Estimates of Late Glacial and Holocene aeolian activity in Belgium, Poland and Sweden

Mycielska-Dowgiałł, Elżbieta

doi:10.1111/j.1502-3885.1993.tb00177.x

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“…It pointed to the group of textural features which can give evidence (or confirm) not only of the types of the sedimentary environment but also of the stratigraphic position. The following aspects seem to be crucial in interpreting aeolization processes: rounding and frosting of quartz grains in the sand fraction, analysis of heavy minerals and content of the most and the least mechanically resistant particles (Mycielska-Dowgiallo, 1993. The contents of aeolian-type grains (EM/RM+RM) in both analyzed fractions of the coversand are comparable with their content in dunes in southern and central Poland (Kaminska et.…”

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“…This group is mechanically less resistant and due to its lamellar structure more susceptible to winnowing (Mycielska-Dowgiallo, 1993). The absence of the mica group minerals was detected in the investigated profile.…”

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confidence: 88%

“…predominance of aeolian-type grains and quartz in the sand fraction), with kind of variability in some cases. The idea of "aeolization" was introduced by Mycielska-Dowgiallo (1993). It pointed to the group of textural features which can give evidence (or confirm) not only of the types of the sedimentary environment but also of the stratigraphic position.…”

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Geological setting and sedimentary characteristics of the coversands distributed in the western part of the Blonie glaciolacustrine basin (Central Poland) - Preliminary results

Kalińska¹

2012

Bull Geol Soc Finland

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The coversands distributed in the Blonie glaciolacustrine basin, west of Warsaw (Central Poland) were investigated. Textural features including grain size, rounding and frosting of quartz grains and mineralogical-petrographic composition in the sandy fractions (0.5-0.8 and 0.8-1.0 mm) were examined and the types, dynamics, regime and variation in processes during the formation of the coversands were determined. The sands are characterized by the prevalence of quartz and lack of micaceous minerals. Moreover, the relatively high content of partially rounded, matt (EM/RM) and well-rounded (RM) quartz grains, typical of aeolian sedimentary conditions, was certified. Hence, the results show a high aeolization degree of the investigated sediments, thus correlating them with aeolian deposition in dry, periglacial conditions after drying up of the Warsaw icedammed lake.

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Geological setting and sedimentary characteristics of the coversands distributed in the western part of the Blonie glaciolacustrine basin (Central Poland) - Preliminary results

Kalińska¹

2012

Bull Geol Soc Finland

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“…This phenomenon is well known also from other fluvial and fluvioglacial areas (Mycielska-Dowgiałło, 1978;Florek et al, 1987;Mycielska-Dowgiałło & Rutkowski, 1995;Ludwikowska-Kędzia, 2000). A similar relative enrichment of garnet is also known from the aeolian environment (Mycielska-Dowgiałło, 1993. It is worth noting that Vistulian loesses in the area of the Middle-Polish uplands have an increased content of amphibole and epidote (Racinowski, 2008) and may be one of the sources of these minerals in the Quaternary deposits of the study area.…”

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

Ludwikowska-Kędzia¹

2013

Geologos

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The composition of the transparent heavy-mineral assemblages (0.25-0.1 mm) in Quaternary slope, karst, glacial, fluvioglacial and fluvial deposits with different parent material was investigated in the Kielce-Łagów Valley (the central part of the Palaeozoic core of the Holy Cross Mountains). For the purpose, 93 samples of mostly sandy sediments were examined. Some marker and some supporting minerals can be distinguished. Slope and karst deposits are dominated by the abrasion-resistant minerals zircon, tourmaline, staurolite and rutile. This assemblage points at a source consisting of strongly weathered pre-Quaternary bedrock. Glacial and fluvioglacial deposits are dominated by medium-resistant and non-resistant minerals (garnet, amphibole, pyroxene and biotite). The two types of parent material of the heavy minerals are typical of the Quaternary deposits in the Polish uplands. The two sources are most clear in the younger (Vistulian and Holocene), mostly fluvial sediments. The results of the analysis imply that the impact of Pleistocene glaciers on the central part of the Holy Cross Mountains was neither large enough to hide the local mineralogical background, nor sufficient to dominate over the main processes transforming the mineral composition under the variable climatic conditions of the Quaternary, including aeolian processes and chemical weathering.

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“…It is likely, given by the rel a tively large amount of feld spars and lithic par ti cles, par tic u larly in the sam ple from a depth of 10 m, that their source was from a com bi na tion of ig ne ous or meta mor phic rocks. Such a com po si tion ap pears to be sim i lar to the flu vio gla cial sed i ments of cen tral Po land, with 70-75% of quartz, ex clu sively (Mycielska-Dowgia³³o, 1993). Feld spars, however, are mostly of rounded out line, mean ing the whole ma te rial un der went ae olian trans for ma tion (cf.…”

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Upper Pleistocene palaeoenvironmental changes at the Zwierzyniec site, central Poland

Kalińska

Dzierżek

Bińka

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The pa per pres ents the data on an Eemian-Late Gla cial sed i men tary se quence from the Zwierzyniec site, cen tral Po land. A num ber of bore holes doc u ment one or two or ganic lay ers that oc cur be neath one or two ho ri zons of clayey and silty de pos its of ice-dammed lakes. This study dem on strates to which ex tent the Zwierzyniec site can con trib ute to a better un der stand ing of the palaeoenvironmental changes dur ing the Eemian-Vistulian time-frame in cen tral Po land. To study it, a multi-proxy approach was ap plied, in volv ing: palynological and plant macrofossil anal y sis, study of round ing of quartz grains and mor phology of their sur face, and in ves ti ga tions of sand min er al ogy and till pe trog ra phy. The re sults show that a till bed is over lain by a sandy se ries cor re spond ing to the gla cial-inter gla cial tran si tion. Ei ther one or two dis tinct peaks of or ganic ac cu mu la tion are ev i denced by peat ho ri zons. The lower ho ri zon re cords spec tra with ha zel and horn beam, and did, there fore, ac cu mu late in the Eemian. Ob served only in some bore holes, the up per peat ho ri zon marks the BrÝrup (or the lower part of the Rederstall stadial) rep re sented by for est-steppe con di tions with patchy mo sa ics of larch and fur ther tran si tion into sedges and her baceous taxa. Lo cal ized in be tween the two peat se quences, the sandy ho ri zon marks a long-last ing ae olian trans for ma tion with weath er ing by frost in the Early Vistulian. Again, sig nif i cant changes of the palaeoenvironmental re gime oc curred, and are man i fested in the one or two ho ri zons of the glaciolacustrine sed i ments. This cor re sponded to the last gla ci ation in the region, when the ice-dammed lakes formed dur ing the Main Stadial.

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Estimates of Late Glacial and Holocene aeolian activity in Belgium, Poland and Sweden

Cited by 47 publications

References 8 publications

Geological setting and sedimentary characteristics of the coversands distributed in the western part of the Blonie glaciolacustrine basin (Central Poland) - Preliminary results

Geological setting and sedimentary characteristics of the coversands distributed in the western part of the Blonie glaciolacustrine basin (Central Poland) - Preliminary results

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

Upper Pleistocene palaeoenvironmental changes at the Zwierzyniec site, central Poland

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