M. Gąsiorowski, H. Hercman, Ilona Sekudewicz, A. Mulczyk
{"title":"Uranium and polonium activities in karst water of the Niedźwiedzia Cave system (Sudety Mts.)","authors":"M. Gąsiorowski, H. Hercman, Ilona Sekudewicz, A. Mulczyk","doi":"10.14241/ASGP.2020.28","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14241/ASGP.2020.28","url":null,"abstract":"Polonium and uranium activities were measured in surface and karst water in the Kleśnica Stream catchment and the Niedźwiedzia Cave system (Sudety Mts., South-West Poland). The highest polonium concentration was recorded in surface water during flood events and in a sinter pool, located close to the touristic trail inside the cave. It points to a detrital source of the polonium and its transport in water absorbed by the clay fraction. Uranium activity increases downstream in the surface water of the Kleśnica Stream, indicating significant input of 234U and 238U from an area of outcropping marble. Water, autochthonous in the marble, that originated from precipitation and infiltration directly into the cave system is characterized by low uranium content. However, the uranium activity increases with the time of water percolation in the soil and epikarst zone and is higher at the lower cave level than at the upper and middle levels. Po and U activities were used as tracers for the area of water recharge and the mode of circulation. The results point to atmospheric precipitation as the almost exclusive source of water at the upper and middle cave levels, while water at the active level of the cave is a mixture of precipitation, infiltrating directly from the area above the cave passages, and horizontal flow, originating out of the marble outcrop.","PeriodicalId":50776,"journal":{"name":"Annales Societatis Geologorum Poloniae","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66913048","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Discovery of plywood structure in Sphenothallus from Gurovo Formation (Mississippian), Central Russia","authors":"O. Vinn, A. Mironenko","doi":"10.14241/ASGP.2021.01","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14241/ASGP.2021.01","url":null,"abstract":"Sphenothallus specimens are reported for the first time from the Mississippian of Central Russia. All Sphenothallus specimens have a phosphatic composition and a characteristic laminar structure, which is best observable in the thickened lateral parts of a tube. Most of the lamellae in the tube wall are straight, but some have a wavy morphology and a few are so wrinkled that they form hollow “ribs”. The wrinkled lamellae presumably had an originally higher organic content than the straight lamellae. There are borings on the surfaces of some lamellae that are similar in morphology to the bioerosional traces in various hard, biomineral substrates. Lamellae in the inner parts of the tube wall are composed of fibres. The fibres are parallel to the surface of the tube wall and in successive laminae they differ in orientation by irregularly varying angles. It is possible that the plywood microstructure in Sphenothallus was originally organic and was later phosphatized during fossilization. An alternative, but less likely explanation is that the plywood structure was originally mineralized and therefore is comparable to the phosphatic lamello-fibrillar structures of vertebrates.","PeriodicalId":50776,"journal":{"name":"Annales Societatis Geologorum Poloniae","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66913689","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Maastrichtian climate changes – the calcareous nannofossil record from flysch deposits of the Outer Carpathians","authors":"A. Wierzbicki, M. Kędzierski","doi":"10.14241/asgp.2020.19","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14241/asgp.2020.19","url":null,"abstract":"The Outer Carpathians are known for a few sections, where transitions from the Upper Cretaceous to the Palaeogene, including the K-Pg boundary interval, were described. One of them, the Bąkowiec section in the Skole Nappe, was examined with reference to the record of biostratigraphy and palaeoenvironmental changes, mainly based on the analysis of calcareous nannofossil assemblages. This study shows no evidence for the K-Pg boundary; however, the presence of the nannofossil species Micula prinsii, marking the topmost Maastrichtian UC20dTP Zone, was noted. The appearance of this low-latitude taxon and relevant changes in the composition of nannofossil assemblages indicate an influx of Tethyan warm water into the northern Carpathian basins during the latest Maastrichtian, shortly before the K-Pg boundary event. Therefore, the authors infer that the upper part of the Bąkowiec section recorded the latest Maastrichtian warming of climate, probably triggered by Deccan volcanic activity.","PeriodicalId":50776,"journal":{"name":"Annales Societatis Geologorum