Patagonie

Landslides in the Patagonia

I am a member of Tomáš Pánek’s scientific team, which is working on landslides in Patagonia. It started with the first article in 2017. Subsequently in 2019, Tomáš Pánek received a grant from the Czech Science Foundation (https://starfos.tacr.cz/en/project/GA19-16013S). In this project we focused on landslides in the foothills of the Andes. This is an area that was affected by the Patagonian Ice Sheet. Our research focused on the chronology of the landslides, their distribution and the causes of their occurrence. One of the key questions was what effect deglaciation and other events such as the emptying of large lakes had on the formation of landslides. This project ended in the 2022. Now we are working on another project which is focused on large landslides in the Patagonian tableland (https://starfos.tacr.cz/projekty/GA23-07310S).

Related publications:

Pánek, T., Břežný, M., Harrison, S., Schönfeldt, E., Winocur, D., 2022. Large landslides cluster at the margin of a deglaciated mountain belt. Sci Rep 12, 5658. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-09357-9

Pánek, T., Břežný, M., Kilnar, J., Winocur, D., 2021. Complex causes of landslides after ice sheet retreat: Post-LGM mass movements in the Northern Patagonian Icefield region. Science of The Total Environment 758, 143684. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.143684

Pánek, T., Schönfeldt, E., Winocur, D., Břežný, M., Šilhán, K., Chalupa, V., Korup, O., 2020. Moraines and marls: Giant landslides of the Lago Pueyrredón valley in Patagonia, Argentina. Quaternary Science Reviews 248, 106598. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2020.106598

Pánek, T., Korup, O., Lenart, J., Hradecký, J., Břežný, M., 2018. Giant landslides in the foreland of the Patagonian Ice Sheet. Quaternary Science Reviews 194, 39–54. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2018.06.028