landslides; sedimentary analyses; Carpathians

Environmental changes are reflected in sedimentary archives and can be traced through geochronological, sedimentary and pollen evidence. In the Czech and Slovak part of the Outer Western Carpathians, local geomorphologists are for the last ten years interested in the quaternary geochronology of the slope deformations. Due to the lack of the organic material incorporated in the landslide bodies, new sources of chronological information were found ?- relatively small and shallow depressions (tens to hundreds m2 in area, several m in depth), related with the presence of landslide (landslide-dammed floodplain impoundments, intercolluvial and near-scarp depressions and double ridges). Such undrained depressions are often filled with several metres thick sediments of various geneses (organic, lacustrine, fluvial, colluvial, etc.) and in regions with otherwise poor Holocene record (and discontinuous alluvial deposits) might provide excellent palaeoenvironmental records imprinted in their deposits.