CORRELATION OF THE UPPER JURASSIC–CRETACEOUS EPICONTINENTAL SEDIMENTS IN SOUTHERN POLAND AND SOUTHWESTERN UKRAINE BASED ON THIN SECTIONS
Journal Title: Biuletyn Państwowego Instytutu Geologicznego - Year 2012, Vol 453, Issue 453
Abstract
Detailed micropaleontological investigation of more than 400 samples (150 identified species) from the Mesozoic sediments of southern Poland and southwestern Ukraine was the basis for their correlation. The youngest Mesozoic assemblage identified in the studied material represent the early Late Cretaceous (Turonian). This assemblage occurs in the so-called the III Formation of Turonian epicontinental strata in Poland, and in the Dubivtsi Formation in West Ukraine. Microfossil assemblages of the Early Cretaceous age (Berriasian–Barremian) allow for a correlation of the Ropczyce and Dębica formations (central part of S Poland) and the upper part of the Babczyn and Cieszanów formations (SE Poland) with the Stavchany Formation and a part of the Bukovyna Formation in SW Ukraine. Tithonian microfossil assemblages from Poland resemble those of the shallow-water Nyzhniv Formation from the Ukrainian part of the East European Platform. Open-marine microfossils (e.g. calpionellids) commonly occur only in the Ukrainian material. Poor microfossil assemblages of the Kimmeridgian age occur in majority of studied subdivisions. They were identified in the Sobków Formation and the upper part of the Niwki Formation in the central part of S Poland, Ruda Lubycka, the upper part of the Bełżyce, Basznia, and Głowaczów formations (SE Poland) and in the Moryantsi and Pidluby formations (Bilche-Volitsia zone of the Carpathian Foredeep) and in the Rava Rus’ska Formation (Eastern European Platform). Among the Oxfordian microfossil assemblages, only those containing Alveosepta jaccardi (Schrodt) and Protomarssonella jurassica (Mityanina) allow for a correlation of subdivisions from both areas. These assemblages occur in the “Coral-algal” Formation in the Tarnów–Dębica region and in the Bełżyce, Jasieniec and Jarczów formations in SE Poland. The coeval sediments belong to the Boniv, Rudky and Sokal formations in West Ukraine. Scarce data from the Middle Jurassic sediments do not allow for a correlation of the material studied.
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Barbara OLSZEWSKA, Jacek MATYSZKIEWICZ, Katarzyna KRÓL, Marcin KRAJEWSKI
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