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Holocene deposit at the foot of the Posledný komín Cliff in the Zádielska tiesňava Gorge (Southeast Slovakia, National Park Slovak Karst)
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The Holocene deposit is situated at the foot of the Posledný komín Cliff at the uppermost end of the Zádielska tiesňava Gorge, at elevation 460 m; the adjacent karst plateau attains 700 m. It lies in a nearly rectangular corner of a north-facing vertical rock face and consists of predominantly small-sized rock rubble with scattered larger fragments and foam-sinter matrix. The foam sinter formation was supported by the cool and moist local microclimate. The whole sequence includes an abundant malacofauna that consists of 2 different malacocoenoses: (1) Snail assemblage of a damp scree forest living right in the talus accumulation area and (2) shells of rock-dwelling species falling down from the cliff. Both, the composition of the fossil snail assemblages, and two RC dates correspond to the time-span Boreal-Present. The Subboreal climatic break is impressively documented by the boulder horizon in layer 6 that is also characterized by the appearance of a number of Late Holocene snail species.References
