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Multi-stage fault formation and REE distribution in the surrounding Devonian dolomites in the south-eastern part of the Holy Cross Mountains (Poland)

Nieć Marek, Pawlikowski Maciej, Sermet Edyta

Geology, Geophysics and Environment

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2024

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Vol. 50, no. 1

77--92

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Metallogenic studies carried out in the Holy Cross Mountains indicate a relationship between mineralization and fault tectonics in Devonian formations. The impact of fault formation on the geochemistry of host rocks has not yet been studied. Mineralogical and geochemical studies of fault core gouges and damage zones in the fault walls of Devonian dolomites in the Budy and Jurkowice quarries were carried out. In the clay-carbonate filling of the fault fissure, the presence of two generations of Fe sulfides, the increased content of Zr, Nb, U and Th in relation to the surrounding rocks was noted. In the fault walls of the dolomites, iron sulfide and hematite mineralization were found. Research on the REE content indicates that it is lower in the fault walls than in those located far from it, while it is clearly higher in the fault gouge, especially in terms of the content of “heavy” elements (HREE). This indicates both the supply of some components to the fault zone from external sources and their displacement from the surrounding rocks. It was also found that the fault was renewed before and after the Neogene at least twice (Badenian)

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Datowanie apatytów z żył kwarcowo-chlorytowo-apatytowych w fyllitach z Podmąchocic (Góry Świętokrzyskie)

Salwa Sylwester, Szopa Krzysztof

Przegląd Geologiczny

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2023

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Vol. 71, nr 5

298--300

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Metamorphic rocks of greenstone facies (phyllites) have been discovered quite recently in the Łysogóry region of the Holy Cross Mountains. The following minerals predominate in the mineral composition of these rocks: bright mica (sericite), quartz, chlorites, rutile, pyrophyllite, xenotime, pyrite, tourmaline, apatite and monacite, while chalcopyrite, sphalerite and galena are also present in mineral veins. The phyllites from Podmąchocice are intensely tectonically deformed, while their metamorphism displays a syndeformation character. The age of the tectonic-metamorphic processes has been initially estimated based on their relation to the silicification process. The phyllites are cut by numerous hydrothermal mineral veins, including quartz-chlorite-apatite ones. These veins occur as small post-tectonic and syntaxial forms, a few centimetres long and up to 1 cm thick. In the central parts of the veins, apatite forms colourless crystals, up to 1 mm long and up to 0.1mm thick. The age of the apatites was determined by means of the laser ablation system combined with the mass spectrometer. The results of isotopic measurements were reduced using the “Vizual Age” reduction program. The U-Pb age has been estimated to ~389 ± 18 Ma (upper intercept) that points to the maximum Devonian age (Eifelian/Givetian) of formation of the quartz-apatite veins. This is the first dating that point sto hydro thermal activity of th is age in the study area. As the veins cut discordantly the metamorphic rocks, the metamorphism itself may be older than the apatite age.

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Environmental differentiation reflected in the vertebrate fauna diversity in the Lower Devonian of the Holy Cross Mountains, Poland

Wilk Olga, Szrek Piotr, Ginter Michał

Geological Quarterly

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2022

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Vol. 66, No. 4

art. no. 35

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The Lower Devonian of the Holy Cross Mountains is well-known in the field of vertebrate palaeontology but remains unrecognized as regards palaeoenvironmental reconstructions. We therefore analysed the spatial distribution and relative abundance of fossil vertebrates in this area within one time interval. The fauna from an Early Devonian (Emsian) siliciclastic bone-bearing breccia (the “Placoderm Sandstone”) exposed in four sections of the Łysogóry region and five sections of the Kielce region was analysed with respect to the frequency of the remains and their taxonomic affinity. The relative abundances of agnathans, acanthodians, placoderms, osteichthyans and chondrichthyans suggest more open marine conditions in the Łysogóry region and more terrestrial-influenced in the Kielce region during the Emsian. The results show that the average agnathan and acanthodian content of the Łysogóry region is significantly larger than that in the Kielce region. On the other hand, there are relatively fewer osteichthyans in the Łysogóry region and a significantly higher proportion of bony fishes was recorded in the fauna of the Kielce region. Placoderms are characterized by their generally similar frequency in both regions and from site to site in each of them, though a greater abundance was noted from the Kielce region. Likewise differences in the proportions of particular groups in the Kielce region suggest a large variety of marginal-marine environments under the influence of factors that might have included marine currents and variable conditions around a river mouth.

