scholarly journals Rendzina soils in the Tatra Mountains, central Europe: a review

2018 ◽  
Vol 69 (2) ◽  
pp. 88-100
Author(s):  
Anna Miechówka ◽  
Marek Drewnik
Keyword(s):  
Spatial Distribution ◽  
Soil Properties ◽  
Central Europe ◽  
High Mountain ◽  
Tatra Mountains ◽  
Mountain Environment ◽  
Soil Units ◽  
The Tatra Mountains

Abstract The article presents the overview of the rendzinas found in the Polish Tatra mountains based on literature data and unpublished authors results and observations. Particular attention was paid to soil properties related to the high mountain environment in Poland occurring only in the the Tatra Mountains. The influence of soil forming factors on the genesis of rendzinas and their spatial distribution was described. Furthermore the soils properties were analysed in order of distinguished soil units. Finally the proposal for classification of Tatra rendzinas was given.

Woodworking, Prep School

1984 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sam Bush
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Central Europe ◽  
Royal Academy ◽  
Religious Faith ◽  
The United States ◽  
William Morris ◽  
Tatra Mountains ◽  
Prep School ◽  
First Job ◽  
The Tatra Mountains

After a while, I began to feel that studying great art and accomplishment isn’t enough. Writing a thesis about art didn’t seem to be as fulfilling as trying to make the art. I had the special background with Karl together with the exceptionally academic nature of Reed, and then I stumbled onto William Morris, and things began to coalesce. One day I went to Lloyd Reynolds, the great calligrapher and teacher at Reed and showed him pictures of my wood work. I asked him what he thought I should do. He said, “You have a teacher who helped you make this? I think you ought to leave Reed immediately and go to him.” I finished out the year, my sophomore year, but after that meeting I was on my way. I wrote a zillion letters to European craft schools and universities where I could study woodwork, not realizing at that time that further work with Karl was a possibility, and eventually I was accepted at two—Carl Malmsten’s school in Stockholm and the Royal Academy in Copenhagen. I was actually on my way there when I stopped in Pottstown to see Karl and stayed ten years. In the spring Alumni Bulletin of Hill School for 1972, I began an article about Karl in this way— . . . Born in a tiny self-sufficient village at the foot of the Tatra Mountains of Slovakia, Karl Pacanovsky . . . was apprenticed in woodworking at eleven and a half years and took his first job at fourteen; as a journeyman he traveled through much of central Europe. Perhaps most influential were the years he spent building the monumental carved Gothic altars which were the expression of religious faith in his region. . . . Pacanovsky came to the United States in 1944. In twenty-eight years at the school he built a powerful foundation for the philosophy which we embody today. When he retired I merely took up where he left off. His influence still lives in this room. And he’s alive, too. I see him every week or two.

Fine laminated clastic deposits revealing the delay of the deglaciation timing in the High Tatras Mts. (Central Europe) to Early Holocene

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dhavamani Ramachandran ◽  
Radovan Pipík ◽  
Timea Chamutiová ◽  
Lucia Žatková ◽  
Marina Vidhya ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Central Europe ◽  
Late Glacial ◽  
Early Holocene ◽  
Age Dating ◽  
Tatra Mountains ◽  
East Central Europe ◽  
Tatra Mts ◽  
Cosmogenic Nuclide Dating ◽  
Late Glacial And Holocene ◽  
The Tatra Mountains

