Calcareous foraminifers representing 9 species and 5 genera were investigated in two Famennian sections located in the south‐western part of the Holy Cross Mountains (HCM), central Poland. They constitute redeposited material that, together with crinoids and calcareous algae, comprise the dominant component of limestone turbidite beds intercalated with deep‐marine marly sediments. The calcareous material was redeposited from an unknown carbonate platform located probably to the south of the HCM area. The first appearance data of foraminifers, mainly from the quasiendothyrid group, correlated to the Standard Conodont Zonation, indicate a diachronous appearance of the same species in different parts of Europe due to a migration delay from the foraminiferal evolutionary centre located in the south‐eastern shelves of Laurussia in the neighbouring areas. As a result, the Moravian foraminiferal zonation, where index taxa appeared in similar stratigraphic intervals, was chosen as the most applicable to the stratigraphy in the central Polish area. The Quasiendothyra communis–Eonodosaria evlanensis Interzone, the Quasiendothyra communis–Quasiendothyra regularis Zone and Quasiendothyra kobeitusana–Quasiendothyra konensis Zone were distinguished, respectively, in the HCM sections. Copyright © 2012 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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Source rock geo chem is try, pe trog ra phy of res er voir ho ri zons and or i gin of nat u ral gas in the De vo nian of the Lublin and Lviv bas ins (SE Po land and west ern Ukraine).

Zircon grains from nine erratic pebbles of granite, granodiorite–tonalite and quartzite from the Polonez Cove Formation (southern King George Island) were studied for their U–Pb isotope ages and provenance. The calculated concordia ages of the studied pebbles are 108.79 ± 0.89, 119.7 ± 2.2, 178.6 ± 2.8, 180.7 ± 1.9, 207.4 ± 3.1, 231.1 ± 1.9, 1087.5 ± 4 and 1833 ± 4 Ma. The source area of individual pebbles was analysed and defined. Pebbles of crystalline rocks were derived from the Antarctic Peninsula, as well as from the Antarctic mainland. The erratic made of quartzite was eroded from the southernmost part of the Ellsworth Mountains (Linder Peak Member of Howard Nunatak Formation). Our isotope data analytically support the earlier thesis that the Oligocene ice-sheet covered a substantial part of Antarctica and its nucleus was located in its central part. Supplementary material: The U–Pb isotope data (Table S1) are available at https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.c.5233335

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