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„Middle Polish fluvial high terrace” in the river valleys of the Kielce - Łagów Depression (Holy Cross Mountains, Poland) – fact or myth?

Ludwikowska-Kędzia Małgorzata

Studia Geomorphologica Carpatho-Balcanica

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2021

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Vol. 55

129--152

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The article is a commentary on the current state of knowledge of the formation conditions, origin and stratigraphic position of the „Middle Polish fluvial, fluvioperiglacial high terraces” being relief elements of the river valleys of the Kielce– Łagów Depression (KŁD) in the southern part of the Holy Cross Mountains (HCM), i.e. the Belnianka, Lubrzanka and Łagowica river valleys. The former conception and criteria of distinguishing them are no longer fully valid. The “high terraces” were formed in the studied valleys in periglacial conditions of the Vistulian Glaciation and not, as it was previously considered, during the “Middle Polish Glaciation”. They are entirely or partially composed of slope deposits or formed within the cover of glacial and / or slope deposits (toe-cut terraces) of different ages (including derived from the Odra Glaciation). Their hypsometric position is determined by the features of structural relief and the possibility of deposition of slope sediments on the alluvial series. The formation and structure of these terraces are the outcome of the location and pattern of river valleys in relation to the morphostructural elements of the KŁD as well as the changes of climate and environmental conditions in the Quaternary. The presented results were obtained owing to the fact that the investigations were conducted both in the profiles of hillslopes (slope environment) and river valleys (fluvial environment) as well as in the bottom of the KŁD (glacial environment). Only such an integrated approach gives an opportunity to find the relationship between the elements of the local litho- and morphogenetic system of the HCM: hillslopes ↔ river valleys ↔ bottoms of structural depressions.

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Renowacja i konserwacja kamiennej płyty z tropami dinozaurów w rezerwacie przyrody Gagaty Sołtykowskie

Rembiś Marek, Dźwigulska-Musiał Paula

Przegląd Geologiczny

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2021

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Vol. 69, nr 2

91--96

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The inanimate nature reserve Gagaty Sołtykowskie is located in the northern part of the Permian-Mesozoic margin of the Holy Cross Mountains, within the abandoned Odrowąż quarry. Trackways of dinosaurs have been printed on a sandstone bedding plane within the Lower Jurassic (Hettangian) Zagaje Formation. The tracks are the oldest known evidence of a group life of the herbivore (plant-eating) sauropods andofa hunting group of predatory the ropods. After twenty years of being exposed to visitors, the sandstone layer had to be thoroughly renovated and conserved. On the basis of an evaluation of its state of preservation followed by laboratory examinations, the authors have prepared the program of conservation procedures and established a set of appropriate materials. The surface of the layer has been cleaned and its loose fragments fixed with the Injektionharz 100 (Remmers) glue. The layer has been impregnated and fractures sealed with an organosilicon compound KSE 100 and KSE 300 (Remmers). The tracks of dinosaurs have become more vivid due to their saturation with the mixture of the KSE 300 and a mineral pigment.

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Terreneuvian acritarch assemblages of the Holy Cross Mountains : a new approach

Szczepanik Zbigniew, Żylińska Anna

Geological Quarterly

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2021

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Vol. 65, No. 2

art. no. 29

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Rock samples from four boreholes and three exposures located in the southern peripheries of the Holy Cross Mountains in Poland, from strata representing the lower Cambrian Czarna Shale Formation have been studied palynologically. A relatively numerous and well-preserved lowermost Cambrian microfloral assemblage corresponds to coeval associations known from different palaeocontinents. Our new data enables reinterpretation of the biostratigraphy of the Czarna Formation, a thick rock unit basically devoid of macrofossils. The rocks analysed represent the Terreneuvian and comparison with other lower Cambrian successions indicates the middle and upper part of this oldest Cambrian series. The discovery of Variosphaeridium gen. nov. supplements information about the diversity of lowermost Cambrian microfloral assemblages. The Fimbriaglomerella membranacea-Globosphaeridium cerinum Assemblage Zone is introduced; it has a transitional character between the Asteridium tornatum-Comasphaeridium velvetum and Skiagia ornata-Fimbriaglomerella membranacea assemblage zones distinguished by Moczydłowska (1991) and identified on most Cambrian palaeocontinents.

