The paper is focused on the palaeographic development of the western part of the Holy Cross Mountains, Poland, during the maximum extent of the Sanian 2 (MIS 12) ice sheet and its retreat. The studies were based on archival cartographic data, coupled with new lithological and petrographic analyses of limni- and fluvioglacial sands, i.e., grain-size composition, quartz grain morphology and heavy mineral analysis, as well as analysis of the erratic material of tills. The results confirm the regional variability of the erratic material in the Sanian 2 tills and point to the long-term development of fluvioglacial sands cover documenting cold climate conditions. They also evidence that the western part of the Holy Cross Mountains was the area where two oppositely directed ice sheet lobes (Radoszyce and Sandomierz) advanced during the Sanian 2 Glaciation and that deglaciation of the area took place in two stages. Huge quantities of meltwater released at that time contributed to the intensification of earlier initiated karst phenomena, as well as filling of the existing caves by fluvioglacial sands.
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Large sections in cave deposits are exposed in the Holśtejnska Cave in the Moravian Karst (Czech Republic). The study of the genesis and age of these cave deposits poses a clue to the reconstruction of this cave system and of local paleohydrographic history. The time of deposition was determined by U-series dating of speleothems, 10Be and 26Al dating of quartz pebbles, radiocarbon dating of charcoal, measurement of paleomagnetic record in both clastic sediments and speleothems and by archeological evidence.
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