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Authors	Mirosław Jastrzębski, Andrzej Żelaźniewicz, Jiří Sláma, Ewa Krzemińska, Marek Śliwiński
Year	2025
Tytuł	The Eo-Variscan domain in the Variscan belt: New data from the Sudetes, southern Poland
Magazine	Lithos Volumes 504–505
DOI	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lithos.2025.108058

Highlights

Authors	SJérémie Soldner; Karel Schulmann; Pavla Štípská; Yingde Jiang
Year	2025
Tytuł	Paleozoic tectonothermal history of the amalgamation of the Tarim–North China and Mongolian collages
Magazine	Journal of the Geological Society, Volume 182, Number 2
DOI	https://doi.org/10.1144/jgs2024-100

In the Mongolian Collage, metamorphic pressure–temperature (P–T) and timing reveal a one-stage evolution defined by a duality of late Neoproterozoic–Ordovician subduction-related low T/P metamorphism and suprasubduction high T/P metamorphism recorded in the Mongolia–Manchuria and Baikal–Sayan belts. This was followed by gradual prevalence of suprasubduction high T/P metamorphism towards the late Paleozoic corresponding to the Altai and South Altai cycles.

Authors	Magdalena Krajcarz, Chris Baumann, Hervé Bocherens, Samantha Presslee, Maciej T. Krajcarz
Year	2025
Tytuł	Dietary preferences and collagen to collagen prey-predator trophic discrimination factors (Δ13C, Δ15N) in late Pleistocene cave hyena
Magazine	Quaternary Research , Volume 123 , January 2025
DOI	https://doi.org/10.1017/qua.2024.43

The spotted hyena (Crocuta crocuta) was an important large carnivore of Pleistocene ecosystems in Africa and Eurasia. Like its modern relatives, this obligate carnivore was adapted to crush and digest bones of its prey and absorb organic matter from bones more efficiently than any other carnivore. This difference in the nutrient resource use between hyenas and most other carnivores led to differences in the isotope flux and variation in the carbon and nitrogen isotopic composition. In our paper, we assess the prey-to-hyena collagen-to-collagen Δ13C and Δ15N trophic discrimination factor (TDF), a key parameter needed in mixing models used for quantitative reconstruction of diet.

Authors	Stanisław Mazur, Karel Schulmann
Year	2025
Tytuł	At the border of peri-Gondwana and Baltica: the structure of the eastern termination of the Variscan belt
Magazine	Journal of the Geological Society, Volume 182
DOI	https://doi.org/10.1144/jgs2024-075 3

The termination of the eastern Variscan belt has long been a matter of debate because it is deeply concealed beneath younger sediments. Its geometry has been addressed by the two competing hypotheses of the Variscan orocline and right-lateral strike-slip tectonics. We compiled a set of new gravity and magnetic maps for the Czech Republic, Poland and eastern Germany to track Variscan structures in the subsurface. These maps clearly show that the Rheno-Hercynian Suture turns by almost 90° east of the Harz Mountains in Germany and continues into Poland towards the ESE.

Authors	Joanna Mirosław-Grabowska, Witold Paweł Alexandrowicz, Krzysztof Stefaniak, Sylwia Skoczylas-Śniaz
Year	2025
Tytuł	Eemian snails from Gorzów Wielkopolski palaeolake (NW Poland): malacological and isotopic data and their ecological implications
Magazine	Journal of Paleolimnology, Volume 73
DOI	https://doi.org/10.1007/s10933-024-00349-5

The results of isotope and malacological investigations of mollusc shells from the Eemian Interglacial (MIS 5e) and Vistulian (Weichselian, MIS 5a-d - MIS 4) lake sediments in Gorzów Wielkopolski (NW Poland) are presented. The palaeolake in Gorzów Wielkoposki is the newest paleontological site with the skeleton of the Eemian rhinoceros. The analyzed sediments contained numerous mollusc shells representing 29 species. The dominant species in the malacofauna are Valvata piscinalis and Bithynia tentaculata. Two types of mollusc assemblages have been distinguished, indicating the changes in the lake environment.

Authors	Stefano Giunti, Przemysław Gedl, Artur Kędzior, Leszek Marynowski, Mariusz Paszkowski, Andreas Wetzel, Maciej J. Bojanowski
Year	2024
Tytuł	Hydrocarbon-derived thrombolites from the Outer Carpathians (Lower Cretaceous, Poland)
Magazine	Sedimentology, Volume71, Issue7, December 2024
DOI	https://doi.org/10.1111/sed.13212

Shallow marine thrombolites from a newly discovered Lower Cretaceous cold seep in the Outer Carpathians (Poland) were analysed in order to untangle the complex sedimentological and biogeochemical processes involved in their formation and their diagenetic modifications. Carbonate precipitation within the framework cavities is interpreted to have been related to bacterial sulphate reduction. U-shaped trace fossils attributed to the ichnogenus Balanoglossites cross-cut both mesoclots and framework cavities. The mechanisms involved in the formation and diagenesis of thrombolites at cold seeps are yet to be fully understood, and this work provides new insights on these complex biogeochemical and sedimentological processes.

Authors	Martin Qvarnström, Joel Vikberg Wernström, Zuzanna Wawrzyniak, Maria Barbacka, Grzegorz Pacyna, Artur Górecki, Jadwiga Ziaja, Agata Jarzynka, Krzysztof Owocki, Tomasz Sulej, Leszek Marynowski, Grzegorz Pieńkowski, Per E. Ahlberg, Grzegorz Niedźwiedzki
Year	2024
Tytuł	Digestive contents and food webs record the advent of dinosaur supremacy
Magazine	Nature volume 636, pages 397–403 (2024)
DOI	https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-024-08265-4

The early radiation of dinosaurs remains a complex and poorly understood evolutionary event. Here we use hundreds of fossils with direct evidence of feeding to compare trophic dynamics across five vertebrate assemblages that record this event in the Triassic–Jurassic succession of the Polish Basin (central Europe). Bromalites, fossil digestive products, increase in size and diversity across the interval, indicating the emergence of larger dinosaur faunas with new feeding patterns. Well-preserved food residues and bromalite-taxon associations enable broad inferences of trophic interactions. Our results, integrated with climate and plant data, indicate a stepwise increase of dinosaur diversity and ecospace occupancy in the area.

Authors	Artur Kuligiewicz, Arkadiusz Derkowski
Year	2024
Tytuł	Kinetics and mechanism of (re)hydroxylation in fired clay minerals
Magazine	Journal of the American Ceramic Society, Volume 107, Issue 6
DOI	https://doi.org/10.1111/jace.19699

Three types of smectite with various crystallochemical compositions and interlayer cations as well as kaolinite and illite were fired at 800°C and 650°C and tested for their rehydroxylation's (RHX) potential and kinetics in the presence of water vapor at 200°C–350°C. A dehydroxylated structure of 2:1 Al-rich mineral with the interlayer pillared by a large cation (like K⁺ or Cs⁺) is wide enough to allow H₂O diffusion which results in advanced RHX, that is, restoring up to several tens of percent of the original OH content.

Authors	M. Ponikowska, S. M. Stovba, S. Mazur, M. Malinowski, P. Krzywiec, Q. Nguyen, C. Hübscher
Year	2024
Tytuł	Crustal-Scale Pop-Up Structure at the Junction of Two Continental-Scale Deformation Zones in the Southern Baltic Sea
Magazine	Tectonics, Volume43, Issue4, April 2024
DOI	https://doi.org/10.1029/2023TC008066

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Authors	Stanisław Mazur
Year	2024
Tytuł	An Outline of the Geology of Poland
Book	Landscapes and Landforms of Poland, Migoń, P., Jancewicz, K. (eds) Landscapes and Landforms of Poland. World Geomorphological Landscapes. Springer, Cham Chapter, pp 3–17
DOI	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-45762-3_1

The complexity of Poland's geology is due to its location at the junction of three major geological provinces of Europe: (1) the East European Precambrian Platform, (2) the Palaeozoic Platform, and (3) the Carpathians. The East European Platform corresponds to an old and stable Precambrian craton, extending over the eastern half of the continent and mostly covered by weakly deformed Proterozoic to Phanerozoic sediments.

Authors	Stanisław Mazur, Waldemar Jóźwiak, Krzysztof Nowożyński, Szymon Oryński
Year	2024
Tytuł	Magnetotelluric evidence for long-lasting crustal memory in an intraplate setting – the Grójec Fault and Mid-Polish Trough in central Poland
Magazine	Tectonophysics, 2024, 230213
DOI	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tecto.2024.230213

The Grójec Fault (GF) is of significant interest due to its orientation perpendicular to the dominant NW-SE structural grain in the transition zone from Precambrian to Phanerozoic Europe. The fault is located along the extension of the boundary between the Sarmatia and Fennoscandia segments of the East European Craton (EEC). While Late Cretaceous fault activity has been documented by studies since the 1980s, its earlier history remains poorly understood. To better understand the deep crustal structure and its link to shallow deformation, new magnetotelluric data from 39 points, along with older geomagnetic data from 22 survey points, were used to create a three-dimensional (3-D) model of the geoelectric structure.

Authors	Nadine J. Kanik, Artur Kuligiewicz, Jeffrey T. Cullen
Year	2024
Title	Impacts of chemical pre-treatments on the hydrogen isotope composition of clay minerals: Determining potential effects in the absence of impurities
Magazine	Applied Clay Science, Volume 247, 2024
DOI	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.clay.2023.107213

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Authors	Szczepański J, Kaszuba G, Anczkiewicz R, Ilnicki S.
Year	2023
Title	Provenance of the early Palaeozoic volcano-sedimentary successions from eastern part of the Central Sudetes: implications for the tectonic evolution of the NE Bohemian Massif.
Magazine	Geological Magazine. 2023;160(8):1498-1534.
DOI	https://doi.org/10.1017/S0016756823000523

The Kamieniec Metamorphic Belt (KMB) and the Doboszowice Metamorphic Complex (DMC) expose a fragment of the pre-Variscan volcano-sedimentary cover preserved in the Fore-Sudetic Block in the NE part of the Bohemian Massif. We present the age of detrital and magmatic zircon grains and the bulk rock chemical composition of rock samples from the KMB and the DMC to better understand the evolution of the early Palaeozoic Gondwana margin.

Authors	Christopher J Barnes, Mattia Gilio, Michał Bukała, Adam Włodek, Jarosław Majka, Matthijs Smit
Year	2023
Title	Garnet–Quartz Inclusion Thermobarometry and Lu–Hf Chronology Detail the Pre-Ultra-High Pressure Metamorphic History of the Grapesvare Nappe, Scandinavian Caledonides
Magazine	Journal of Petrology, Volume 64, Issue 12
DOI	https://doi.org/10.1093/petrology/egad086

The subduction–exhumation history of the Grapesvare nappe in the northern Seve Nappe Complex (Scandinavian Caledonides) is recorded by late Cambrian/Early Ordovician ultra-high pressure (UHP) and subsequent amphibolite facies metamorphic events. Records of these events obscured earlier metamorphic episodes that are important for understanding the tectonics of the orogen. To extract the pre–UHP metamorphic records, garnet Lu–Hf geochronology, Titanium-in-Quartz thermobarometry, and Quartz-in-Garnet elastic thermobarometry were applied to garnet porphyroblasts in metasedimentary rocks and eclogite.

Authors	Jan Środoń, Daniel J. Condon, Elena Golubkova, Ian L. Millar, Oksana Kuzmenkova, Mariusz Paszkowski, Stanisław Mazur, Artur Kędzior, Daniel Drygant, Valerian Ciobotaru, Sirle Liivamägi
Year	2023
Title	Ages of the Ediacaran Volyn-Brest trap volcanism, glaciations, paleosols, Podillya Ediacaran soft-bodied organisms, and the Redkino-Kotlin boundary (East European Craton) constrained by zircon single grain U-Pb dating
Magazine	Precambrian Research, Volume 386, March 2023, 106962
DOI	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.precamres.2023.106962

Combined single zircon crystal CA-ID-TIMS U-Pb dating, micropaleontological study, and quantitative XRD analysis were used to correlate sections of the Podillya-Moldova Ediacaran succession with sections of the Volyn Large Igneous Province (Volyn LIP). Five U-Pb zircon ages were obtained from Volyn LIP rocks, and four from three distinct Podillya bentonite horizons. Biostratigraphic determinations were made for one section in Volyn, and two sections in Podillya. It was concluded that Volyn LIP activity had two phases.

