Alluvium ; Central Europe ; Deforestation ; Europe ; Floodplain ; Grain size distribution ; Heavy metals ; Holocene ; Human impact ; Mountain ; Palaeo-environment ; Sedimentation ; Sudety
, and possibly even earlier, the Glubczyce Plateau has been a deforested region. Despite the mountainous character of the headwater area of rivers in the Eastern Sudety foreland, sediment transfer from sub-mountainous loess-covered uplands, induced by human