Commune: Biłgoraj (pow. biłgorajski, woj. lubelskie)
Framework element or context represented:
Miocene deposits of the marginal part of the Carpathian Foredeep basin.
Primary geological/geomorphological interest:
Succession of sediments at the Badenian - Sarmation boundary.
Comparative assessment justification:
Standard sequence of Upper Badenian/Sarmatian organodetritic deposits in Roztocze Hills.
Protection status and accessibility:
Proposed for protection, well accessible.
Character of site: Quarry
Area: 3 ha
Altitude: 290 m a.s.l.
Lithology: limestones, silts, clays
Discipline: Palaeobiology, Palaeoenvironment, Stratigraphy of Phanerozoic
Process Age: *all periods
Bedrock Age: Neogene, *all periods
Description of primary interest:
There is an active quarry in Żelebsko. A continuous Badenian/Sarmatian transition is visible here. The Badenian deposits are fine- and medium-grained, ripple cross-stratificated calcarenites. This part of the Żelebsko section is overlain, with a small angular unconformity, by a set of thick, massive calcarenites. Above them lie a clay layer with thin intercalations of compact micritic limestones, and a few layers of calcarenites containing scarce, small fragments of serpulid-microbialitic limestones. The deposits included in the Sarmatian are calcarenites, with fragments of serpulids, and marly clays, with lenses of serpulid-microbialitic build ups.
Literature:
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