A Late Pleistocene woolly mammoth from Lower Silesia, SW Poland

2010 ◽  
Vol 53 (1) ◽  
pp. 51-64 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alina Krzemińska ◽  
Krzysztof Stefaniak ◽  
Joanna Zych ◽  
Piotr Wojtal ◽  
Grzegorz Skrzypek ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Late Pleistocene ◽  
Sw Poland ◽  
Lower Silesia ◽  
Woolly Mammoth

scholarly journals Quantitative and Qualitative Research on the Waste from the Mining of Rock Raw Materials in Lower Silesia

Minerals ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (9) ◽  
pp. 375 ◽  
Author(s):  
Urszula Kaźmierczak ◽  
Jan Blachowski ◽  
Justyna Górniak-Zimroz ◽  
Herbert Wirth
Keyword(s):  
Raw Materials ◽  
Mineral Resources ◽  
Geological Structure ◽  
Mining Activity ◽  
Road Engineering ◽  
Quantitative And Qualitative Research ◽  
Sw Poland ◽  
Natural Aggregates ◽  
Graphical Presentation ◽  
Lower Silesia

The Lower Silesia area in SW Poland is characterized by a geological structure that is conducive to mining activity. The exploitation of rock raw materials plays an important role in this sector of the economy. By the end of 2017, there were in total approximately 400 current concessions for the exploitation of rock raw materials in the analysed area (Polish Geological Institute, MIDAS database—Management and Protection System of Polish Mineral Resources). The conducted mining activity results in waste, which in the greatest amount occurs in the process of obtaining crushed road and construction aggregates, natural aggregates, carbonate raw materials for the cement and lime industry, as well as stone elements for construction and road engineering. At the end of 2016, the mining plants accumulated 26,569,600 Mg of waste. As part of the European Regions Toward Circular Economy (CircE) project, research was conducted on the volume and composition of the mining waste of rock raw materials in the years 2010–2016 within Lower Silesia. This research used the methods of statistical, descriptive and spatial analysis to identify mining plants with the highest potential for using their wastes. In the course of this study, 6 mining plants with the highest potential of using their waste for industrial production purposes were selected. In order to objectively select these plants, the methodology of qualitative multi-criteria analysis was developed, and 7 criteria were selected for assessing the economic potential of using waste from the mining of rock raw materials. An additional result of this research is a database and graphical presentation of changes in the spatial distribution of generated waste in the Lower Silesia region in the years ranging from 2010 to 2016.

scholarly journals Modern Solution for Fast and Accurate Inventorization of Open-Pit Mines by the Active Remote Sensing Technique—Case Study of Mikoszów Granite Mine (Lower Silesia, SW Poland)

Energies ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (20) ◽  
pp. 6853
Author(s):  
Jaroslaw Wajs ◽  
Paweł Trybała ◽  
Justyna Górniak-Zimroz ◽  
Joanna Krupa-Kurzynowska ◽  
Damian Kasza
Keyword(s):  
Computer Software ◽  
Mining Industry ◽  
Ground Surface ◽  
Open Pit ◽  
Mining Operations ◽  
Buffer Zones ◽  
Sw Poland ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Cloud Of Points ◽  
Lower Silesia

Mining industry faces new technological and economic challenges which need to be overcome in order to raise it to a new technological level in accordance with the ideas of Industry 4.0. Mining companies are searching for new possibilities of optimizing and automating processes, as well as for using digital technology and modern computer software to aid technological processes. Every stage of deposit management requires mining engineers, geologists, surveyors, and environment protection specialists who are involved in acquiring, storing, processing, and sharing data related to the parameters describing the deposit, its exploitation and the environment. These data include inter alia: geometries of the deposit, of the excavations, of the overburden and of the mined mineral, borders of the support pillars and of the buffer zones, mining advancements with respect to the set borders, effects of mining activities on the ground surface, documentation of landslide hazards and of the impact of mining operations on the selected elements of the environment. Therefore, over the life cycle of a deposit, modern digital technological solutions should be implemented in order to automate the processes of acquiring, sharing, processing and analyzing data related to deposit management. In accordance with this idea, the article describes the results of a measurement experiment performed in the Mikoszów open-pit granite mine (Lower Silesia, SW Poland) with the use of mobile LiDAR systems. The technology combines active sensors with automatic and global navigation system synchronized on a mobile platform in order to generate an accurate and precise geospatial 3D cloud of points.

scholarly journals Mammoths, Deer, and a Dog: Fossil and (Sub) Recent Allochthonous Remains from the Northeastern Croatia (Podravina Region), with the First Radiocarbon Dating of the Croatian Woolly Mammoths (Mammuthus primigenius)

Quaternary ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 11 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jadranka Mauch Lenardić ◽  
Siniša Radović ◽  
Ankica Oros Sršen ◽  
Nada Horvatinčić ◽  
Petar Kostešić ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Late Pleistocene ◽  
Cervus Elaphus ◽  
Red Deer ◽  
Pannonian Basin ◽  
Canis Familiaris ◽  
Mammuthus Primigenius ◽  
Maxillary Bone ◽  
Fluvial Deposits ◽  
Animal Remains ◽  
Woolly Mammoth

