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A palaeoenvironmental reconstruction based
on palynological analyses of Upper Triassic
and Lower Jurassic sediments
from the Holy Cross Mountains region
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International Doctoral Studies in Natural Sciences at the Polish Academy of Sciences in Kraków, Lubicz 46,
31-512 Kraków, Poland |
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W. Szafer Institute of Botany, Polish Academy of Sciences, Lubicz 46, 31-512 Kraków, Poland |
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Hungarian Natural History Museum, Botanical Department, H-1476 Budapest, Pf. 222, Hungary |
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Polish Geological Institute, National Research Institute, ul. Rakowiecka 4, PL-00-975 Warsaw, Poland |
Online publication date: 2014-06-17
Publication date: 2014-06-17
Acta Palaeobotanica 2014; 54(1): 35–65
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ABSTRACT
The material for this study was taken from various sites in the Holy Cross Mountains: Studzianna,
Huta OP-1 and Przysucha P-3 (bore cores), and Odrowąż (geological outcrop). Palynological and palynofacial analyses
were used to reconstruct the Upper Triassic and Lower Jurassic vegetation and palaeoenvironment of that area.
Samples from all the sites are characterised by having majority of terrestrial particles. The slides were dominated
by translucent phytoclasts and small opaque phytoclasts. Pollen grains and spores were also present. The
presence of marine palynomorphs was not confirmed in the samples from any of the sites, dinoflagellate cysts did
not occur, and there were no foraminiferal test linings.
The Sporomorph EcoGroup (SEG) model (Abbink 1998) was applied to characterise the ecological types of the
plant assemblages. The most frequently occurring sporomorphs were assigned to Upland, Lowland and River
SEGs. Stratigraphical changes in each of the SEGs indicate differences in climatic conditions.
The floristic composition of the Studzianna, Huta and Odrowąż localities inferred from sporomorphs differs
somewhat from the composition reconstructed from macroremains.
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