Research and analyses conducted during the project implementation lead to a comprehensive reconstruction of the last Scandinavian Ice Sheet dynamics in Lubawa Upland. It provided new data related to glacial processes within elevated areas as well as paleogeography of Lubawa Upland during the last glaciation.
Below the most important results of the project are presented:
1. There are evidences suggesting that Lubawa Upland is a complex landform and its glacial landscape is a result of various processes connected with the last Scandinavian Ice Sheet, such as: deposition and glacitectonic deformation of marginal sediments in front of advancing ice sheet, preservation of morainic landforms under the ice sole or erosion due to meltwater outflow during ice sheet decay.
2. Contestation of Lubawa Upland location between two ice lobes during the last glaciation as well as influence of the last ice sheet forefield topography for directions of its transgression.
3. Identification of three layers of subglacial till in north-western part of Lubawa Upland related to ice advance during Leszno, Poznan and Pomeranian phases of the last glaciation.
4. The occurence of subglacial permafrost within the marginal zone of the last ice sheet could be the key factor for subglacial drainage, selective ice bed deformation and preservation of older relief under the ice sole.
All published results of the project are included in the "Materials" section.
Below the most important results of the project are presented:
1. There are evidences suggesting that Lubawa Upland is a complex landform and its glacial landscape is a result of various processes connected with the last Scandinavian Ice Sheet, such as: deposition and glacitectonic deformation of marginal sediments in front of advancing ice sheet, preservation of morainic landforms under the ice sole or erosion due to meltwater outflow during ice sheet decay.
2. Contestation of Lubawa Upland location between two ice lobes during the last glaciation as well as influence of the last ice sheet forefield topography for directions of its transgression.
3. Identification of three layers of subglacial till in north-western part of Lubawa Upland related to ice advance during Leszno, Poznan and Pomeranian phases of the last glaciation.
4. The occurence of subglacial permafrost within the marginal zone of the last ice sheet could be the key factor for subglacial drainage, selective ice bed deformation and preservation of older relief under the ice sole.
All published results of the project are included in the "Materials" section.
National
Science
Centre
Science
Centre
Nicolaus
Copernicus
University
Copernicus
University
Faculty of Earth Sciences
Last update: October 2014
Genetic model for one of the morainic hills in Lubawa Upland based on investigations at Glaznoty site