Eight anatomically and taxonomically different finds are presented in this paper, and they belong to four taxa: woolly mammoth (Mammuthus primigenius), giant deer (Megaloceros giganteus), red deer (Cervus elaphus), and dog (Canis familiaris). All specimens represent allochthonous Late Pleistocene and Holocene animal remains, and all were dredged during the gravel exploitation at the Sekuline site near Molve (Podravina region, SW Pannonian basin, NE Croatia). Mammoth remains (bone and tusk fragments) were radiocarbon dated, and these are the first absolute dates on mammoths in Croatia. One upper last left deciduous premolar (dP4 sin.) also belongs to the same species. Ascribed to a dog is one well-preserved skull with a peculiar abscess scar on the maxillary bone as the result of an inflammatory process on the carnassial (P4) premolar. The Late Pleistocene cervid remains are giant deer, while the other cervid finds were determined to be red deer of the Holocene age. Morphometrical and taphonomical data are presented for each specimen. Such fossil and recent bone/tooth aggregates are characteristic of fluvial deposits and selective collecting. Although lacking stratigraphic provenance, these finds help to fulfil the gaps in palaeoenvironmental, palaeoecological, and palaeoclimate reconstructions of Podravina and its neighbouring areas.

The local-scale expansion of Dermacentor reticulatus ticks in Lower Silesia, SW Poland

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 101599
Author(s):  
Dorota Kiewra ◽  
Mariusz Szymanowski ◽  
Aleksandra Czułowska ◽  
Aleksandra Kolanek
Keyword(s):  
Dermacentor Reticulatus ◽  
Local Scale ◽  
Sw Poland ◽  
Scale Expansion ◽  
Lower Silesia

scholarly journals The Oak Chronology (948-1314 AD) for the Zary Area (Sw Poland)

2007 ◽  
Vol 26 (-1) ◽  
pp. 47-52 ◽  
Author(s):  
Małgorzata Danek ◽  
Marzena Kłusek ◽  
Marek Krąpiec
Keyword(s):  
High Similarity ◽  
Statistical Parameters ◽  
Oak Wood ◽  
Sw Poland ◽  
Site Chronology ◽  
A Site ◽  
Excellent Tool ◽  
Very High ◽  
Lower Silesia

The Oak Chronology (948-1314 AD) for the Zary Area (Sw Poland)The study presents the results of investigations aimed at construction of a site chronology for oak wood from the surroundings of Zary (SW Poland). The 366-year chronology ZY_2006, covering the period 948-1314 AD was determined on the basis of 189 individual ring patterns representing samples of archaeological wooden objects lifted at the excavation works led in the Old Town of Zary in the years 2004-2005. The chronology produced exhibits high similarity to the standards for the neighbouring regions: Wielkopolska and Lower Silesia. The statistical parameters of the chronology are very high and, thanks to the signature years determined, it should be an excellent tool for dating samples of mediaeval timbers from the whole region of Ziemia Lubuska, including some with relatively short dendrochronological sequences.

Occupation dynamics north of the Carpathians and Sudetes during the Weichselian (MIS5d-3): The Lower Silesia (SW Poland) case study

2013 ◽  
Vol 294 ◽  
pp. 20-40 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrzej Wiśniewski ◽  
Grzegorz Adamiec ◽  
Janusz Badura ◽  
Andrzej Bluszcz ◽  
Anna Kowalska ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
The Carpathians ◽  
Sw Poland ◽  
Lower Silesia

scholarly journals Vertisols properties and classification in relation to parent material differentiation near Strzelin (SW Poland)

2019 ◽  
Vol 70 (2) ◽  
pp. 158-169 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michał Dudek ◽  
Jarosław Waroszewski ◽  
Cezary Kabała ◽  
Beata Łabaz
Keyword(s):  
Clay Fraction ◽  
Parent Material ◽  
Temperate Climate ◽  
Moisture Regime ◽  
Soil Maps ◽  
Sw Poland ◽  
Formation Of Cracks ◽  
Main Factors ◽  
Physical Features ◽  
Lower Silesia

Abstract Vertisols are characterized by high content of clay fraction that affects their specific morphological and physical features. The shrink-swell phenomena of clayey materials under specific moisture regime cause formation of cracks, wedge-shaped structural aggregates and slickensides on aggregate surfaces. It was formerly believed that these soils can be found only in tropical/subtropical zones, thus Vertisols have not been expected to form under temperate climate of Central Europe. As a result, Vertisols are insufficiently recognized and documented on soil maps in Poland, including the Lower Silesia region. The aim of this study was to examine soils developed on clayey parent materials near Strzelin, focusing on their morphology, properties and classification issues. There was confirmed that soils developed from Neogene clays have vertic and mollic horizon, accompanied by stagnic or gleyic properties. However, not all soils fulfil the criteria for Vertisols due to the presence of surface or subsurface coarser-textured (sandyor silty-textured) layers. Native differentiation of parent material and geomorphological processes were found the main factors, which control the spatial mosaic of Vertisols and black earths (Chernozems or Phaeozems).

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