Ice and frost wedges are a geomorphological phenomenon which is directly related to periglacial environment and permafrost (Murton, 2007). The presence of permafrost in the territory of the Czech Republic in the Pleistocene period is directly proven by polygonal nets of ice and frost wedge pseudomorphs, which are clearly visible in some remote sensing images. Among others, they can also be used as indicators of paleoenvironmental conditions for the period in which their recent forms originated and developed and for the period of their secondary infilling (Sekyra, 1958). The present thesis focuses on the spatial distribution and morphology of polygonal nets of ice and frost wedge pseudomorphs which were created in the territory of the Czech Republic at the end of Pleistocene and the beginning of Holocene. The analysis of the spatial distribution of polygonal nets was carried out with freely available remote sensing images provided by the GoogleEarth Pro application (Google Inc., 2011). The number of locations with a potential presence of pseudomorphs was 629. Out of these, 49 were subjected to a morphometric analysis of polygonal nets and their corresponding landscape. Statistical data analysis showed that the described polygonal nets of ice and frost wedge pseudomorphs in the territory of the Czech Republic...
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:nusl.cz/oai:invenio.nusl.cz:322967 |
| Date | January 2013 |
| Creators | Vohradský, Lukáš |
| Contributors | Křížek, Marek, Treml, Václav |
| Source Sets | Czech ETDs |
| Language | Czech |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | info:eu-repo/semantics/masterThesis |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccess |
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