Authors	Helena Hercman, Michał Gąsiorowski, Jacek Szczygieł, Pavel Bella, Michał Gradziński, Marcin Błaszczyk, Šárka Matoušková, Petr Pruner, Pavel Bosák
Year	2023
Title	Delayed valley incision due to karst capture (Demänová Cave System, Western Carpathians, Slovakia) Trough in Central Poland
Magazine	Geomorphology, Volume 437, 15 September 2023, 108809
DOI	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geomorph.2023.108809

Karst systems can control the amount of water flowing on the surface and thus the fluvial erosional efficiency. Here, we used the ages of speleothems from the active cave system to determine the middle Pleistocene history of the entrenchment of the Demänová Valley.

Authors	Gąsiorowski, M., Sienkiewicz, E., Kowalewska, U.
Year	2023
Title	Paleohydrological changes during the Late Holocene recorded in the sediments of two mountain lakes in the Tatra Mountains (Central Europe)
Magazine	Journal of Paleolimnology 70, 293–310 (2023)
DOI	https://doi.org/10.1007/s10933-023-00294-9

Changes in local hydrological and climatic conditions over the last 5500 years have been reconstructed based on geochemical and paleobiological features recorded in the sediments of two mountain lakes.

Authors	Budzyń, B., Wirth, R., Sláma, J., Kozub-Budzyń, G.A., Schreiber, A.
Year	2023
Title	Atomic-scale Th and U segregation into dislocation cores and U-Pb age discordance in xenotime.
Magazine	Lithos, 444–445, 107105
DOI	doi:10.1016/j.lithos.2023.107105

Highlights:
•    dislocation cores in xenotime contain U, Th and Si enriched material
•    dislocations are surrounded on both sides by radiation-damaged xenotime
•    transport of U in dislocations network is a suggested source of age discordance

Authors	Wysocka I., Kaczor-Kurzawa D., Porowski A.
Year	2022
Title	Development and validation of seaFAST-ICP-QMS method for determination of rare earth elements total concentrations in natural mineral waters
Magazine	Food Chemistry, Volume 388, 133008 (2022)
DOI	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foodchem.2022.133008

Highlights

• The seaFAST-ICP-QMS method is used for REE analyses in natural mineral waters.

• Method validation and characteristic parameters are presented and discussed.

• Potential of REE distribution in bottled waters for their authentication is shown.

• REE patterns in native and bottled mineral waters are compared.

• All REE concentrations in the reference samples SERMIN1 and VIDAC18 are presented.

Authors	Kaczor-Kurzawa D., Wysocka I., Porowski A., Drzewicz P., Vassileva E
Year	2022
Title	The occurrence and distribution of rare earth elements in mineral and thermal waters in the Polish Lowlands
Magazine	Journal of Geochemical Exploration, Volume 237, June 2022, 106984
DOI	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gexplo.2022.106984

Highlights

• REE contents and three REE-pattern types were determined in waters studied.

• Combination of seaFAST system and ICP-MS detection for REE analyses in waters

• REE-patterns in water and aquifer host rocks were used to assess REE-fractionation.

• Ce and Eu anomalies revealed different geochemical conditions in aqueous systems.

Authors	Wudarska, A., Sordyl, J., Manecki, M., Zawiła, A., Bajda, T.
Year	2022
Title	Vibrational spectroscopic study of synthetic analogs of schultenite PbHAsO4–“phosphoschultenite” PbHPO4 solid solution series
Magazine	Polyhedron, Volume 211, 1 January 2022, 115534
DOI	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.poly.2021.115534

Lead hydrogen arsenate PbHAsO₄ and lead hydrogen phosphate PbHPO₄, which can form a continuous solid solution series, have been extensively studied owing to their ferroelectric properties. PbHAsO₄ has also been found to occur in weathered As- and Pb-rich outcrops and historically contaminated soils as a schultenite mineral. Although most ferroelectric studies were of substantial interest more than 30 years ago, the contamination of the Earth’s surface with toxic Pb and As remains a major concern for environmentalists.

Authors	Pieterek, B., Laban, M., Ciazela, J., Muszyński, A.
Year	2022
Title	Explosive volcanism in Noctis Fossae on Mars
Magazine	Icarus, Volume 375, 15 March 2022, 114851
DOI	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.icarus.2021.114851

Highlights

• Noctis Fossae on Mars hosts at least 25 volcanic cones of explosive origin.

• The volcanoes resemble the terrestrial pyroclastic scoria cones.

• Our crater count dating shows that the youngest cones were formed <200 Ma.

• The volcanic field was supplied by dikes that originated from Tharsis Montes.

• Explosive volcanism in Tharsis is more common and younger than previously thought.

Authors	Pieterek, B., Ciazela, J., Lagain, A., Ciazela, M.
Year	2022
Title	Late Amazonian dike-fed distributed volcanism in the Tharsis volcanic province on Mars
Magazine	Icarus, Volume 386, 1 November 2022, 115151
DOI	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.icarus.2022.115151

Highlights

• Tharsis on Mars hosts at least 659 distributed volcanoes.

• Our crater count dating shows most volcanoes are < 200 Ma.

• The 659 volcanic edifices were classified into 6 subprovinces of central volcanoes.

• They are supplied by systems of radial and circumferential dikes.

• The dikes are controlled by central volcanoes' magmatic systems.

Authors	Pieterek, B., Ciazela, J., Boulanger, M., Lazarov, M., Wegorzewski, A., Pańczyk, M., Strauss, H., Dick, H.J.B., Muszynski, A., Koepke, J., Kuhn, T., Czupyt, Z., France, L.
Year	2022
Title	Sulfide enrichment along igneous layer boundaries in the lower oceanic crust: IODP Hole U1473A, Atlantis Bank, Southwest Indian Ridge
Magazine	Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, Volume 320, 1 March 2022, Pages 179-206
DOI	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gca.2022.01.004

Reactive porous or focused melt flows are common in crystal mushes of mid-ocean ridge magma reservoirs. Although they exert significant control on mid-ocean ridge magmatic differentiation, their role in metal transport between the mantle and the ocean floor remains poorly constrained. Here we aim to improve such knowledge for oceanic crust formed at slow-spreading centers (approximately half of present-day oceanic crust), by focusing on specific igneous features where sulfides are concentrated.

Authors	Ciążela, J., Bakala, J., Kowalinski, M., Plocieniak, S., Zalewska, N., Pieterek, B., Mrozek, T., Ciążela, M., Pasławski, G., Steslicki, M., Szaforz, Z., Barylak, J., Kuzaj, M., Maturilli, A., Helbert, J., Muszynski, A., Rataj, M., Jozefowicz, M., Gburek, S., Marciniak, D.
Year	2022
Title	Concept and design of the Martian far‐IR ORE Spectrometer MIRORES
Magazine	Remote Sensing, Published: 10 June 2022; volume 14(12), 2799
DOI	https://doi.org/10.3390/rs14122799

Sulfide ores are a major source of noble (Au, Ag, and Pt) and base (Cu, Pb, Zn, Sn, Co, Ni, etc.) metals and will, therefore, be vital for the self-sustainment of future Mars colonies. Martian meteorites are rich in sulfides, which is reflected in recent findings for surface Martian rocks analyzed by the Spirit and Curiosity rovers.

Authors	Plado, J., Łosiak, A., Jõeleht, A., Ormö, J., Alexanderson, H., Alwmark, C., Wild, E.M, Steier, P., Awdankiewicz, M., Belcher, C.
Year	2022
Title	Discriminating between impact or nonimpact origin of small meteorite crater candidates: No evidence for an impact origin for the Tor crater, Sweden
Magazine	Meteoritics and Planetary Science, First published: 17 October 2022; Volume 57, Issue 11 November 2022, pp. 1987-2002
DOI	https://doi.org/10.1111/maps.13914

Compared to intensive research on km-sized meteorite impact craters, fewer studies focus on smaller craters. The small craters are often hard or impossible to recognize using “classical” criteria like the presence of shatter cones, shocked quartz, and geochemical indicators. Therefore, a long list of candidate structures awaiting approval/disapproval of their origin has been formed over the last decades. One of them is the Tor structure in central Sweden.

Authors	Łosiak, A., Belcher, C.M., Plado, J., Jõeleht, A., Herd, C.D.K., Kofman, R.S., Szokaluk, M., Szczuciński, W., Muszyński, A., Wild, E.M., Baker, S.J.
Year	2022
Title	Small impact cratering processes produce distinctive charcoal assemblages
Magazine	Geology, AUGUST 31, 2022; Geology (2022) volume 50 (11): 1276–1280.
DOI	https://doi.org/10.1130/G50056.1

The frequency of crater-producing asteroid impacts on Earth is not known. Of the predicted Holocene asteroid impact craters of <200 m diameter, only ~30% have been located. Until now there has been no way to distinguish them from “normal” terrestrial structures unless pieces of iron meteorites were found nearby. We show that the reflective properties of charcoal found in the proximal ejecta of small impact craters are distinct from those produced by wildfires. Impact-produced charcoals and wildfire charcoals must derive from different heating regimes. We suggest that charcoal with specific reflective properties may help to recognize the meteoritic origin of small craters.

Authors	Śliwiński, M., Jastrzębski, M., Sláma, J.
Year	2022
Title	Detrital zircon analysis of metasedimentary rocks of the Staré Město Belt, the Sudetes: implications for the provenance and evolution of the eastern margin of the Saxothuringian terrane, NE Bohemian Massif
Magazine	Geological Quarterly, Vol 66, No 2 (2022)
DOI	http://dx.doi.org/10.7306/gq.1653

The Staré Město Belt (SMB) in the Central Sudetes forms a Variscan tectonic boundary zone that is located between the Saxothuringian and Brunovistulian terranes of the Bohemian Massif. The three thrust-bounded upper, middle and lower lithotectonic units of the SMB are composed of metasedimentary and Late Cambrian metavolcanic rocks. A new LA-ICPMS zircon geochronology supported by zircon typology studies of the mica schists of the upper unit and the migmatitic paragneisses of the middle unit provides new insights into the provenance and evolution of the SMB. Our new data were obtained from metasedimentary rocks and compared to the previously published zircon ages of the SMB metavolcanic rocks.

Authors	Kowal-Linka, M., Jastrzębski, M., Krzemińska, E. Czupyt Z.
Year	2022
Title	The importance of parameter selection in studies of detrital zircon provenance: An example from Mesozoic deposits of the Bohemian Massif foreland (Poland)
Magazine	Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, Volume 599, 1 August 2022, 111035
DOI	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2022.111035

Detrital zircons are commonly used to identify sediment provenance, but usually only their ages are employed for interpretation. We here test the combination of four data types: crystallization ages, Th/U values, cathodoluminescence-induced internal textures, and grain shapes. Six samples of zircons from Triassic and Cretaceous deposits from the northeastern foreland of the Bohemian Massif (Poland) were used to identify as accurately as possible source rocks and their paleolocations, changes in erosional levels of source areas, and transport directions.

Authors	Budzyń, B., Wirth, R., Sláma, J., Kozub-Budzyń, G.A., Rzepa, G., Schreiber, A.
Year	2022
Title	A detailed and comprehensive TEM, EPMA and Raman characterization of high-metamorphic grade monazite and their U-Th-Pb systematics (the Góry Sowie Block, SW Poland)
Magazine	Chemical Geology, Volume 607, 30 September 2022, 121015
DOI	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chemgeo.2022.121015

Eleven monazite grains, two from a migmatitic gneiss and nine from two felsic granulites from the Góry Sowie Block (SW Poland) were studied with transmission electron microscopy (TEM), electron probe microanalysis (EPMA), Raman microspectroscopy and laser ablation inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (LA-ICPMS) U-Th-Pb analysis in order to assess processes affecting U-Th-Pb age record.

