Abstract
In May 2010 intensive rainfalls and consequent floods affected Central Europe, including the eastern part of the Czech Republic. In the period 15–25 May 2010, more than 150 landslides originated in the Outer Western Carpathians and their foredeep. In the case of the Girová rockslide, the May 2010 rainfall event only supplied the final triggering push. The main preconditions of slope failure were long-term, internal changes within the rock mass. As evidenced by dendrogeomorphological dating, rock strength weakening was connected to long-term (decennial-scale) creep leading to the final catastrophic movement. Many trees from the upper section of the landslide do not reveal any year of reaction wood. It could be explained by a translational, blocklike character of movement.
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The research was supported by a project of the Czech Science Foundation no. P209/10/0309: “The effect of historical climatic and hydrometeorological extremes on slope and fluvial processes in the Western Beskydy Mountains and their forefield” and by the University of Ostrava Foundation SGS/PrF/2013.
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Pánek, T., Smolková, V., Šilhán, K., Hradecký, J. (2013). The May 2010 Landslide Event in the Eastern Czech Republic. In: Loczy, D. (eds) Geomorphological impacts of extreme weather. Springer Geography. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-6301-2_13
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