Ślączka Andrzej

• professor dr habil.
• Jagiellonian University

New unconventional hydrocarbon deposits are important to optimalize strategy of oil and gas exploration. The Lower Cretaceous shales rich in organic matter of the Outer Carpathian flysch seem to be quite promising (Ślączka et al., 2014) . End of Early Cretaceous, the period of increasing continental submergence and high global sea-level represents...

The Western Outer Carpathians structure on Austria, Slovak, Czech and Polish territory is an effect of prolonged processes of the Cretaceous–Miocene folding, moving and uplifting. The Outer Carpathian nappes are thrust over other each other and over the North European Platform consisting of the crystalline basement covered by the Paleozoic–Miocene...

The paleogeographic configuration of the Carpathian Tethys changed during its evolution. It consisted of more or less individual basinal units, which arrangement and configuration evolved during Jurassic-Neogene times. These basins were separated by several ridges including the Silesian Ridge, a crucial structure that functioned over one hundred mi...

The paleogeographic configuration of the Carpathian Tethys changed during its evolution. It consisted of more or less individual basinal units, which arrangement and configuration evolved during Jurassic-Neogene times. These basins were separated by several ridges including the Silesian Ridge, a crucial structure that functioned over one hundred mi...

Two sections of the klippen zones in the Wienerwald area have been investigated for their stratigraphy: (1) The Gern section of the Main Klippen Zone, a part of the Gresten Klippen Zone, and (2) the St. Veit Klippen Zone in the Lainz Tunnel and the neighboring outcrops in western Vienna. New biostratigraphic data are based on radiolaria from silice...

The Crimean Mountains (CM) are regarded as part of the Alpine-Himalaya orogenic belt related to the collision of the Eurasian and African plates. Our research in the CM has allowed confirming the existence of at least two flysch formations of different ages: the Taurida Flysch Formation (Upper Triassic/Lower-? Middle Jurassic) and the Sudak Formati...

The article provides a review of the most important geotouristic attractions within the Cieszyn Foothills, Outer Flysch Carpathians in Poland and adjacent part of the Czech Republic. The best geosites, which can be visited during a short 1-2 day visit in the Polish Carpathians were selected. The present paper contains the description of the classic...

New unconventional hydrocarbon deposits are important to optimalize strategy of oil and gas exploration. The Lower Cretaceous shales rich in organic matter of the Outer Carpathian flysch seem to be quite promising (Ślączka et al., 2014) . End of Early Cretaceous, the period of increasing continental submergence and high global sea-level represents...

The Ostravice Sandstone Member was identified and described as a lithostratigraphic unit in the Polish part of the Outer Carpathians. This division occurs in the lowermost part of the Godula Formation, is underlain by variegated deposits of the Mazák Formation or directly by the Barnasiówka and Lhoty formations, and overlain by the Czernichów Membe...

Calcareous arenitic rocks exposed in the Dopplerhütte and Tulbingerkogel quarries northwest of Vienna were studied to establish their stratigraphic age. The whole succession is a part of the “Northern Zone” – the Tulbingerkogel thrust sheet – which represents the external part of the Wienerwald Flysch. These rocks were regarded commonly as Neocomia...

The olistostromes form two belts within the Pieniny Klippen Belt (PKB) in the Northern Carpathians. They mark an early stage of the development of the accretionary prism. The first belt was formed during Late Cretaceous time as a result of subduction of the southern part of the Alpine Tethys. The fore-arc basin originated along this subduction zone...

Our work on the dark pelitic sediments of the Polish Carpathians and eastern Alps shows that these Jurassic through Lower Cretaceous sediments owe their organic content to a combination of global processes, such as climatic changes and changes to the carbonate compensation depth (CCD), and local controls, such as basin morphology, input of terrestr...

The complex Mesozoic and Cenozoic tectonics of the Outer Carpathians produced series of ridges separating deep water basins.The Silesian Ridge existed since from Jurassic till Oligocene times. Today this ridge is destroyed totally and is known only from olistoliths and exotic pebbles in the Outer Carpathian flysch. It separated the proto-Silesian B...

The term olistostrome is derived from the ancient Greek and have been introduced by Flores (1959) for sedimentary bodies with a chaotic blocks immersed in a matrix. These blocks are called olistoliths. The size of olistoliths varies, from centimeters to kilometers. Very large blocks could slide independently into the basin with no easily distinguis...

Soft-sediment deformation structures (SSDS) are widespread in the upper part of the S. Mauro Formation (Cilento Group, Middle-Late Miocene). The succession is represented mainly by thick and very thick, massive, coarse-grained sandstones, deposited by rapid sedimentation of high-density turbidity currents. The most common SSDS are short pillars, di...