Authors	Wojewódka-Przybył, M., Krahn, K.J., Hamerlík, L., Macario-González, L., Cohuo, S., Charqueño-Celis, F., Cisneros, A., Hoelzmann, P., Yang, H., Rose, N.L., Zawisza, E., Pérez, L., Schwalb, A.
Year	2022
Title	Imprints of the Little Ice Age and the severe earthquake of AD 2001 on theaquatic ecosystem of a tropical maar lake in El Salvador
Magazine	The Holocene, First published online July 1, 2022; Volume 32 Issue 10, October 2022
DOI	https://doi.org/10.1177/09596836221106965

Using a 530-year sediment record from the maar Lake Apastepeque, El Salvador, and based on diverse geochemical and biological (cladocerans, chironomids, diatoms, ostracods, testate amoebae) indicators, we estimated climatic and environmental alterations during the Little Ice Age (LIA) and reconstructed the recent history of the lake.

Authors	Słowiński, M., Obremska, M., Avirmed, D., Woszczyk, M., Adiya, S., Łuców, D., Mroczkowska, A., Halaś, A., Szczuciński, W., Kruk, A., Lamentowicz, M., Stańczak, J., Rudaya, N.
Year	2022
Title	Fires, vegetation, and human – The history of critical transitions during the last 1000 years in Northeastern Mongolia
Magazine	Science of The Total Environment, Volume 838, Part 1, 10 September 2022, 155660
DOI	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.155660

Highlights

• New peat record from the permafrost marginal zone of Central Asia (Mongolia)

• The first high-resolution fire history from Northern Mongolia covering the last 1000 years

• Deadly combination of droughts and snowy winters called “dzud” affect fire intensity.

• The ecosystems of Central Mongolia are sensitive to a rapidly changing climate.

• Climate, permafrost, and vegetation changes affect the nomadic societies in Mongolia.

Authors	Mirosław-Grabowska, J., Borówka, R.K., Radzikowska, M., Sławińska, J., Hrynowiecka, A., Sobczyk, A., Stachowicz-Rybka, R., Stefaniak, K.
Year	2022
Title	Environmental changes recorded in the sequence of lake-peat bogs in the Eemian Interglacial and Vistulian on the basis of multi-proxy data
Magazine	Quaternary International, Volume 632, 20 September 2022, Pages 51-64
DOI	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2021.11.023

We present the results of geochemical investigations, including stable isotope, of the Eemian (MIS 5e) and Vistulian (Weichselian, MIS 5a–d, MIS 3–4) sediments of the palaeolake horizons from Gorzów Wielkopolski site (NW Poland). Our analyzes comprised two profiles from different parts of lake basin, each approximately 11-m long. The deposits represent two cycles of lake accumulation (two limnic layers), each ended by peat deposition, separated by mineral fluvial deposits.

Authors	Cheng, L., Xue, B., Zawisza, E., Kong, X., Jiang, Q., Yao, S.
Year	2022
Title	Eco-environmental evolution of a freshwater lake in a semiarid grassland from the perspective of Cladocera zooplankton: The impacts of climate change and human disturbance
Magazine	Catena, Volume 217, October 2022, 106501
DOI	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.catena.2022.106501

The ecological environment of grassland lakes is closely related to water security and human health in both arid and semiarid regions. The protection of freshwater and wetland ecological environments in grasslands promotes the stable and healthy development of ecosystems in arid and semiarid areas. In the present study, we investigated the long-term eco-environmental evolution of a typical grassland lake: Wulanpao Lake, located in the Hulun Lake Basin of northern China.

Authors	Gałka, M., Obremska, M., Feurdean, A.
Year	2022
Title	Forest ecosystem development in European nemoreal-boreal forest (NE Poland) over the last 2200 years: Impact of human activity and climate change
Magazine	The Holocene, Volume 32, Issue 7; First published online May 3, 2022
DOI	https://doi.org/10.1177/09596836221088249

Long-term ecological studies can provide useful information on forest ecosystem resilience against past climatic change and human caused disturbances. Here, we present a high-resolution 2200-year-long record of forest development in north-eastern Poland, Suwalki region, using paleobotanical proxies (pollen, plant macrofossils, and charcoal).

Authors	Forysiak, J., Okupny, D., Obremska, M., Antczak-Orlewska, O., Płóciennik, M., Pawłowski, D., Baradyn, D., Kotrys, B., Luoto, T.P., Nevalainen, L., Borówka, R.K.
Year	2022
Title	Changes in habitat conditions in a Late Glacial fluviogenic lake in response to climatic fluctuations (Warta River valley, central Poland)
Magazine	Geological Quarterly, Vol. 72 (2022), No. 3, pp. 331–352
DOI	http://dx.doi.org/10.7306/gq.1672

The Warta River valley was greatly influenced by the ice sheet of the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM). A small peatland located in the Warta drainage system is here used as a palaeoarchive of climatic and habitat changes during the Late Glacial (Weichselian).

Authors	Ciołko U., Gaździcka E.
Year	2022
Title	Calcareous nannofossil biostratigraphy and paleogeographic significance in the lower Maastrichtian of the Miechów Trough (southern Poland)
Magazine	Acta Geologica Polonica, Vol. 72 (2022), No. 3, pp. 331–352
DOI	https://doi.org/10.24425/agp.2022.140428

Biostratigraphic analysis of calcareous nannofossils from the Pełczyska section in the Miechów Trough (southern Poland) has revealed that the entire section covers the lowermost Maastrichtian.

Authors	Wojewódka-Przybył, M., Stienss, J., Kruszewski, Ł.
Year	2022
Title	Accumulation of elements in vegetation spontaneously developing on self-heating waste dumps in the Upper Silesia area (Poland)
Magazine	Geological Quarterly, Vol 66, No 3 (2022)
DOI	https://doi.org/10.7306/gq.1662

Accumulation of 34 trace and major elements was analysed in 9 plant species (Tussilago farfara, Arctium tomentosum, Solidago canadensis, Populus L., Eupatorium cannabinum, Verbascum sp., Solanum nigrum, Rumex crispus L., Betula pendula) and one fungus (Schizophyllum commune) collected from coal, PbZn-smelting, and mixed-type waste heaps in Upper Silesia (Poland).

Authors	Swęd, M., Uzarowicz, Ł., Duczmal-Czernikiewicz, A., Kwasowski, W., Pędziwiatr, A., Siepak, M., Niedzielski, P.
Year	2022
Title	Forms of metal(loid)s in soils derived from historical calamine mining waste and tailings of the Olkusz Zn–Pb ore district, southern Poland: A combined pedological, geochemical and mineralogical approach
Magazine	Applied Geochemistry, Volume 139, April 2022, 105218
DOI	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apgeochem.2022.105218

Historical calamine mining in Poland has resulted in the deposition of trace element contaminated waste on the land surface. Further, the elements occurring in calamines may become bioavailable in calamine soils, depending on their properties and the mineral composition related to past mining processing. The goal of this study was to determine the forms of selected elements (Zn, Pb, Cd, and As) in technogenic soils developed from diverse calamines (calamine mining wastes and tailings) in the Olkusz region of southern Poland in relation to soil properties and mineralogy.

Authors	Sekudewicz, I., Gąsiorowski, M.
Year	2022
Title	Spatial and vertical distribution of 137Cs activity concentrations in lake sediments of Turawa Lake (Poland)
Magazine	Environmental Science and Pollution Research, Published: 21 June 2022; volume 29, pages 80882–80896 (2022)
DOI	https://doi.org/10.1007/S11356-022-21417-1

The main objective of this research was to study the spatial and vertical distribution of ¹³⁷Cs activity concentrations in the bottom sediments of Turawa Lake 32 years after the Chernobyl fallout to investigate possible factors responsible for the post-fallout migration and accumulation of ¹³⁷Cs in the selected reservoir.

Authors	Sekudewicz, I., Matoušková, Š., Ciesielska, Z., Mulczyk, A., Gąsiorowski, M.
Year	2022
Title	Factors controlling 137Cs distribution in bottom sediments of Koronowo Reservoir (Poland)
Magazine	Journal of Soils and Sediments, Published: 03 September 2022; volume 22, pages 3189–3208 (2022)
DOI	https://doi.org/10.1007/s11368-022-03326-5

The main aim of this study was to investigate factors influencing the long-term distribution of ¹³⁷Cs activity concentrations in the bottom sediments of the dam lake, Koronowo Reservoir, 32 years after the Chernobyl nuclear power plant accident. For this purpose, selected properties of the collected sediment samples, such as grain size, mineralogical composition, and organic matter (OM) content, were investigated.

Authors	Krajcarz, M., Van Neer, W., Krajcarz, M.T., Popović, D., Baca, M., De Cupere, B., Goffette, Q., Küchelmann, H.C., Gręzak, A., Iwaszczuk, U., Ottoni, C., Van de Vijver, K., Wilczyński, J., Mulczyk, A., Wiejacki, J., Makowiecki, D., Bocherens, H.
Year	2022
Title	Stable isotopes unveil one millennium of domestic cat paleoecology in Europe
Magazine	Scientific Reports, Published: 27 July 2022; volume 12, Article number: 12775 (2022)
DOI	https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-16969-8

The domestic cat is the world's most popular pet and one of the most detrimental predators in terrestrial ecosystems. Effective protection of wildlife biodiversity demands detailed tracking of cat trophic ecology, and stable isotopes serve as a powerful proxy in dietary studies. However, a variable diet can make an isotopic pattern unreadable in opportunistic predators. To evaluate the usefulness of the isotopic method in cat ecology, we measured C and N isotope ratios in hundreds of archaeological cat bones. We determined trends in cat trophic paleoecology in northern Europe by exploiting population-scale patterns in animals from diverse locations.

Authors	Krajcarz, M., Krajcarz, M.T., Baca, M., Golubiński, M., Bielichová, Z., Bulatović, J., Csippán, P., Dimitrijević, V., Kyselý, R., Makowiecki, D., Marciszak, A., Marković, N., Mladenović, M., Van Neer ,W., Obada, T., Živaljević, I., Bulatović, A., Ivanišević, V., Pop-Lazić, S., Mihailović, D., Ostasz, A., Penezić, K., Tasić, N., Špehar, P., Wilczyński, J., Popović, D.
Year	2022
Title	The history of the domestic cat in Central Europe
Magazine	Antiquity, 09 November 2022, volume 96, issue 390, pp. 1628-1633
DOI	https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2022.128

A recent study from Central Europe has changed our perception of the cat's domestication history. The authors discuss how this has led to the development of an interdisciplinary project combining palaeogenetics, zooarchaeology and radiocarbon dating, with the aim of providing insight into the domestic cat's expansion beyond the Mediterranean.

Authors	Kot, M., Pavlenok, G., Krajcarz, M.T., Szymanek, M., Fedorowicz, S., Moska, P., Khudjanazarov, M., Szymczak, K., Leloch, M., Kogai, S., Talamo, S., Fewlass, H., Pavlenok, K.
Year	2022
Title	Is there Initial Upper Palaeolithic in Western Tian Shan? Example of an open-air site Katta Sai 2 (Uzbekistan)
Magazine	Journal of Anthropological Archaeology, Volume 65, March 2022, 101391
DOI	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaa.2021.101391

Highlights

• Katta Sai 2: new site in Western Tian Shan dated to >41 ky BP.

• Katta Sai 2: co-occurrence of Levallois and blade technology.

• Such features are characteristic of Initial Upper Palaeolithic assemblages.

• Several sites in the region have both Middle and Upper Palaeolithic features.

• Western Tian Shan located midway in potential modern human migration route.

• The cultural tradition has local roots dating back to MIS 5.

• Question the correlation between Initial Upper Palaeolithic and modern human migration in Asia.

Authors	Kot, M., Berto, C., Krajcarz, M.T., Moskal del Hoyo, M., Gryczewska, N., Szymanek, M., Marciszak, A., Stefaniak, K., Zarzecka Szubińska, K., Lipecki, G., Wertz, K., Madeyska, T.
Year	2022
Title	Frontiers of the Lower Palaeolithic expansion in Europe: Tunel Wielki Cave (Poland)
Magazine	Scientific Reports, Published: 29 September 2022; volume 12, Article number: 16355 (2022)
DOI	https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-20582-0

Peopling of Central Europe by Middle Pleistocene hominids is highly debatable, mainly due to the relatively harsh climatic and environmental conditions that require cultural and anatomical adjustments. At least several archaeological sites certify human occupation in the region dated back to MIS 13-11, but they represent open-air settlements. Based on the new fieldwork conducted in Tunel Wielki Cave, we can date the human occupation traces in the cave to MIS 14-12. Bipolar-on-anvil knapping technique prevails in the lithic assemblage, made exclusively in flint. The obtained results have given ground for studying the frontiers of human oikumene and the required cultural adaptive abilities.

