A unique habitat of endolithic biota: hurricane-induced limestone rubble in an Albian sand-mass of the Cracow Upland, southern Poland

• Autorzy: Marcinowski R. , Radwański A.
• Języki publikacji: EN

Abstrakty

EN

Peculiarly shaped, relatively large (up to 30 cm in diameter) concretions of quartzitic sandstone occur in a single horizon of Upper Albian loose sands in the Cracow Upland, southern Poland. They are characterized by hollow interiors adorned with mass-aggregated moulds of the borings of diverse sponges, polychaetes and bivalves. These moulds represent the siliceous filling of borings in limestone clasts that had been subject to dissolution, leaving a hollow within the concretion that had formed around them. Synsedimentary block-faulting and jointing affected the Jurassic limestone-basement, causing the uplift of a local horst (the Glanow Horst), to within the littoral zone so that it became exposed to abrasion. It is inferred that a hurricane or catastrophic storm surge swept limestone debris fallen from the cliff out to the sandy offshore, where nucleation of soluble silica was presumably favoured by the decay of the soft tissue of live or dead rock-borers. After filling the emptyo borings and solution of the limestone clasts, the nucleation progressed intensely, finally completed by precipitation of siliceous sinter in the hollow interiors of some of the concretions during subsequent diagenesis and/or epigenesis.

Słowa kluczowe

EN

Albian; concretions; Cracow Upland; Cretaceous; Poland; rock-borers; Synsedimentary block-faulting

PL

alb; konkurencja; kreda; Polska; Wyżyna Krakowska

• Wydawca: Faculty of Geology of the University of Warsaw ; Komitet Nauk Geologicznych PAN
• Czasopismo: Acta Geologica Polonica
• Rocznik: 2009
• Tom: Vol. 59, no. 4
• Strony: 505--521
• Opis fizyczny: Bibliogr. 41 poz.,Fot., rys.,

Twórcy

autor

Marcinowski R.

autor

Radwański A.

• Institute of Geology, University of Warsaw; Al. Żwirki i Wigury 93, PL-02-089 Warsaw, Poland

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