Poloniae","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66913263","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Ichnology of Upper Cretaceous–lower Palaeogene deep-sea deposits in the Haymana Basin of Central Anatolia","authors":"H. Demircan, M. Görmüş","doi":"10.14241/ASGP.2020.33","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14241/ASGP.2020.33","url":null,"abstract":": Upper Cretaceous to lower Palaeogene carbonate and siliciclastic deposits that crop out widely in the Haymana and Polatlı districts (Ankara Province) of the Haymana Basin (Central Anatolia) are rich in larger benthic foraminifera, various macrofossils and ichnofossils. The ichnofossils of the Haymana and Yeşilyurt for mations were studied at five localities. The Upper Cretaceous siliciclastics of the Haymana Formation contain moderately diverse trace fossils, belonging to the deep-sea Nereites ichnofacies. The Paleocene siliciclastic and carbonate deposits of the Yeşilyurt Formation comprise similar trace fossils, which do not show significant chang es in comparison to the Haymana Formation. This indicates that the K-Pg boundary extinction event did not affect the ichnofauna with any longer consequences. The Upper Cretaceous coarser, siliciclastic deposits of the Haymana and Beyobası formations are rich in shallow-marine, larger benthic foraminifera, including species of Orbitoides, Omphalocyclus, Siderolites, Hellenocyclina, and Loftusia , whereas fine siliciclastic deposits contain abundant planktonic, open-marine fo raminifera, such as Globotruncana and Heterohelix . Palaeogene siliciclastic to carbonate deposits of the Kartal, Yeşilyurt and Çaldağ formations are rich in the larger, benthic foraminifera Nummulites, Discocyclina, Assilina and Alveolina . The larger foraminifers have been redeposited from nearby, shallow-marine parts of the basin. sequence stratigraphy, and sea-level changes across","PeriodicalId":50776,"journal":{"name":"Annales Societatis Geologorum Poloniae","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66913632","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A tribute to Professor Joachim “Achim” Szulc (1954–2020)","authors":"Michał Gradziński","doi":"10.14241/ASGP.2020.31","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14241/ASGP.2020.31","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":50776,"journal":{"name":"Annales Societatis Geologorum Poloniae","volume":"90 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66913709","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Burial and thermal history of the Upper Silesian Coal Basin (Poland) constrained by maturity modelling – implications for coalification and natural gas generation","authors":"D. Botor","doi":"10.14241/asgp.2020.16","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14241/asgp.2020.16","url":null,"abstract":"Maturity modelling was carried out using basin and petroleum system modelling (BPSM) software in the lithologic sections of 17 wells of the Upper Silesian Coal Basin (Poland). The best fit between calculated and measured vitrinite reflectance (VR), porosity and density data was obtained by applying a thickness of eroded sedimentary overburden from 1700 m in the east to 4500 m in the west and relatively low to moderate heat flow values during the maximum late Carboniferous burial. These heat flow values were in the range 50–71 mW/m2, most likely owing to rapid deposition of molasse sediment that led to a downward deflection of the isotherms. The upper Carboniferous strata were heated to temperatures in the range c. 90–170 °C, which is in accordance with the moderate to high levels of thermal maturity of these rocks (c. 0.6–1.7%VR). The coal rank pattern was reached before the Variscan tectonic inversion at the transition between the Carboniferous and the Permian (c. 300 Ma). This coalification level was not overprinted by any later thermal processes. The coalification resulted in the generation of natural gases. The upper Carboniferous strata are characterized by early to late phases of hydrocarbon generation. The kerogen transformation ratio (c. 5–75%TR) values vary across the basin. Most coals generated significant amounts of hydrocarbons, which reached over 80 mg of methane per gram of total organic carbon. Although most hydrocarbons generated most likely were lost during the intense post-Variscan exhumation, the hydrocarbon potential of the basin is still substantial.","PeriodicalId":50776,"journal":{"name":"Annales Societatis Geologorum Poloniae","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66912399","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Sphenopsid and fern remains from the Upper Triassic of Krasiejów (SW Poland)","authors":"Grzegorz Pacyna","doi":"10.14241/ASGP.2019.13","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14241/ASGP.2019.13","url":null,"abstract":"Hydrophilic elements, such as sphenopsids