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Foraminifers from the early basin of the Polish Outer Carpathians: relationship with the Western and Eastern Tethys (Tithonian)

Szydło Andrzej

Geotourism / Geoturystyka

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2023

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nr 1-2 (72-73)

70--70

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The formation of the Polish part of the Outer Carpathian Basin was initiated by the rifting process which led to the collapse and disintegration of the southern margins of the European Platform in the Late Jurassic. Fragments of carbonate platform were incorporated into the basin structures which divided the area into several sedimentary zones located at different depth. Under these conditions, most of the carbonate sediments were transported to the basin in the form of submarine landslides and gravity flows of varying densities, or accumulated during pelagic sedimentation. These deposits belong to two formations exposed in the westernmost part of the Polish Outer Carpathians, located near the Polish-Czech border. The first is mainly represented by the Tithonian marls (Vendryne Fm.) which also contain redeposited carbonate rocks and fossils (Oxfordian-Tithonian), the second is composed of limestones and marly shales of the late Tithonian-Berriasian (Cieszyn Limestone Fm.). These oldest sedimentary rocks in the Polish Outer Carpathians contain mainly benthic foraminifers and very scarce plankton occurring in exotic blocks and sometimes directly in sediments forming both formations. The first group includes forms with calcareous walls and also cemented with siliceous or calcareous material. Calcareous benthic forms belong mainly to Vagulinidae (Vaginulina, Vaginulinopsis, Astacolus, Citharina, Citharinella, Lenticulina, Palmula), Nodosariae (i.e. Frondicularia, Nodosaria, Dentalina), Epistominidae (Epistomina), and Polymorphinidae (Guttulina), while agglutinated taxa are represented by Verneulinidae (Uvigerinammina, Paleogaudryina, Belorussiella, Verneuilina), Andercotrymidae (Praedorothia, Protomarssonella, Pseudomarssonella) and Textulariopsidae (Bicazammina, Hagimashella, Textulariopsis). They can be related to the Jurassic shelf microfauna, which are known both from the Tethys and the European Platform. Among foraminiferal benthos there are also very rare aggluinated taxa belonging to several genera: Melathrokerion, Buccicrenata, Alveosepta, Pseudocyclammina, and the more common calcareous forms of Andersenolina, Neotrocholina, Trocholina, Paalzowella, as well as of Discorbis, which inhabited shallow marine environments formed around the elevations within the basin as well as on its coast. Recently, apart from the benthic microfauna isolated Globigerina-like forms have been also found in the Tithonian deposits. These few forms resemble early planktonic foraminifera of the Western Tethys (Gl. oxfordiana, F. hoterivica) as well as the taxa known epicontinental and subTethyan seas located north (“Gl.” stellapolaris) and east (Gl. balakhmatovae, G. terquemi) of the studied area. The taxonomy, abundance and state of preservation of the described foraminifera from the early basin of the Polish Outer Carpathians indicate a connection with the gradually degraded areas of the platform inhabited by benthic and plankton communities from both the Tethyan and Boreal seas. The studied foraminifera resemble the microfauna of Western and Eastern Tethys and adjacent platforms.

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Factors controlling a depositional architecture in synorogenic Outer Carpathian basins – an example of Oligocene-age successions from the Fore-Magura Unit, Poland

Siwek Piotr, Waśkowska Anna, Wendorff Marek

Geotourism / Geoturystyka

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2023

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nr 1-2 (72-73)

