“…The study area was covered by ice sheets of sev eral glaciations in the Early and Mid dle Pleis to cene (Marks, 2004) and is lo cated in the west ern part of a palaeolakeland from the Mazovian Inter gla cial, which is vis ible in the con tem po rary mor phol ogy of the area. Nu mer ous sites with lake sed i ments of the Mazovian/Holsteinian Inter glacial oc cur in the study area and fur ther to the east (e.g., Nitychoruk, 1994Nitychoruk, , 2000Albrycht et al, 1997;Lindner and Marks, 1999;Krupiñski, 2000;¯arski et al, 2005;Lindner et al, 2007;Ma³ek and Pidek, 2007;Ma³ek, 2008;¯arski, 2008, 2009Pidek et al, 2011;Terpi³owski et al, 2014;Hrynowiecka et al, 2014).…”