GeologijaPub Date : 2021-07-20DOI: 10.5474/geologija.2021.004
Aleksej Miloševič, A. Alekseev, E. Zaytseva, M. Novak, T. Kolar-Jurkovšek, B. Jurkovšek
{"title":"Late Carboniferous biota from the Ljubija iron mine area, Bosnia and Herzegovina","authors":"Aleksej Miloševič, A. Alekseev, E. Zaytseva, M. Novak, T. Kolar-Jurkovšek, B. Jurkovšek","doi":"10.5474/geologija.2021.004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5474/geologija.2021.004","url":null,"abstract":"The Olistostrome member of the Sana-Una Paleozoic complex of the Ljubija ore mine in Bosnia and Herzegovina contains limestone fragments of pebble to block size that have been examined paleontologically. The recovered conodont fauna of the first sample is characterized by the species Declinognathodus lateralis, Idiognathoides sulcatus sulcatus and Idiognathodus sp. confirming its mid-Bashkirian age. This report is the first on the occurrence of these taxa in the area. The second sample with chaetetid demosponges yields an abundant diversified microbiota consisting of cyanobacteria, algae and foraminifera. Chlorophyts are marked by the common siphonoclad occurrence of Donezella lutugini and D. lunaensis, whereas rhodophyts include rare representatives of Stacheia, Stacheoides, Pseudoungdarella and Masloviporidium. The presence of Asphaltinella horowitzi and Aphralysia carbonaria of unclear taxonomic position is also documented. Pseudostaffellids, eostaffellids and other foraminifera, mostly endothyrids are present. The examined associations of fossils point to the Bashkirian age of the primary rock that originated in a very shallow habitat most probably linked to a high-energy reef environment.","PeriodicalId":12743,"journal":{"name":"Geologija","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47895751","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
GeologijaPub Date : 2020-12-30DOI: 10.5474/geologija.2020.019
Klara Nagode, T. Kanduč, S. Lojen, B. B. Železnik, B. Jamnik, P. Vreča
{"title":"Synthesis of past isotope hydrology investigations in the area of Ljubljana, Slovenia","authors":"Klara Nagode, T. Kanduč, S. Lojen, B. B. Železnik, B. Jamnik, P. Vreča","doi":"10.5474/geologija.2020.019","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5474/geologija.2020.019","url":null,"abstract":"Water isotope investigations are a powerful tool in water resources research as well as in understanding the impact that humans have on the water cycle. This paper reviews past hydrological investigations of the Ljubljansko polje and Ljubljansko barje aquifers that supply drinking water to the City of Ljubljana, with an emphasis on hydrogen, oxygen and carbon stable isotope ratios. Information about the methods used and results obtained are summarised, and the knowledge gaps identified. Overall, we identified 102 records published between 1976 and 2019. Among them, 41 reported stable isotope data of groundwater, surface water and precipitation and were further analysed. Isotope investigations of the Ljubljansko barje began in 1976, while groundwater and surface water investigations of the Ljubljansko polje and along the Sava River began as late as 1997. Isotope investigations of carbon started even later in 2003 in the Ljubljansko polje and in 2010 in the Ljubljansko barje. These investigations were performed predominantly in the frame of short-term groundwater research projects at five main wellfields and sites along the Sava River. Almost no large-scale, long-term stable isotope studies have been conducted. The exceptions include groundwater monitoring by the Union Brewery in Ljubljana (20032014) and precipitation in Ljubljana since 1981. Since 2011, more detailed surveys of the Ljubljansko barje were performed, and in 2018, the first extensive investigation started at wellfields and objects that form part of the domestic water supply system. Given the number of available studies, we felt that publishing all the numerical data and appropriate metadata would allow for a better understanding of the short and long-term dynamics of water circulation in the urban environment. In the future, systematic long-term approaches, including the appropriate use of isotopic techniques, are needed.","PeriodicalId":12743,"journal":{"name":"Geologija","volume":"63 1","pages":"251-270"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46350901","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
GeologijaPub Date : 2020-12-30DOI: 10.5474/geologija.2020.021
Luka Serianz, Nina Rman, M. Brenčič
