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- Title
„MIDDLE POLISH FLUVIAL HIGH TERRACE" IN THE RIVER VALLEYS OF THE KIELCE-ŁAGÓW DEPRESSION (HOLY CROSS MOUNTAINS, POLAND) - FACT OR MYTH?
- Authors
LUDWIKOWSKA-KĘDZIA, MAŁGORZATA
- Abstract
The article is a commentary on the current state of knowledge of the formation conditions, origin and stratigraphic position of the „Middle Polish fluvial, fluvioperiglacial high terraces" being relief elements of the river valleys of the Kielce-Łagów Depression (KŁD) in the southern part of the Holy Cross Mountains (HCM), i.e. the Belnianka, Lubrzanka and Łagowica river valleys. The former conception and criteria of distinguishing them are no longer fully valid. The "high terraces" were formed in the studied valleys in periglacial conditions of the Vistulian Glaciation and not, as it was previously considered, during the "Middle Polish Glaciation". They are entirely or partially composed of slope deposits or formed within the cover of glacial and / or slope deposits (toe-cut terraces) of different ages (including derived from the Odra Glaciation). Their hypsometric position is determined by the features of structural relief and the possibility of deposition of slope sediments on the alluvial series. The formation and structure of these terraces are the outcome of the location and pattern of river valleys in relation to the morphostructural elements of the KŁD as well as the changes of climate and environmental conditions in the Quaternary. The presented results were obtained owing to the fact that the investigations were conducted both in the profiles of hillslopes (slope environment) and river valleys (fluvial environment) as well as in the bottom of the KŁD (glacial environment). Only such an integrated approach gives an opportunity to find the relationship between the elements of the local litho- and morphogenetic system of the HCM: hillslopes ↔ river valleys ↔ bottoms of structural depressions.
- Subjects
SWIETOKRZYSKIE Mountains (Poland); TERRACES (Geology); PLEISTOCENE Epoch; FLUVIAL geomorphology; STRATIGRAPHIC geology
- Publication
Studia Geomorphologica Carpatho-Balcanica, 2021, Vol 55, p129
- ISSN
0081-6434
- Publication type
Article