Sedimentologic Analysis of Thick Deposits in the Karst Pit at the N Border of the Holy Cross MTS (Poland)

Karst systems analyzed using borehole logs — Devonian carbonates of the Świętokrzyskie (Holy Cross) Mountains, central Poland

“…The above-described features, isotopic (U/Th) analysis, as well as fossils found in the paleodolines (Liszkowski, 1971;Barcicki et al, 1988Barcicki et al, , 1996Urban, 2002) indicate the Neogene, possibly also the Paleogene, as the age of the karst systems in the region. However, the karst networks could have been reshaped, and their sediments washed away, during the Pleistocene glaciations, owing to changes in the water table connected to ice sheet progradation.…”

“…Kadzielnia quarry - Kozłowski et al, 1965;Wójcik, 1976); c) a considerable number of (sub)vertical karst forms, especially fissures, in outcrops (Urban, 2002); d) the presence of deep paleodolines and shafts (Osika and Ekiertowa, 1958;Uberna, 1962;Liszkowski, 1971;Wójcik, 1976;Barcicki et al, 1988Barcicki et al, , 1996Urban, 2002).…”

“…Wzdół Kamieniec (Osika and Ekiertowa, 1958), vicinity of Łagów (Uberna, 1962), Skały (Urban, 2002), north of the Paleozoic core (Liszkowski, 1971;Wójcik, 1976;Barcicki et al, 1988Barcicki et al, , 1996.…”

Studia Quaternaria

“…Jaskinia Jeleniowska is much older than these fossils, pre-Quaternary which is proved by its hypsometric position in the upper part of the hill and the age of speleothems (Table 1, Figs. 4 and 5 1), TL datings (after Barcicki et al, 1991) and ages suggested by Quaternary paleontological data (after publications quoted in the text) of karst sites in the Świętokrzyskie Mountains region. Abbreviations: GJ -Górno, Józefka quarry, JM -Jaskinia w Marzyszu, JR -Raj cave, JZ -Jaskinia Zbójecka w Łagowie, KG -Kozi Grzbiet, KJJ -Kadzielnia, Jaskinia Jeleniowska and bones collected by J. Czarnocki in this cave and its surrounding, KK1 -Kadzielnia, site 1, KL -Kostomłoty, Laskowa quarry, MR -Mirówek, SG -Szczukowskie Górki quarry, SJ -Sitkówka-Jaźwica abandoned quarry, UTT -Underground Touristic Trail at the Kadzielnia Hill (Kadzielnia site 2).…”

“…More or less at the same time the sequences of two palaeokarst dolines in Upper Jurassic limestones of the northern section of marginal zone of the Świętokrzyskie Mountains (Mirówek and Maziarze sites) have been cored and analysed (Barcicki et al, 1991(Barcicki et al, , 1996. Furthermore, several years ago the fills of two palaeokarst dolines in Devonian carbonates in the eastern part of the region (Winna and Komorniki sites within the Kielce-Łagów Basin) were subjected to mineralogical-petrographical analyses (Ludwikowska-Kędzia, 2013).…”