Authors	Kałaska, M., Siuda, R., Sierpień, P., Werra, D.H.
Year	2022
Title	Application of arsenic surveying for determining the position of former mining and metallurgical constructions: an example from the Radzimowice area (Lower Silesia, SW Poland)
Magazine	Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, Published: 05 September 2022; Volume 14, Article number: 184 (2022)
DOI	https://doi.org/10.1007/s12520-022-01654-8

Soil geochemical prospecting is becoming an increasingly important part of archaeological research. Therefore, it is possible to determine the location of various archaeological facilities that no longer exist in the study region. In this study, a morphological analysis of the “Stara Góra” deposit in Radzimowice (Lower Silesia, Poland) was performed using LiDAR DTM (light detection and ranging digital terrain model) images and historical data that describe mining in the vicinity of Radzimowice. This method identified numerous remains of centuries-old mining and metallurgical activity.

Authors	Brancaleoni G., Shnaider S., Osipova E., Danukalova G., Kurbanov R., Deput E., Alisher kyzy S., Abdykanova A., Krajcarz M.T.
Year	2022
Title	Depositional history of a talus cone in an arid intermontane basin in Central Asia: An interdisciplinary study at the Late Pleistocene–Late Holocene Obishir‐I site, Kyrgyzstan
Magazine	Geoarchaeology - An International Journal, Volume 37, Issue 2, March/April 2022, Pages 350-373 (on paper)
DOI	https://doi.org/10.1002/gea.21892

Authors	Blaszczyk, M., Hercman, H.
Year	2022
Title	Palaeoclimate in the Low Tatras of the Western Carpathians during MIS 11-6: Insights from multiproxy speleothem records
Magazine	Quaternary Science Reviews, Volume 275, 1 January 2022, 107290
DOI	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2021.107290

Highlights

• A history of climatic changes from two Low Tatras speleothems.

• Stable isotope and trace element records covering the MIS 11a – MIS 6c period.

• The climate conditions of MIS 10, MIS 8 and MIS 6 enable speleothem growth.

• A large diversity of paleoclimate conditions during MIS 7 was recorded in speleothem.

Authors	Gebus-Czupyt, B., Wach, B.
Year	2022
Title	Application of δ18O-PO4 analysis to recognize phosphate pollutions in eutrophic water
Magazine	Ecohydrology & Hydrobiology,Volume 22, Issue 1, January 2022, Pages 21-39
DOI	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecohyd.2021.05.005

Phosphorus, like nitrogen, belongs to crucial bioelements limiting the biomass multiplication. While surplus of phosphorous in soil is beneficial for agriculture and forestry, its excess in surficial waters causes increased eutrophication, which is devastating for water quality and for ecological balance. Anthropogenic eutrophication is one of the biggest environmental problems of last decades, therefore studies which can improve the assessment of water quality are very important.

Authors	Percival, J.J., Konopasek, J., Anczkiewicz, R., Ganerod, M., Slama, J., de Campos, R.S., Bitencourt, M.D.
Year	2022
Title	Tectono-Metamorphic Evolution of the Northern Dom Feliciano Belt Foreland, Santa Catarina, Brazil: Implications for Models of Subduction-Driven Orogenesis
Magazine	Tectonics, Volume 41, Issue 2, February 2022
DOI	https://doi.org/10.1029/2021TC007014

Authors	Sałacińska, A., Gerdjikov, I., Kounov, A., Chew, D., Szopa, K., Gumsley, A., Kocjan, I., Marciniak-Maliszewska, B., Drakou, F.
Year	2022
Title	Variscan magmatic evolution of the Strandja Zone (Southeast Bulgaria and Northwest Turkey) and its relationship to other North Gondwanan margin terranes
Magazine	Gondwana Research, Volume 109, September 2022, Pages 253-273
DOI	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gr.2022.04.013

Highlights

• New U-Pb data for the Sakar Batholith allow for better constraints on its emplacement age.

• 319 Ma is the upper age limit for Variscan deformation and metamorphism in the Strandja Zone.

Authors	Worobiec, G., Worobiec, E., Gedl, P., Kasiński, J.R., Peryt, D., Widera, M.
Year	2022
Title	Terrestrial-aquatic wood-inhabiting ascomycete Potamomyces from the Miocene of Poland
Magazine	Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, Volume 67 (3), 2022: 737-744
DOI	https://doi.org/10.4202/app.00976.2022

We report fungal ascospores of Potamomyces affinities from four Miocene localities in Poland. The spores are similar to the ones known from extinct species of Potamomyces invaginatus, Potamomyces batii, and Potamomyces pontidiensis, as well as to living Potamomyces armatisporus. Living representatives of Potamomyces are saprophytic, and usually found on decaying wood. They are mainly found in a freshwater or brackish environment, and sometimes also on terrestrial, moist to damp substrates. Therefore, the species of Potamomyces can be classified as a facultative-aquatic or terrestrial- aquatic fungus.

Authors	Skrzypkowski, K., Zagórski, K., Zagórska, A., Sengani, F.
Year	2022
Title	Access to deposits as a stage of mining works
Magazine	Energies, Published: 21 November 2022; Energies 2022, 15(22), 8740
DOI	https://doi.org/10.3390/en15228740

An extremely important role in the underground method of mining deposits is the type of access, which is the initial stage of the mining operations. The main feature of mineral deposits is their exhaustiveness and the inability to restore resources. This necessitates the rational management of deposit resources, especially the minimization of resource losses during exploitation. This article presents information on the mining area and methods of access the deposits.

Authors	Skrzypkowski, K., Zagórski, K., Zagórska, A., Apel, D.B., Wang, J., Xu, H., Guo, L.
Year	2022
Title	Choice of the arch yielding support for the preparatory roadway located near the fault
Magazine	Energies, Published: 20 May 2022; Energies 2022, 15(10), 3774
DOI	https://doi.org/10.3390/en15103774

The article presents a method of selecting an arch yielding support for preparatory workings driven in a hard coal seam. Particular attention was paid to discontinuous deformation in the form of a fault, which significantly contributes to the change of the excavation protection schemes. On the basis of the geometry of the machines and devices in the designed excavation, the support was selected, which was then checked for the ventilation criterion.

Authors	Walczak, K., Ziemniak, G., Barnes, C.J., Callegari, R., Bukała, M., Kielman-Schmitt, M., Zagórska, A., Majka, J.
Year	2022
Title	Late Neoproterozoic extended continental margin development recorded by the Seve Nappe Complex of the northern Scandinavian Caledonides
Magazine	Lithos, Volumes 416–417, May 2022, 106640
DOI	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lithos.2022.106640

Highlights

• The Salmmečohkat Core Complex developed in hyperextended magma-rich Baltoscandian margin.

• The upper gneiss unit of the SNC underwent high-grade metamorphism in the Ediacaran.

• No evidence for Caledonian high pressure metamorphism.

Authors	Powolny, T., Dumańska-Słowik, M., Anczkiewicz, A.A., Sikorska-Jaworowska, M.
Year	2022
Title	Origin and timing of spilitic alterations in volcanic rocks from Głuszyca Górna in the Intra-Sudetic Basin, Poland
Magazine	Scientific Reports, Published: 11 July 2022, volume 12, art. No 11745 (2022)
DOI	https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-15644-2

The formation of spilitic assemblages (i.e. chlorite and albite) has been ubiquitously involved during the evolution of continental early-Permian volcanics from the Intra-Sudetic Basin (ISB). Based on the investigation of laccolith-type and variably-altered trachyandesite exposure in the vicinity of Głuszyca Górna (Lower Silesia, Poland), we have demonstrated that apatite fission-track dating (AFT), coupled with chlorite geothermometry, can be successfully applied to denote the timing of low-temperature alterations within volcanic rocks.

Authors	Pisarzowska, A., Paszkowski, M., Kołtonik, K., Budzyń, B., Szczerba, M., Rakociński, M., Sláma, J., Zagórska, A., Łaptaś, A.
Year	2022
Title	Geotectonic settings of Variscan explosive volcanism in the light of Famennian tuffites provenance from southern Poland
Magazine	Earth-Science Reviews, Volume 234, November 2022, 104218
DOI	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.earscirev.2022.104218

Highlights

• Several pyroclastic horizons occur in Upper Devonian successions in southern Poland.

• The new LA-ICP-MS geochronological results demonstrate middle-upper Famennian zircon and monazite ages.

• Two groups of the Famennian tuffites genetically related to different geotectonic realms.

• First group of tuffites indicate primarily Laurussian within-plate continental rifting origin.

• Second group of tuffites might be related to volcanism in the Gondwana-Laurussia convergent active margins.

Authors	Fijałkowska-Mader, A., Paszkowski, M., Kędzior, A., Jewuła, K.
Year	2022
Title	Lost Norian fluvial tracks: Sedimentology and stratigraphy of the Upper Triassic coarse-grained deposits in Kamienica Śląska (Upper Silesia, southern Poland)
Magazine	Annales Societatis Geologorum Poloniae, Volume 92, no 3, 2022
DOI	https://doi.org/10.14241/asgp.2022.11

In the Triassic‒Jurassic boundary profiles of the Upper Silesian region, there are locally developed coarse clastic deposits, commonly known as the Połomia Gravels, Połomia Beds or “Połomia Formation’’ (informal name). Due to the lack of reliable stratigraphic tools, the chronostratigraphic position of these deposits remains one of the most controversial aspects of the Triassic‒Jurassic lithostratigraphy in the region.

Authors	Racki, G., Mazur, S., Narkiewicz, K., Pisarzowska, A., Bardziński, W., Kołtonik, K., Szymanowski, D., Filipiak, P., Kremer, B.
Year	2022
Title	A waning Saxothuringian Ocean evidenced in the Famennian tephra-bearing siliceous succession of the Bardo Unit (Central Sudetes, SW Poland)
Magazine	GSA Bulletin, Feb 4th, 2022, Volume 134, Number 9-10, 2373-2398
DOI	https://doi.org/10.1130/B35971.1

A tephra-rich cherty-clayey Famennian succession within the major Brzeźnica olistostrome in the Bardo Mountains, Central Sudetes, SW Poland, preserves a record of the lost ocean later incorporated into the Variscan orogenic belt. Fluctuating but mostly oligotrophic regimes and low primary production levels were influenced by weak up-welling below the perennial oxygen minimum zone, which controlled the interplay between biosiliceous and siliciclastic deposition in the oceanic basin, with episodic oxygen deficiency.

Authors	Collett, S., Mazur, S., Schulmann, K., Soejono, I.
Year	2022
Title	Significance of a late neoproterozoic–Early Cambrian southern Baltica active margin in late-stage Rodinian and early Gondwanan reconstructions
Magazine	Precambrian Research, Volume 383, December 2022, 106918
DOI	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.precamres.2022.106918

New whole-rock geochemical data indicate changing provenance of sedimentary rocks deposited on the southern margin of Baltica in the late Neoproterozoic to early Paleozoic. The oldest part of the sequence is characterized by highly weathered detritus sourced from a mafic igneous source, inferred to be the nearby Volyn Large Igneous Province (L.I.P.), in an intracontinental rift (aulacogen) setting.

Authors	Krzywiec, P., Kufrasa, M., Poprawa, P., Mazur, S., Koperska, M., Ślemp, P.
Year	2022
Title	Together but separate: decoupled Variscan (late Carboniferous) and Alpine (Late Cretaceous–Paleogene) inversion tectonics in NW Poland
Magazine	Solid Earth, Volume 13, issue 3 SE, 13, 639–658, 18.03.2022
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5194/se-13-639-2022

In Europe, formation of the Palaeozoic Variscan orogenic belt, and the Mesozoic–Cenozoic Alpine–Carpathian orogenic belt led to a widespread inversion events within forelands of both orogenic domains. We used legacy 2-D seismic data together with the newly acquired 3-D seismic data that, for the first time, precisely imaged sub-Zechstein (i.e. sub-evaporitic) upper Palaeozoic successions in NW Poland in order to develop a quantitative, balanced 2-D model of the late Palaeozoic–recent evolution of this area, characterised by a complex pattern of repeated extension and inversion.

