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The Institute of Geological Sciences, Polish Academy of Sciences

The Institute of Geological Sciences is a part of the Division III of the Polish Academy of Sciences.

 

History of our institute reaches 1956. We conduct basic geological investigations concerning the origin and formation of rocks and minerals, evolution of selected orogens and reconstruction of ancient environments. Disciplinary areas of research interests include sedimentology, Quaternary geology, isotope geochemistry (especially geochronology), mineralogy, petrology, tectonics, stratigraphy and hydrogeology, also paleontology .

The Headquarters of the Institute is in Warszawa.  
Scientific units of the Institute are research groups residing at Research Centres - in Kraków, Warszawa and Wrocław - along with Doctoral Studies section, laboratories, libraries and the Geological Museum. 

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AuthorsMirosław Jastrzębski, Bartosz Budzyń, Andrzej Żelaźniewicz, Patrik Konečný, Jiří Sláma, Gabriela A. Kozub‐Budzyń, Etienne Skrzypek, Aleksandra Jaźwa
Year2021
TitleEo‐Variscan metamorphism in the Bohemian Massif: Thermodynamic modelling and monazite geochronology of gneisses and granulites of the Góry Sowie Massif, SW Poland
MagazineJournal of Metamorphic Geology
DOIdoi.org/10.1111/jmg.12589

 

In the Variscides of central Europe, the tectonothermal history of a few units jointly assigned to the Teplá‐Barrandian/Bohemian microplate had already terminated in the Devonian. One of these is the Góry Sowie Massif (GSM; Sudetes, SW Poland), mainly consisting of variably migmatitic gneisses with subordinate granulite and peridotite inserts. The eo‐Variscan evolution of the GSM was completed in five tectonothermal stages; however, the timing and pressure–temperature (P–T) conditions of the individual stages remain unclear because isotopic ages overlap within error, and previous P–T estimates have been determined without reference to these ages.

 

AuthorsEwa Słaby, Robert Anczkiewicz, Katarzyna Gros, Klaus Simon, Gabriela A. Kozub-Budzyń, Łukasz Birski, Hervé Martin, Mudlappa Jayananda, Jean-François Moyen, Milena Matyszczak, Marta Koziarska, Ewa Deput
Year2021
TitleHigh-temperature fluids in granites during the Neoarchaean-Palaeoproterozoic transition: Insight from Closepet titanite chemistry and U-Pb dating (Dharwar craton, India)
MagazineLithos, Volumes 386–387, April 2021, 106039
DOIdoi.org/10.1016/j.lithos.2021.106039

 

 

AuthorsBartosz Budzyń, Jiří Sláma, Fernando Corfu, James Crowley, Mark Schmitz, Michael L. Williams, Michael J. Jercinovic, Gabriela A. Kozub-Budzyń, Patrik Konečny, Grzegorz Rzepa, Adam Włodek
Year2021
TitleTS-Mnz – A new monazite age reference material for U-Th-Pb microanalysis
MagazineChemical Geology, Volume 572, 30 June 2021, 120195
DOIdoi.org/10.1016/j.chemgeo.2021.120195

 

Highlights:

•    A megacryst of monazite ("TS-Mnz") was studied by EPMA, Raman microspectroscopy, ID-TIMS U-Pb analysis, and LA-ICPMS U-Th-Pb and TE analysis
•    TS-Mnz despite compositional variations reveals reproducible U-Pb and Th-Pb dates
•    TS-Mnz is proposed as a new age reference material for U-Th-Pb microanalysis
•    Recommended reference mean 207Pb/235U and 208Pb/232Th ages are 910.42 ± 0.34 Ma (2σ) and 910.7 ± 1.3 Ma (95% conf.), respectively

AuthorsArtur Kuligiewicz, Arkadiusz Derkowski
Year2021
TitleRehydroxylation of fired clays: Is the time to the quarter (TTTQ) model correct?
MagazineJournal of Archaeological Science, Volume 125, January 2021, 105301
DOIdoi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2020.105301

Water and sediment chemical compositions were investigated in 75 post-mining lakes in the eastern part of the Muskau Arch region (Western Poland, Central Europe). The lakes, originating from lignite and clay surfaces and underground mining activity, exhibited a wide gradient of physical and chemical water parameters. The most pronounced variability in water parameters was observed in pH values, conductivity, and oxygen concentration in the mixolimnion and monimolimnion. In addition, the lakes varied in terms of their trophic status, indicated by their dissolved organic carbon (DOC) and phosphorous concentrations. In general, lakes with higher pH values had higher trophic states, and some even exhibited hypertrophic conditions. The Monte Carlo test indicated that the water pH, phosphorus, DOC, and silicon concentrations could significantly explain the chemical characteristics of sediments.

