Sedimentary evidence of landscape and climate history since the end of MIS 3 in the Krkonoše Mountains, Czech Republic

Cirque overdeepening and their relationship to morphometry

“…The relief of glacial landforms in the Bohemian Massif was defined and described as early as the nineteenth century (e.g., Bayberger, 1886;Partsch, 1894). These reports were followed by other studies on the glacial modification of the High Sudetes (e.g., Vitásek, 1924;Prosová and Sekyra, 1961;Chmal and Traczyk, 1999;Migoń, 1999;Mercier et al, 2000;Engel, 2007;Engel et al, 2010) and the Šumava Mts. (Rathsburg, 1928;Priehäusser, 1930;Kunský, 1948;Ergenzinger, 1967;Votýpka, 1979;Hauner, 1980;Raab and Völkel, 2003;Vočadlová et al, 2007;Vočadlová and Křížek, 2009;Mentlík et al, 2010); however complex comparative studies have not been carried out.…”

“…Glacial accumulation landforms from the last Würm glaciation were preserved on the Czech side, whereas relicts also of Riss moraines were found on the Polish side (Traczyk, 1989;Chmal and Traczyk, 1999). Recent research has shown that the last phase of deglaciation occurred prior to~11,000 cal YBP (Engel et al, 2010).…”

High vegetation and environmental diversity during the Late Glacial and Early Holocene on the example of lowlands in the Czech Republic

“…The lake differed from mountain localities in having a high proportion of pollen of aquatic macrophytes. Mountain lakes such as the Labský důl lake (Engel et al 2010) or the Plešné jezero lake (Jankovská 2006) were exposed to a colder climate, and their pollen records contain no pollen of aquatic macrophytes, only microspores of Isoëtes. The spectrum of green Algae includes Pediastrum kawraysky, which today is distributed in northern Europe (Komárek & Jankovská 2001).…”

“…Some localities were created after the retreat of montane glaciers such as in the Labský důl valley (Engel et al 2010), the Plešné jezero Lake (Janovská 2006) or the Stará jímka locality in the Šumava Mts (Mentlík et al 2010). The Late Glacial vegetation at this locality is reconstructed as a montane tundra.…”

Pleistocene terraces of the Vltava River in the Budějovice basin (Southern Bohemian Massif): New insights into sedimentary history constrained by luminescence data

“…So far, luminescence dating of sediments in the Czech Republic has been done only on loess sediments of archeological sites (Musson and Wintle, 1994;Zander et al, 2000;Richter et al, 2009) and peat bog deposits in the Krkonoše Mountains (Engel et al, 2010). This work therefore provides first luminescence ages of fluvial sediments on the Czech territory.…”