Authors	Jóźwiak, W., Nowożyński, K., Mazur, S., Jeż, M.
Year	2022
Title	Deep Electrical Resistivity Structure of the European Lithosphere in Poland Derived from 3-D Inversion of Magnetotelluric Data
Magazine	Surveys in Geophysics, Volume 43, 1563-1586
DOI	https://doi.org/10.1007/s10712-022-09716-1

Authors	Janik, T., Wójcik, D., Ponikowska, M., Mazur, S., Skrzynik, T., Malinowski, M., Hübscher, C.
Year	2022
Title	Crustal structure across the Teisseyre-Tornquist Zone offshore Poland based on a new refraction/wide-angle reflection profile and potential field modelling
Magazine	Tectonophysics, Volume 828, 5 April 2022, 229271
DOI	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tecto.2022.229271

This paper presents a 230-km long refraction/wide-angle reflection profile that was acquired in the southern Baltic Sea across the Teisseyre-Tornquist Zone (TTZ), the boundary between the East European Craton (EEC) and the West European Platform (WEP). This profile is nearly parallel to the western Polish coast, halfway between Poland and the Danish island of Bornholm. The data acquisition was conducted with 15 ocean bottom seismometers (OBS) and 2 land stations. We applied the trial-and-error iterative ray-tracing technique using all identified seismic phases to derive crustal models by minimizing misfit between calculated and observed P-wave travel-times for individual layers.

Authors	Mazur, S., Majka, J., Barnes, C. J., McClelland, W., Bukała, M., Janák, M., Kośmińska, K.
Year	2022
Title	Exhumation of the high‐pressure Richarddalen Complex in NW Svalbard: Insights from 40Ar/39Ar geochronology
Magazine	Terra Nova, Volume 34, No. 4, 330-339
DOI	https://doi.org/10.1111/ter.12597

⁴⁰Ar/³⁹Ar dating of white mica from foliated metamorphic rocks of the Caledonian orogen of NW Svalbard was performed using the single-grain fusion technique. Two samples, an augen orthogneiss and a mica schist, were collected from the high-pressure Richarddalen Complex. Three additional mica schist samples were collected from the tectonically underlying Montblanc Unit. ⁴⁰Ar/³⁹Ar analysis of white mica separates yielded weighted average ⁴⁰Ar/³⁹Ar dates of 446.1 ± 1.1, 438.4 ± 1.1, 439.4 ± 1.2, 439.8 ± 1.5 and 439.3 ± 1.0 Ma, with the oldest date provided by the Richarddalen mica schist. The single-grain fusion ⁴⁰Ar/³⁹Ar dating was accompanied by geochemical mapping of white mica using a microprobe. We interpret the oldest date as the age of cooling after a Late Ordovician high-pressure event and the four younger dates to represent the timing of subsequent deformation associated with assembly of a Caledonian nappe stack.

Authors	Barnes, C.J., Bukała, M., Callegari, R., Walczak, K., Kooijman, E., Kielman-Schmitt, M., Majka, J.
Year	2022
Title	Zircon and monazite reveal late Cambrian / early Ordovician partial melting of the Central Seve Nappe Complex, Scandinavian Caledonides
Magazine	Contribution to Mineralogy and Petrology, Published: 14 September 2022
DOI	https://doi.org/10.1007/s00410-022-01958-x

The Seve Nappe Complex (SNC) comprises continental rocks of Baltica that were subducted and exhumed during the Caledonian orogeny prior to collision with Laurentia. The tectonic history of the central SNC is investigated by applying in-situ zircon and monazite (Th-)U–Pb geochronology and trace element analysis to (ultra-)high pressure (UHP) paragneisses in the Avardo and Marsfjället gneisses. Zircons in the Avardo Gneiss exposed at Sippmikk creek exhibit xenocrystic cores with metamorphic rims.

Authors	Ziemiański, P.P., Derkowski A.
Year	2022
Title	Structural and textural control of high-pressure hydrogen adsorption on expandable and non-expandable clay minerals in geologic conditions
Magazine	International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, Volume 47, Issue 67, 5 August 2022, Pages 28794-28805
DOI	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijhydene.2022.06.204

Highlights

• High-pressure H₂ adsorption was studied using pure illites and smectites.

• H₂ intercalates in the smectitic interlayers with a basal spacing larger than 10.8 Å.

• The majority of H₂ adsorption sites in smectites might be located in interlayers.

• The adsorbed H₂ density does not depend on the cation form of the clay mineral.

• H₂ adsorption depends on the mineral texture (e.g., crystallite planar dimensions).

Authors	Wudarska, A., Wiedenbeck, M., Słaby, E., Lempart-Drozd, M., Harris, C., Joachimski, M.M., Lécuyer, C., MacLeod, K.G., Pack, A., Vennemann, T., Couffignal, F., Feng, D., Glodny, J., Kusebauch, C., Mayanna, S., Rocholl, A., Speir, L., Sun, Y., Wilke, F.D.H.
Year	2022
Title	Inter-laboratory characterisation of apatite reference materials for oxygen isotope analysis and associated methodological considerations
Magazine	Geostandards and Geoanalytical Research, First published: 18 January 2022
DOI	https://doi.org/10.1111/ggr.12416

Here we report on the oxygen isotope compositions of four proposed apatite reference materials (chlorapatite MGMH#133648 and fluorapatite specimens MGMH#128441A, MZ-TH and ES-MM). The samples were initially screened for ¹⁸O/¹⁶O homogeneity using secondary ion mass spectrometry (SIMS) followed by δ¹⁸O determinations in six gas source isotope ratio mass spectrometry laboratories (GS-IRMS) using a variety of analytical protocols for determining either phosphate-bonded or “bulk” oxygen compositions.

Authors	Wetzel, A., Bojanowski, M.
Year	2022
Title	Radish concretions grown in mud during compaction
Magazine	Sedimentology, Volume 69, Issue 2, February 2022, Pages 750-774
DOI	https://doi.org/10.1111/sed.12924

Radish concretions exhibit a typical columnar to pear-shaped, stipe downward geometry. In Middle Jurassic mudrock in south-west Germany, radish concretions started to form around an iron-sulphide lined tube by pervasive cementation constituting an ellipsoidal parent domain in uncompacted sediment at burial depths of ≤5 to 8 m as recorded by 75 to 80% minus-cement porosity. Thereafter, the concretions grew vertically in compacting sediment as evidenced by laminae within the concretions being increasingly inclined towards the tips, and concomitantly decreasing minus-cement porosity.

Authors	Środoń, J., Gerdes, A., Kramers, J., Bojanowski, M.
Year	2022
Title	Age constraints of the Sturtian glaciation on western Baltica based on U-Pb and Ar-Ar dating of the Lapichi Svita
Magazine	Precambrian Research, Volume 371, April 2022, 106595
DOI	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.precamres.2022.106595

The sedimentary cover of the western part of the East European Craton contains records of glacial periods. Their age has been constrained untill recently by 1000 Ma detrital zircons and overlying basalts of the Volyn Large Igneous Province, dated at c. 580 Ma.

Authors	Lempart-Drozd, M., Błachowski, A., Gumsley, Ash., Ciesielska, Z.
Year	2022
Title	Thermal decomposition of minnesotaite and dehydrogenation during Fe2+ oxidation, with implications for redox reactions in Banded Iron Formations
Magazine	Chemical Geology, Volume 601, 5 July 2022, 120867
DOI	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chemgeo.2022.120867

The study of the thermal decomposition of Fe²⁺-phyllosilicates and –silicates plays a crucial role in understanding the redox processes contributing to the global iron and hydrological cycles.

Authors	Kanik, N.J., Longstaffe, F.J., Kuligiewicz, A., Derkowski, A.
Year	2022
Title	Systematics of smectite hydrogen-isotope composition: Structural hydrogen versus adsorbed water
Magazine	Applied Clay Science, Volume 216, January 2022, 106338
DOI	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.clay.2021.106338

Highlights

• Smectite hydroxyl hydrogen isotopes (δ²H_OH) is impacted by interlayer cation type.

• Dehydration without hydroxyl loss from K-saturated smectites dried at 220 °C for 4 h.

• Ca-saturated smectites retain strongly bound water after heating at 220 °C for 24 h.

• K-saturated smectite is best for δ²H_OH analysis using the described method.

Authors	Jewuła, K., Środoń, J., Kuligiewicz, A., Mikołajczak, M., Liivamägi, S.
Year	2022
Title	Critical evaluation of geochemical indices of palaeosalinity involving boron
Magazine	Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, Volume 322, 1 April 2022, Pages 1-23
DOI	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gca.2022.01.027

Despite years of research, palaeosalinity remains one of the most difficult palaeoenvironmental proxies to reconstruct. Numerous approaches have been proposed. Those utilising boron, gallium, strontium, barium, and potassium are among the most commonly used in palaeoenvironmental reconstructions. The comparison of chemical and mineralogical data obtained for hundreds of samples from various sedimentary basins of different ages and burial histories indicated that those proxies are highly sensitive to detrital and authigenic mineralogy changes.

Authors	Jewuła, K., Środoń, J., Kędzior, A., Paszkowski, M., Liivamägi, S., Goryl, M.
Year	2022
Title	Sedimentary, climatic, and provenance controls of mineral and chemical composition of the Ediacaran and Cambrian mudstones from the East European Craton
Magazine	Precambrian Research, Volume 381, October 2022, 106850
DOI	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.precamres.2022.106850

Mineralogical and geochemical compositions of mudstones were used for untangling provenance and climatic signals preserved in the upper Ediacaran - lower Cambrian strata from the western part of the East European Craton (ECC). Quantitative mineralogy and geochemistry data were obtained for 735 argillaceous rock samples from 71 wells and outcrops and compared with the analyses of Proterozoic palaeosols from the same area.

Authors	Niezgodzki I., Knorr, G., Lohmann G., Lunt D.J., Poulsen C.J., Steinig S., ... & Morozova, P.,
Year	2022
Title	Simulation of Arctic sea ice within the DeepMIP Eocene ensemble: Thresholds, seasonality and factors controlling sea ice development
Magazine	Global and Planetary Change, Volume 214, July 2022, 103848
DOI	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloplacha.2022.103848

The early Eocene greenhouse climate maintained by high atmospheric CO₂ concentrations serves as a testbed for future climate changes dominated by increasing CO₂ forcing. In particular, the early Eocene Arctic region is important in the context of future CO₂ driven climate warming in the northern polar region and associated shrinking Arctic sea ice. Here, we present early Eocene Arctic sea ice simulations carried out by six coupled climate models within the framework of the Deep-Time Model Intercomparison Project (DeepMIP).

Authors	Goleń J., Tyszka J., Godos K., Janse M.
Year	2022
Title	A model of F-actin organization in granuloreticulopodia in Foraminifera: Morphogenetic and evolutionary implications from novel fluorescent and polarised light observations
Magazine	Protist, Volume 173, Issue 4, August 2022, 125886
DOI	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.protis.2022.125886

Foraminifera are a group of mostly marine protists that form highly dynamic granular pseudopodia. Recent live experiments on foraminifera labelled with SiR-actin show that F-actin structures are involved in the morphogenesis of granuloreticulopodia and that pseudopodia contain small, motile granules referred to as SiR-actin-labelled granules (ALGs).

