<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>The petrographical features of the medium- and coarse-grained gravels (4-10 mm and 20-60 mm, respectively) of weathered and fresh (unweathered) deposits indicate, in combination with so-called indicator and statistical erratics, that two glacial lobes joined in the borderland of the Polish Lowlands and Uplands. Lower Palaeozoic limestones become less frequent in the fner gravel fraction, whereas crystalline rocks and fints become more frequent. The petrographical analysis of the coarser gravel fraction indicates that the ice sheet advanced from the NE to NNW (the Widawka lobe) and from the NE to ENE (the Rawka, Pilica and Luciąża lobes). The source areas of the gravel deposited by the Warthian ice sheet were magmatic and sedimentary areas of both the Baltic and the SE Sweden basins.</p></abstract>

The petrographical features of the medium- and coarse-grained gravels (4-10 mm and 20-60 mm, respectively) of weathered and fresh (unweathered) deposits indicate, in combination with so-called indicator and statistical erratics, that two glacial lobes joined in the borderland of the Polish Lowlands and Uplands. Lower Palaeozoic limestones become less frequent in the fner gravel fraction, whereas crystalline rocks and fints become more frequent. The petrographical analysis of the coarser gravel fraction indicates that the ice sheet advanced from the NE to NNW (the Widawka lobe) and from the NE to ENE (the Rawka, Pilica and Luciąża lobes). The source areas of the gravel deposited by the Warthian ice sheet were magmatic and sedimentary areas of both the Baltic and the SE Sweden basins.

Petrographical Analysis of Warthian Fuvioglacial Gravels as a Tool to Trace the Source Area – A Case Study From Central Poland

Institute of Geoecology and Geoinformation, Adam Mickiewicz University, Dzięgielowa 27, 61-680 Poznań, Poland

Department of Geomorphology and Palaeogeography, Faculty of Geographical Sciences, University of Łódź, Narutowicza 88, 90-139 Łódź, Poland

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The petrographical features of the medium- and coarse-grained gravels (4-10 mm and 20-60 mm, respectively) of weathered and fresh (unweathered) deposits...

Petrographical Analysis of Warthian Fuvioglacial Gravels as a Tool to Trace the Source Area – A Case Study From Central Poland

Published Online: Oct 23, 2014

Page range: 183 - 199

Received: Jan 21, 2014

Accepted: Aug 06, 2014

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/logos-2014-0014

Keywords
gravel petrography, indicator erratics, fuvioglacial deposits, Warthian stadial, central Poland

© 2014 Maria Górska-Zabielska and Lucyna Wachecka-Kotkowska

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Petrographical Analysis of Warthian Fuvioglacial Gravels as a Tool to Trace the Source Area – A Case Study From Central Poland

Published Online: Oct 23, 2014

Page range: 183 - 199

Received: Jan 21, 2014

Accepted: Aug 06, 2014

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/logos-2014-0014

Keywordsgravel petrography, indicator erratics, fuvioglacial deposits, Warthian stadial, central Poland

© 2014 Maria Górska-Zabielska and Lucyna Wachecka-Kotkowska

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Keywords
gravel petrography, indicator erratics, fuvioglacial deposits, Warthian stadial, central Poland