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Taxonomic revision of the Paradoxididae Hawle and Corda, 1847 from the Miaolingian (Cambrian) of the Holy Cross Mountains, Poland: a morphometric approach to simply deformed trilobites

Nowicki Jakub, Żylińska Anna

Acta Geologica Polonica

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2021

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Vol. 71, no. 4

371--391

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The taxonomy of simply deformed paradoxidids from the Miaolingian (Cambrian) of Słowiec Hill, Holy Cross Mountains, Poland, is revised based on morphometric analysis. The material represents two species: Acadoparadoxides slowiecensis (Czarnocki in Orłowski, 1965) and Hydrocephalus? polonicus (Czarnocki in Orłowski, 1965). A new assemblage zone based on the combined although not precisely known ranges of these two taxa is suggested replacing the previous Paradoxides polonicus Zone of Orłowski (1975, 1988, 1992a). The Acadoparadoxides slowiecensis–Hydrocephalus? polonicus Assemblage Zone corresponds to the middle and upper part of the Wuliuan Stage (lower Miaolingian).

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Zmiany warunków wodnych wskutek działalności górniczej w rejonie Gałęzice–Bolechowice–Borków w Górach Świętokrzyskich

Prażak Jan, Bruczyńska Joanna, Kaczor-Kurzawa Dorota, Młyńczak Tomnasz

Przegląd Geologiczny

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2020

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Vol. 68, nr 4

233--236

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In the Gałęzice-Bolechowice-Borków region, located in the Holy Cross Mountains, several limestone and dolomite quarries are currently in operation. Deep drainage of these quarries caused the formation of a large regional depression cone that affected numerous groundwater intakes, including those supplying potable water for communes, and a large intake in the Dyminy quarter of Kielce. The range of the depression cone will increase in the future, both vertically and laterally, due to expanding extraction of industrial stones from continuously deepened mining levels. Prognoses of further changes of hydrologic conditions in the region and their impact on admissible volumes of groundwater resources available in particular intakes are calculated using the stationary mathematical model.

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Rzeźba strukturalna obszaru Świętokrzyskiego Parku Narodowego

Łajczak Adam, Urban Jan, Rączkowska Zofia, Wałach Grzegorz

Przegląd Geologiczny

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2020

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vol. 68, nr 2

102--111

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The area of the Świętokrzyski National Park is one of the most evident examples of structural morphology in Poland. Its relief is clearly determined by bedrock lithology: the hill ranges are composed of hard quartzitic sandstones of the upper Cambrian (Łysogóry Range) and the Lower Devonian (Klonowskie Range), while the depressions, usually vast and flat-bottomed, are distributed on outcrops of soft, easily weathered and eroded Ordovician and Silurian shales, greywackes and sandstones. The parallel pattern of hill ranges and depressions, as well as a mesh-grid pattern of river valley systems and the antecedent character of river gaps, reflects fold tectonics modified by transverse faults. Such a morphology developed during the Paleogene and Neogene under hot and then warm, gradually cooling climatic conditions. In the Pleistocene, principally under the periglacial conditions, block fields (symbols of the Świętokrzyski NP) and crags (crests, table-like forms, cupolas and spurs) were formed. The shape and spatial position of most crags are related to geological structures.

