Stratigraphy of alluvia and phases of the Holocene floods in the valleys of the Eastern Carpathians foreland

Gębica, Piotr; Jacyszyn, Andrij; Krąpiec, Marek; Budek, Anna; Czumak, Natalia; Starkel, Leszek; Andrejczuk, W.; Ridush, Bogdan

doi:10.1016/j.quaint.2015.11.088

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“…4 m high, which was formed during the older part of the Little Ice Age. In accordance with the data on the development of the river network and the intensity of fluvial processes in the Carpathians, the accumulation of the lowest system of terraces occurred at the break of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, whereas the cutting of sediments can be correlated with the increase in flood intensities falling on the second part of the nineteenth century (Starkel 2005;Gębica 2013;Gębica et al 2016) (Fig. 9).…”

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Conservation of the Natura 2000 Areas in the Context of Environmental Changes in Past and Present: a Case from the Polish Carpathians Geoheritage

Alexandrowicz

Buczek

2018

Geoheritage

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The Ecological Network Natura 2000 project has been implemented in Poland since 2004, based on the Act on Nature Conservation. The Natura 2000 areas are often distinguished by particular values of the geological heritage, and sometimes also of cultural heritage. According to the premises of the programme, natural habitat should be identified by the conditions of occurrence and mutual relationships between the abiotic and biotic elements. Despite this assumption, in many cases, their valuation and description of the abiotic features is too cursory, and sometimes, it is even lacking. The valley of the Tarnawka River in the Polish Carpathians is the selected example of a Natura 2000 area. The presented characteristic of this area constitutes a supplement to its importance in the field of geological and cultural heritage. Also documented was the history of causes and changes of the natural environment dating back to the early Middle Ages. The physiographic characteristic of the area and the results of analysing the past transformations of its environment provide very rich material. It should be useful and used not only to supplement the importance of the area but also to conduct the comparative evaluation of the current and potential changes and threats caused by natural processes but, above all, by human activities.

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Conservation of the Natura 2000 Areas in the Context of Environmental Changes in Past and Present: a Case from the Polish Carpathians Geoheritage

Alexandrowicz

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2018

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“…-social and medical -expanding the possibilities of salt-mud-ozokeritotherapy and organization of the respective sanatorium in the district and creation of new jobs for the population of the Starunia and Starobogrodchan united territorial community, improving the demographic situation, reducing the anthropogenic (technogenic) ecosystem impact on the population [8][9][10].…”

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Investigation of the Importance of Starunia Paleontological Location of the Pleistocene Fauna of the Rhinoceroses and the Mammoths for Quaternary Geology

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Качала

2019

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The first finds of mummified carcasses of the hairy rhino, mammoth, horse, roe deer and other animals were carried out at a depth of 12 m when passing the mines for the production of ozokerite near the village. The expedition of the Academy of Skill from Krakow, when passing a mine at a depth of 17 m, found the remains of 3 more hairy rhinos. There were also numerous bones of small vertebrates (rodents), artichokes, numerous insects, beetles, parasitic worms, slag, butterflies, spiders, snails, vascular plants, seeds and branches of dwarf birch, alder, and other representatives of tundra flora. After the earthquake in the Vrancha Mountains (Romania), the first and still unique mud volcano in the Carpathians, which gave the Starunia paleontological location a new "sound", arose on the ozokerite deposit. An important result was the discovery of the most desirable area, where the remains of giant mammals and even the Cro-Magnon Pleistocene could still be found at the depths. All the numerous interdisciplinary traces of Polish and Ukrainian scientists confirm the uniqueness of Starunia on a global scale, requiring the preservation and further study of paleontological finds and the only mud volcano in the Carpathians. Such findings can only be made by organizing the Starunia geodynamic ground International Ecological and Tourist Center «Geopark Ice Age».

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“…Значно триваліші і масштабніші дослідження заплави -першої надзаплавної тераси Дністра, його карпатських приток виконав польсько-український колектив науковців (Калинович, 2000; Калинович і Хармата, 2001; Калинович і Яцишин, 2001;Чумак, 2013;Чумак, 2015;Яцишин, 2001;Яцишин, 2002;Яцишин та ін., 2010;Яцишин та ін., 2011;Budek et al, 2000;Gębica et al, 2007;Gębica et al, 2008;Gębica & Jacyszyn, 2014;Gębica et al, 2016;. З 1998 р і досі їхніми дослідженнями охоплені частини долин Дністра і його карпатських приток, які відображені на рис.…”

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“…Нагромадження алювію першої надзаплавної тераси Дністра, його карпатських приток розпочалось у фінальній частині пізнього плейстоцену (бьолінгу (? )-алереду, GI-1) Gębica i in., 2008;Gębica i in., 2011;Gębica i in., 2013;Gębica i in., 2014;Gębica et al 2016;. Тогочасний алювій виповнює поховані під кількаметровою товщею алювію голоценового віку палеорусла, які розкриті в долинах Стривігору (розрізи Заріччя-Село, Заріччя-Кар'єр), Дністра (розріз Надітичі), Стрию (розріз Жидачів-Місто).…”

