Natural and anthropogenic changes in the environment during the Holocene at the Kraków region (Southern Poland) from study of mollusc assemblages

Alexandrowicz, Witold Paweł

doi:10.7306/gq.1577

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Natural and anthropogenic changes in the environment during the Holocene at the Kraków region (Southern Poland) from study of mollusc assemblages

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Alexandrowicz Witold Paweł

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Malacological analysis was used to reconstruct Holocene environmental changes from profiles of calcareous tufa and fluvial deposits exposed in the Kobylanka stream valley, several kilometres west of Kraków in southern Poland. The abundant and diversified mollusc fauna was characterized by clear variability within the vertical succession where five types of molluscan assemblages were distinguished. The pattern of sedimentary and molluscan facies allowed characterization of two main intervals of environmental change during Holocene. In the lower interval, until the end of the Middle Holocene, human activity was not detected and environmental processes were controlled by natural factors. In the upper interval, corresponding to the Late Holocene, human impact can be seen, in the form of rapid deforestation and agricultural development. Anthropogenic impact has been particularly evident during the last millennium. The mollusc assemblages studied allowed accurate reconstruction of natural and anthropogenic factors affecting the natural environment.

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mollusc assemblages environmental changes anthropogenic pressure Holocene southern Poland

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Państwowy Instytut Geologiczny - Państwowy Instytut Badawczy

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Geological Quarterly

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2021

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Vol. 65, No. 1

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art. no. 9

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Bibliogr. 74 poz., rys., tab.

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Alexandrowicz Witold Paweł

wpalex@geol.agh.edu.pl

AGH University of Science and Technology, Faculty of Geology, Geohysics and Environment Protection, Chair of General Geology and Geotourism, al. A. Mickiewicza 30, 30-059 Kraków, Poland

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