Revision of the Silurian stratigraphy in selected boreholes from the Polish sector of the Baltic Depression (northern Poland)

Zaprezentowano wyniki rewizji podziału graptolitowego serii sylurskiej w wybranych profilach wiertniczych polskiej części obniżenia bałtyckiego. Dotychczasowy podział był oparty na autorskim schemacie E. i H. Tomczyków (1962-1990), który zawiera szereg błędnych rozwiązań. Zakres proponowanych korekt obejmuje m.in.: ujednolicenie granic systemu, dolnej - ordowik/sylur i górnej - sylur/dewon, eliminację jednostek rangi oddziału określanych jako siedlce i podlasie, zdefiniowanie granic i zasięgów standardowych oddziałów systemu (landower, wenlok, ludlow, pridoli) oraz pięter (gorst i ludford), wreszcie rezygnację z szeregu wyróżnianych dotychczas regionalnych poziomów graptolitowych. Niektóre z nich nie mają wszystkich cech umożliwiających ich identyfikację na obszarze całego basenu. Dla innych niemożliwe jest udokumentowanie ich granic i zasięgów. Jeszcze inne są niedostatecznie udokumentowane, co uniemożliwia jednoznaczne korelacje ze standardowymi poziomami graptolitowymi skali globalnej. Zmodyfikowany schemat podziału serii sylurskiej ilustrują profile otworów wiertniczych: Słupsk IG 1, Lębork IG 1, Kościerzyna IG 1, Żarnowiec IG 1, Gdańsk IG 1, Hel IG 1, Pasłęk IG 1 i Bartoszyce IG 1.This study revises the graptolite zonation of the Silurian System in selected boreholes from the Polish sector of the Baltic Depression. The previous zonation was based on the scheme by Tomczykowa & Tomczyk (1962-1990) and contained many errors. The revision resulted in, among others, unification of the basal and top boundaries of the Silurian System, elimination of the Siedlce series and Podlasie series, determination of limits and ranges of the standard Series (Llandovery, Wenlock, Ludlow and Pridoli) and Stages (Gorstian and Ludfordian), and relinquishment of several regional graptolite zones. Some of the zones do not posses enough attributes to allow their identification across the entire basin. For others it is impossible to dating their limits and ranges. Yet others are insufficiently documented, that makes them impossible to correlate with the standard graptolite zones. The modified stratigraphic scheme of the Silurian System is illustrated by borehole sections: Słupsk IG 1, Lębork IG 1, Kościerzyna IG 1, Żarnowiec IG 1, Gdańsk IG 1, Hel IG 1, Pasłęk IG 1 and Bartoszyce IG 1

The Ordovician stratigraphy and palaeogeography of the Nida-Holy Cross Mts. area, Poland - a review

The Ordovician stratigraphy in the Holy Cross Mts. and the Nida region is reviewed. In the Holy Cross Mts. Ordovician rocks have been identified in the Łysogóry and the Kielce segments in tens of outcrops and borehole sections, in the Nida area in three boreholes. The deposits comprise a thin clastic-carbonate succession including palaeontologically dated Tremadoc, Arenig, Llanvirn, Llandeilo, Caradoc and Ashgill sediments. Their lithology, litho- and biostratigraphy and facies distribution are discussed. The most distinct lithofacies boundary and thickness contrast is observed between the Kielce and Łysogóry regions. The former is characterised by carbonates and clastics of shallower shelf with much greater thicknesses

The silurian lithostratigraphy of the Polish part of the Peri-Baltic Depression (N Poland)

The Silurian rocks of the Peri-Baltic Depression area (N Poland) were penetrated by 208 boreholes (Fig. 1). Seven new formal lithostratigraphical units were recognized and defined: The Barciany Nodular Limestones Formation (Lower Llandoverian–Rhuddnian, Aeronian), the Pasłęk Bituminous Claystones Formation with the Jantar Bituminous Black Claystone Member (Llandoverian), the Pelplin Green Claystones Formation (Wenlockian–Ludlovian), the Kociewie Claystones and Siltstones Formation with the Reda Marly Siltstones Member (Wenlockian–Ludlovian) and the Puck Marly Claystones and Siltstones Formation (Ludlovian (Ludfordian)–Pridolian). Some of the units have a character of the allostratigraphical ones sensu „North American...”, (1983) because are bordered by the sedimentary or sedimentary-erosional unconformities. The lithology, stratigraphical position, thickness, paleontological data and spatial relation of the particular units are presented (Fig. 2). Their boundaries have been established and stratotypic sections are proposed. Rock sequences of different Formations have been correlated with lithostratigraphical and genetical equivalents of the adjacent regions of Lithuania and Russia (Kaliningrad District) and also with Denmark (Bornholm) and Germany (western part of the Peri-Baltic Depression)

Lithostratigraphical correlation of the Ordovician in the Bi3goraj-Narol area with deposits of the adjacent regions of the marginal zone of the East European Craton in Poland and Ukraine

Presented is an attempt to correlate the Ordovician formal lithostratigraphic units of the Biłgoraj-Narol area with their counterparts in the adjacent regions of the marginal zone of the East European Craton in the territories of Poland and Ukraine. The comparison embraces profiles of 8 structural units representing various palaeogeographical environments, with different structure and facies. They differ in degree of drilling status as well. In the area of Poland these are: the Baltic Basin, the Łysogóry Unit of the Holy Cross Mts and the Lublin area. In Ukraine the comparison embraced: the Lviv Basin, the Carpathian Foredeep, the substratum of the Carpathians and the Volhynia and Podolia. The paper does not deal with the isochronous deposits known from the substratum of the Warsaw Basin and the Podlasie-Brest Basi