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Dolnokredowe fosforyty z NE obrzeżenia Gór Świętokrzyskichjako potencjalne źródło REE : badania wstępne

Zglinicki Karol, Szamałek Krzysztof, Salwa Sylwester, Górska Irena

Przegląd Geologiczny

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2020

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Vol. 68, nr 7

566--576

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The PGI-NRI conducts geological research on the documentation of occurrence of REE deposits in Poland. The deposit potential may be related to the formation of Lower Cretaceous phosphorites from the NE margin of the Holy Cross Mountains. Two phosphorite deposits were exploited in this region in the past: Chałupki (1936-1959) and Annopol (1952-1970). From the Chałupki old mine dump, 34 samples of fine-grained sand were collected. The pseudonodules were extracted from this sand. The sand from the dump is composed of quartz, francolite (carbonate-rich fluorapatite) Ca5(PO4,CO3)3F, illite and a small amount of feldspar, calcite and heavy minerals. The heavy fraction is composed of zircon, monazite and rutile. Sand has a low content of REE ranging from 47.56 to 185.26ppm. The phosphorite pseudonodules underwent a detailed mineralogical and chemical analysis. They are composed of francolite, quartz, illite, glauconite, feldspar and minor heavy minerals: zircon and monazite. For the first time, the whole spectrum of REE was analysed in pseudonodules. The I.REE content in the nodules ranges from 177.37 to 354.18ppm. This level of REE indicates a serious need for further exploration and research of phosphorite pseudonodules within the whole Lower Cretaceous phosphorite series and moreover, also in the Eocene phosphorite formation in the Lublin region.

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A new Middle Devonian (Givetian) psammosteid (Vertebrata : Heterostraci) from Poland

Dec Marek

Annales Societatis Geologorum Poloniae

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2020

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Vol. 90, No. 1

75--93

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A new genus and species of psammosteid heterostracan, Psarkosteus mediocris gen. et sp. nov., is described from the Middle Devonian (Givetian) of the Skały Formation, the Holy Cross Mountains, Poland. The dorsal plate of Psarkosteus is constricted in its anterior part and the postorbital plate is long and narrow. Both features, along with the morphology and variety of tubercles, distinguish it from other representatives of the group. Most distinctive are big, teardrop-shaped tubercles, each with a flat or slightly concave surface and with its tip directed posteriorly, and a crenulated base, located along the branchial plates. The lateral line system in Psarkosteus is similar to that of Drepanaspis gemuendenensis and confirms earlier reconstructions.

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Record of the Pleistocene at karst sites of the Świętokrzyskie (Holy Cross) Mountains region – a review

Urban Jan, Hercman Helena, Ochman Katarzyna, Kasza Andrzej

Studia Quaternaria

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2019

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Vol. 36, Nr 2

87--108

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The objective of this paper is a review of data on reconstruction of the Pleistocene palaeogeography (environment) and stratigraphy based on studies of karst sites in the Świętokrzyskie (Holy Cross) Mountains. Although the number of known Pleistocene karst sites in this region is small, the investigations of them have played a crucial role in a research of the Pleistocene. The study of the Kozi Grzbiet site provided the first evidences for new climatostratigraphy and classification of glaciations in Poland. The explanation of genesis of cryogenic calcite crystals discovered in Chelosiowa Jama-Jaskinia Jaworznicka cave system started a new direction of palaeoenvironmental reconstructions of the last glacial period. Kadzielnia palaeontological site was one of the first Early Pleistocene fossil assemblages in karst studied in Poland, whereas Raj cave provided abundant palaeontological and archaeological material from the Last Glacial. Other sites are of less scientific importance, however some of them can be used in education and popularisation of geosciences. Small number of already studied sites does not exclude discoveries of next sites of high scientific importance.

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Quaternary valley levels and river terraces in the western part of the Holy Cross Mountains

Dzierżek Jan, Lindner Leszek, Cabalski Krzysztof

Studia Quaternaria

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2019

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Vol. 36, Nr 2

109--118

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According to the current state of research five sand-gravel accumulation levels of Quaternary age are visible in the morphology of the western part of the Holy Cross Mountains, within the Wierna Rzeka, Hutka and Bobrza river valley systems and the lower stretches of the Biała Nida and Czarna Nida river valleys. Two upper levels (V and IV) correspond to valleys formed during the Odranian Glaciation-Saalian, MIS6 and its reccesional phases under the influence of proglacial and extraglacial waters beyond the extent (to the east) of the maximal ice-sheet limit of this glaciation, reaching to the present-day Leśnica-Gnieździska-Łopuszno line. Two lower levels (III and II) are terraces that were typically formed during the climatic conditions thatprevailed during Vistulian stadials. Sands and gravels of the three upper levels (V−III) contain numerous debris flow deposits and cryoturbation structures documenting periglacial conditions during their accumulation. The lowermost level (I) is a typical Holocene floodplain.