Uchman A., Slaczka A. and Renda P. (2012) Probable root structures and associated trace fossils from the Lower Pleistocene calcarenites of the Favignana Island, southern Italy: dilemmas of interpretation. Geol. Quart., 56(4): 745-756, doi: 10.7306/gq.1052 Two types of large, branched structures from the Lower Pleistocene (Calabrian) high-energy cal...

The Sicilian Thrust System (STS) is a south-verging (Africa-verging) fold-and-thrust belt including a Mesozoic-Paleogene sedimentary sequence. This thrust stack owes its origin to the deformation of pre-orogenic strata deposited in different palaeogeographic domains belonging to passive margins of the African plate. The STS was deformed during the...

Late Jurassic-Lower Cretaceous dark, relatively organic carbon-rich sediments that occur over the Outer Carpathians and Rhenodanubian zones are a part of similar deposits that developed within others Alpinedomains (Lemoin, 2003, Puglisi, 2009) and the Atlantic Ocean (Arthur, 1979). These sediments that representedpoorly oxygenated to euxenic condit...

At the end of early Cretaceous (Barremian -Albian) compressional movements started in the Outer Carpathian part of the Tethys and continued in the Late Cretaceous and Paleocene. They were responsible for shortening of and metamorphism in a part of that area. Finally, tectonic movements destroyed the Proto-Silesian Basin and in its area the Silesian...

Four geodynamic evolutionary stages reflecting the Wilson cycle can be distinguished in the Northern Carpathians. During the first, extensional stage, in the Late Jurassic (Kimmeridgian – Tithonian) the proto-Silesian Basin was formed in the area of the Outer Carpathian sector of the Northern Tethys. To the south the basin was bordered the by Proto...

Comparative research carried out within two different basins, one in the Carpathians of Poland (Late Jurassic to Early Miocene) and another in the Apenninic-Maghrebian mountain chain of Sicily (Triassic-Miocene), indicate significant similarity not only in their evolution but also in the sedimentary features of horizons with olistoliths. The olisto...

The Silesian Series deposited in the proto-Silesian and Silesian basins and preserved within the Silesian Nappe, represents most complete continuous basinal sedimentary succession (Late Jurassic–Early Miocene) within the Outer Carpathians. It contains intercalations of numerous olistostromes that occurred during every stage of flysch basin evolutio...

Comparative observations on olistostromes in the Lufilan Belt (Neoproterozoic, Central Africa) and the Northern Flysch Carpathians (Jurassic-Miocene, Poland) Wendorff, M.1, Cieszkowski, M.2, Ślączka, A.2 1AGH University of Science and Technology, Faculty of Geology, Geophysics and Environmental Protection, Mickiewicza Ave. 30, 30-059 Kraków, Poland...

Bryozoan-lithothamnium Szydłowiec Sandstones were described by Książkiewicz (1951) as a sandstone complex belonged to the Subsilesian Nappe that builds the Szydłowiec hill (recently named Goryczkowiec hill). The hill is locacted in southern part of Wadowice town, notherly of Gorzeń Dolny village. Szydłowiec Sandstones, Paleocene in age, are a litho...

One of best geotouristic objects presenting the Cretaceous oil-source rocks is the section of the Veřovice Formation (Silesian Nappe) cropped out in cascade of the Wieprzówka river valley in Rzyki village in the Polish Outer Carpathians. Very well exposed, long and available for studies profile allow to familiarize with development of shaly-mudston...

lączka A. et al., Lower Pleistocene deposits in east part of the Favignana Island, Sicily, Italy. In the Favignana Island (Egadi Archipelago, Sicily, Central Mediterranean) Pleistocene shallow water marine deposits are widely well exposed to form a prograding beach/near foreshore complex system. A group of facies associations have been recognised,...

The olistostromes form two belts within the Pieniny Klippen Belt (PKB) in the Northern Carpathians. They mark an early stage of the development of the accretionary prism. The first belt was formed during Late Cretaceous time as a result of subduction of the southern part of the Alpine Tethys. The fore-arc basin originated along this subduction zone...

The olistostromes formed in Northern Carpathians during the different stages of the development of flysch basins, from rift trough post-rift, orogenic to postorogenic stage. They are known from the Cretaceous, Paleocene, Eocene, Oligocene and Early Miocene flysch deposits of main tectonic units. Those units are the Skole, Subsilesian, Silesian, Duk...

