Radiocarbon Age-Depth Modeling Prevents Misinterpretation of Past Vegetation Dynamics: Case Study of Wierchomla Mire (Polish Outer Carpathians)

Radiocarbon ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 55 (3) ◽  
pp. 1724-1734 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adam Michczyński ◽  
Piotr Kołaczek ◽  
Włodzimierz Margielewski ◽  
Danuta J Michczyńska ◽  
Andrzej Obidowicz
Keyword(s):  
Vegetation Dynamics ◽  
Western Carpathians ◽  
Loss On Ignition ◽  
Radiocarbon Dates ◽  
Radiocarbon Age ◽  
Southern Poland ◽  
Outer Western Carpathians ◽  
Outer Carpathians ◽  
Organic Deposits

An age-depth model based on radiocarbon dates was produced from a Holocene profile collected from a rich fen situated in the Beskid Sądecki Mountains (the Outer Western Carpathians, southern Poland). The model is compared against the results of palynological and loss on ignition (LOI) analyses supplemented by the identification of organic deposits. Five distinct palynological episodes are detected. These potential palynological age markers are critically compared with the results of age-depth modeling and other dated profiles. The results presented distinctly show that using palynological episodes as age markers for age-depth construction may be highly misleading.

scholarly journals Central European Variscan Basement in the Outer Carpathians: A Case Study from the Magura Nappe, Outer Western Carpathians, Poland

Minerals ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 256
Author(s):  
Aleksandra Gawęda ◽  
Krzysztof Szopa ◽  
Jan Golonka ◽  
David Chew ◽  
Anna Waśkowska
Keyword(s):  
Source Region ◽  
Western Carpathians ◽  
Zircon Age ◽  
Central European ◽  
Outer Western Carpathians ◽  
Granite Belt ◽  
Outer Carpathians ◽  
Siliciclastic Rocks ◽  
Mineral Analyses

Exotic crystalline blocks within the Outer Carpathian flysch have the potential to establish the nature of their eroded basement source(s) and thus to reconstruct the paleogeography of the Outer Carpathians. Petrological investigations (including mineral analyses) coupled with zircon and apatite U-Pb dating were performed on an exotic crystalline block within Eocene siliciclastic rocks in the Rača Zone of the Magura Nappe in the Outer Western Carpathians, Poland. This exotic block is a large (c. 1 m diameter) pink porphyritic granitoid block found in the Osielczyk Stream, southeast of Osielec village in the Makowski Beskid mountains. The timing of magmatic crystallization is constrained by a U-Pb zircon age of 315.9 ± 2.6 Ma (MSWD = 0.69), while inherited zircon cores yield Archean (c. 2780 Ma), Cadomian (541.8 ± 6.7 Ma; MSWD = 0.53), Devonian (417 ± 11 Ma; MSWD = 0.57) and Early Variscan (c. 374 Ma) ages. Apatites from the same sample yield a Tera Wasserburg lower intercept U-Pb age of 311.3 ± 7.5 (MSWD = 0.87). The granitoid exhibits geochemical characteristics typical of I-type granites and eNd(316 Ma) = 2.15 (with a TDM model age of 1.18 Ga) and 87Sr/86Sr(316 Ma) = 0.704710. These data suggest a likely source region in the Saxo-Danubian Granite Belt, which possibly formed the basement of the Fore-Magura Ridge.

scholarly journals The Upper Cretaceous Ostravice Sandstone in the Polish sector of the Silesian Nappe, Outer Western Carpathians

2016 ◽  
Vol 67 (2) ◽  
pp. 149-166 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marek Cieszkowski ◽  
Anna Waśkowska ◽  
Justyna Kowal-Kasprzyk ◽  
Jan Golonka ◽  
Tadeusz Słomka ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Czech Republic ◽  
Upper Cretaceous ◽  
Western Carpathians ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
Lithostratigraphic Unit ◽  
Outer Western Carpathians ◽  
Outer Carpathians ◽  
Lowermost Part