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Pleistocene deposits in the western part of the Holy Cross Mountains

Lindner Leszek, Dzierżek Jan

Studia Quaternaria

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2019

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Vol. 36, Nr 2

75--85

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The paper presents characteristics of the Pleistocene sediments in the western part of the Holy Cross Mountains. They are subdivided into four complexes and their stratigraphic setting is referred to the updated scheme for the Pleistocene of Poland. The Preglacial Complex includes fluvial sediments characteristic for its lack of Scandinavian material. Sediments of three main glaciations (Nidanian, Sanian 1 and Sanian 2) within the South Polish Complex, are referred also as the South Polish Glaciations. The oldest of these glaciations (Nidanian) is separated from the middle glaciation (Sanian 1) by sediments of the Podlasian Interglacial, represented by clay at the Kozi Grzbiet Cave that contains faunal remains and record of the Brunhes/Matuyama palaeomagnetic boundary. During the middle (Sanian 1) and youngest glaciation (Sanian 2), the Holy Cross Mountains were almost completely covered by the Scandinavian ice sheet, forming glacial deposits separated by fluvial series of the Ferdynandovian Interglacial. The Middle Polish Complex begins with sediments of the Mazovian Interglacial, represented by a pollen record from the Zakrucze site. They are followed by deposits of periglacial and fluvial origin of the Liwiecian Glaciation, Zbójnian Interglacial, Krznanian Glaciation and Lublinian Interglacial. The following glaciation (Odranian) is represented by the youngest glacial deposits that document presence of the Scandinavian ice-sheet in the westernmost part of the Holy Cross Mountains. The North Polish Complex is composed of a climatic warming (Eemian Interglacial) and cooling (Vistulian Glaciation), and is represented by valley and periglacial deposits. The last cooling of the Pleistocene is recorded in faunal remains in the Raj Cave.

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Zespól kręgowców morskich z górnej jury Krzyżanowic k. Iłży - z żółwiami, krokodylomorfami i wielkimi pliozaurami

Tyborowski Daniel, Błażejowski Błażej

Przegląd Geologiczny

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2019

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Vol. 67, nr 12

996--1001

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Vertebrate remains, mostly cryptodiran turtle shellfragments, pliosaur skull bones and teeth, plesiosaur vertebrae and crocodylomorph isolated teeth and skull fragments are described from the Upper Jurassic (Kimmeridgian) limestone beds of Krzyżanowice in the NE margin of the Holy Cross Mountains in Poland. The vertebrate fossils were collected during the palaeontological excavations conducted in 2018 and 2019 by the authors, and in the 1960s by a scientific team from the Museum of the Earth and the Institute of Paleobiology Polish Academy of Sciences. All osteological remains are generally very well preserved. This interesting vertebrate bones association from the upper part of the Kimmeridgian represents fossils of animals from two different types of environment. The first contains costal reptiles, like turtles and crocodylomorphs, the second one contains large pelagic animals - pliosaurids and plesiosaurids. This new vertebrate fauna from Poland has been correlated with age-equivalents from other regions of Europe and both Boreal/Subboreal and Mediterranean palaeobiogeographical realms.

