1 Adam Mickiewicz Uni ver sity, In sti tute of Ge ol ogy, Krygowski 12, 61-680 Poznañ, Po land 2 Konin Lig nite Mine, 9 600-lecia Av e nue, 62-540 Kleczew, Po land Chomiak, L., Maciaszek, P., Wachocki, R., Widera, M., Zieliñski, T., 2019. Seis mi cally-in duced soft-sed i ment de for ma tion in cre vasse-splay microdelta de pos its (Mid dle Mio cene, cen tral Po land) -re ply. Geo log i cal Quar terly, 63 (2): 429-433, doi: 10.7306/gq.1477As so ci ate ed i tor: Anna WysockaWe ex pected that our pa per on the cre vasse-splay microdelta (Chomiak et al., 2019) would arouse the in ter est of other research ers for at least two rea sons. First, this is the first such palaeoform dis cov ered and de scribed within the Mid-Mio cene lig nite seam in Po land. Sec ond, the microdelta siliciclastic de pos its are strongly de formed both duc tile and brit tle. There fore, we would like to thank Tom van Loon for his ef fort to com ment on our ar ti cle, in clud ing his words of ap pre ci a tion, and above all, for point ing out some of the ter mi no log i cal and in ter pre ta tive short com ings. Our re ply will be in line with the is sues discussed in his com ment.