Lithological features of the infillings of selected closed depressions in the Łódź Upland

https://doi.org/10.26485/AGL/2017/106/15

Abstract

_{Small closed depressions are a common feature of the landscape of Central Poland. Their origin has been connected to various morphogenetic processes but most of the forms located in upland areas are the result of the melting of buried ice in the recession phase of the ice sheet of the Warta Stadial. A study of four sites with clusters of depressions, is being carried out in the Łódź Upland to compare the lithological features of their infillings. The analyses of the sediments have allowed to distinguish four lithological units and to display the variation between the infillings of the studied basins. Some of the depressions do not contain biogenic sediments of the Eemian Interglacial or the Early Vistulian. It indicates the presence of differences in the local geological conditions and a different course of the process of filling in of the basins.}