62--63

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A Fore-Magura Unit is strongly tectonically-engaged tectonic unit of the Polish Outer Carpathians, sandwiched between Magura and Silesian nappes. Due to poor and sparse exposure of the Fore-Magura Unit, which is covered by the Magura Nappe, there has been no comprehensive interpretation of depositional systems of the Fore-Magura Basin (Eocene–Oligocene), a part of the Paratethys realm. Therefore, in order to broaden our knowledge about depositional conditions in this part of the Outer Carpathian basins, two turbidite sequences (Szczawa and Klęczany) were subjected to detailed lithofacies and sedimentological analysis. The 100 m thick Szczawa section is predominantly composed of thin and medium thick turbidite sandstones associated with co-genetic turbidite mudstones, which thickness greatly exceeds that of underlying sandstone. The latter ones show another peculiar features, like opposite palaeocurrent directions between base and top of a bed, mud-rich banded and heterolithic structures, and combined-flow bedforms, including small-scale hummocky-type structures. All those sedimentary features reflect deposition from mud-rich low-density turbidity currents enclosed within small confined basin, which prevent each flow from further down-current propagation, and eventually resulted in trapping (ponding) of the whole flow within confinement, a process associated with flow reflections and internal Kelvin-Helmholtz waves propagation (Siwek et al., 2023). This mini-basin can be situated on the southern flank of the Fore-Magura Basin, i.e., on the slope of the Fore-Magura Ridge (Siwek et al., 2023). The 170 m thick succession at Klęczany is composed of thick-bedded amalgamated sandstones, grading into sandstone-mudstone turbidite sequences. The former reflect deposition from high-density turbidity currents and hybrid flows, and are stacked into a few to over ten metres thick tabular lobes, and can be interpreted as lobe axis or distributary channel deposits. These lobes are often topped by socalled ‘bypass’ facies indicating the moment a lobe attained a critical thickness which prevented the accommodation of new deposit, thus heralding a feeder channel avulsion. The recurring process of lobe building and feeder channel avulsion resulted in compensational stacking of subsequent lobes (Piazza & Tinterri, 2020). The upper part of the Klęczany section reflects deposition from low-density turbidity currents and aggradation of turbidite beds into upward-thickening sequences resulting from lateral compensation and/ or forward progradation of subsequent lobes. Considered as a whole, the Klęczany succession is fining upward, and shows decrease of sand net-to-gross, accompanied by increase of more distal facies. Therefore, that depositional system can be situated within single submarine base-of-slope fan featured by retrogradational stacking pattern. Ponded turbidite beds, together with their whole inventory of sedimentary structures, are an evidence of the crucial influence of structural confinement on unrestricted flow propagation on the seafloor. The presence of structural confinement on the basin slope may have been associated with regional compression and tectonic activity of the Outer Carpathian basins. In the case of the Klęczany section, shortterm autocyclicity is manifested in compensational lobe stacking pattern and cyclic feeder channel avulsions. A longterm variability, probably covering the whole Fore-Magura realm, can be identified with one sequence stratigraphy cycle – from forced regression resulting from sea-level falling stage to sea-level lowstand, reflected in the transition from amalgamated massive sandstones to sandstone-mudstone turbidite sequences (Catuneanu, 2006). Alternatively, the uplift-denudation cycle due to tectonic activation of source area (Mutti et al., 2003) can be considered as an explanation of retrogradational stacking pattern of the Klęczany Fan, with eustatic sea-level fall involved (Pszonka et al., 2023). To conclude, the regional and local changes of depositional conditions in deep-water basins can be related to tectonics, as well as to eustatic short- or long-term sea-level changes, or combination of both, and can give the readable rock record in sedimentary successions accumulated especially in synorogenic marginal basins (Pszonka et al., 2023). These include foreland-type Outer Carpathians basins during Oligocene times, which were located in the Central Paratethys isolated from the Tethys Ocean during Eocene-Oligocene geotectonic reconstruction of the Circum-Carpathian realm.

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Zmienność czasowa stężenia naturalnych izotopów promieniotwórczych w wybranych wodach leczniczych Karpat polskich

Chau N. D., Rajchel L., Nowak J.

Przegląd Geologiczny

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2017

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Vol. 65, nr 11/1

1031--1034

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The paper presents, the chemical composition and the activity concentrations of natural radionuclides (238U, 234U,226Ra and 228Ra) in selected therapeutic mineral waters from: Krynica-Zdrój (Zuber I, Zuber II and Słotwinka), Rabka-Zdrój (Krakus, Warzelnia and Rabka IG-2), Iwonicz-Zdrój (Elin 7 and Emma 7), Klimkówka (Klimkówka 27) and Lubatówka (Lubatówka 12). The analyses were carried outfor water samples collected twice in 2008 and in 2016. The analyzed waters are used mainly for crenotherapy and therapeutic bathing. Some waters are also bottled and used for production of cosmetics and medicinal waters. The measured uranium activity concentrations in the studied groundwater were very low, below 3 mBq/dm3 and 11 mBq/dm3 for 238U and 234U, respectively. In the case of radium isotopes (226Ra and 228Ra), their activity concentrations varied in a wide range from ca. 150 to ca. 1500 mBq/dm3. The total mineralization of the analyzed waters variedfrom 3.5 to ca. 24 g/dm3. A significant variation of both chemical composition and radium concentrations were observed in the water from Warzelnia intake. For the remaining waters, variation of 226Ra and 228Ra concentrations was observed in three (Zuber I, Słotwinka, Emma 7), and six intakes (Zuber I, Słotwinka, Krakus, Klimkówka 27, Emma 7, Elin 7), respectively.