<p>The Tatra moraine relief and cosmogenic nuclide dating show glacier stabilizationand the maximum glacier extent in two phases,at26 – 21 ka and at 18 ka followed by a gradual retreat and  a termination of the glaciation during the Bølling/Allerød warming at 14.64 –12.9 ka (Makos etal., 2014). A renewed glaciation within the Younger Dryas (12.9 – 11.5 ka) formed smaller rock glaciers. This retreat was connected with the formation of the morainic, trough and cirque lakes and the beginning of light-grey silt sedimentation dated from 10ka to 16ka cal BP on the northern slopes of the Tatra Mountains and before 10ka cal BP on its southern slopes (Klapyta et al., 2016).</p><p>A new paleolimnic research led to a discovery of a cyclic fine laminated deposit in the four Tatra Mts. lakes. The laminae of thickness from 1 to 3 mm are built of couplets of light-coloured coarse detrital and fine dark-coloured laminae. Thicker light coloured laminae occasionally show a gradation ending in dark-coloured laminae. Laminae consist occasionally of low spherical angular grains of sand and gravel fractions, rarely up to size 10 mm which deformed underlying laminae. Light-coloured laminae are predominantly composed of quartz, followed by K-feldspar, plagioclase, mica, and clay-like particles. Dark-coloured laminae consist of clay-size clastic particles. These laminae were formed in cold, oxygen-rich, ultra-oligotrophic, slightly acid conditions in which the chironomids Pseudodiamesa nivosa and Micropsectra radialis-type dominated. We interpret these lamination as varves related to annual glacial melting. Once the valleys were ice-free, varve production stopped and a short deposition period of homogenous silt was replaced by gyttja. The radiometric C<sup>14</sup> age dating shows the deglaciation in the Tatra Mts terminated at the beginning of the Early Holocene, around 10ka cal BP – 9ka cal BP.</p><p> </p><p>The research was funded by APVV-15-0292 and the project Centre of Excellence for Integrated Research of the Earth's Geosphere, ITMS 26220120064.</p><p> </p><p>Klapyta P., Zasadni J., Pociask-Karteczka J., Gajda A., Franczak P., 2016. Late Glacial and Holocene Paleoenvironmental records in the Tatra Mountains, East-Central Europe, based on lake, peat bog and colluvial sedimentary data: A summary review. Quaternary International 415: 126-144.</p><p> </p><p>Makos M., Dzierzek J., Nitychoruk J., Zreda M., 2014. Timing of glacier advances and climate in the Tatra Mountains (Western Carpathians) during the Last Glacial Maximum. Quaternary Research 82: 1-13.</p>

scholarly journals CONTRIBUTION TO KNOWLEDGE ON THE VARIABILITY OF AROLLA PINE WOODLANDS OF THE NORTH-EASTERN TATRA MOUNTAINS

2021 ◽  
Vol 56 ◽  
pp. 29-43
Author(s):  
Peter KUCERA ◽  
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Peter BARANCOK ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Field Research ◽  
Soil Horizon ◽  
High Mountain ◽  
Tatra Mountains ◽  
Pinus Cembra ◽  
Habitat Variability ◽  
The North ◽  
North Eastern ◽  
The Tatra Mountains ◽  
North Eastern Part

Knowledge of the overall syntaxonomic and habitat variability of forest communities with Arolla pine (Pinus cembra) within the Tatra Mountains (Western Carpathians) is still insufficient as field research was hindered by their hardly accessible localities and deforestation for high mountain grazing. Arolla pine woodlands were traditionally classified within the association Pino cembrae-Piceetum Myczkowski et Lesinski 1974, but recent surveys recognize more numerous units. Hitherto unpublished releves from the north-eastern part of the Tatra Mountains document the occurrence of several floristically and ecologically distinct Arolla pine communities: (1) acid woodland of Homogyno alpinae-Pinetum cembrae on nutrient-poor habitats over quartzitic bedrock, and (2) calcareous woodlands of species-poor Pyrolo rotundifoliae-Pinetum cembrae of sites with a well-developed, tangled humus soil horizon, Cystopterido montanae-Pinetum cembrae on habitats influenced by both limestones and quartzites, Primulo elatioris-Pinetum cembrae bound to sites with the most favourable humidity, and Seslerio tatrae-Pinetum cembrae with the most pronounced calcareous character.

scholarly journals Changes in Thermal Conditions in the High Mountain Areas and Contemporary Warming in the Central Europe

2010 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 59-70 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elwira Żmudzka
Keyword(s):  
Thermal Characteristics ◽  
Thermal Conditions ◽  
Seasonal Distribution ◽  
High Mountain ◽  
Tatra Mountains ◽  
Upward Trend ◽  
Mountain Areas ◽  
Weather Stations ◽  
The Tatra Mountains