Abstract The Ostravice Sandstone Member was identified and described as a lithostratigraphic unit in the Polish part of the Outer Carpathians. This division occurs in the lowermost part of the Godula Formation, is underlain by variegated deposits of the Mazák Formation or directly by the Barnasiówka and Lhoty formations, and overlain by the Czernichów Member of the Godula Formation. Domination by thick- and very thick-bedded sandstones, conglomeratic sandstones and conglomerates rich in calcareous clasts, mostly of the Štramberk-type limestones, is typical for the Ostravice Sandstone Member. These deposits are widespread between the Moravskoslezské Beskydy Mountains in the Czech Republic and the Ciężkowice Foothills in Poland. The documentation of the Ostravice Sandstone Member occurrence as well as the petrological, sedimentological features, and inventory of the carbonate clasts are presented here.

scholarly journals The Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary in turbiditic deposits identified to the bed: a case study from the Skole Nappe (Outer Carpathians, southern Poland)

2011 ◽  
Vol 62 (4) ◽  
pp. 333-343 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Gasiński ◽  
Alfred Uchman
Keyword(s):  
Precise Determination ◽  
Thrust Sheet ◽  
Southern Poland ◽  
The Carpathians ◽  
Early Paleocene ◽  
Outer Carpathians ◽  
First Time

The Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary in turbiditic deposits identified to the bed: a case study from the Skole Nappe (Outer Carpathians, southern Poland)The Cretaceous-Paleogene (K-T) boundary has been recognized in turbiditic sediments of the Ropianka Formation in the Skole Nappe (Bąkowiec section) on the basis of planktonic foraminiferids with an accuracy of 40 cm. Such precise determination of the K-T boundary for the first time in the Carpathians and in turbiditic flysch sediments in general was possible due to the successive occurrence of the Early Paleocene planktonic taxa of the P1 Zone above the latest MaastrichtianAbathomphalus mayaroensisZone with theRacemiguembelina fructicosaSubzone. The trends in composition of the latest Maastrichtian foraminiferal assemblages are similar to the Gaj section from the adjacent thrust sheet, probably due to the influence of the same paleoenvironmental factors.

Effect of slope failures on river-network pattern: A river piracy case study from the flysch belt of the Outer Western Carpathians

Geomorphology ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 214 ◽  
pp. 356-365 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ivo Baroň ◽  
Michal Bíl ◽  
Ondřej Bábek ◽  
Veronika Smolková ◽  
Tomáš Pánek ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
River Network ◽  
Western Carpathians ◽  
Slope Failures ◽  
Outer Western Carpathians ◽  
Network Pattern

Factors shaping population density, demography and spatial organization of the Eurasian badger Meles meles in mountains – the Western Carpathians (Southern Poland) as a case study

2012 ◽  
Vol 62 (4) ◽  
pp. 479-492 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert W. Mysłajek ◽  
Sabina Nowak ◽  
Anna Rożen ◽  
Bogumiła Jędrzejewska
Keyword(s):  
Population Density ◽  
Spatial Ecology ◽  
Spatial Organization ◽  
Meles Meles ◽  
Western Carpathians ◽  
Home Ranges ◽  
Southern Poland ◽  
Eurasian Badger ◽  
Arable Fields

We studied the socio-spatial ecology of the Eurasian badger (Meles meles) along the altitudinal gradient (250-1257 m a.s.l.) of the Western Carpathians (Southern Poland), 2004-2009. Family groups were small (mean 2.3 individuals) and home-ranges large (mean 5.42 km2, MCP 100%), which gave a low population density (2.2 individuals/10 km2). Badgers foraged mainly in the foothills, irrespective of the altitude at which their sett was located. They mostly searched for food in meadows, pastures and arable fields (34.4% of telemetry locations), or among shrubs (33.9%). Badgers were killed by hunters (0.37 individuals/10 km2 annually), and by wolves (0.07 individuals/10 km2). The badger population density was influenced mostly by the abundance of earthworms and hunting pressure, while the size and shape of their territories was determined by the distribution of foraging grounds.

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