Authors	Skov L., Peyrégne S., Popli D., Iasi L.N.M., Devièse T., Slon V., Zavala E.I., Hajdinjak M., Sümer A.P. , Grote S., Mesa A.B., Herráez D.L., Nickel B., Nagel S., Richter J., Essel E., Gansauge M., Schmidt A., Korlević P., Comeskey D., Derevianko A.P., Kharevich A., Markin S.V., Talamo S., Douka K., Krajcarz M.T., Roberts R.G., Higham T., Viola B., Krivoshapkin A.I., Kolobova K.A., Kelso J., Meyer M., Pääbo S., Peter B.M.
Year	2022
Title	Genetic insights into the social organization of Neanderthals
Magazine	Nature 610: 519-525
DOI	doi.org/10.1038/s41586-022-05283-y

Here we analyze the genetic structure of a unique Neanderthal taphocenosis in Chagyrskaya Cave (Altai Mountains). We found the group of 11 individuals to be a closely related family that roamed in the area around 59–51 thousand years ago. The mtDNA and Y-chromosome DNA reveal the low genetic diversity of the population and underrepresentation of males. Actualistic comparison with modern hominid populations allows perceiving those Neanderthals’ genetic structure in a similar way as that of modern mountain gorilla, an endangered subspecies. Distribution of the genetically-confirmed bones of the same individuals within the sedimentary sequence points toward strong post-depositional disturbances at the site.

Authors	Zhu RZ., Słaby E., Lai SC., Chen LH, Qin J., Zhang C., Zhao S., Zhang F., Liu WH, Fowler M.,
Year	2021
Title	High-K calc-alkaline to shoshonitic intrusions in SE Tibet: implications for metasomatized lithospheric mantle beneath an active continental margin
Magazine	Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, Volume 176, article 85, 7 Oct 2021
DOI	doi.org/10.1007/s00410-021-01843-z

High-K calc-alkaline to shoshonitic suites are widespread and generally volumetrically small but provide key information on magmatic mantle-crust interactions. Limited work has addressed the multi-stage formation of relatively high-volume high-K to shoshonitic rocks. A newly identified, Late-Cretaceous to Early-Cenozoic high-volume high-K to shoshonitic association (ca. 28,000 km³) is described, from the southeastern Himalayan–Tibetan orogen.

Authors	Wudarska, A., Słaby, E., Wiedenbeck, M., Barnes, J.D., Bonifacie, M., Sturchio, N.C., Bardoux, G., Couffignal, F., Glodny, J., Heraty, L., John, T., Kusebauch, C., Mayanna, S., Wilke, F.D.H, Deput, E.
Year	2021
Title	Inter-laboratory characterisation of apatite reference materials for chlorine isotope analysis
Magazine	Geostandards and Geoanalytical Research, Volume 45, Issue 1, March 2021, p. 121-142
DOI	doi.org/10.1111/ggr.12366

Here we report on a set of six apatite reference materials (chlorapatites MGMH#133648, TUBAF#38 and fluorapatites MGMH#128441A, TUBAF#37, 40, 50) which we have characterised for their chlorine isotope ratios; these RMs span a range of Cl mass fractions within the apatite Ca₁₀(PO₄)₆(F,Cl,OH)₂ solid solution series. Numerous apatite specimens, obtained from mineralogical collections, were initially screened for ³⁷Cl/³⁵Cl homogeneity using SIMS followed by δ³⁷Cl characterisation by gas source mass spectrometry using both dual-inlet and continuous-flow modes.

Authors	Paszkowski, M., Budzyń, B., Mazur, S., Sláma, J., Środoń, J., Millar, I.L., Shumlyanskyy, L., Kędzior, A., Liivamägi, S.
Year	2021
Title	Detrital zircon U-Pb and Hf constraints on provenance and timing of deposition of the Mesoproterozoic to Cambrian sedimentary cover of the East European Craton, part II: Ukraine
Magazine	Precambrian Research, Volume 362, 15 August 2021, 106282
DOI	doi.org/10.1016/j.precamres.2021.106282

Authors	Patko, L., Ciazela, J., Aradi, L.E., Liptai, N., Pieterek, B., Berkesi, M., Lazarov, M., Kovacs, I.J., Holtz, F., Szabo, C.
Year	2021
Title	Iron isotope and trace metal variations during mantle metasomatism: in situ study on sulfide minerals from peridotite xenoliths from Nógrád-Gömör Volcanic Field (Northern Pannonian Basin)
Magazine	Lithos, Volumes 396–397, September 2021, 106238
DOI	doi.org/10.1016/j.lithos.2021.106238

Authors	Tramm, F., Wirth, R., Budzyń, B., Sláma, J., Schreiber, A.
Year	2021
Title	LA-ICP-MS and TEM constraints on the magmatic and post-magmatic processes recorded by the zircon-xenotime intergrowth in pegmatite (Piława Górna, Góry Sowie Block, SW Poland)
Magazine	Lithos, Volumes 404–405, 1 December 2021, 106480
DOI	doi.org/10.1016/j.lithos.2021.106480

Authors	Solovey T., Wojewódka-Przybył M., Janica R.
Year	2021
Title	Hydrochemical indicators of water source and contamination in fen peatlands of varying hydrogeomorphic settings in northern and central Poland
Magazine	Ecological Indicators, Volume 129, October 2021, 107944
DOI	doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolind.2021.107944

Authors	Cheng L:, Xue B., Zawisza E., Liu J., Yao S., Li S.,
Year	2021
Title	Specific species response of Cladocera to the trophic and hydrological environments of lakes: A case study of a typical shallow mesotrophic lake
Magazine	Catena, Vol. 207, December 2021, 105630
DOI	doi.org/10.1016/j.catena.2021.105630

Authors	Szczygieł J., Sobczyk A., Hercman H., Mendecki M.J., Gąsiorowski M.
Year	2021
Title	Damaged Speleothems and Collapsed Karst Chambers Indicate Paleoseismicity of the NE Bohemian Massif (Niedźwiedzia Cave, Poland)
Magazine	Tectonics, 10 February 2021
DOI	doi.org/10.1029/2020TC006459

Authors	Sekudewicz, I., Dąbrowska, A.M., Syczewski, M.D.
Year	2021
Title	Microplastic pollution in surface water and sediments in the urban section of the Vistula River (Poland)
Magazine	Science of the Total Environment, Vol. 762, 25 March 2021, 143111
DOI	/doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.143111

Authors	Gąsiorowski M., Sienkiewicz E., Ciołko U., Kaucha K., Kupryjanowicz M., Szal M.
Year	2021
Title	Cultural eutrophication of a Central European lowland lake from the Bronze Age to the present recorded in diatom and Cladocera remains
Magazine	Catena, Vol. 204, September 2021, 105404
DOI	doi.org/10.1016/j.catena.2021.105404

Authors	Bella P., Gradziński M., Hercman H., Leszczyński S., Nemec W.
Year	2021
Title	Sedimentary anatomy and hydrological record of relic fluvial deposits in a karst cave conduit
Magazine	Sedimentology, Vol. 68, Issue 1, January 2021, p. 425-448
DOI	doi.org/10.1111/sed.12785

This case study from the renowned Demänová Cave System in the Carpathians of Slovakia demonstrates that the conventional methods of fluvial sedimentology, combined with an allostratigraphic mapping and speleothem U-series isotopic dating, can give unprecedented insights into the hydrological history of underground karst conduit. The deposits studied are a relic compound sidebar ranging from gravel to mud and encapsulating the conduit’s hydrological history from the middle Pleistocene to the present time.

Authors	Sudoł-Procyk M., Brandl M., Krajcarz M.T., Malak M., Skrzatek M., Stefański D., Trela-Kieferling E., Werra D.H.
Year	2021
Title	Chocolate flint: new perspectives on its deposits, mining, use and distribution by prehistoric communities in Central Europe
Magazine	Antiquity, 11 August 2021
DOI	doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2021.48

The discovery of previously unknown chocolate flint outcrops in the Kraków-Częstochowa Upland (only the second known area after that in the Holy Cross Mountains) has undermined our seemingly solid knowledge of the prehistoric economy, which is based on the distribution pattern of this important raw material. The authors present new interdisciplinary research focused on the prehistoric mining of chocolate flint in the Kraków-Częstochowa Upland, the distribution of chocolate flint artefacts within the Upland and beyond, and methods to distinguish this material from the Holy Cross Mountains chocolate flint.

Authors	Kot M., Krajcarz M.T., Moskal-del Hoyo M., Gryczewska N., Wojenka M., Pyżewicz K., Sinet-Mathiot V., Diakowski M., Fedorowicz S., Gąsiorowski M., Marciszak A., Lipecki G., Mackiewicz P.
Year	2021
Title	Chronostratigraphy of Jerzmanowician. New data from Koziarnia Cave, Poland
Magazine	Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, Vol. 38, August 2021, 103014
DOI	doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2021.103014

Authors	Berto C., Krajcarz, M.T., Moskal-del Hoyo M., Komar M., Sinet-Mathiot V., Zarzecka-Szubińska K., Krajcarz M., Szymanek M., Wertz K., Marciszak A., Mętrak M., Suska-Malawska M., Wilcke A., Kot M.
Year	2021
Title	Environment changes during Middle to Upper Palaeolithic transition in southern Poland (Central Europe). A multiproxy approach for the MIS 3 sequence of Koziarnia Cave (Kraków-Częstochowa Upland)
Magazine	Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, Volume 35, February 2021, 102723
DOI	doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2020.102723

Authors	Skrzypkowski, K.,Zagórski, K., Zagórska, A.
Year	2021
Title	Determination of the Extent of the Rock Destruction Zones around a Gasification Channel on the Basis of Strength Tests of Sandstone and Claystone Samples Heated at High Temperatures up to 1200°C and Exposed to Water
Magazine	Energies, Vol. 14, issue 20, 6464, 9 October 2021
DOI	doi.org/10.3390/en14206464

This article presents the results of laboratory tests regarding the influence of high temperatures on changes in the strength and structural parameters of rocks that are present in the immediate vicinity of a gasification channel. Sandstone and claystone samples were heated at 300 °C, 600 °C, 900 °C and 1200 °C. Additionally, the heated samples were placed in water for 24 h. The results of the laboratory tests were used in the numerical simulation using RS2 software. The main goal of modeling was to determine the extent of the rock destruction zone around the gasification channel for dry and wet rock masses.

Authors	Jastrzębski, M., Żelaźniewicz, A., Sláma, J., Machowiak, K., Śliwiński, M., Jaźwa, A., Kocjan, I.
Year	2021
Title	Provenance of Precambrian basement of the Brunovistulian Terrane: New data from its Silesian part (Czech Republic, Poland), central Europe, and implications for Gondwana break-up
Magazine	Precambrian Research, Vol. 355, April 2021, 106108
DOI	doi.org/10.1016/j.precamres.2021.106108

Authors	Tabaud, A. S., Štípská, P., Mazur, S., Schulmann, K., Míková, J., Wong, J., Sun, M.
Year	2021
Title	Evolution of a Cambro-Ordovician active margin in northern Gondwana: Geochemical and zircon geochronological evidence from the Góry Sowie metasedimentary rocks, Poland
Magazine	Gondwana Research, Vol. 90, February 2021, Pages 1-26
DOI	doi.org/10.1016/j.gr.2020.10.011

Authors	Mężyk, M., Malinowski, M., Mazur, S.
Year	2021
Title	Structure of a diffuse suture between Fennoscandia and Sarmatia in SE Poland based on interpretation of regional reflection seismic profiles supported by unsupervised clustering
Magazine	Precambrian Research, Volume 358, 15 June 2021, 106176
DOI	doi.org/10.1016/j.precamres.2021.106176

Authors	Maitra, A., Anczkiewicz, A.A., Anczkiewicz, R., Dunkl, I., Mukhopadhyay, D.K.
Year	2021
Title	Thrusting sequence in the Western Himalayan foreland basin during the late phase of continental collision defined by low-temperature thermochronology
Magazine	Tectonophysics, Vol. 821, 20 December 2021, 229145
DOI	doi.org/10.1016/j.tecto.2021.229145

Authors	Liivamägi, S., Środoń, J., Bojanowski, M.J., Stanek, J.J., Roberts, N.M.W.
Year	2021
Title	Precambrian paleosols on the Great Unconformity of the East European Craton: An 800 million year record of Baltica’s climatic conditions
Magazine	Precambrian Research, Vol. 363, 1 September 2021, 106327
DOI	doi.org/10.1016/j.precamres.2021.106327

Authors	Dubicka, Z., Bojanowski, M.J., Peryt, D., Barski, M.
Year	2021
Title	Biotic and isotopic vestiges of oligotrophy on continental shelves during Oceanic Anoxic Event 2
Magazine	Global Biogeochemical Cycles
DOI	doi.org/10.1029/2020GB006831

Authors	Botor, D., Mazur, S., Anczkiewicz, A.A., Dunkl, I., Golonka, J.
Year	2021
Title	Thermal history of the East European Platform margin in Poland based on apatite and zircon low-temperature thermochronology
Magazine	Solid Earth, Volume 12, 1899–1930, 2021
DOI	doi.org/10.5194/se-12-1899-2021

The Phanerozoic tectonothermal evolution of the SW slope of the East European Platform (EEP) in Poland is reconstructed by means of thermal maturity, low-temperature thermochronometry, and thermal modelling. We provide a set of new thermochronometric data and integrate stratigraphic and thermal maturity information to constrain the burial and thermal history of sediments. Apatite fission track (AFT) analysis and zircon (U−Th)/He (ZHe) thermochronology have been carried out on samples of sandstones, bentonites, diabase, and crystalline basement rocks collected from 17 boreholes located in central and NE Poland.

