Abstract
While lake deposits are commonly abundant in northern and NW Europe, most of the central Europe (except for the Alpine piedmont and Panonnian basin)is rather poor in this respect. This very much holds for the territory of the Czech Republic, where the absence of lacustrine deposits is explained both by the high relief dynamics of the region and by its unfavorable hydrologic context.
From this point of view, the northern part of the Toeboo Basin (South Bohemia) represents extraordinarily important area in the last few years, 16 lake basins filled by up to 11 m thick sediments have been discovered in this area. These sediments provide unique, high-resolution archives for detailed study of paleoenvironmental changes during the Late Pleistocene and the Holocene in this part of Europe.
Nevertheless, the investigations on detailed lake basins morphology and their sedimentary development have been considerably complicated so far, because almost all lake basins are flooded by waters of modern fishponds. The only known exceptions are the lakes discovered under the surface of wet meadows, in SW vicinity of Veselí nad Lužnicí.
In this study we present results of sedimentological and geophysical investigations.