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Występowanie izotopów uranu i radu w karpackich wodach chlorkowych

Czop M., Nguyen D. C., Rajchel L., Rajchel J., Motyka J.

Biuletyn Państwowego Instytutu Geologicznego

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2013

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nr 456 Hydrogeologia z. 14/1

89--95

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Wody chlorkowe Karpat polskich o mineralizacji do około 170 g/dm3 występują lokalnie w strefach utrudnionego przepływu wód podziemnych i są ujmowane z głębokości około 1000 m. Badania zawartości izotopów promieniotwórczych w tych wodach wykazują zdecydowanie większe zawartości izotopów radu (226Ra i 228Ra) – w granicach od kilku do ponad 1000 mBq/dm3, w stosunku do stężeń izotopów uranu (238U i 234U) notowanych w ilościach rzędu kilku-, kilkudziesięciu mBq/dm3.

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Chloride water of Polish Carpathians with total dissolved solids up to about 170 g/dm3 are occurred in local zones of water flow hindrance and was taken from the depths up to 1000 m. Radioactive isotopes research in the chloride water indicated the distinctly higher concentration of radium isotopes (226Ra and 228Ra), range from a few to above 1000 mBq/dm3, in comparison to concentration of uranium isotopes (238U and 234U) between a few to tens of mBq/dm3.

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Występowanie, chemizm oraz geneza szczaw i wód kwasowęglowych Karpat polskich

Rajchel L.

Biuletyn Państwowego Instytutu Geologicznego

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2013

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nr 456 Hydrogeologia z. 14/2

501--505

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Na obszarze Karpat polskich udokumentowano występowanie szczaw i wód kwasowęglowych w 226 punktach, które udostępniają 73 źródła i 153 odwierty na terenie 25 miejscowości. W Karpatach wydzielono 6 rejonów występowania szczaw i wód kwasowęglowych, są to rejony: Szczawy, Krościenka–Szczawnicy, doliny Popradu, Wysowej, Iwonicza–Rymanowa i Rabego. Szczawy zwykłe to wody płytkiego krążenia o niskiej mineralizacji. Stały dopływ subdukcyjnego CO2 oraz wód pochodzenia meteorycznego może sugerować odnawialność ich zasobów pod warunkiem niezaburzania ani dróg krążenia wód, ani migracji CO2. Szczawy chlorkowe, głębszych systemów wodonośnych, o wyższej mineralizacji, są to wody infiltracyjne zmieszane z wodami diagenetycznymi. Przewaga wód wgłębnych o utrudnionym krążeniu powoduje, że ich zasoby są niewielkie i trudno odnawialne. Powstanie karpackich szczaw jest związane z genezą ich głównego składnika, którym jest CO2, genezą wód oraz procesami kształtującymi ich skład chemiczny.

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In 25 localities of the Polish Carpathians the author recorded 226 occurrences of carbonated waters and waters containing carbon dioxide that are rendered accessible in 73 springs and 153 wells. These occurrences can be divided into six regions: Szczawa, Krościenko–Szczawnica, the Poprad River valley, Wysowa, Iwonicz–Rymanów and Rabe. The ordinary common waters containing carbon dioxide are characterized by shallow circulation and low TDS values. Their reserves can be renewed by a constant inflow of subduction-originated CO2 and meteoric waters, of course on condition that the migration pathways of both CO2 and meteoric waters remain uninterrupted. The chloride carbonated waters of deeper-seated aquifers have higher TDS values and represent mixed infiltration and diagenetic waters with a significant prevalence of deep groundwaters with impeded circulation. Therefore, their reserves are usually low and hardly renewable. The origin of the Carpathian carbonated waters and waters containing carbon dioxide is controlled by three factors: the genesis of CO2 that is their major component, the genesis of water as such and the processes that are responsible for the chemical composition of water.