Application of malacological analysis to reconstruction of regional and local environmental changes: the Cisowa Skała locality (the Carpathians, southern Poland)

Authors

  • Sylwia Skoczylas-Śniaz AGH University of Science and Technology, Faculty of Geology, Geophysics and Environment Protection, Chair of General Geology and Geotourism http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5447-3757
  • Witold Paweł Alexandrowicz AGH University of Science and Technology, Faculty of Geology, Geophysics and Environment Protection, Chair of General Geology and Geotourism http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5403-6696

Keywords:

karst sediments, molluscs, environmental changes, Holocene, Podhale Basin, Pieniny Klippen Belt

Abstract

An isolated limestone hill (Cisowa Skała), located in the Podhale Basin in southern Poland, has yielded mollusc shells and small vertebrate bones in deposits filling small karst forms such as rock shelters, characteristic molluscan assemblages can be identified, the succession of which reflects changes in the environment and also microhabitat variations depending on local factors, such as slope exposure and type of vegetation. These local factors markedly affect regional environmental trends determined primarily by climate change and, during the last several hundred years, also by human activity. Such malacological analysis enables effective palaeogeographical reconstructions, both on the scale of geographical regions and for microhabitats.

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Published

2022-06-24

Issue

Vol. 66 No. 1 (2022)

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