Experimental modelling of amber deposition in the coastal zone of sedimentary basin

W artykule zawarto wyniki obserwacji oraz wnioski odnoszące się do eksperymentalnego modelu depozycji bursztynu w strefie brzegowej basenu sedymentacyjnego. Dotyczą one zachowania się bursztynu w środowisku wód płynących, stożka napływowego oraz określono wpływ falowania na procesy redepozycji bursztynu z uformowanych osadów deltowych. Autorzy dokonali próby odniesienia obserwacji z przeprowadzonego eksperymentu do rzeczywistych uwarunkowań geologicznych występowania bursztynu, wskazując, że wyniki badań mogą być wykorzystywane w pracach kartograficzno-poszukiwawczych.This paper presents observations and conclusions which apply to an experimental model of amber sedimentation in the costal zone of sedimentary basin. Observations of amber behavior in fluvial and deltaic systems are shown. Influence of waving on processes of amber redeposition from deltaic sediments are described. The authors attempted to link the observations from the modelling to real geological conditions of the occurrence of amber-bearing deposits and pointed at implicational nature of the presented examinations on the needs of cartographic and prospecting researches

Application of the spatial model of the Inowrocław salt structure for clarification and visualization of surface movements registered by inter- ferometric investigation

The Inowrocław salt dome can be considered one of the model structures in the Polish Lowlands. Salt structures formed as the result of halotectonic and halokinetic action. The Permian salt was squeezed upwards from deep geological levels due to the overburden load, using fractured zon es and faults. The salt dome is presented as a dynamie three- A Piątkowska K Czuryłowicz M Przyłucka -dimensional geological model developed using advanced technology to create and visualize 3D spatial data. Thanks to the relationship between the dynamics of the land surface and natural geological processes, the results and conclusions can be quickly drawn. For this purpose, average values of displacements in mm peryear, obtained by Satellite Radar Interferometry - Persistent Scatterers (PS) for the time span 1992-2006, are presented in the form of interpolation, creating a surface ofground movement (subsidence and uplift) above the Inowrocław salt dome

The origin and depositional architecture of Paleogene quartz-glauconite sands in the Lubartów area, eastern Poland

The study uses quantitative methods to analyse the latest Bartonian to Early Rupelian sedimentary succession at the SE outskirts of the Polish Lowland Paleogene Basin, in the back-bulge zone of the Carpathian orogenorebulge. The vertical lithotype proportion diagrams from a large number of well logs are compiled to reveal the area’s sequence stratigraphy. Six sequences are recognized and correlated with 3rd-order eustatic sea level cycles. The basal sequence of type 1 is overlain by three sequences of type 2 and followed by a fifth sequence of type 1, whose depositional forced-regressive and lowstand systems tracts brought the main volume of quartz-glauconite sand to the study area. The study focuses further on the deposits of this fifth sequence, exposed and surveyed with GPR in the Nowodwór-Piaski sand pit. Their sedimentary facies analysis reveals the local spatial pattern of a wave-dominated and tidally-influenced sedimentation, supporting the earlier notions of a southern palaeoshoreline and a tectonically-controlled sedimentation.The analysis, aided by multidimensional GPR survey, indicates syndepositional development of a tectonic graben filled laterally by fault scarp-attached large sand bars and an axial action of tidal ebb currents. The bars were formed of shore-derived sand swept by littoral waves from the graben footwall areas. As the graben’s tectonic activity ceased, it became buried by the lowstand regressive sands overlain by gravelly foreshore deposits, most of which were later removed by the Pleistocene glacial erosion. A 3D model of the deposits in the Nowodwór-Piaski area is constructed on the basis of outcrop and GPR data with the use of multiple-point statistical methodology to depict the internal architecture, heterogeneity and spatial relationships of main sedimentary facies. The model can serve as a guide for the future exploration and exploitation of the quartz-glauconite sands in the area and as instructive example of how a petroleum reservoir model of a complex sedimentary succession can be constructed with the use of modern statistical methods