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The present article is an analysis of the relief of the Quaternary substratum, this relief being a background for further geomorphologic studies, particularly concerning the way of glaciation and deglaciation of the Riss Glaciation. The investigated area lies on the NE border of the Holy Cross Mts between Skarżysko-Kamienna and Szydłowiec (Fig. 1). On the SW it adjoins the Goleniów Ridge of the Końskie...
Similar land shapes may be formed in different morphogenetic systems. The morphodynamic activity of proglacial rivers resembles the activity of intermittent streams in semi-arid and arid climate. In the foreland of glaciers and in arid areas there is no dense vegetation and periodically swelling rivers are heavily loaded with transported material. That is why they cannot cut into the substratum but...
In North-East Poland, in the Riss Glaciation zone there occur hills of a characteristic conical shape. They have asymmetric slopes: one is usually short and steep, the opposite is longer and softer. They are connected with depressions left by blocks of dead ice and usually situated on the border of such basins. They are built of fluvioglacial deposits, sometimes with added ablation clays. They are...
Basing on two profiles an analysis of hill-side material was carried out. The shift of the deposit along the hill-side was stated on the grounds of changes in granulation and in the degree of abrasion of quartz grains of the sandy fraction. Changes occurring in the degree of sorting and abrasion of the material are connected with the washing process and with the type of the section of the hill-side...
Geomorphology as science, with its investigative problems is particularly favourable to the formation of various intellectual skills, especially of logical reasoning. Investigative problems initiated by the teacher are usually a starting point for reasoning of a definite type. Two types of reasoning may occur: induction and deduction. Since geomorphology is a natural science the most frequently used...
In the valley of the Lower Skrwa, below Cieślin (Fig. 1, 2, 3) the method of electric resistance has been used in the reconstruction of the Quaternary fossil relief. On the basis of several hundred geoelectric soundings carried out in Schlumberger’s symmetrical system (Fig. 4) three groups of deposits were distinguished in the investigated area: the high-resistance sandy group and the medium-resistance...
The author presents the results of his investigations of the basic problems of the so called systematic geomorphology; the article is a summary of the methodical part of his doctor’s thesis presented at the Department of Geography and Regional Studies of Warsaw University, in 1983. It has been meant as his opinion in the discussion on the following, as yet unsolved, theoretical problems: - the problem...
The investigations carried out by the author up to the present place the age of the Słupia river flood plain in the sub-Atlantic period - 1850±110 B.P. Gd.-864. The deposits forming the flood plain reach ca 4 m of thickness and they are underlain by older deposits including grey boulder clay defined as older clay from the last glaciation (the Vistulian). The differences in the lithological development...
When investigating the young glacial relief of the western fragment of the Ełk Lake District mezoregion and analysing accessible cartographic and geologic material with the use of a photomap (1: 10 000) and of panchromatic photos (1: 16 400) the authors’ attention was drawn by the surroundings of the Woszczelskie and the Sawinda Wielka lakes. Wast surfaces stretch here, gently sloping toward the lake...
The cartographic study included numerous maps of the investigated area, to begin with the map drawn by Eilhard Lubin in 1618. For detailed analysis nineteenth - and twentieth-century maps were used, scaled 1:100 000 at least. Photointerpretative analysis were based on black-an-white, panchromatic air pictures taken in 1967, in the scale of 1:10 000. Those pictures do not include the lower part of...
Investigations comprised deposits forming two dunes at Dammsjön and at Lennheden (district of Dalarna, north of Uppsala) and - for comparison – deposits of aquatic origin underlaying the dune at Lennheden as well as the fluvioglacial deposits from the outcrops of Brovallen and Norr Amsberg, which form the esker of Badelunda. The principal object of investigations was to determine the degree at which...
The interpretation of Landsat images of the part of NE Poland (an area covered with thick layer of Quaternary deposits) was overworked. Different scale, multispectral black and white satellite photos and colour compositions in false colour was taken into account. Differenciation in vegetational cover, drainage network and terrain relief on seasonal photos were observed. The results of visual interpretation...
The article concerns the results of investigations of the surface relief of quartz grains in two samples of deposits coming from the upper part of the Amazon catchment area, presented in conditions of the natural environment prevailing nowadays and in those of the Pleistocene epoch. The analysis of the greatly magnified sand grains surface was done in a scanning electron microscope of the ISM-25 Jeol...
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