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Evidence of Late Cretaceous/Cenozoic strike-slip faulting within the late Palaeozoic Holy Cross Mts. Fold Belt, Poland: Józefka releasing stepover

Skompski Stanisław, Konon Andrzej, Wysocka Anna, Czarniecka Urszula

Acta Geologica Polonica

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2019

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Vol. 69, no. 1

89--105

EN

The aim of this study was to reconstruct the location mechanism of a Triassic sandstone wedge within folded Palaeozoic rocks. A vertically oriented Buntsandstein succession (Lower Triassic) from Józefka Quarry (Holy Cross Mountains, central Poland), steeply wedged within folded Devonian carbonates, is recognised as an effect of normal faulting within a releasing stepover. The sandstone succession, corresponding to the Zagnańsk Formation in the local lithostratigraphic scheme, is represented by two complexes, interpreted as deposits of a sand-dominated alluvial plain (older complex), and coarse-grained sands and gravels of a braided river system (younger complex). The sandstone complex was primarily formed as the lowermost part of the several kilometres thick Mesozoic cover of the Holy Cross Mountains Fold Belt (HCFB), later eroded as a result of the Late Cretaceous/Paleogene uplift of the area. Tectonic analysis of the present-day position of the deformed sandstone succession shows that it is fault-bounded by a system of strike-slip and normal faults, which we interpret as a releasing stepover. Accordingly, the formation of the stepover in the central part of the late Palaeozoic HCFB is evidence of a significant role of strike-slip faulting within this tectonic unit during Late Cretaceous/Paleogene times. The faulting was probably triggered by reactivation of the terminal Palaeozoic strike-slip fault pattern along the western border of the Teisseyre–Tornquist Zone.

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Wiek dolnodewońskiego poziomu tufitowego z Barczy (Góry Świętokrzyskie) na podstawie miospor

Fijałkowska-Mader A., Malec J.

Przegląd Geologiczny

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2018

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Vol. 66, nr 9

578--584

EN

Results of palynological studies of the Lower Devonian siliciclastic deposits of the Barcza Beds (Upper Pragian-Lower Emsian) from two abandoned quarries at Barcza in the Holy Cross Mts. is presented. Based on miospores, the biostratigraphic position of the tuffite horizon from the Barcza profile was defined as the early Emsian AB (annulatus-bellatulus) palynological Zone.

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O rzekomym wystąpieniu makroskamieniałości Helcionelloida i meduz w kambrze Gór Świętokrzyskich

Mazurek D., Majchrzyk A., Giza A. P.

Przegląd Geologiczny

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2018

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Vol. 66, nr 1

24--27

EN

Amongst the materials collected from the Cambrian outcrops in the Holy Cross Mountains by priest professor Włodzimierz Sedlak, there is a holotype and only specimen of Helcionella polonica, as well as a rock fragment with casts of medusoids on its surface. We decided to revise these materials for their importance to discussions on the early molluscs’ size and the medusae fossil record; as well as for the critical nature of previously published revisions of taxa erected by Sedlak.

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Walory geoedukacyjne kamieniołomu Zachełmie w Górach Świętokrzyskich (Polska Południowa)

Złonkiewicz Z., Mader A.

Geotourism / Geoturystyka

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2018

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nr 3-4 (54-55)