The clasts of Cretaceous marls in the conglomerates of the Konradsheim Formation (Pöchlau quarry, Gresten Klippen Zone, Austria) Investigations were carried out on foraminiferids and radiolaria from redeposited clasts within the conglomerates of the Konradsheim Formation (Gresten Klippen Zone) in the area of the Pöchlau hill, east of Maria Neustift...

Olistoliths of various ages, provenance and dimensions are known in all of the higher-rank tectonic units of the Outer Carpathians. Their occurrences at various stratigraphic levels (Late Jurassic – Early Miocene) are related to different stages of development of the flysch basins, from the stage of rifting to post-rifting, through the orogenic pha...

During the CELEBRATION 2000 experiment, the area of SE Poland was investigated by relatively dense system of deep seismic sounding profiles. Apart from five main profiles CEL01-CEL05, eight additional profiles were executed between the edge of the East European Craton and the Carphatians: CEL06, CEL11, CEL12, CEL13, CEL14, CEL21, CEL22 and CEL23. I...

The provenance and diagenesis of the siliciclastic and hemipelagic sediments of three lithostratigraphic units: Lhoty Formation, Barnasiówka Radiolarian Shale Formation (BRSF) and Variegated Shales from Lancko- rona area, Polish Outer Carpathians, was approached by means of petrological and geochemical analysis of the representative samples. Data s...

The best profile containing Upper Cretaceous source rocks in Poland is exposed in the Wieprzówka cascade site in Rzyki village in the Polish Outer Carpathians. This site is located near Andrychów town, about 80 km from the Krakow Balice Airport and close to Wadowice, the Pope John Paul II town. The stream valley was deeply dissected by fluvial eros...

Treœae: Górnojurajsko-dolnokredowe utwory wchodz¹ obecnie w sk³ad p³aszczowin zewnêtrzno-karpackich: magurskiej, œl¹skiej i podœl¹sko-¿danicko-waschbergskiej oraz znane s¹ z olistolitów wy-stêpuj¹cych w osadach ró¿nych jednostek Karpat zewnêtrznych. Autorzy podjêli próbê usystematyzo-wania jednostek litostratygraficznych wed³ug ich wystêpowania w p...

The litho- and biostratigraphy (calcareous nannofossils and foraminifera) were studied in several sections of the folded Miocene Zone (Boryslav-Pokuttya and Sambir nappes) of the Ukrainian Outer Carpathians. Based on new biostratigraphic data, the age and correlation of the folded Miocene deposits in the marginal part of the Ukrainian and Polish Ou...

The Bukowiec Massif, 150 km long and probably several dozen kilometers wide, was very active from the late Cretaceous to the Oligocene. At the first stage, clastic material from the Bukowiec massif was supplied, as indicated by the analysis of paleo-current directions (Książkiewicz, ed. 1962), practically exclusively to the Dukla Basin. In the init...

In 2000, a consortium of European and North American institutions completed a huge active source seismic experiment focused on central Europe, the Central European Lithospheric Experiment Based on Refraction or CELEBRATION 2000. This experiment primarily consisted of a network of seismic refraction profiles that extended from the East European crat...

The purpose of this chapter is to provide the general overview of the stratigraphy and tectonics of the Polish, Ukrainian, and adjacent parts of the Slovakian Outer Carpathians. The Polish and Ukrainian Outer Carpathians form the north and northeastern part of the Carpathians that expand from the Olza River on the Polish–Czech border to the Ukraini...

Twelve time-interval maps have been presented that depict the plate-tectonic configuration, paleogeography, and lithofacies for the circum-Carpathian area from the Late Carboniferous through Neogene and for the circum-Ouachita region from the Late Cambrian through Early Permian. The following geodynamic evolution stages can be distinguished in thes...

Biostratigraphic investigations of pelitic intercalations and pebbles within the Konradsheim Limestone (Gresten Unit, “Gresten Klippen Zone”) in the area of Konradsheim and Pechgraben — Maria Neustift (Lower and Upper Austria) imply that at least a part of that limestone is Cretaceous and not only Jurassic in age. In marly intercalations Foraminife...

Zagadnienie wielkości masywów wśród basenowych dostarczających materiał klastyczny do poszczególnych basenów ciągle jest sprawą dyskusyjną. Wynika to głównie z trudności związanych z przyjęciem odpowiednich danych wyjściowych do rekonstrukcji paleogeograficznych. Wpływa na to, na ogół trudna do określenia, wielkość złuskowań i wewnętrznych nasunięć...

