The Eastern Sudetic Geostrada (Geotrail) constitutes only a small, eastermost fragment of the whole "Sudetic Geostrada" tourist trail project. Hence, the number of geosites selected along the trail is rather limited. The westernmost site is the famous Sławniowice quarry. Here, in 16 active and inactive pits the Precambrian marbles and accompanying rocks (mica schists, amphibolites and pegmatites) have been quarried since the XIIIth century. Stones extracted there are well-known in Poland and in Germany, usually as facings. However, the most intrising part of

The aim of the paper is presentation of a geological and landscape studies with inventarization of the objects of abiotic nature heritage located along the central part of proposed trail "The Leszek Sawicki Sudetic Geostrada". The Central Sudetic Geostrada extends from the Kowary Pass in the west to the Płoszczyna Pass near Stronie Śląskie in the east. Total length of this sector of Geostrada is about 200 km, in which about 60 km in the Czech Republic. The principle is to run the trail in such a manner that attractive geosites and other interesting tourist destinations fall into the 10-kilometers-wide zone (± 5 km zone from both sides of the road). First of all, these are groups of sandstone monadnocks in the Table Mts., but also numerous geosites close to Lądek Zdrój: caves, including the famous "Bear Cave", mineral waters, gneiss tors, the famous waterfall on the Wilczka River, numerous marble and basalt quarries and relics of old mining camps.

Abstract. Full description of a two-phase liquid-gas flow requires the designation of lot parameters. First one, which describes which part of the pipeline is fulfilled by the gas, is the void fraction. Moreover the share of gas in a flowing mixture determines the structure of the flow and also affects the velocity of the individual phases. In that case void fraction can be determined by use the gamma absorption method, as well as other flow parameters may be evaluated by the same equipment. In addition the article presents the calibration of radiometric set, which consists of gamma radiation source Am-241 and scintillation probe NaI(Tl), for determination of the void fraction, illustrated by exemplary results of the described method application to various structures of air-water flow in the horizontal pipeline.

Markov chain analysis was applied to studies of cyclic sedimentation in the Coal Complex of the Bełchatów mining field (part of the Bełchatów lignite deposit). The majority of ambiguous results of statistical testing that were caused by weak, statistically undetectable advantage of either cyclicity over environmental barriers or vice versa, could be explained if only the above-mentioned advantages appeared in the neighbourhood. Therefore, in order to enhance the credibility of statistical tests, a new approach is proposed here in that matrices of observed transition numbers from different boreholes should be added to increase statistical reliability if they originated in a homogeneous area. A second new approach, which consists of revealing statistically undetectable cyclicity of lithofacies alternations, is proposed as well. All data were derived from the mining data base in which differentiation between lithology and sedimentary environments was rather weak. For this reason, the methodological proposals are much more important than details of the sedimentation model in the present paper. Nevertheless, they did reveal some interesting phenomena which may prove important in the reconstruction of peat/lignite environmental conditions. First of all, the presence of cyclicity in the sedimentation model, i.e., cyclic alternation of channel and overbank deposits, represents a fluvial environment. It was also confirmed that the lacustrine subenvironment was cut off from a supply of clastic material by various types of mire barriers. Additionally, our analysis revealed new facts: (i) these barriers also existed between lakes in which either carbonate or clay sedimentation predominated; (ii) there was no barrier between rivers and lakes in which clay sedimentation predominated; (iii) barriers were less efficient in alluvial fan areas but were perfectly tight in regions of phytogenic or carbonate sedimentation; (iv) groundwater, rather than surface flow, was the main source of CaCO3 in lakes in which carbonate sedimentation predominated; (v) a lack of cyclic alternation between abandoned channels and pools with clayey sedimentation; (vi) strong evidence for autocyclic alternation of phytogenic subenvironments and lakes in which carbonate sedimentation predominated was found in almost all areas studied.

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