11--26

PL

Nieczynny kamieniołom dolomitów Zachełmie, położony w miejscowości Zagnańsk, 12 km na północ od Kielc, jest wyjątkowym miejscem na mapie geologicznej Gór Świętokrzyskich. Zobaczyć tu można skały powstałe w dwu etapach rozwoju geologicznego Ziemi. Etap starszy reprezentują szare dolomity i iłowce dolomityczne środkowego dewonu, nachylone stromo ku północy. Zostały one sfałdowane w karbonie i permie, podczas orogenezy waryscyjskiej. Etap młodszy obejmuje zróżnicowane utwory permu (?) i dolnego triasu, nachylone ku wschodowi pod kątem około 10°. Zostały one zaburzone w paleogenie, podczas ruchów tektonicznych orogenezy alpejskiej. W północnych ścianach kamieniołomu dobrze widoczny jest kontakt obu tych kompleksów skalnych, rozdzielonych powierzchnią niezgodności tektoniczno-erozyjnej, która dokumentuje waryscyjskie ruchy orogeniczne, a kontaktujące ze sobą skały dzieli luka czasowa, obejmująca około 140 mln lat. Dolomity powstały w środowiskach lagun i płytkiego szelfu powolnie pogłębiającego się morza. Można w nich zaobserwować skamieniałości typowe dla tych środowisk dewońskich, m.in. stromatolity, amfipory, muszle ramienionogów i skamieniałości śladowe. W południowej ścianie kamieniołomu można zobaczyć unikalną powierzchnię z licznymi strukturami uznanymi za najstarsze na świecie ślady lądowych kręgowców – tetrapodów. Ponadto, w dolomitach w północno-wschodniej części kamieniołomu, można znaleźć takie minerały jak kalcyt, hematyt, dolomit, syderyt, ankeryt, kwarc i baryt. Powstały one w spękaniach utworzonych podczas waryscyjskich ruchów górotwórczych. Utwory permskie (?) i triasowe, o brunatno czerwonej barwie, odsłonięte w północnych ścianach wyrobiska, stanowią wypełnienie wąskiej, kopalnej doliny (wąwozu), wyrzeźbionej w powierzchni stropowej dolomitów. Ich profil rozpoczynają brekcje i zlepieńce złożone głównie z okruchów skał dewońskich, zachowane w zagłębieniach na dnie kopalnego wąwozu, a w części będące osadem pokryw stokowych na jego zboczach. Brekcje i zlepieńce leżące wyżej są osadem gwałtownych spływów gruzowych, które ku górze profilu są całkowicie zastąpione przez piaskowcowo-mułowcowe osady leniwego strumienia. W okresach zaniku przepływu w jego korycie powstawały wysychające jeziorka, wypełniane iłami. W osadach tej części profilu widoczne są drobne struktury prądowe, rzadziej spotyka się szczątki roślinne i szczeliny z wysychania. Odkryto tu najstarsze tropy pozostawione przez dinozaura. Najwyższą część odsłoniętego profilu tworzą szare, gruboławicowe piaskowce, powstałe w kanałach rzek roztokowych. Ze względu na wyjątkowe walory geologiczne wschodnią część kamieniołomu i przewężenie w części środkowej objęto ochroną, tworząc tam rezerwat przyrody nieożywionej. Fragment północnej ściany tego przewężenia, z powierzchnią niezgodności tektoniczno-erozyjnej, stanowi pomnik przyrody. Celem niniejszego artykułu jest zwrócenie uwagi na wyżej wymienione walory geologiczne kamieniołomu oraz zaproponowanie działań zwiększających atrakcyjność już istniejącej infrastruktury geoturystycznej, w postaci umieszczania dodatkowych tablic informacyjnych z opisami zjawisk i procesów geologicznych.

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The Abandoned Zachełmie quarry, a unique place on the geological map of the Holy Cross Mountains, is located in Zagnańsk, about 12 km northwards from Kielce is. Deposits of two stages of geological development, separated by tectonic movements, are exposed in the section. The older complex is represented by the Middle Devonian grey dolomites and dolomitic claystones, steep inclined to the north. They were folded in the Carboniferous and Permian by the Variscan tectonic movements. The younger complex comprises various Permian-Lower Triassic deposits, inclined about 10° eastwards. They were deformed during the Paleogene by Alpine tectonic movements. Contact of both complexes, well exposed in the northern walls of the quarry, suggests Variscan orogenic movements, while the tectonic-erosion gap, separating them, amounts to about 140 million years of development. Dolomites originated in the shelfal and lagoonal environments of the slowly deepening sea. Fossils typical for their Devonian environment may be found: stromatolites, amphipores, brachiopod shells and trace fossils. The unique surface with numerous structures interpreted as tetrapod trucks, the oldest in the world, is exposed in the southern wall of the quarry. Moreover, minerals occur in the north-eastern part of the quarry: calcite, hematite, dolomite, siderite, ankerite, quartz and barite. They originated in fissures cutting dolomites during the Variscan orogenic movements. The Permian (?) and Triassic, red-brown deposits crop out in the northern walls of the quarry. They represent infilling of a narrow palaeo-valley/ravine, cut in the surface of Devonian dolomites. Their section is commenced with dolomite breccia and conglomerates that fill cavities in an uneven surface of ravine basement. These conglomerates represent a debris cover lain on its sides. The breccia and conglomerates laying further above, originated as abrupt debris flow deposits. In the upper parts of the section, they were intercalated and eventually entirely substituted with sandstones and mudstones being deposits of fine creeks. Periods of the flow extinction are documented with clays deposited in temporal ponds. Fine current structures, scarce flora remains and desiccation cracks may be distinguished in that part of the section. The oldest trace fossils of dinosaurs were found here. The thick-bedded grey sandstones distinguished in the uppermost part of section were deposited in alluvial channels of braided rivers. The unique values of the object are protected in a natural reserve formed in the eastern part of the quarry and in the narrow passage in the central part. The fragment of the wall in the passage with exposition of a tectonic-erosion unconformity is a natural monument. Authors intend to present the unique geological values of the quarry and to suggest how to improve the actual geotouristic infrastructure – location of several information boards with descriptions of geological phenomena and processes.

