The loess section in Wąchock as the key site of Vistulian loesses and palaeosols in the Holy Cross Mountains (Poland)

• Published in: Geological Quarterly
• Main Authors: Dzierżek, Jan, Lindner, Leszek, Nawrocki, Jerzy
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Polish Geological Institute-National Research Institute 2020
• Subjects: East-Central Europe; loess stratigraphy; soil complexes; TL-dating; palaeomagnetism; Tundra
• Online Access: https://gq.pgi.gov.pl/article/view/26450

The Wąchock section (N part of the Holy Cross Mountains) is bipartite, with a sub-loess lower part and a loess upper part. The sub-loess part lying on Lower Triassic sandstones includes fluvial, glacial and ice-dammed lake deposits, TL-dated at 352 ky BP to 157 ±23 ky BP. They represent the Mazovian...