Katarzyna Issmer

simplify and shorten its description, and to storage data easily in digital form. The aim of this paper is to propose a lithogenetic code, which as far as it is possible systematizes all found types of aeolian deposits. Therefore, such a code contains not only lithologic data but also explains the deposit origin. Moreover, such a way of description helps out to use it in the POLEOL database. To accept deposition process as a criterion for distinguishing lithologic units in aeolian environment was proposed. Hence, genetic types of deposits can be distinguished, which are related to the following subenvironments: 1) windward subenvironment, in which deposition occurs on the surface exposed to wind action, and depends on wind velocity and ground moisture, and 2) subenvironment of dune lee face, in which deposits are accumulated on the distal slope of dune mostly by gravitational redeposition and/or grain fall on the surfaces sheltered from the wind. Such a systematization of the deposi...

ABSTRACT Optical methods now dominate the grain-size analysis of fine-grained sediments, because of their rapidity. The growing application of optical methods leads to statistical comparison of their results against those from sedimentation methods. Here, the Kołmogorow-Smirnow non-parametric test is demonstrated. Most agreement exists in the 50-20 and 20-6 mm fraction. In order to compare the optical and the combined methods, correlation ratios were calculated for all commonly used grain-size fractions. Regression equations were established for the 50-20 mm fraction.

MICROMORPHOLOGICAL ANALYSIS OF LOESS DEPOSITS FROM KLĘPICZ, WESTERN POMERANIA Summary Loess deposits from Klepicz, western Pomerania, were micromorphologically studied. The sediments belong to periglacial loesses and were deposited at the turn of upper Plenivistulian and late Vistulian (Kozarski & Nowaczyk, 1992). Primary and secondary (periglacial and soil) microstructures were distinguished among them. Abundant till and clay intraclasts probably indicate close source of the material and multiredeposition processes. Clay balls may proove that the loess deposits were primary deposited on slopes. Vertical normal grading was explained as a result of segregation of the silt material in the snow melt water. Among the secondary microstructures, synchronical with periglacial processes, are described: syngenetic microcracks with clastic infillings, abundant deformations of clay laminae, circle structures, silt droplet structures, laminae cementated by clay minerals and iron compounds (so-c...

It is recommended that reference: Jary Z., Mroczek P., (eds.), 2014. Kukla LOESSFEST '14 - 7 Loess Seminar in Wroclaw, International Conference on Loess Research in memoriam of George Kukla September 8-15 2014. Abstracts and field guide book. Institute of Geography and Regional Development, University of Wroclaw.

The proposal of genetic code of aeolian deposits. Apermanent trend in the geological studies is coding of lithologic data in order to simplify and shorten its description, and to storage data easily in digital form. The aim of this paper is to propose a lithogenetic code, which as far as it is possible systematizes all found types of aeolian deposits. Therefore, such a code contains not only lithologic data but also explains the deposit origin. Moreover, such a way of description helps out to use it in the POLEOL database.To accept deposition process as a criterion for distinguishing lithologic units in aeolian environment was proposed. Hence, genetic types of deposits can be distinguished, which are related to the following subenvironments: 1) windward subenvironment, in which deposition occurs on the surface exposed to wind action, and depends on wind velocity and ground moisture, and 2) subenvironment of dune lee face, in which deposits are accumulated on the distal slope of dune...

Multiproxy researches as new trends in palaeoclimatic research of the Holocene methodology background The paper reviews how we can learn from the past about climate-human-environment interactions at the present time, and in the future. Actual the main trends of paleoclimatic investigations of the Holocene are represented by two mainstreams classical and multiproxy stream This paper is the first methodolological presentation of the role multiproxy investigations in the geosciences. The prediction in paleoclimatology actual is based on modeling There is now a need to develop long-term simulation models that can help anticipate complex ecosystem behavior and environmental processes in the face of global environmental change – and resolving our past is an essential element in that endeavour. Implementations of multiproxy investigations in Poland

Optical methods now dominate the grain-size analysis of fine-grained sediments, because of their rapidity. The growing application of optical methods leads to statistical comparison of their results against those from sedimentation methods. Here, the Kołmogorow-Smirnow non-parametric test is demonstrated. Most agreement exists in the 50-20 and 20-6 mm fraction. In order to compare the optical and the combined methods, correlation ratios were calculated for all commonly used grain-size fractions. Regression equations were established for the 50-20 mm fraction.

G eoarcheology brings together many disciplines such as geology, geomorphology, archeology, paleo-botany or zoology. The traditional geo-archeological approach is based mainly on geological and soil science methods, but during the last 20 years detailed microstratigraphic studies and analyses of microfacies have become more and more important (Courty 2001). These approaches were recognized as essen-tial to recover and understand the full cultural and environmental potential of archeological deposits (Goldberg and Macphail 2006). The main aim of this workshop was to initiate scientific discussion on the new challenges for geoarcheology in Central Europe. Scientifically, the focus was on ongoing environmental arche-ology research in southern Poland and the northern Czech Republic, and their implications for paleoclimate research. The presentations mainly concentrated on the Late Pleistocene and Middle to Late Paleolithic (130-12 ka BP), for which archeological evidences are more frequ...

Multiproxy researches as new trends in palaeoclimatic research of the Holocene methodology background The paper reviews how we can learn from the past about climate-human-environment interactions at the present time, and in the future. Actual the main trends of paleoclimatic investigations of the Holocene are represented by two mainstreams classical and multiproxy stream This paper is the first methodolological presentation of the role multiproxy investigations in the geosciences. The prediction in paleoclimatology actual is based on modeling There is now a need to develop long-term simulation models that can help anticipate complex ecosystem behavior and environmental processes in the face of global environmental change – and resolving our past is an essential element in that endeavour. Implementations of multiproxy investigations in Poland

dunes & soils
the first Central European meeting conducted by:
INTERNTIONAL UNION FOR QUATERNARY RESEARCH
EUROSIBERIAN SUBCOMMISION
FOR THE STUDY OF THE HOLOCENE
ADAM MICKIEWICZ UNIVERSITY
QUATERNARY RESEARCH INSTITUTE
POZNAÑ, POLAND
In former years th Eurosiberian Subcommision( ESSC) for the study of the Holocene visited individual countries to study the progress in the Holocene reasearchof this country. Thus from August 24-28 1998 the symposium
" Dunes and fossil soils of  Vistulian and the Holocene age btween Elbe and Wisła" had been orgasied mainly by Professor Wolfgang Schirmer. Aim of the symposium was to compare the Holocene dune activity to the Pleni-Weicheselian and Late Weicheselian.