and ferns, are rare in the flora of the Krasiejow site and they are poorly preserved. One sphenopsid species, Neocalamites merianii , was recognised. It is preserved as impressions, flattened casts, moulds and isolated leaves. So far, only one small fern specimen, determined as Sphenopteris sp., has been found. These elements probably were transported to the site of deposition and did not grow where they were buried.","PeriodicalId":50776,"journal":{"name":"Annales Societatis Geologorum Poloniae","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2019-12-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41952508","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Jurassic to Palaeogene strata in the northern boundary fault zone in deep borehole PD-9 at Szczawnica, Pieniny Klippen Belt, West Carpathians, Poland: biostratigraphy and tectonic implications","authors":"K. Birkenmajer, P. Gedl","doi":"10.14241/asgp.2019.18","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14241/asgp.2019.18","url":null,"abstract":"The Jurassic through Palaeogene stratigraphy and tectonic structure of the PD-9 borehole at Szczawnica, Pieniny Klippen Belt, West Carpathians, Poland, is revised. The borehole was drilled in the strongly tectonized northern boundary fault zone of the Pieniny Klippen Belt, of Miocene age. Age revision is given by dinoflagellate cysts. Late Cretaceous taxa are reported from the Haluszowa Formation. The Bryjarka Member (previously with the rank of formation) yielded rich Early Eocene (Ypresian) assemblages. Similar ones are reported from the Szczawnica Formation. A tectonic thrust sheet of the Jurassic Szlachtowa Formation (Grajcarek Unit) in the Palaeogene of the Magura Nappe is evidenced; it yielded late Toarcian–Aalenian dinoflagellate cyst assemblages. The succession of strata recorded from the PD-9 borehole shows the steep, almost vertical attitude of the Grajcarek Main Dislocation at Szczawnica, separating the structures of the Magura Nappe (to the north) and the Pieniny Klippen Belt to the south.","PeriodicalId":50776,"journal":{"name":"Annales Societatis Geologorum Poloniae","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2019-12-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42852796","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
A. Waśkowska, Andrzej Joniec, Janusz Kotlarczyk, P. Siwek
{"title":"The Late Cretaceous Fucoid Marl of the Ropianka Formation in the Kąkolówka Structure (Skole Nappe, Outer Carpathians, Poland) – lithology and foraminiferal biostratigraphy","authors":"A. Waśkowska, Andrzej Joniec, Janusz Kotlarczyk, P. Siwek","doi":"10.14241/ASGP.2019.04","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14241/ASGP.2019.04","url":null,"abstract":"A 250-m-thick sedimentary succession dominated by siliciclastic deposits occurs in the Kąkolowka Structure of the Skole Nappe. The succession was deposited in the inner part of the Skole Basin during the Late Cretaceous. In position and age, it corresponds to the Kropivnik Fucoid Marl of the Wiar Member (a subdivision of the Ropianka Formation), which was comprehensively described in the external part of the Skole Nappe. In this study, the authors provide the first complete data set on the lithological development and biostratigraphy of the Kropivnik Fucoid Marl from the inner part of the Skole Nappe. The results are compared to previous data from the outer part of the Skole Nappe. In the Kropivnik Fucoid Marl of the Kąkolowka Structure, three main heterolithic facies associations are distinguished: shale-sandstone, marl-sandstone and sandstone-shale. The occurrences of hard, platy and soft marls within siliciclastic rocks are typical of the sections studied. The features observed indicate a turbiditic origin of the deposits studied, including the hard, platy marls. The allogenic material of the strata described includes the small, fragile tests of planktonic foraminifera, which were redeposited from the outer parts of the Skole Basin. Particularly large concentrations of planktonic foraminifera were observed in the hard, platy marls. They are less common in the soft marls and shales. In the Zimny Dzial section, a diverse assemblage of benthic and planktonic foraminifera was found. The Kropivnik Fucoid Marl was dated as uppermost Campanian to lowermost Maastrichtian on the basis of planktonic foraminifera, which represent the Gansserina gansseri Zone. The agglutinated foraminiferal assemblages are representative for the lower part of the Rzehakina inclusa Zone and the co-occurrence of the Caudammina gigantean (Geroch) acme with Rzehakina inclusa (Grzybowski) was observed.","PeriodicalId":50776,"journal":{"name":"Annales Societatis Geologorum Poloniae","volume":"37 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2019-12-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41267178","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}