of historical and current orthophoto maps from the years 1949, 1955 and 2015 -and therefore, based on the oldest and the latest relevant materials. Due to the overgrowing of lakes caused by vegetation, their water surface decreased from -0.9% up to -47.9%, during the examined period. Losses were caused by the overgrowing of open water surface by the communities of sedges and peat bogs. The most significant dynamics of the shorelines during the last decades were reached by those lakes, into which fine sediments were simultaneously deposited by means of mountain water coarse. These sediments made the marginal parts of the lake basins shallower and accelerated rapid expansion of vegetation to the detriment of the open water surface. The overgrowing of shallow moraine lakes lying in the vegetation zone is a significant phenomenon of the High Tatras alpine landscape. It leads to their gradual extinction, turn into peat bogs and wet alpine meadows.

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“…Most lakes were created in the last stages or immediately after the end of the Ice Age. According to Kłapyta et al (2015), deposition of sediments in lake basins of the Tatra's lakes began 9,000 to 8,000 years ago. Some shallow moraine lakes, after the appearance of their lake basins, were for certain time probably dry depressions.…”

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Water Surface Overgrowing of the Tatra’s Lakes

Kapusta

Hreško

Petrovič

et al. 2018

Ekológia (Bratislava)

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“…As it was mentioned, many methods fail to help establishing the stratigraphic position of the loess-like [33] analysis. Wind directions after Kłapyta et al [90]. Red font color refers to warm periods, blue font color reflects cold periods This study shows an additional advantage of the heavy mineral analyses in the study area.…”

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Heavy Minerals as Indicators of the Source and Stratigraphic Position of the Loess-Like Deposits in the Orava Basin (Polish Western Carpathians)

Chmielowska

Salata

2020

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This study is focused on the loess-like deposits accumulated on glaciofluvial fans of the Czarny Dunajec River in the Orava Basin (Southern Poland). The deposition of these sediments took place during three cold intervals of the Pleistocene: Würm, Riss, and Günz/Mindel. So far, the provenance and age of the deposits has not been precisely defined, even though the development of each fan is believed to be related to the successive glacial periods in the Tatra Mountains. Heavy minerals were studied to determine the source of the deposits. Heavy mineral analyses revealed that zircon, tourmaline, rutile, garnet, amphibole, epidote, and apatite are the typical constituents of the heavy mineral fraction. Abundances of heavy minerals differ in each of the Pleistocene fans of the Czarny Dunajec River, especially the amphibole content. However, the chemical composition of garnet, amphibole, and tourmaline is rather uniform. This research showed that mainly medium-grade metamorphic rocks with a subordinate share of high-grade metamorphics, and granitic rocks are the dominant source rocks of the deposits studied. Such rocks are exposed in the Western Tatra Mountains, which most probably supplied the Orava Basin with clastic material. Change in abundances of heavy minerals in the succession may reflect the progressive erosion of the source area. Grain-size distribution and textural features of the sampled sediments suggest fluvial and aeolian modes of transportation. Additionally, this study indicated that heavy minerals may be used to correlate the loess covers in the Orava Basin.

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“…During the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM), about 35.6% of the entire mountain area was covered by glaciers (Zasadni et al 2014;Kłapyta et al 2016). From among 78 selected drainage basins, 48 had glaciers at that time.…”

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Evaluation of tectonic activity using morphometric indices: case study of the Tatra Mts. (Western Carpathians, Poland)

Buczek

Górnik

2020

Environ Earth Sci

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The Tatra Mountains (Tatra Mts.) are the highest and most glacially reshaped mountain massif in the Carpathians. Previous studies suggested the tectonic uplift of this massif along the large sub-Tatric fault during Quaternary. The main goal of this paper is to characterise the tectonic activity in the Tatra Mts. using 6 geomorphic indices for 78 drainage basins: the streamgradient index (SL), asymmetry factor (Af), basin shape ratio (Bs), hypsometric integral (Hi), valley floor width-valley height ratio (Vf), as well as mountain-front sinuosity (Smf). These parameters were combined in order to obtain the relative tectonic activity index (Iat) using GIS. The average of the six computed geomorphic indices was used to evaluate the distribution of relative tectonic activity in the study area. According to Iat values, four classes of different tectonic activity can be distinguished in the Tatra Mts.: class 1 of very high tectonic activity (0.7% of Tatra Mts.); class 2 of high activity (24.3%); class 3 of moderate activity (68.4%); and class 4 of low activity (6.6%). Our study confirmed previous suggestions about unequal uplift of different parts of the massif. Iat values show high tectonic activity along the Sub-Tatric fault, as well as in the northern part of the Belianskie Tatra. Distribution of Vf and Hi values correlate with extend of glaciers during Last Glacial Maximum. It seems that values of some geomorphic indices, such as Vf and HI, are strongly associated with glacial reshaping of the Tatra Mts. during the Pleistocene.

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Late Glacial and Holocene paleoenvironmental records in the Tatra Mountains, East-Central Europe, based on lake, peat bog and colluvial sedimentary data: A summary review

Cited by 48 publications

References 52 publications

Water Surface Overgrowing of the Tatra’s Lakes

Water Surface Overgrowing of the Tatra’s Lakes

Heavy Minerals as Indicators of the Source and Stratigraphic Position of the Loess-Like Deposits in the Orava Basin (Polish Western Carpathians)

Evaluation of tectonic activity using morphometric indices: case study of the Tatra Mts. (Western Carpathians, Poland)

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