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Zastosowanie przenośnego spektrometru XRF do określenia zawartości wybranych metali w glebach na przykładzie rejonu góry Strużnej (Krajno k. Kielc, Góry Świętokrzyskie)

Kuć P., Lenik P., Bazarnik J.

Biuletyn Państwowego Instytutu Geologicznego

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2018

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nr 472

285--301

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Badania zawartości wybranych pierwiastków przenośnym spektrometrem XRF (p-XRF) są obecnie jedną z najbardziej rozwijających się instrumentalnych metod badawczych. Jego niewielkie rozmiary i waga, łatwość obsługi i szybkość wykonywania analiz umożliwiają zastosowanie spektrometru zarówno w laboratorium, jak i w pracach terenowych. Metodę wykorzystano do oznaczenia zawartości wybranych pierwiastków w glebach z rejonu góry Strużnej w Krajnie (Góry Świętokrzyskie). Do oznaczenia zawartości badanych pierwiastków zastosowano spektrometr OLYMPUS Delta X Premium (anoda tantalowa 4W, 40 kV, natężenie 200 μA, tryb ”soil”, 135 sekund). Przed rozpoczęciem analiz p-XRF był standaryzowany z użyciem materiałów referencyjnych NIST 2710a i NIST 2711a. Mapy zawartości otrzymanych dla: K, Ca, Fe, Mn, Cu, Zn, As i Pb wykonano w programie SURFER 7.0 z wykorzystaniem procedury krigingu. Zarówno dobra zbieżność średnich zawartości uzyskanych dla badanego obszaru w porównaniu ze średnimi wartościami dla gleb Gór Świętokrzyskich, uzyskanymi wcześniej przez różnych autorów z zastosowaniem standardowych wówczas metod analizy chemicznej, jak również dobra zgodność rozkładu zawartości badanych pierwiastków z budową geologiczną rejonu góry Strużnej pozwalają stwierdzić, że wybrana metoda fluorescencji rentgenowskiej jest odpowiednia dla tego typu badań. Wysoka dokładność uzyskanych oznaczeń z użyciem spektrometru p-XRF Olympus Delta X dowodzi, że urządzenie to jest efektywnym narzędziem zarówno dla prac środowiskowych, jak i geochemicznych.

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The analysis of chemical composition using the portable X-ray fluorescence spectrometer (p-XRF) is recently rapidly developing instrumental research method. This method was applied to analyze the content of selected elements in soil samples from the Strużna region of the Holy Cross Mountains. The Olympus Delta Premium p-XRF spectrometer (4W Ta anode X ray tube, 40 kV, 200 μA current beam, “soil” mode, 135 seconds) was used. Prior to analyze the soil samples, the NIST 2710a and NIST 2711a reference standards were utilized in order to calibrate the p-XRF spectrometer. The maps showing obtained results of K, Ca, Fe, Mn, Cu, Zn, As and Pb were constructed using the SURFER 7.0 software with kriging procedure. The obtained results show arithmetic means similar to the previously obtained using traditional methods of chemical analysis for the soils of Holy Cross Mountains. These results combined with the high accuracy of measurements obtained by using the p-XRF Olympus Delta X spectrometer proved this device to be the effective tool for environmental and geochemical studies.