Authors	Bojanowski, M.J., Oszczypko-Clowes, M., Barski, M., Oszczypko, N., Radzikowska, M., Ciesielska, Z.,
Year	2021
Title	Slope destabilization provoked by dissociation of gas hydrates in the Outer Carpathian basin during the Oligocene: Sedimentological, petrographic, isotopic and biostratigraphic record
Magazine	Marine and Petroleum Geology, Vol. 123, January 2021, 104585
DOI	doi.org/10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2020.104585

Authors	Barnes, C.J., Jeanneret, P., Ziemniak, G., Kooijman, E., Kośmińska, K., Kielman-Schmitt, M., Schneider D.A.,
Year	2021
Title	Using Th-U-Pb geochronology to extract crystallization ages of Paleozoic metamorphic monazite contaminated by initial Pb
Magazine	Chemical Geology, Vol. 582, 5 November 2021, 120450
DOI	doi.org/10.1016/j.chemgeo.2021.120450

Geochronology of Th-rich minerals is advantageous as it allows use of three isotopic systems (i.e., ²⁰⁶Pb/²³⁸U, ²⁰⁷Pb/²³⁵U, and ²⁰⁸Pb/²³²Th) for accurate data assessment. The ²⁰⁸Pb/²³²Th system is especially advantageous in cases where the dated mineral includes an initial Pb component, as ²⁰⁸Pb/²³²Th is the least sensitive to the effects of initial Pb amongst the three systems. This benefit is demonstrated with monazite from a white mica schist of the Tsäkkok Lens, Scandinavian Caledonides, where three distinct generations of Paleozoic monazite (Mnz single bond I, Mnz-II, Mnz-III) are recognized and dated using laser ablation inductively coupled mass spectrometry.

Authors	Ziemiański, P. P., Derkowski, A., Szczerba, M., Guggenheim S.
Year	2021
Title	Smectite Crystallite Swelling Under High Pressure of Methane
Magazine	Journal of Physical Chemistry C
DOI	doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpcc.0c09720

Clay minerals, along with organic matter, control methane (CH₄) gas adsorption properties of sediments and sedimentary rocks. These natural, high-pressure environments of sediments and sedimentary rocks are particularly important in view of hydrocarbon exploration and global warming. The present study investigates swelling of smectites in dry methane at high pressure (1–60 bar), using in situ high-pressure X-ray diffraction and Grand Canonical Ensemble Monte Carlo simulations.

Authors	Rybka, K., Matusik, J., Kuligiewicz, A., Leiviskä, T., & Cempura, G.
Year	2021
Title	Surface chemistry and structure evaluation of Mg/Al and Mg/Fe LDH derived from magnesite and dolomite in comparison to LDH obtained from chemicals
Magazine	Applied Surface Science, Volume 538, Feb 2021, 147923
DOI	doi.org/10.1016/j.apsusc.2020.147923

Authors	Marynowski L., Bucha M., Lempart-Drozd M., Stępień M., Kondratowicz M., Smolarek-Lach J., Rybicki M., Goryl M., Brocks J. and Simoneit R.R.T
Year	2021
Title	Preservation of hemicellulose remnants in sedimentary organic matter
Magazine	Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, Volume 310, October 2021
DOI	doi.org/10.1016/j.gca.2021.07.003

Cellulose has been identified in fossil material, but the preservation potential of hemicelluloses, which are less resistant to decomposition than cellulose, is generally considered very low. Here we present the discovery of hemicellulose in Miocene xylites (fossil wood) and Cretaceous xylo-detritic coals from Poland.

Authors	Kuligiewicz, A., Środoń, J., Liivamägi, S.
Year	2021
Title	Oxygen isotopic compositions of end-members in a multicomponent mixture: Ediacaran weathering material from the East European Craton
Magazine	Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, Volume 306, August 2021
DOI	doi.org/10.1016/j.gca.2021.04.013

The aim of the present study was to investigate the oxygen isotopic composition of the Ediacaran weathering material from the western margin of the East European Craton. This area presents a unique opportunity to investigate the Ediacaran strata with a minimum diagenetic overprint. Paleosol intervals, containing material formed during the most advanced weathering stages, rich in kaolinite and iron (hydr)oxides, and corresponding sedimentary rocks were investigated. Bulk material and separated clay fractions were subjected to reactions with hot dithionite-citrate-bicarbonate solution in order to remove free iron (hydr)oxides. The obtained material was characterized by X-ray diffraction, chemical analysis, thermogravimetric analysis, and the measurement of oxygen isotope composition.

Authors	Kałahurska K., Ziemiański P. P., Roth W. J., Gil B.
Year	2021
Title	From Colloidal Dispersions of Zeolite Monolayers to Effective Solid Catalysts in Transformations of Bulky Organic Molecules: Role of Freeze-Drying and Dialysis
Magazine	Molecules, Volume 26, April 2021, 2076
DOI	doi.org/10.3390/molecules26072076

We investigated the properties and catalytic activity of zeolites with MWW topology obtained by unprecedented liquid exfoliation of the MCM-56 zeolite into solutions of monolayers and isolation/reassembly of the dispersed layers by various methods, with optional purification by dialysis or ammonium exchange.

Authors	Derkowski A., Środoń J., Goryl M., Marynowski M., Szczerba M., Mazur S.
Year	2021
Title	Long-distance fluids migration defines diagenetic history of unique Ediacaran sediments in the East European Craton
Magazine	Basin Research, Volume 33. issue 1, February 2021
DOI	doi.org/10.1111/bre.12485

Authors	Bristow T.F., Derkowski A., Blake D.F., Berlanga G., and De Deckker P.
Year	2021
Title	A comparative study of clay mineral authigenesis in terrestrial and martian lakes; an Australian example
Magazine	American Journal of Science
DOI	doi.org/10.2475/07.2021.03

Clay mineral-bearing mudstones are a prominent component of ancient fluvial-lacustrine deposits, 100s of meters thick, documented by the Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) rover, in Gale crater, Mars. Most of the clay minerals documented by MSL are hypothesized to have formed in situ, at or close to the time of deposition ∼3.5 Ga ago, by aqueous alteration of basaltic detritus. Here we study the mechanisms, controls, and timescales of clay mineral authigenesis in a series of lakes with a wide range of water chemistries from the Western Volcanic District, Victoria, SE Australia, as an analog to the Gale crater mudstones.

Authors	Bojanowski, M.J., Marciniak-Maliszewska, B., Środoń, J., Liivamägi, S.
Year	2021
Title	Extensive non-marine depositional setting evidenced by carbonate minerals in the Ediacaran clastic series of the western East European Craton
Magazine	Precambrian Research
DOI	doi.org/10.1016/j.precamres.2021.106379

Authors	Tyszka J., Godos K., Goleń J., Radmacher W.
Year	2021
Title	Foraminiferal organic linings: Functional and phylogenetic challenges.
Magazine	Earth-Science Reviews
DOI	doi.org/10.1016/j.earscirev.2021.103726

Foraminifera are commonly applied as essential tools for relative time control and reconstructions of paleo/environmental conditions. These single-celled organisms leave in the sedimentary rocks two types of fossil records represented by mineralized shells (tests) and their organic linings. Although both types require different preparation methodologies, they should be treated complementary as they represent the same specimens. Unfortunately, this is not the case, and the foraminiferal fossil record is highly biased towards mineral shells. The fossil archive of acid resistant organic linings is highly fragmentary and limited to accessory components within palynological preparations of marine sediments.

Authors	Radmacher W., Vásquez O.J., Tzalam M., Jolomná M., Molineros A., Eldrett J.S.
Year	2021
Title	What happened to the organic matter from the Upper Cretaceous succession in Guatemala, Central America?
Magazine	Marine and Petroleum Geology
DOI	doi.org/10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2021.105246

Authors	Pszonka, J., Schulz, B., Sala, D.
Year	2021
Title	Application of mineral liberation analysis (MLA) for investigations of grain size distribution in submarine density flow deposits
Magazine	Marine and Petroleum Geology
DOI	doi.org/10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2021.105109

Authors	Bartosz Budzyń, Richard Wirth, Jiří Sláma, Łukasz Birski, Fabian Tramm, Gabriela A. Kozub-Budzyń, Grzegorz Rzepa, Anja Schreiber
Year	2021
Title	LA-ICPMS, TEM and Raman study of radiation damage, fluid-induced alteration and disturbance of U-Pb and Th-Pb ages in experimentally metasomatised monazite
Magazine	Chemical Geology
DOI	10.1016/j.chemgeo.2021.120464

•    Experimentally altered monazite was studied in terms of preservation of U-Th-Pb ages
•    Degree of annealing of radiation damage in monazite increases with increasing temperature
•    Altered monazite (250–550 °C) yielded discordant dates due to up to 99.4 % Pb-loss
•    Linear regressions on the Concordia diagrams show lower intercept ages of ca. 0 Ma
•    Monazite from 650–750 °C runs shows initial disturbance of the U-Th-Pb system

Authors	Mirosław Jastrzębski, Bartosz Budzyń, Andrzej Żelaźniewicz, Patrik Konečný, Jiří Sláma, Gabriela A. Kozub‐Budzyń, Etienne Skrzypek, Aleksandra Jaźwa
Year	2021
Title	Eo‐Variscan metamorphism in the Bohemian Massif: Thermodynamic modelling and monazite geochronology of gneisses and granulites of the Góry Sowie Massif, SW Poland
Magazine	Journal of Metamorphic Geology
DOI	doi.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.

Authors	Ewa 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
Year	2021
Title	High-temperature fluids in granites during the Neoarchaean-Palaeoproterozoic transition: Insight from Closepet titanite chemistry and U-Pb dating (Dharwar craton, India)
Magazine	Lithos, Volumes 386–387, April 2021, 106039
DOI	doi.org/10.1016/j.lithos.2021.106039

Authors	Bartosz 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
Year	2021
Title	TS-Mnz – A new monazite age reference material for U-Th-Pb microanalysis
Magazine	Chemical Geology, Volume 572, 30 June 2021, 120195
DOI	doi.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

Authors	Artur Kuligiewicz, Arkadiusz Derkowski
Year	2021
Title	Rehydroxylation of fired clays: Is the time to the quarter (TTTQ) model correct?
Magazine	Journal of Archaeological Science, Volume 125, January 2021, 105301
DOI	doi.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.

Authors	Stanisław Mazur, Michał Malinowski, Yuriy Petrovich Maystrenko, Łukasz Gągała
Year	2021
Title	Pre-existing lithospheric weak zone and its impact on continental rifting – The Mid-Polish Trough, Central European Basin System
Magazine	Global and Planetary Change, Volume 198, March 2021, 103417
DOI	doi.org/10.1016/j.gloplacha.2021.103417

Authors	Michał Gąsiorowski, Jacek Stienss, Elwira Sienkiewicz, Ilona Sekudewicz
Year	2021
Title	Geochemical Variability of Surface Sediment in Post-Mining Lakes Located in the Muskau Arch (Poland) and Its Relation to Water Chemistry
Magazine	Water, Air, & Soil Pollution volume 232, Article number: 108 (2021)
DOI	doi.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.

