The Quaternary glaciations identified in the Western Carpathians are, from oldest to youngest: Donau, Günz, Mindel, Riss and Würm. During these glaciations glaciers extender downhill from the High Tatras and nonglaciated uplands were subject to frost weathering and solifluction. Deflation of soils is also evident in mountaineous locations. Glaciofluvial cones formed in the forelands of the Western Carpathians in connection to the last glaciation. Four systems of terminal and lateral moraines formed during the last glaciation and its inmediate aftermath have been recognised in the Slovak Carpathians.