The assemblages of transparent heavy minerals in Quaternary sediments of the Kielce-Łagów Valley (Holy Cross Mountains, Poland)

Ludwikowska-Kędzia, Małgorzata

doi:10.2478/logos-2013-0007

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“…These sediments have multiple sourcing, because the delivery system by the ice sheet might have been complex and multidirectional (Woźniak, Czubla 2015). The garnetamphibole enhancement has been observed in the numerous Saalian glacial sediments (Czerwonka et al 1997;Ludwikowska-Kędzia 2013;Rappol, Stoltenberg 1985;Woronko et al 2013), which likely supports their Fennoscandian origin resulting from the ice advance (cf. Woronko et al 2013).…”

Section: Glacial Settingmentioning

confidence: 78%

Heavy-mineral derived provenance study of Quaternary sediments of the Mazovian Lowland, Central Poland

Kalińska¹,

Nartišs²

2017

Baltica

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This study makes an attempt to characterise Quaternary sediments in terms of their heavy minerals (HM) composition. Authors focus on the Mazovian Lowland, Central Poland, where a number of clastic sediments of different age and origin overlap. Five sedimentary settings, covering the Saalian-Holocene (MIS 1-6) time frame, have been studied to reveal whether these sediments have single or multiple source areas and to decipher sediment transformations. In the glacial setting either garnet-or amphibole-dominated sediments occur. This unequivocal mineral combination likely reflects a multi-sourcing resulting from multi-directional ice advance. The HM taken from fan-like forms and aeolian sediments are closely related; these sediments are largely multicyclic and likely derived from pre-existing recycling sediments. Similar mineral suite is also typical for long-lasting aeolian processes and is observed in dune sediments. Ultrastable components are less frequent in the coversand, which points at a shorter-lived aeolian process. Finally, the fluvial setting reveals multi-sourcing largely depending on local geological conditions.

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Section: Glacial Settingmentioning

confidence: 78%

Heavy-mineral derived provenance study of Quaternary sediments of the Mazovian Lowland, Central Poland

Kalińska¹,

Nartišs²

2017

Baltica

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“…The valley is surrounded in the north and south by the Łysogóry and Brzechowskie and Orłowińskie Ranges, respectively, which are composed mostly of Cambrian sandstones, quartzites and shales (Filonowicz, 1969(Filonowicz, , 1976. Mineralogical features of these weathered Palaeozoic (and also Mesozoic and Paleogene-Neogene) rocks in the Holy Cross Mountains, i.e., especially the composition of the group of resistant minerals, were inherited by Quaternary sediments deposited in a range of environments, including a glacial one (Ludwikowska-Kędzia, 2013). This phenomenon is typical of Quaternary deposits in the Kielce-Łagów Valley.…”

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confidence: 85%

Sedimentological interpretation and stratigraphical position of glacigenic deposits in the Napęków area (Holy Cross Mountains, Poland)

2015

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The identification of depositional conditions and stratigraphical position of glacigenic deposits in the Napęków area is important for the genetic and stratigraphical interpretation of Quaternary deposits in the central part of the Holy Cross Mountains, as well as for a revision of the course and extent of Middle Polish (Saalian) glaciations. These deposits comprise a series of diamictons which occur between sandy-gravelly deposits. Based on results of macro- and microscopic sedimentological investigations, analysis of heavy mineral composition, roundness and frosting of quartz grains, as well as OSL dating, this complex must have formed during the Odranian Glaciation (Drenthe, Saalian, MIS 6). Sandy-gravelly deposits are of fluvioglacial and melt-out origin. Diamictons represent subglacial traction till. Their facies diversity is a result of variations in time and space, complex processes of deposition and deformation, responsible for their formation at the base of the active ice sheet. This glacigenic depositional complex was transformed by erosion-denudation and aeolian processes in a periglacial environment during the Vistulian (Weichselian, MIS 5d-2).

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“…Heavy minerals are important for several analyses, including reconstruction of source areas and/or parent rocks (e.g. Ludwikowska-Kędzia, 2013; Woronko et al, 2013), the transport history in a fluvial system (Weckwerth & Chabowski, 2013) and climate-controlled processes (Derkachev & Nikolaeva, 2013; Wachecka-Kotkowska & Ludwikowska-Kędzia, 2013). In the case of successive glaciations that supplied minerals from the same source areas, the heavy-mineral composition of the various types of glacigenic sediment will, however, be roughly similar (Fig.…”

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Heavy-mineral analysis as a tool to trace the source areas of sediments in an ice-marginal valley, with an example from the Pleistocene of northwest Poland

Pisarska‐Jamroży

Loon²,

Woronko

et al. 2015

Netherlands Journal of Geosciences

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The ice caps that covered large parts of the continents of the northern hemisphere during the Pleistocene glaciations drained huge quantities of meltwater. In several places the erosive power of the meltwater rivers has led to the formation of ice-marginal valleys (IMVs). A muchdebated question is whether sediments deposited in IMVs by proglacial and extraglacial streams can be distinguished on the basis of their heavy-mineral content. This question was assessed by an inventory of the heavy-mineral assemblages from the middle part of the Toruń-Eberswalde IMV in northwest Poland, two sandurs that supplied sediment from the north and the pre-Wisła river system that supplied sediment from the south; all these streams fed the IMV. The largely similar heavy-mineral compositions and sediments concentrations of the middle part of the IMV and sandurs suggest that the sediment in the IMV was supplied almost entirely by the streams on the sandurs but also that some sediments were eroded from the Miocene subsoil of the IMV itself and for a small part from the south by the pre-Wisła river system. The only heavy mineral in the pre-Wisła sediments for which the percentage is significantly different from those in the sediments of the sandurs and the IMV terrace is epidote. The difference, however, is not seen in the sediments of the IMV so it can be concluded that the sediment supply to the middle part of this IMV by streams from the south was insignificant. This is in contrast with what was hitherto commonly assumed.

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The assemblages of transparent heavy minerals in Quaternary sediments of the Kielce-Łagów Valley (Holy Cross Mountains, Poland)

Cited by 12 publications

References 8 publications

Heavy-mineral derived provenance study of Quaternary sediments of the Mazovian Lowland, Central Poland

Heavy-mineral derived provenance study of Quaternary sediments of the Mazovian Lowland, Central Poland

Sedimentological interpretation and stratigraphical position of glacigenic deposits in the Napęków area (Holy Cross Mountains, Poland)

Heavy-mineral analysis as a tool to trace the source areas of sediments in an ice-marginal valley, with an example from the Pleistocene of northwest Poland

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