AuthorsStanisław Mazur, Michał Malinowski, Yuriy Petrovich Maystrenko, Łukasz Gągała
Year2021
TitlePre-existing lithospheric weak zone and its impact on continental rifting – The Mid-Polish Trough, Central European Basin System
MagazineGlobal and Planetary Change, Volume 198, March 2021, 103417
DOIdoi.org/10.1016/j.gloplacha.2021.103417

 

AuthorsMichał Gąsiorowski, Jacek Stienss, Elwira Sienkiewicz, Ilona Sekudewicz
Year2021
TitleGeochemical Variability of Surface Sediment in Post-Mining Lakes Located in the Muskau Arch (Poland) and Its Relation to Water Chemistry
MagazineWater, Air, & Soil Pollution volume 232, Article number: 108 (2021)
DOIdoi.org/10.1007/s11270-021-05057-8

Water and sediment chemical compositions were investigated in 75 post-mining lakes in the eastern part of the Muskau Arch region (Western Poland, Central Europe). The lakes, originating from lignite and clay surfaces and underground mining activity, exhibited a wide gradient of physical and chemical water parameters. The most pronounced variability in water parameters was observed in pH values, conductivity, and oxygen concentration in the mixolimnion and monimolimnion. In addition, the lakes varied in terms of their trophic status, indicated by their dissolved organic carbon (DOC) and phosphorous concentrations. In general, lakes with higher pH values had higher trophic states, and some even exhibited hypertrophic conditions. The Monte Carlo test indicated that the water pH, phosphorus, DOC, and silicon concentrations could significantly explain the chemical characteristics of sediments.

AuthorsMarcin Błaszczyk, Helena Hercman, Jacek Pawlak, Jacek Szczygieł
Year2021
TitleGeochemical Variability of Surface Sediment in Post-Mining Lakes Located in the Muskau Arch (Poland) and Its Relation to Water Chemistry
MagazineQuaternary Research , Volume 99 , January 2021 , pp. 290 - 304
DOIdoi.org/10.1017/qua.2020.69

The SC-3 speleothem from Szczelina Chochołowska Cave, located in the Tatra Mountains, was studied in detail. U-series dating and age–depth modeling allowed us to constrain the period of speleothem growth to between approximately 330 and 200 ka, that is, during Marine Isotope Stages (MIS) 9–7. The complementary use of stable isotope analyses, petrographic studies, and trace element analyses allowed the identification of warm and wet climatic conditions that were favorable for speleothem growth during MIS 9e and MIS 9c. Unfavorable climatic periods included the cold glacial conditions of MIS 8 and the MIS 9/MIS 8 transition.

AuthorsK. Dudzisz, M. Lewandowski, T. Wernera, G. Karasiński, A. Kędzior, M. Paszkowski, J. Środoń, M.J. Bojanowski
Year2021
TitlePaleolatitude estimation and premises for geomagnetic field instability from the Proterozoic drilling core material of the south-western part of the East European Craton
MagazinePrecambrian Research, Volume 357, 1 June 2021, 106135
DOIdoi.org/10.1016/j.precamres.2021.106135

 

 

AuthorsŁukasz Kruszewski, Monika J. Fabiańska, Tomasz Segit, Danuta Kusy, Rafał Motyliński, Justyna Ciesielczuk, Ewa Deput
Year2020
TitleCarbon‑nitrogen compounds, alcohols, mercaptans, monoterpenes, acetates, aldehydes, ketones, SF6, PH3, and other fire gases in coal-mining waste heaps of Upper Silesian Coal Basin (Poland) – a re-investigation by means of in situ FTIR external database approach
MagazineScience of The Total Environment, Volume 698, 1 January 2020, 134274
DOIdoi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2019.134274

 

AuthorsBartosz Budzyń, Łukasz Birski, Richard Wirth, Anja Schreiber
Year2020
TitleNanoscale constraints on a fluid-induced transformation of monazite during postmagmatic alteration – A case of the Jawornik granitoid (NE Orlica-Śnieżnik Dome, Sudetes, SW Poland)
MagazineLithos, Volumes 376–377, 1 December 2020, 105777
DOIdoi.org/10.1016/j.lithos.2020.105777

Highlights

•Monazite demonstrates different courses of fluid-mediated post-magmatic alteration.

•Monazite transformation strongly depends on a local (micro)environment.

•Replacement reactions formed Th-phases, either rhabdophane or thorianite.

•The monazite structure is resistant to infiltration by K- and Ca-bearing fluids.