The Upper Silesian Branch of the PGI-NRI as an Example of Regional Branch

Państwowy Instytut Geologiczny - Państwowy Instytut Badawczy w Warszawie działa na obszarze całej Polski mając do dyspozycji sześć oddziałów, dziewięć magazynów rdzeni wiertniczych i materiałów archiwalnych. Przykładem oddziału jest opisany w artykule Oddział Górnośląski (OG) w Sosnowcu działający od 1921 do 1932 roku w Dąbrowie Górniczej, a następnie przez kilka lat w Czeladzi, od 1961 w Sosnowcu. Z racji swojej lokalizacji oraz wiodącej tematyki badawczej w OG prowadzono kompleksowe badania geologiczno-złożowe, hydrogeologiczne, stratygraficzne i petrograficzne Górnośląskiego Zagłębia Węglowego i jego najbliższego otoczenia oraz Lubelskiego Zagłębia Węglowego. Począwszy od 1990 r. w zakres obowiązków OG wprowadzono ocenę złożową metanu jako kopaliny towarzyszącej oraz kartografię geośrodowiskową i hydrogeologiczną. Aktualnie prowadzone są badania doświadczalne w zakresie odmetanowania pokładów węgla przed eksploatacją górniczą.Polish Geological Institute – National Research Institute based in Warsaw operates in entire Poland, having six branches and nine core repositories and archival materials. A characteristic example is the Upper Silesian Branch (USB) in Sosnowiec that started its activities in Dąbrowa Górnicza (1921-1939), and the continued them in Czeladź (1945-1960); since 1961 the branch seat is Sosnowiec. Because of its location, the branch was concentrated on comprehensive hydrogeological, stratigraphical and petrographical research and first of all on economic-geological studies of the Upper Silesia Coal Basin and its neighbourhood as well as of the Lublin Coal Basin. Starting from 1990, the USB tasks include also the estimation of deposit potential of methane as accompanying mineral and geoenvironmental and hydrogeological mapping. Actually, experimental studies on methane drainage of coal beds prior to mining exploitation are conducted

Geological surveying of the Lublin Coal Basin by the Upper Silesian Branch of the National Geological Institute

This paper presents a brief description ofgeological surveying conducted between 1920 and 1939 in the Western Volhynian area by Professor Jan Samsonowicz who discovered Carboniferous deposits with bituminous coal beds. After the Second World War, the Geological Institute proposed a deep-hole project which was aimed at the exploration of the geological setting of Poland. In this connection, a few boreholes were drilled throughout the Lublin Voivodeship area, resulting in identification of Carboniferous deposits with bituminous coal beds. In the late 50s of the 20th century, the researchers working on coal deposits and the explorer J. Porzycki were moved to the Upper Silesian Field Station in Czeladź, which was transformed into the Upper Silesian Branch of the Geological Institute in Sosnowiec. It was this place where a research team for Carboniferous deposits, including coal-bearing deposits in Lublin area, was created. A few projects for geological works were prepared with the purpose to discover coal deposits in the area between Hrubieszów and Łuków. The first monograph of Carboniferous beds in the Lublin Coal Basin was published in 1966 (Rühle, 1966). In 1967, the most potential area was indicated as well as the Łęczna and Chelm bituminous coal deposits were identified and then documented during1971-1974. Further documentation works were taken over by the coal industry while the branch in Sosnowiec continued the research at a regional level, aiming mainly at coal deposits and simultaneously started with research on aluminum ore deposits at the base of Carboniferous strata in the northeastern part of the Lublin Coal Basin. The aforementioned research team determined geological and mining conditions of coal deposit occurrences, Carboniferous deposits stratigraphy, coal and gangue petrography, lithostratigraphy, origin and sedimentation conditions of coal-bearing formation etc. The results were presented in the monograph (Dembowski, Porzycki, 1988; Zdanowski, Żakowa, 1995), geological atlas (Porzycki, 1978; Zdanowski, 1999) and numerous articles published in Poland and abroad. The research team from Sosnowiec presented their results not only at national conferences but also at International Geological Congresses, International Congresses on the Carboniferous and Permian, one of which was organized in Cracow in 1995 by the team alone. In recent years the team from the Upper Silesian Branch rejoined the process of documentation of coal deposits through cooperation with domestic and foreign companies interested in possible future coal extraction in the Lublin area

Karbon Appalachów i jego porównanie z karbonem Górnośląskiego oraz Lubelskiego Zagłębia Węglowego The Carboniferous of the Appalachian and its comparison to the Carboniferous of the Upper Silesia and Lublin Coal basins /