Abstract The purpose of the report is to determine trends in thermal conditions in the Polish part of the Tatra Mountains. The results of studies were compared with the results of analogous analyses, carried out for the area of lowland Poland. The study makes use of the data from the weather stations in Zakopane and on Kasprowy Wierch Mt. from the years 1951-2006, mainly from 1966-2006. The thermal conditions in lowland Poland was determined on the basis of the area-averaged time series (45 stations). Various thermal characteristics were considered. The increase of the rate of upward trend in temperature at the turn of the 21st century, as well as the change of the seasonal distribution of the warming in comparison with the preceding long-term periods, have been documented. Symptoms of increase of the thermal continentality have also been observed.

Seasonal dynamics of chironomids in the profundal zone of a mountain lake (L’adové pleso, the Tatra Mountains, Slovakia)

Biologia ◽  
2006 ◽  
Vol 61 (18) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jolana Tátosová ◽  
Evžen Stuchlík
Keyword(s):  
Mountain Lake ◽  
High Mountain ◽  
Medial Part ◽  
Tatra Mountains ◽  
Low Oxygen ◽  
Spring Period ◽  
Seepage Lake ◽  
The Tatra Mountains ◽  
Profundal Zone ◽  
Oxygen Concentrations

AbstractThe profundal community of L’adové pleso (an oligotrophic high mountain seepage lake at an altitude of 2,057 m with a max. depth of 18 m and an ice-cover period from October–July) was studied from December 2000–October 2001. Chironomidae, the most significant part of the studied community, are represented by four taxa and dominated by Micropsectra radialis Goetghebuer, 1939 and Pseudodiamesa nivosa (Goethgebuer, 1928). These two species showed a 1-year life cycle. The total densities of chironomids varied from 0 to 5,927 ind. m−2; no chironomids, or very low densities, were found during the winter/spring period, probably due to low oxygen concentrations in the medial part of the lake. These low oxygen concentrations probably caused the relocation of larvae from the medial part of the sedimentary area at the same time.

scholarly journals Postglacial talus slope development imaged by the ERT method: comparison of slopes from SW Spitsbergen, Norway and Tatra Mountains, Poland

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 1084-1097 ◽  
Author(s):  
Krzysztof Senderak ◽  
Marta Kondracka ◽  
Bogdan Gądek
Keyword(s):  
Internal Structure ◽  
Method Comparison ◽  
Electrode Spacing ◽  
High Mountain ◽  
Tatra Mountains ◽  
Mountain Areas ◽  
Geophysical Surveys ◽  
Talus Slope ◽  
Talus Slopes ◽  
The Tatra Mountains

Abstract Talus slopes are a common sedimentary formation both in polar and high-mountain areas, but their development is still not sufficiently understood. This article discusses the environmental factors that have been influencing development of talus slopes since the deglaciation and their impact on the internal structure of slopes. Case studies of the slopes from SW Spitsbergen and the Tatra Mountains in Poland were compared in order to explore different evolution stages. Slopes’ structure was analysed using geophysical surveys based on two-dimensional electrical resistivity tomography (ERT) with a Wenner-Schlumberger array and an electrode spacing of 5 m, combined with geomorphological observations. The investigated talus slopes represent the paraglacial, periglacial and talus-alluvial environments. New data on the internal structure of talus slopes developing in the present or past glaciated areas adds to understanding talus slope evolution. There are many different views concerning the development of slopes during the paraglacial period, whose analysis seems to be crucial in the background of climate change and their record in slope structures. In addition, the study provided valuable information on the development and degradation of permafrost in slope materials.

Biogeography and evolutionary factors determine genetic differentiation of Pinus mugo (Turra) in the Tatra Mountains (Central Europe)

2015 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 549-557 ◽  
Author(s):  
Konrad Celiński ◽  
Veronika Zbránková ◽  
Aleksandra Wojnicka-Półtorak ◽  
Ewa Chudzińska
Keyword(s):  
Genetic Differentiation ◽  
Central Europe ◽  
Pinus Mugo ◽  
Tatra Mountains ◽  
The Tatra Mountains
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