Agricultural land use ; Central Europe ; Climatic variation ; Comparative study ; Deforestation ; Gully erosion ; Little ice age ; Sixteenth Century ; Slovak Republic ; Soil erosion ; Twentieth Century
Though the extensive forest clearance and expansion of farmland provided conditions favouring gullying, the triggering mechanism of the disastrous gully erosion were extreme rainfall and snowmelt events with the Little Ice Age (LIA). The comparison
Alps (The) ; Deglaciation ; Fluvial terrace ; Fluvioglacial features ; France ; Hautes-Alpes ; Lichenometry ; Little ice age ; Mountain ; Palaeogeography
. of known age on recently deglaciated terrain. Analysis of the systems of terraces and paleochannels of the proglacial rivers supported by lichenometric dating allows 3 periods of intensified fluvial activity to be distinguished for the Little Ice Age.