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In the years 1974-1978 a team of Warsaw geographers headed by professor J. Kondracki conducted paleolimnological investigations in the Tatra Mountains. During four winter expeditions lake bed cores were sampled (using a sampler developed by K. Więckowski) of 12 lakes of various size and Iocated at different altitudes (cf. Table 2). One of the lakes was the Štrbské Lake situated in the slovak Tatra Mts. Results of the analyses of those beds are reported elsewhere. Preliminary palynologic analyses and the datings using radiocarbon method demonstrated that the lakes situated in glacial rocky cirques were formed immediately after the glaciers had vanished at the turn of the Pleistocene, whereas the morainic lakes located at lower altitudes emerged as soon as the dead ice had melted away in various Holocene stages. This is closely related to various thickness of aggradation, while the water table variations were connected with the changing climate.