Holocene; denudation rate; landslide dams; lacustrine sediments; Outer Western Carpathians

Importance of the landslide-dammed lakes as data sources lies particularly in i) dating of the related landslides, ii) study of the palaeoenvironmental conditions, iii) quantification of the sediment budgets and iv) understanding risks connected with landslides. Most of the studied sedimentary records contain frequent variations in sediment genetic type (e.g. lacustrine anorganic clay and silt, organic gyttja and peat of swampy facies with often minerogenic intercalations, fluvial sub-rounded gravel, etc.), which well document dynamic changes in the type of geomorphic processes in the contributing catchments. Radiocarbon dating together with the palynological and sedimentological analyses detect the repeated changes in the depositional conditions connected with the palaeoenvironmental changes during the Holocene.