On the slope wash intensity at the Middle Russian Heights in Late Holocene

Abstract

The complex analysis of paleobotanic and radiocarbon data confirms the erosion processes (slope wash in particular) to be intensified at the central part of the Middle Russian Heights in t-he last centuries due to human economic activity together with recent tectonic uplift. The factors resulted in drainage of swamp (existed since sub-boreal time) and their covering with deluvial mantle, the age of the latter is estimated at 200 years, the deluvial wash rate being about 4-6 mm per year.