Dendrogeomorphic reconstruction of past landslide activity in the Jablůnka village (Czech part of the Outer Western Carpathians)
Keywords:
Landslide, Dendrometry, Reaction wood, Dendrogeomorphology
Abstract
Landslides represent an important and possibly very dangerous natural hazard. Dendrogeomorphic methods can provide unique data on the behaviour of landslides in the past by studying the tree-ring series of disturbed trees. Knowledge about past landslide activity in the flysch part of the Outer Western Carpathians is generally very scarce or missing. The past activity of selected landslides (possibly endangering neighbouring settlements) was studied using data from 106 increment cores from 53 disturbed individuals of Picea abies (L.) H. Karst. to assess its past spatiotemporal activity. In total, six certain event years and 13 probable events were detected during the period between 1927 and 2017. Certain events always occurred in groups of the two following events, suggesting the inertia of landslide movements after the initial triggering. The spatiotemporal reconstruction revealed a distinctly increased activity of movements in the zone of the main scarp and particularly in the landslide front, which could possibly endanger human infrastructure during its significant reactivation. However, the reconstruction performed suggests general landslide inactivity since 1997, when the last high-magnitude reactivation occurred.
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Šilhán K, Stoffel M. 2015. Impacts of age-dependent tree sensitivity and dating approaches on dendrogeomorphic time series of landslides. Geomorphology 236: 34–43.
Štekl J, Brázdil R, Kakos V, Jež J, Tolasz R, Sokol O. 2001. Extrémní denní srážkové úhrny na území ČR v období 1879-2000 a jejich synoptické příčiny. Praha, Národní klimatický program 31.
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Stoffel M, Wilford DJ. 2012. Hydrogeomorphic processes and vegetation: disturbance, process histories, dependencies and interactions. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms 37: 9–22.
Stoffel M, Corona C. 2014. Dendroecological dating of geomorphic disturbance in trees. Tree-ring research 70(1): 3–20.
Stoffel M, Butler DR, Corona C. 2013. Mass movements and tree rings: A guide to dendrogeomorphic field sampling and dating. Geomorphology 200: 106–120.
Stoffel M, Conus D, Grichting MA, Lièvre I, Maître G. 2008. Unraveling the patterns of late Holocene debris-flow activity on a cone in the Swiss Alps: chronology, environment and implications for the future. Global and Planetary Change 60: 222–234.
Stokes M, Smiley M. 1968. An Introduction to Tree-Ring Dating. The University of Chicago Press.
Timell TE. 1986. Compression wood in gymnosperms. Berlin, Germany, Springer.
Tolasz R, Brázdil R, et al. 2007. Climate atlas of Czechia. Czech Hydrometeorological Institute, Praha.
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V.I.A.S. 2005. Vienna Institute of Archaeological Science. Time Table. Installation and instruction manual., ver. 2.1, Vienna.
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Westing AH. 1965. Formation and function of compression wood in gymnosperms II. Botanical Reviews 34: 51–78.
Zhang Y, Stoffel M, Liang E, Guillet S, Shao X. 2019. Centennial-scale process activity in a complex landslide body in the Qilian Mountains, northeast Tibetan Plateau, China. Catena 179: 29–38.
Published
2022-12-29
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Šilhán, K. (2022). Dendrogeomorphic reconstruction of past landslide activity in the Jablůnka village (Czech part of the Outer Western Carpathians). Revista De Geomorfologie, 24(2), 16-26. https://doi.org/10.21094//rg.2022.147
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