التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
| العنوان: |
Buried Late Weichselian thermokarst landscape discovered in the Czech Republic, central Europe. |
| المؤلفون: |
Hošek, Jan, Prach, Jindřich, Křížek, Marek, Šída, Petr, Moska, Piotr, Pokorný, Petr |
| المصدر: |
Boreas; Oct2019, Vol. 48 Issue 4, p988-1005, 18p |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: |
SEDIMENTARY basins, PALEOGEOGRAPHY, RADIOCARBON dating, LANDSCAPE changes, GLOBAL warming, PERMAFROST, TUNDRAS |
| مصطلحات جغرافية: |
CZECH Republic, BOHEMIA (Czech Republic) |
| مستخلص: |
Pronounced climatic warming associated with the Late Weichselian Pleniglacial‐to‐Lateglacial transition caused considerable environmental changes throughout the former periglacial zones (in Europe ~53°–46°N). During permafrost degradation and subsequent ground subsidence (i.e. thermokarst processes), the landscape changed rapidly. In this study we investigated a flat mid‐altitude area in south Bohemia, Czech Republic, lying close to the southern limit of the Weichselian permafrost. We discovered palaeo‐lake basins with sedimentary infillings up to 11 m in depth. According to radiocarbon and palynostratigraphical dating, these basins were formed at the onset of the Late Pleniglacial‐to‐Lateglacial transition, whereas the smaller depressions were formed later. We suggest that the basins resulted from thermal and fluvio‐thermal erosion of the former permafrost and represent remnants of discontinuous gullies and possibly collapsed frost mounds (pingo/lithalsa scars). The formation of this a fossil thermokarst landscape was climatically driven and multiple phased, with the major phase during the climatic warming and wetting at the onset of GI‐1e (Bølling) and the minor phase during GI‐1c (Allerød). This study enhances knowledge of the palaeogeography of the former European periglacial zone by showing that Late Pleistocene thermokarst activity could have had a significant impact on the evolution of the landscape of at least some regions of central Europe along the southern limit of the continuous permafrost zone. The research also points to a similar history for the physical transformation of the landscape of the former European periglacial zone and current thermokarst landscapes and could be a valuable source of information with respect to the future transformation of the Arctic under conditions of ongoing global warming. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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