Heavy minerals in Preglacial sediments of the southern Mazovian Lowland
Journal Title: Biuletyn Państwowego Instytutu Geologicznego - Year 2010, Vol 438, Issue 438
Abstract
Analyses of heavy minerals were performed on samples taken from Preglacial deposits from three sites situated in the Kozienice Plain (Brzóza near Kozienice, Januszno near Pionki, Stanisławice near Kozienice) and from the Niwa Babicka borehole near Ryki, drilled for the need of the Detailed Geological Map of Poland at a scale of 1:50,000, Żelechów sheet. Results of the analyses allow categorising the deposits into two types. The first one, recognized in Brzóza, Januszno and Stanisławice, contains large amounts of garnets and minerals resistant to chemical and mechanical weathering: tourmalines, zircons, staurolites, disthenes and rutiles. However, these deposits are differentiated regarding the contents of dominant heavy minerals. In Januszno, garnets predominate over resistant minerals. In Brzóza and Stanisławice, resistant minerals outnumber garnets. The second type of Preglacial deposits was recognized in the Niwa Babicka borehole. These deposits contain several dozens percents of chlorites, garnets and tourmalines. Results of the analyses allow inferring that the sources of Preglacial deposits found in the southern Mazovian Lowland were weathering mantles of various ages developed along the northern border of the Holy Cross Mountains and Lublin Upland, where very strong chemical weathering took place. The differences in the heavy mineral content can result from different transport directions (alluvial fans of the pra-Vistula or pra-Wieprz rivers) and differences in deposit (channel or flood) facies
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Łukasz BUJAK
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