{"title":"Step-drawdown tests in exploitation wells for thermal and mineral water – Case study from Slovenia","authors":"Luka Serianz, Nina Rman, M. Brenčič","doi":"10.5474/geologija.2020.021","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5474/geologija.2020.021","url":null,"abstract":"A comparative analysis of step-drawdown tests was performed in order to estimate the well performance in Slovenian thermal and mineral water wells. Tests were performed in 30 wells, each having its own maximum production rate determined in the concession decrees. The main focus of well performance analysis, using graphical analysis of the Jacob approximate equation, was to estimate the adequacy of the wells production rate as well as to identify possible changes in the technical status of the wells over years. 5 of total 30 wells were not included in the analysis due to technical issues during test performance. Well performance analysis includes the calculation of nonlinear well losses related to turbulent flow and linear head loss (aquifer and well) assumed to be related to laminar flow. Results indicate that the ratios between nonlinear well losses and linear head (well and aquifer) losses, in this paper referred as laminar losses, are from 6.9 % to 97.4 %. Laminar losses parameter suggests, all investigated wells were classified with either good (11 wells), medium (7 wells) or poor (7 wells) performance. The addressed analysis represents a very important basis for further thermal and mineral water extraction, e.g. optimizing the maximum allowed production rate as granted in concession decrees and diagnose potential changes in the technical status of each well.","PeriodicalId":12743,"journal":{"name":"Geologija","volume":"63 1","pages":"281-294"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45678330","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
GeologijaPub Date : 2020-12-30DOI: 10.5474/geologija.2020.024
S. Master
{"title":"Peripatetic careers of Vsevolod and Eugenie Gorsky, mid-20th century Slovenian-educated geoscientists","authors":"S. Master","doi":"10.5474/geologija.2020.024","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5474/geologija.2020.024","url":null,"abstract":"In September 1947, South Africa’s most famous geologist, Dr Alexander Logie du Toit, FRS, well known for his support of the concept of Continental Drift, received a visit from a Slovenian-educated Russian émigré couple, Vsevolod and Eugenie Gorsky, who were newly arrived in South Africa. Vsevolod, born in what is now Ukraine, was a mining engineer, geologist and geophysicist with vast experience in the minerals industry, while his wife Eugenie, born in the Russian Caucasus, was an analytical geochemist. Vsevolod had a brief exchange of letters with du Toit, seeking his help in obtaining employment in South Africa’s minerals industry. Included in the first letter to du Toit were detailed curricula vitae of both Vsevolod and Eugenie Gorsky. These detailed CVs allow us to reconstruct the training (at the University of Ljubljana, under the influence of Russian mineralogist V.V. Nikitin) and careers of these two earth science professionals in Slovenia and Macedonia, in the early Twentieth Century, and to follow their peripatetic careers as they left the Kingdom of Yugoslavia before the start of the Second World War, in Cyprus, Egypt, Tanganyika and South Africa. They ultimately ended up in Brazil in the 1960s and 1970s, and probably retired there. Eugenie was constrained to follow her husband wherever his career led him, but she always ended up working in most of the countries and places they found themselves in. As a professional couple who travelled the world, the Gorskys were pioneers in a way of life that is commonplace now in a globalized world.","PeriodicalId":12743,"journal":{"name":"Geologija","volume":"63 1","pages":"323-332"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48403373","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
GeologijaPub Date : 2020-12-30DOI: 10.5474/geologija.2020.023
M. Križnar, Andrej Bricman, Ivan Ocepek
{"title":"Lower Cretaceous heteromorph ammonites (Ancyloceratina) from Leše near Prevalje (North Karavanke Mts. NE Slovenia)","authors":"M. Križnar, Andrej Bricman, Ivan Ocepek","doi":"10.5474/geologija.2020.023","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5474/geologija.2020.023","url":null,"abstract":"The paper deals with newly discovered Valanginian-Hauterivian fauna of heteromorphic ammonites (Ancyloceratina) from locality south of the village of Leše above the Meža River valley (North Karavanke Mountains). Fossils were recovered from the pelagic limestone. Among the studied heteromorphic ammonites are Lower Cretacaoeus species Himantoceras trinodosum (Upper Valanginian) and Crioceratites cf. nolani (Hauterivian). Based on the accompanied ammonites (Ammonitina) from the outcrop, we biostratigraficaly confirm the presence of Lower Cretaceous ammonites fauna in the Northern Karavanke Mountains. This is also the first report on heteromorphic ammonites in Slovenia. GEOLOGIJA 63/2, 311-321, Ljubljana 2020 https://doi.org/10.5474/geologija.2020.023","PeriodicalId":12743,"journal":{"name":"Geologija","volume":"63 1","pages":"311-321"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42042501","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
GeologijaPub Date : 2020-12-30DOI: 10.5474/geologija.2020.016
B. C. Curk
