A multivariate approach to pebble morphometry : a case study of Witów section (southern Poland)

• Autorzy: Mol Szymon , Ninard Krzysztof , Kuźma Agata , Deryk Anastasila , Łapcik Piotr

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DOI

10.14241/asgp.2024.11

• Języki publikacji: EN

Abstrakty

EN

Gravel-dominated Neogene – Early Pleistocene braided river deposits of the Witów Series occur in the Carpathian Foredeep, about 20 km north of the front of the Polish Outer Carpathians, between the Szreniawa and Vistula rivers. For the first time, these deposits were subjected to numerical analyses, based on the morphometry and mass of almost 1,500 pebbles sampled at 10 cm intervals along the 4.4-m-high section in the Witów Quarry. In contrast to the traditional approach to pebble morphometry, multivariate statistics was utilised. This enables the examination of various aspects of the dataset holistically and simultaneously. A multivariate method, called principal component analysis (PCA), is widely used in the life sciences, but the employment of PCA for pebble morphometry has not yet been described. Here, PCA was applied to reveal the interrelations between pebble size, mass, lithological composition and stratigraphic height. Most notably, some differences in the distribution of morphometric features between different pebble lithotypes are displayed. Even though the morphometric features and petrological composition of pebbles remain similar in the section as a whole, overall upward-decreasing trends of stream-bed velocity proxies were recognized with the aid of PCA results and were validated, using standard bivariate correlation methods. This approach to the multivariate analysis of large quantitative and qualitative datasets should be considered as a possible part of the integrated sedimentological research of coarsegrained deposits. The consistency between results among the multiple indicators studied reduces the uncertainty of the sedimentological interpretations, presented in this work.

Słowa kluczowe

EN

multivariate analysis; principal component analysis; pebble morphometry; Carpathian Foredeep

• Wydawca: Polskie Towarzystwo Geologiczne
• Czasopismo: Annales Societatis Geologorum Poloniae
• Rocznik: 2024
• Tom: Vol. 94, No. 3
• Strony: 273--286
• Opis fizyczny: Bibliogr. 43 poz., fot., rys., tab., wykr.

Twórcy

autor

Mol Szymon

• Institute of Geological Sciences, Jagiellonian University, Gronostajowa 3a, 30-387 Kraków, Poland

• https://orcid.org/0009-0001-3618-9541

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Ninard Krzysztof

• Institute of Geological Sciences, Jagiellonian University, Gronostajowa 3a, 30-387 Kraków, Poland

• https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7260-5979

autor

Kuźma Agata

• Institute of Geological Sciences, Jagiellonian University, Gronostajowa 3a, 30-387 Kraków, Poland

• https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3821-0911

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Deryk Anastasila

• Institute of Geological Sciences, Jagiellonian University, Gronostajowa 3a, 30-387 Kraków, Poland

• https://orcid.org/0009-0008-6171-3924

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Łapcik Piotr

• Institute of Geological Sciences, Jagiellonian University, Gronostajowa 3a, 30-387 Kraków, Poland

• https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7956-5474

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Uwagi

Opracowanie rekordu ze środków MNiSW, umowa nr POPUL/SP/0154/2024/02 w ramach programu "Społeczna odpowiedzialność nauki II" - moduł: Popularyzacja nauki (2025).