Dla analizy rozmieszczenia wapieni organicznych i organodetrytycznych, analiz paleontologicznych, dla niektórych analiz mikropaleontologicznych, oraz wykonania serii map w basenach fliszowych wykorzystano kilka komputerowych banków danych. Użycie banków danych ułatwia określanie taksonów kopalnych glonów wapienych dla rozpoznania stratygrafii i zró...

Zasadniczym problemem podjętych badań była rekonstrukcja geodynamicznej ewolucji basenów, łuków wysp i grzbietów śródbasenowych w mezozoiku i kenozoiku w oparciu o analizę mikrofacjalną i biostratygraficzną wapieni organicznych we fliszu karpackim. Zostały wykonane rekonesansowe badania terenowe na terenie pienińskiego pasa skałkoweg, jednostki mag...

The Żegocina Tectonic Window is the most eastward located tectonic window of the Lanckorona–Żegocina Zone in the Polish Outer Carpathians and represents the slope parts of the Silesian basin and intrabasinal uplifted zones of the Subsilesian Unit. Upper Cretaceous and Palaeocene variegated marls, typical deposits of the studied part of the basin, a...

This paper presents an insight into the geology of the area surrounding the ODDP proposed drilling site, and the structural development of the Carpathians in post-Palaeogene times. Since the deep drilling is proposed to be located in the Orava region of the Northern Carpathians, on the Polish-Slovak border, the structure and origin of the Neogene O...

Pomiar kierunków transportu w osadach fliszu Karpat zewnętrznych należy do metodyki badań sedymentologicznych dobrze rozwiniętych w zeszłym stuleciu (np. Dżułyński et al., 1959; Książkiewicz, ed., 1962; Ślączka, ed., 1976; Słomka, 1995) Wykonano tysiące pomiarów w różnych jednostkach tektonicznych Polskich Karpat fliszowych. Pomiary te przedstawion...

In the southern Part of the Polish Outer Carpathian accretionary wedge the olistostromes are known from the Cretaceous, Paleocene and flysch deposits of a few main tectonic units. Those are the Skole, Subsilesian, Silesian Dukla and Magura nappes. The largest olistostromes in the Skole Nappe occur in the upper part of the Ropianka Formation (Upper...

As higher education becomes an industry, it commercializes. This process is giving rise to certain anxieties. True, commercialization is bringing certain evils; at the same time, it is generating impulses towards the development of higher education as an essential factor of social progress and economic growth. The commercialization of higher educat...

Twelve time interval maps have been presented which depict the plate tectonic configuration, paleogeography and lithofacies for the circum-Carpathian area from the Late Carboniferous through Neogene and for the circum-Ouachita region from Late Cambrian through Early Permian. The following geodynamic evolutionary stages can be distinguished in these...

During the Early to Middle Miocene evolution of the Carpathian Foredeep Basin two salinity crises were recorded-the Early Burdigalian and Late Badenian ones. The Late Badenia salts developed in two separate an echelon-like sub-basins, the western and eastern Carpathian ones. During the Late Miocene movement a substantial part of the salt deposits w...

Biostratigraphical investigations of pelitic intercalation within the Konradsheim Limestone (Gresten Units) in the area of the Konradsheim and Pechsgraben imply that that Limestone is of the Late Cretaceous age. The clasts represent mainly the Malm deposits but also clasts with radiolaria limestones of the Early Cretaceous age were found. It can ha...

The foraminiferal and nannoplankton assemblages analysed in the Wêglówka Marls, Subsilesian Unit, indicate the Campanian–Maastrichtian age. These sediments were deposited on the outer shelf and the upper–mid part of the slope. Paleoecological analyses indicated a relationship between some morphotypes and their life strate-gies. Morphogroup analysis...

Carparthian foredeep's Wieliczka salt mine, unique gravity deposits were lately distinguished. They are mainly built of salt particles and blocks with a small admixture of fragments of Miocene marls and Carpathian rocks, deposited on precipitated salt. The pattern of sediment distribution is similar to a submarine fan. Gravels are dominant in the u...

The upper part of the Stratified Salt Member is represented by redeposited sandstones, conglomerates and pebbly mudstones composed of salt fragments and, in the southern part, also of fragments of the Miocene clays and Carpathian flysch-rocks. All these deposits build up several submarine fans thinning northwardly, off the Carpathians. The Salt Bre...

The vertical and lateral variability in grain-size distributions and mineralogy of sandstone turbidites in the Oligocene Krosno Formation suggests that two different relationships between grain-size sorting and mineralogical sorting result during transport by turbidity currents. In one relationship, mineralogical sorting is associated with size sor...