{"title":"Tracer test on the Dragonja landfill","authors":"B. C. Curk","doi":"10.5474/geologija.2020.016","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5474/geologija.2020.016","url":null,"abstract":"The paper presents the results of a tracer experiment with the uranine tracer at the non-hazardous landfill of Dragonja. The purpose of the tracer test was to determine the dynamics of the potential pollutants from the landfill to the groundwater. The landfill lies on the thicker weathered layer of flysch rock that forms the slope of the hill. At the foot of the hill are silty clay and partly sandy alluvial sediments of the Dragonja River. The transport of uranine depends on the intensity and duration of precipitation, potential evapotranspiration, permeability, precipitation infiltration into the landfill, and saturation of the weathering layer of flysh. Uranine first appeared in the observation well P2, which is located downstream of the injection point, in the direction of water flow. Observation well P1 is not in the direction of direct flow and therefore only the edge of the dispersed tracer plume appeared in P1. The groundwater from the flysch weathered layer drains into the alluvial plain and the uranine concentrations are diluted in the groundwater. In the observation well P5 a slow increase and decrease of the uranium concentration was therefore observed. Due to the high evapotranspiration, the groundwater levels were falling until October, when they began to rise after autumnal precipitation events. The tracer experiment confirmed the heterogeneity and complexity of the geological structure of the landfill site.","PeriodicalId":12743,"journal":{"name":"Geologija","volume":"63 1","pages":"193-201"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46226452","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
GeologijaPub Date : 2020-12-23DOI: 10.5474/geologija.2021.001
M. Zajc, M. Poljak, A. Gosar
{"title":"GPR survey to reveal a possible tectonic tilt of the Brežice Sava River Terrace in the Krško Basin","authors":"M. Zajc, M. Poljak, A. Gosar","doi":"10.5474/geologija.2021.001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5474/geologija.2021.001","url":null,"abstract":"It has been supposed that the Brežice Sava River Terrace (BSRT) is tectonically disturbed near the town of Brežice and tilted to the north. To confirm this tectonically induced tilt in a quantitative sense, low-frequency Ground Penetration Radar (GPR) was applied. A total of eight GPR profiles were recorded across the BSRT providing information of the lower boundary of the terrace, which consists of loose to poorly cemented Quaternary gravel, while its Tertiary basement consists of poorly cemented carbonaceous silt (marl). The premise of the study was the assumption that this lithological boundary could be detected by the GPR method. In addition to the upper surface of the BSRT being tilted to the north by 0.18°, GPR profiles also showed a 0.04° difference in the tilt between the upper surface of the terrace and its lower boundary with the basement, which we assigned to the sin-sedimentary tilt. Upon this information, a cumulative tectonically induced dip of the BSRT lower boundary was defined at 0.22","PeriodicalId":12743,"journal":{"name":"Geologija","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48812792","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
GeologijaPub Date : 2020-12-07DOI: 10.5474/geologija.2020.022
P. Rupnik, M. Žebre, G. Monegato
{"title":"Late Quaternary evolution of the sedimentary environment in Modrejce near Most na Soči (Soča Valley, Julian Alps)","authors":"P. Rupnik, M. Žebre, G. Monegato","doi":"10.5474/geologija.2020.022","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5474/geologija.2020.022","url":null,"abstract":"Geomorphological and geological mapping have long been used to study the glacial history of the Slovenian Alps, but many uncertainties remain regarding the time and extent of Pleistocene glaciations there. Glacial landforms and undisturbed glacial deposits are rare in the areas of the former glacier terminus, especially in the Soča Valley, where large discrepancies in the interpretation of the extent of the former Soča Glacier have been reported. Early studies proved inconclusive as to whether one or two glaciations extended into the Soča Valley as far as Most na Soči. In order to answer this question, the Quaternary sedimentary succession and landforms in the Modrejce Valley near Most na Soči were investigated. New geological and geomorphological field data allow the interpretation of the sedimentary environment and the stratigraphic relationships between different units. In response to glacial dynamics, the sedimentation developed from glaciofluvial and glaciolacustrine to fully glacial environments, followed by slope deposition. At higher altitudes lateral moraines are preserved, while the staircase-like slope below has been carved into older glacial, glaciofluvial and glaciolacustrine deposits by glacial and post-glacial processes, including fluvial erosion and slope dynamics. We conclude that the succession studied here was deposited over the course of two different glacial advances – LGM and pre-LGM. Our study thus suggests that the Soča Glacier extended as far as the area of Most na Soči twice over the course of the late Quaternary.","PeriodicalId":12743,"journal":{"name":"Geologija","volume":"40 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70909754","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}