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“…Проте в інших розрізах алювію терас Дністра тогочасні фази повеней чітко не зафіксовано. Алювій суббореального віку, який нагромаджувався в інтервалі 3500-3000 років тому, ми також розкрили в розрізах Заріччя-Кар'єр, Чаплі, Язи (усі розташовані в долині Стривігору), Жидачів-Місто (Стрийсько-Жидачівська улоговина) і Лука, Козарі (Галицько-Букачівська улоговина) (Gębica i in., 2008;Gębica i in., 2014;Gębica et al, 2016;. Цьому етапу формування долини Дністра притаманні активні міграції русла Дністра і посилення акумуляції алювію заплавної фації.…”

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Study of the Holocene Stage of Formation of the Dniester Valley in the Eastern Carpathian Foreland

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Gębica

2020

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The article describes the main stages of studying of the floodplain and the first floodplain terrace of the Dniester river within the Eastern Carpathian Foreland fragment of the valley, and evaluates the results of existing studies. It is discovered that during all the stages of the research morphological and morphometric parameters of the floodplain and the first floodplain terrace of the Dniester river, morphology and facie structures of the alluvial accumulations, as well as palynological analyses of biogenic accumulations buried in an alluvial series are performed. The results obtained during the palynological analyzes are used to date the erosion-accumulation cycles and to reconstruct the physical-geographical conditions of the time of the floodplain and the first floodplain formation of the Dniester terrace. The radiocarbon dating of biogenic sediments buried in alluvial series is also actively conducted at the last stage of the research. The array of geological and geomorphological information collected at the first two stages of research made it possible to establish that, first, the first floodplain terrace and floodplain were formed during the Holocene in the Dniester Valley. The first floodplain terrace (the height of which reaches 4–6 m above the Dniester riverbed) can be considered as a high floodplain which is often covered by high floods. The terrace is accumulative, but unlike all other terraces of the Dniester it is devoid of the loess cover. In the cross-sections of its accumulations the deposits of the alluvium of the channel facies builted of pebbles are exposed and covered with the alluvium of the floodplain facies composed of sands, sandy loams and loams. The total thickness of alluvium reaches 9–10 m and it doesn’t varysignificantly downstream of the Dniester. Except the Upper Dniester basin, where the thickness of the alluvium increases to 10–18 m, and the layers of peat are found. The floodplain is 4–5 m above the Dniester riverbed and is built of alluvium of the channel facies, dominated by sand and pebble series. In someplaces floodplain is covered with sandy or loamy deposits of floodplain facies. Secondly, in the Eastern Carpathian Foreland part of the Dniester valley the course of fluvial morpholitogenetic processes was regulated not only by climatic changes and neotectonic movements, but also by human economic activity. During the XIX–XX centuries especially large-scale human influence was on the Dniester riverbeds by construction of flood ramparts, reclamation canals, etc. The results of recent geomorphological research conducted within the studied fragment of the river valley particularly palynological and radiocarbon dating have significantly improved the idea of morphology, structure and history of floodplain formation and the first floodplain terrace of the Dniester. The research revealed that the accumulation of alluvium of the first floodplain terrace which is above the Dniester riverbed reaches 5,5–6,5 (7) m and started to develop in the late Pleistocene (Bølling–Allerød interstadial) (13 000–11 000 years ago (GI–1)). Presumably in the early Dryas (11 000–10 000 years ago (GS–1)), the first floodplain terrace was dissected by the meandering channel of the Dniester. The alluvial deposits that fill these large paleomeanders are still well preserved and are often exposed in the ledges of the first terrace. The further development of the floodplain and first floodplain terrace of the Dniester river was taking place in several stages such as the end of the boreal, the beginning of the atlantic, the end of the atlantic, subboreal, the beginning of the subatlantic, as well as during V–VI, X–XII and XIV–XVI centuries. These stages are identified in correlation with the cycles of humidification of the climate and the growth of fluvial activity of riverbeds (flood phases). As a result of the intensification of erosion-accumulation activity of the Dniester the two – three levels of Holocene floodplain were formed up to 4–5 m and 3–4 m high. The first traces of human activity within the studied fragment of the Dniester valley were dated by subboreal and recorded by the presence of grain pollen in the spore-pollen diagrams of Mainych (Upper Dniester Basin) and Tsvitova (Galician-Bukachiv Basin) sections. Key words: Dniester valley; floodplain; the first floodplain terrace; alluvium; phases of floods; Allerød; early Dryas; Holocene.

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Stratigraphy of alluvia and phases of the Holocene floods in the valleys of the Eastern Carpathians foreland

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References 9 publications

Conservation of the Natura 2000 Areas in the Context of Environmental Changes in Past and Present: a Case from the Polish Carpathians Geoheritage

Conservation of the Natura 2000 Areas in the Context of Environmental Changes in Past and Present: a Case from the Polish Carpathians Geoheritage

Investigation of the Importance of Starunia Paleontological Location of the Pleistocene Fauna of the Rhinoceroses and the Mammoths for Quaternary Geology

Study of the Holocene Stage of Formation of the Dniester Valley in the Eastern Carpathian Foreland

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