Authors	Marcin Błaszczyk, Helena Hercman, Jacek Pawlak, Jacek Szczygieł
Year	2021
Title	Geochemical Variability of Surface Sediment in Post-Mining Lakes Located in the Muskau Arch (Poland) and Its Relation to Water Chemistry
Magazine	Quaternary Research , Volume 99 , January 2021 , pp. 290 - 304
DOI	doi.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.

Authors	K. Dudzisz, M. Lewandowski, T. Wernera, G. Karasiński, A. Kędzior, M. Paszkowski, J. Środoń, M.J. Bojanowski
Year	2021
Title	Paleolatitude estimation and premises for geomagnetic field instability from the Proterozoic drilling core material of the south-western part of the East European Craton
Magazine	Precambrian Research, Volume 357, 1 June 2021, 106135
DOI	doi.org/10.1016/j.precamres.2021.106135

Authors	Łukasz Kruszewski, Monika J. Fabiańska, Tomasz Segit, Danuta Kusy, Rafał Motyliński, Justyna Ciesielczuk, Ewa Deput
Year	2020
Title	Carbon‑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
Magazine	Science of The Total Environment, Volume 698, 1 January 2020, 134274
DOI	doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2019.134274

Authors	Bartosz Budzyń, Łukasz Birski, Richard Wirth, Anja Schreiber
Year	2020
Title	Nanoscale constraints on a fluid-induced transformation of monazite during postmagmatic alteration – A case of the Jawornik granitoid (NE Orlica-Śnieżnik Dome, Sudetes, SW Poland)
Magazine	Lithos, Volumes 376–377, 1 December 2020, 105777
DOI	doi.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.

Authors	Arkadiusz Derkowski, Jan Środoń, Magdalena Goryl, Leszek Marynowski, Marek Szczerba, Stanisław Mazur
Year	2020
Title	Long‐distance fluid migration defines the diagenetic history of unique Ediacaran sediments in the East European Craton
Magazine	Basin Research, 2020; 00: 1– 24.
DOI	doi.org/10.1111/bre.12485

The diagenetic history of the Ediacaran sedimentary rocks in the East European Craton (EEC) over the area extending from Arkhangelsk (Russia) in the north to Podolia (Ukraine) in the south was revealed by means of the XRD characterization and K–Ar dating of clay fractions, mudstone porosity measurements and organic geochemistry investigations.

Authors	Paweł P. Ziemiański, Arkadiusz Derkowski, Jakub Szczurowski, Marcin Koziełc
Year	2020
Title	The structural versus textural control on the methane sorption capacity of clay minerals
Magazine	International Journal of Coal Geology, Volume 224
DOI	doi.org/10.1007/s00531-019-01814-7

Highlights

•High-pressure CH₄ adsorption was studied using pure illites and smectites.

•CH₄ adsorption occurs in nitrogen-accessible micropore volume.

•CH₄ adsorption sites are located mainly outside of the interlayer galleries.

•Organic and divalent cations allow limited adsorption in the interlayers.

•Textural factors are the main control on CH₄ adsorption capacity in clay minerals.

Authors	Stanisław Mazur, Paweł Aleksandrowski, Łukasz Gągała, Piotr Krzywiec, Jerzy Żaba, Krzysztof Gaidzik, Rafał Sikora
Year	2020
Title	Late Palaeozoic strike‑slip tectonics versus oroclinal bending at the SW outskirts of Baltica: case of the Variscan belt’s eastern end in Poland
Magazine	International Journal of Earth Sciences (2020) 109:1133–1160
DOI	doi.org/10.1007/s00531-019-01814-7

Geophysical and geological data from the eastern sector of the Central European Variscan belt are presented and reviewed in the regional tectonic context. Matched filtering of isostatic gravity, guided by results of spectral analysis, along with other derivatives of gravity and magnetic fields reveal a dominant WNW–ESE-trending pre-Permian structural grain in the external zones of the Variscan belt in Poland.

Authors	Magdalena Krajcarz, Maciej T. Krajcarz, Mateusz Baca, Chris Baumann, Wim Van Neer,Danijela Popović,Magdalena Sudoł-Procyk, Bartosz Wach, Jarosław Wilczyński,Michał Wojenka, and Hervé Bocherens
Year	2020
Title	Ancestors of domestic cats in Neolithic Central Europe: Isotopic evidence of a synanthropic diet
Magazine	Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Jul 2020, 201918884
DOI	doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1918884117

Most of today’s domesticates began as farm animals, but cat domestication took a different path. Cats became commensal of humans somewhere in the Fertile Crescent, attracted to early farmers’ settlements by rodent pests. Cat remains from Poland dated to 4,200 to 2,300 y BCE are currently the earliest evidence for the migration of the Near Eastern wildcat to Central Europe. Tracking the possible synanthropic origin of that migration, we used stable isotopes to investigate the paleodiet. We found that the ecological balance was already changed due to the expansion of Neolithic farmlands. We conclude that among the Late Neolithic Near Eastern wildcats from Poland were free-living individuals, who preyed on rodent pests and shared ecological niches with native European wildcats.

Authors	Wiesława Radmacher, Karolina Kobos, Jarosław Tyszka, Agata Jarzynka, José Antonio Arz
Year	2020
Title	Palynological indicators of palaeoenvironmental perturbations in the Basque-Cantabrian Basin during the latest Cretaceous (Zumaia, northern Spain)
Magazine	Marine and Petroleum Geology, Volume 112, February 2020, 104107
DOI	doi.org/10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2019.104107

Highlights

•Palynofacies are used for palaeoenvironmental study.

•Lower/upper Maastrichtian in the Basque-Cantabrian Basin marked by abundant Leiosphaeridia spp.

•Late Maastrichtian is characterised by marine regression.

•Leiosphaeridia spp. are associated with the regressive phase.

Authors	Joanna Mirosław-Grabowska, Milena Obremska, Edyta Zawisza, Magdalena Radzikowska, Joanna Stańczak
Year	2020
Title	Towards a dystrophic lake: The history of Smolak Lake (northern Poland) on the basis of geochemical and biological data
Magazine	CATENA, Volume 187, April 2020
DOI	doi.org/10.1016/j.catena.2019.104262

Highlights

•Dystrophy is recorded in composition of organic matter and phyto- and zooplankton.

•Transition into dystrophy occurred in different lakes at different times.

•Dystrophy is strongly associated with the lake’s size and features of its catchment.

Authors	Alicja Wudarska, Ewa Słaby, Michael Wiedenbeck, Łukasz Birski, Richard Wirth, Jens Götze, Aivo Lepland, Christof Kusebauch and Izabela Kocjan
Year	2020
Title	Chlorine Isotope Composition of Apatite from the >3.7 Ga Isua Supracrustal Belt, SW Greenland
Magazine	Minerals 2020; 10(1):27.
DOI	doi.org/10.3390/min10010027

The study of the oldest surviving rock suites is crucial for understanding the processes that shaped the early Earth and formed an environment suitable for life. The metasedimentary and metavolcanic rocks of the early Archean Isua supracrustal belt contain abundant apatite, the geochemical signatures of which may help decipher ancient environmental conditions.

Authors	Łukasz Słonka, Piotr Krzywiec
Year	2020
Title	Seismic Characteristics and Development of the Upper Jurassic Carbonate Buildups from the Miechów Trough (Southern Poland)
Magazine	Geosciences 2020, 10(6), 239
DOI	doi.org/10.3390/geosciences10060239

The presented study is devoted to the subsurface Upper Jurassic carbonate buildups and surrounding stratified inter-buildup deposits in the hitherto less recognized area, in comparison with other parts of the northern Tethyan shelf in Poland and Europe. The study area is located within the present-day Miechów Trough, almost entirely covered by thick Cretaceous and younger deposits.

Authors	Danuta Peryt, Przemysław Gedl & Tadeusz Marek Peryt
Year	2020
Title	Marine transgression(s) to evaporite basin: The case of middle Miocene (Badenian) gypsum in the Central Paratethys, SE Poland
Magazine	Journal of Palaeogeography 9, 16 (2020)
DOI	doi.org/10.1186/s42501-020-00062-0

The middle Miocene Badenian evaporite basin of the Carpathian Foredeep Basin was a saline lake, separated by a barrier from the sea and supplied with seawater seeping through the barrier or overflowing it occasionally in the form of short-lived marine transgressions. Such transgressions could leave behind marine microfossils in marly clay intercalations.

Authors	Maciej J. Bojanowski; Magdalena Goryl; Barbara Kremer; Beata Marciniak-Maliszewska; Leszek Marynowski; Jan Środoń
Year	2020
Title	Pedogenic siderites fossilizing Ediacaran soil microorganisms on the Baltica paleocontinent
Magazine	Geology (2020) 48 (1): 62–66.
DOI	doi.org/10.1130/G46746.1

Ediacaran siderite-bearing sedimentary rocks from the western part of the East European craton exhibit features typical of redoximorphic paleosols, including pedogenic siderite (e.g., sphaerosiderite) with uniform and negative δ¹⁸O and highly variable δ¹³C values. The siderite precipitated in water-logged soils in a hot and humid climate, and represents a rare example of pedogenic siderite formed before the rise of vascular plants.

Authors	Łukasz Birski, Ewa Słaby, R. Wirth, M. Koch-Müller, K. Simon, Alicja Wudarska, J. Götze, A. Lepland, A. Hofmann & A. Kuras
Year	2019
Title	Archaean phosphates: a case study of transformation processes in apatite from the Barberton greenstone belt
Magazine	Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology 174, 25 (2019)
DOI	doi.org/10.1007/s00410-019-1560-z

Multiple tools have been used to determine the sensitivity of phosphates from the early Archaean Barberton greenstone belt to transformation. The assessment of the degree of transformation is crucial for verifying data about the parameters of the paleo-environment.

Authors	Helena Hercman, Michał Gąsiorowski, Jacek Pawlak, Marcin Błaszczyk, Michał Gradziński, Šárka Matoušková, Paweł Zawidzki, Pavel Bella
Year	2020
Title	Atmospheric circulation and the differentiation of precipitation sources during the Holocene inferred from five stalagmite records from Demänová Cave System (Central Europe)
Magazine	The Holocene, Volume: 30 issue: 6, page(s): 834-846
DOI	doi.org/10.1177/0959683620902224

Five stalagmites from the Demänová Cave System (DCS, Western Carpathians, Slovakia), spanning the period from 13,000 to 500 a BP, were analyzed for their oxygen and carbon stable isotopic composition of the calcite. The isotopic data obtained from several stalagmites located in one cave system allow us to separate the changes of regional/global importance from the local changes. Oxygen isotope ratios point to dynamic changes in the environment at the onset of the Holocene.

Authors	Dariusz Botor, Aneta A. Anczkiewicz, Stanisław Mazur & Tomasz Siwecki
Year	2019
Title	Post-Variscan thermal history of the Intra-Sudetic Basin (Sudetes, Bohemian Massif) based on apatite fission track analysis
Magazine	International Journal of Earth Sciences, 2019, Volume 108, Number 8, Page 2561
DOI	doi.org/10.1007/s00531-019-01777-9

The Intra-Sudetic Basin, a ~ 12 km deep Variscan intramontane basin, has the best preserved post-orogenic sedimentary record available at the NE margin of the Bohemian Massif. Apatite fission track (AFT) analyses have been performed on 16 sedimentary and volcanic samples of Carboniferous to Cretaceous age from the Intra-Sudetic Basin to improve understanding of the post-Variscan thermal evolution.

Authors	Alberti M., Arabas A., Fürsich F. T., Andersen N., Ziółkowski P.
Year	2019
Title	The Middle to Upper Jurassic stable isotope record of Madagascar: linking temperature changes with plate tectonics during the break-up of Gondwana
Magazine	Gondwana Research, 73,1-15.

Stable isotope (δ¹⁸O, δ¹³C) analyses were performed on well preserved belemnites, oysters, and rhynchonellid brachiopods from the Middle to Upper Jurassic of the Morondava Basin in southern Madagascar.

Authors	Aleksandrowski P., Krzywiec P.
Year	2017
Title	Przekrój geologiczny Szczecin-Władysławowo
Magazine	Nawrocki J., Becker A., (Eds.) Atlas geologiczny Polski. Państwowy Instytut Geologiczny - Państwowy Instytut Badawczy. 46

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