Tyt. z nagłówka.Bibliogr. s. 325-326.Dostępny również w formie drukowanej.STRESZCZENIE: Osady karbonu występują powszechnie w wielu miejscach Stanów Zjednoczonych Ameryki. Rejon będący przedmiotem porównań to Zachodnia Wirginia, w której liczne wychodnie karbonu zostały szczegółowo udokumentowane florystycznie. Rejon ten leży na zachód od strefy tektonicznej Brewarda - granicy wewnętrznej Appalachów między Płytą Atlantycką a Płytą Centralną. Opracowanie flory karbońskiej tego regionu dokumentuje górny mississip (serpuchow) oraz dolny pensylwan (górny baszkir). Na późny mississip i wczesny pensylwan przypada luka sedymentacyjna, podczas której powstała dokumentowana na terytorium USA tzw. powierzchnia postchesteriańska. Jej odpowiednikiem w polskich zagłębiach węglowych jest luka stratygraficzna sygnalizowana brakiem poziomów goniatytowych H1 i H2. Poniżej tej luki w porównywanych regionach występują utwory morskie i paraliczne z pokładami węgla, natomiast powyżej dominują utwory limniczno-fluwiame z pokładami węgla i pakietami utworów paralicznych.SŁOWA KLUCZOWE: Appalachy, Regiony: Śląski i Lubelski, karbon, flora, litostratygrafia. ABSTRACT: The Carboniferous deposits occur generally on the entire territory of the United States of America. The region to be correlated is the West Virginia where numerous Carboniferous outcrops occur and they are detailed floristically documented. The studied region is located west of the Breward tectonic zone, the inner boundary of the Appalachian between the Late Palaeozoic Atlantic Plate and the Early Palaeozoic Central Plate. The Carboniferous macroflora documents the Late Mississippian (Serpukhovian/Namurian A) and the Late Pennsylvanian (Late Bashkirian-Early Moscovian). The documented stratigraphic gap the post-Chesterian surface in the studied region corresponds to the latest Mississippian and Early Pennsylvanian. In Polish coal basins it probably corresponds to the stratigraphic gap ascribed to the H1 and H2 goniatite zones. In both studied regions marine and paralic deposits with coal beds occur below the gap and limnic-fluvial deposits with coal beds and thick paralic deposits dominate just above it. KEYWORDS: Appalachian, Regions: Silesia, Lublin, carboniferous, flora, lithostratigraphy

Corrélations stratigraphiques dans les bassins téthysiens et péri-téthysiens au Carbonifère supérieur et au Permien inférieur

Des corrélations sont proposées entre les domaines marins et continentaux du Paléozoïque supérieur affleurant aujourd\u27hui dans le domaine téthysien et sur les plate-formes qui le bordent au nord et au sud: (1) la base du Moscovien correspondrait dans le domaine péri-téthysien à la base du Westphalien C et dans le domaine téthysien à la base du Westphalien B; (2) le Kasimovien, le Gzhélien et l\u27Orenburgien correspondraient dans le domaine nord péri-téthysien et dans le domaine téthysien (Alpes carniques) respectivement au Stéphanien inférieur, supérieur et Autunien p.p., dans le domaine sud péri-téthysien à un intervalle de temps indifférencié, la correspondance n\u27étant pas établie précisément. La limite entre le Stéphanien et l\u27Autunien a été reconnue dans le bassin du Donetz avec incertitudes ; (3) l\u27Assélien, le Sakmarien, l\u27Artinskien, le Kungurien correspondraient dans tous les domaines à l\u27Autunien p.p. et au Saxonien, qui restent difficile à différencier.The compilation of detailed stratigraphic, sedimentologic and paleontologic data resulted in stratigraphic correlations of marine and continental areas outcropping today in the Tethyan and Peri-Tethyan domains: (1) the base of the Moscovian would correspond to the base of the Westphalian C in the Peri-Tethyan domain and to the base of Westphalian B in the Tethyan domain; (2) the Kasimovian, the Gzhelian and the Orenburgian would correspond in the northern Peri-Tethyan domain and Tethyan domain (Carnic Alps) respectively to the early Stephanian, the late Stephanian and the Autunian p.p. , in the southern Peri-Tethyan domain to an undifferentiated time interval. The boundary between the Stephanian and the Autunian was recognized in the Donets Basin with some doubts; (3) the Asselian, Sakmarian, Artinskian and Kungurian would correspond in all the domains to the Autunian p.p. and the Saxonian that remain difficult to separate.</p

Polish bituminous coal basins : an outline of the history of the Polish Geological Institute research

Geological studies of the Polish coal basins - namely the Upper Silesian Basin, the Lower Silesian Basin and the Lublin Basin - are diverse due to the differences in the extent of exploration and coal mining activities, as well as the complicated political history of each basin. This paper presents a review of the most important geological works performed after World War II on the territory of Poland. The studies conducted by the Polish Geological Institute (PGI) were of critical importance, especially those which were concentrated on the geology and stratigraphy of Carboniferous strata. It should be emphasized that the PGI made a great contribution to the discovery and subsequent evaluation of coal resources in the Lublin Coal Basin. Equally important are exploration endeavors and coal resource evaluation conducted by the PGI in the other two Polish coal basins. In addition, the PGI initiated and performed investigations of coalbed methane

Stratigraphic correlations between the continental and marine Tethyan and Peri-Tethyan basins during the Late Carboniferous and the Early Permian

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