Some periglacial problems in Poland
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.26485/BP/1956/4/2Keywords:
involutions, solifluction, periglacial zone, periglacial periodsAbstract
The author makes an attempt to classify the cryoturbations occurring in Poland. He draws special attention to involutions classifying them as: fold-like, pillar-like and amorphous. Among soliflual structures he distinguishes cylindrical solifluxion beeing the result of the flow speed difference between sandy and clayish masses of earth on a slope. The second problem presents the development of periglacial phenomena within individual glaciations. The author investigates these phenomena in time and space. Each periglacial zone splits up into sub-zones of varying microrelief and of different frost phenomena. These sub-zones change their position following the development or retreat of glaciation. When comparing the cryoturbations, it must be remembered that they originated not only in different glaciations, but also in different phases of the same glaciation. Therefore the apparently synchronous phenomena may eventually turn out as unsynchronous ones. The last problem under investigation is the question concerning the oldest periglacial zone in Poland. The author puts forward a hypothesis that the so-called “preglacial” deposits of south and middle Poland originated under periglacial conditions. They correspond to the oldest periglacial period in Poland.
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