Late Holocene catastrophic slope collapse affected by deep-seated gravitational deformation in flysch: Ropice Mountain, Czech Republic

Investigation of recent catastrophic landslides in the flysch belt of Outer Western Carpathians (Czech Republic): progress towards better hazard assessment

“…Minimum age of the soil horizon indicating the major landslide activity acquired by AMS 14 C dating is between 571 AD-656 AD. It corresponds to the extremely humid phase of the Subatlantic chronozone with numerous dated landslides identified both in the Czech and Polish parts of the Western Carpathians (Margielewski, 2006;Pánek et al, 2009). The time range 500-800 AD, during which the landslide activity occurred, is also characterized by several palaeofloods documented in floodplains facies of rivers in the Polish part of flysch Carpathians (Starkel et al, 1996).…”

Paraglacial rock-slope stability

“…In particular, terrestrial cosmogenic nuclide concentrations (originating from cosmic ray bombardment) have been used to date landslide debris (Ballantyne et al, 1998;Ballantyne and Stone, 2004;Bigot-Cormier et al, 2005;Hippolyte et al, 2006;Mitchell et al, 2007;Cossart et al, 2008;El Bedoui et al, 2009;Hippolyte et al, 2009;Sanchez et al, 2009;Shroder et al, 2010). Radiocarbon as well as tephrachronology and optically stimulated luminescence methods have also been applied (Beget, 1985;André, 1986;André, 1997;Watanabe et al, 1998;Smith, 2001;Soldati et al, 2004;Ballantyne, 2008;Agliardi et al, 2009a;Pánek et al, 2009;Borgatti and Soldati, 2010;Pánek et al, 2011). The same dating techniques have been applied to paleoclimate reconstructions, which has helped to constrain the timing of glaciation and deglaciation in many parts of the world.…”

The application of morphostructural analysis and its validation by comparison with documented faults within the Zlate Hory ore district (the northeastern part of the Bohemian Massif)

“…Its results has already been commonly applied in tectonic and geomorphological studies of several areas (Caiazzo et al, 2006;Cotilla et al, 2007;D'Alessandro et al, 2008;Grohmann et al, 2007;Jelínek et al, 2009Jelínek et al, , 2011Jordan, 2003;Kukowski et al, 2008;Masoud, Koike, 2011;Miliaresis, 2001;Minár et al, 2011;Mumipour, Nejad, 2011;Norini et al, 2004;Rehak et al, 2008;Seta et al, 2008;Sung, Chen, 2004;Zuchiewicz, 2009;etc.). The established morphological lineament network forms a study foundation of for example: neo-tectonic activities of areas of interest (Arzhannikova et al, 2011;Delcaillau et al, 2010;Gioia et al, 2011;Ruszkiczay-Rüdiger et al, 2009), study of the river network genesis (Maroukian et al, 2008;Štěpančíková et al, 2008;Zuchiewicz, 1998Zuchiewicz, , 2011, study of landslide hazard (Cadoppi et al, 2007;Kokkalas, Koukouvelas, 2005;Pánek et al, 2009;Marschalko et al, 2011), etc.. In the field of applied geology, the MSA is frequently used in studies of tectonic deformation of the rock massif.…”