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We are pleased to announce that an article on Quaternary palaeogeography has been published in the latest issue of Acta Geologica Polonica, authored by members and doctoral students of the Department of Geomorphology and Palaeogeography of the Maria Curie-Skłodowska University:
Kamil Kultys, Joanna Mirosław-Grabowska, Abdelfattach Zalat, Anna Hrynowiecka, Karolina Łabęcka, Sławomir Terpiłowski, Marcin Żarski, Irena Agnieszka Pidek, 2023. Palaeohydrological record of complete Eemian series from Żabieniec Ża-19 (Garwolin Plain, Central Poland) with reference to palaeoclimate data. Acta Geologica Polonica, 73, 3, 355–378.
Another in a series of publications on the lakes of the Eemian Lake District dated to the period around 127-115,000 years ago. The Żabieniec site on the Garwolin Plain comprises three fossil lakes (one deep and two shallow ones) studied by multi-proxy methods in international cooperation (analysis of plant remains, remains of cladocerans and diatom carapaces, stable isotope analysis of carbon and nitrogen). The aim was to reconstruct the evolution of this fossil assemblage with a particular focus on changes in trophic state and water levels under the influence of supra-regional climate change. The reconstruction also takes into account the local geological and geomorphological factors that shaped the basin of the lakes and their rate of overgrowth and conversion to peatlands. Special attention was paid to the climatic optimum of the interglacial, in which the phase dominated by hazel communities simultaneously saw the highest water levels in the Eemian lakes and the highest proportion of plants associated with a warm climate with eminently oceanic characteristics. The second part of the climatic optimum, coinciding with the hornbeam phase, was also warm, but at its end a significant drop in water levels was recorded. Furthermore, the sediments of this level record a sedimentary gap. At the same time, the two shallower lakes at the Żabieniec site were transformed into peat bogs. The palaeohydrological data from this site correspond well with reconstructions of other lakes of the Eemian Lake District in central Poland.
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