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Geomorphic investigation of permanent gullies in Slovakia shows three milestones. The first one was an elaboration of the unique map of spatial distribution and density of gully network in Slovakia at the scale of 1: 400 000 in the 1950s. The second milestone is represented by an assessment of gullies in the extensive area of the Myjava Hilly Land (370 km2) in Western Slovakia (the 1990s and early 2000s), directed to elucidate regularities of spatial distribution of gullies, their age, causes and course of their evolution. It was proved that gully formation was controlled mostly by historical artificial linear landscape elements. Two periods of possible gully formation were suggested, the younger one sometime between the mid-16th and the mid-nineteenth centuries, and an older one in the Late Middle Age. The fact that significant human interventions in this region overlapped temporally with the influences of the Little Ice Age emphasizes the role of permanent gullies as important indicators of geomorphic response to past environmental changes. The third and the last milestone represents a detailed study of five gully sites (the late 2000s and early 2010s), directed to an assessment of their historical development, and to modelling and simulation of gully erosion in two cases.
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Miloš Stankoviansky, Pavol Papčo and Štefan Koco acknowledge distinguished experts in soil erosion Prof. Hans-Rudolf Bork and Dr. Markus Dotterweich (Germany) for their significant help in an assessment of gully evolution in the Prašice and Babikovce sites.
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Stankoviansky, M., Koco, Š., Papčo, P., Burian, L. (2022). Permanent Gullies as Important Indicators of Past Environmental Changes. In: Lehotský, M., Boltižiar, M. (eds) Landscapes and Landforms of Slovakia. World Geomorphological Landscapes. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-89293-7_19
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