Summer School
Post-MSc. course "Methods of absolute dating and applications"

At the end of the 3rd semester of post-MSc studies the Summer School was organised, which was held in the hotel "Zajazd Jurajski", town of Podlesice, Cracow-Wielun Upland region, Poland, on 6-16 September 2005.

Podlesice is situated between Czestochowa and Krakow (ca 60 km from Krakow) in Jura Krakowsko-Czestochowska region, in the South - central part of Poland. Almost all Jura region is under protection - there were established many Natural Parks, reserves (Smoleń, Góra Zborów), and one National Park in the most attractive part of Jura - Pradnik River Valley - Ojcowski National Park. Even a dessert you will find here (the Bledowska Dessert)! Along the line of castles and towers there are marked two fantastic trails: Eagle's Foretops Trail (Szlak Orlich Gniazd, with: Piaskowa Skala castle, palaces in Pilica and Zloty Potok, and ruins of Ojców, Rabsztyn, Bydlin, Smoleń, Ogrodzieniec, Morsko, Bobolice, Mirów, Ostrężnik and Olsztyn castles) and Jura's Fortresses Trail (Szlak Warowni Jurajskich).

Jura Krakowsko-Czestochowska is a classical example of a karst region, where you can visit many well shaped karst forms. There are many caves with human activities, animals traces and calcareous dripstones. You can find there many interesting sites of Holocene calcareous tufas.

Summer School programme

Wednesday, 7^th September 2005

8:00 Breakfast

All day long excursion

Podlesice – Ojców – Jerzmanowice – Olkusz – Podlesice (ca. 150-160km)

Guide: Dr Krzysztof Dudek

An introduction to the geology of the vicinities of Cracow and the Cracow-Częstochowa Jurassic region. The Ojców National Park. Ojców – the turn of the 19th and 20th century spa, castle ruins, the Prądnik river valley, terraces, inselbergs, sites of occurrence of the Ojców beech and the xerothermic flora, the Cracow Gate (Brama Krakowska). Jurassic plateau in the vicinities of Jerzmanowice: inselbergs (the hill 502), limestone quarry and furnace, karst processes, the Bat Cave (Jaskinia Nietoperzowa).

19:00 Dinner

Thursday 8^th September 2005

8:30 Breakfast

10:00 Lecture: Prof Andrzej Zastawny - Radiation budget of Earth, first part

Student's presentations:

1. Bernadeta Dobosz – EPR in dating of archaeological and geological materials

2. Marianna Kulkova – The chronological reconstructions of Holocene paleoenvironmental variations in the area of Dvina-Lovat' basin archeological sites.

13:30 Lunch

14:30 Excursion – Podlesice region

Guide: Anna Knopik

The vicinities of Podlesice, Mt Zborów area. Geology and geography of the Podlesice and Kroczyce Rocks region. An old quarry of so-called spat (crystalline calcite).

19:00 Dinner

Friday 9^th September 2005

8:30 Breakfast

10:00 Lecture: Prof Andrzej Zastawny – Radiation budget of Earth, second part

Student's presentations:

1. Natalia Piotrowska - Construction of calendar time scales for lake sediments on the basis of radiocarbon dating.

2. Barbara Sensuła - MS analysis of glucose.

13:30 Lunch

19:00 Dinner

Saturday, 10^th September

8:00 Breakfast

9:00 Excursions

Guide: Dr Krzysztof Dudek

The vicinities of Krzeszowice.

An outline of the geology of the Cracow region: Silesian-Cracovian Monocline, Krzeszowice tectonic trough, Dębnik anticline, Tenczynek horst. The old quarries in Dębnik (Devonian limestone, so-called Dębnik marble), Dubie (Devonian Zbrza dolomite), and Miękinia (porphyry).

19:00 Dinner

Sunday, 11^th September

8:30 Breakfast

13:00 Lunch

19:00 Dinner

Monday, 12^th September

8:30 Breakfast

10:00 Student's presentations

1. Małgorzata Szczepanek – Stable isotopes in tree ring.

2. Wojciech Tylmann – Applications of ²¹⁰Pb method in lake sedimentary processes investigation.

13:00 Lunch

14:00 Excursion:

Guide: Dr Marcin Krajewski

Sokole Góry and Skały Rzędkowickie – the area Janów-Olsztyn. Geology and geomorphology of the northern part of the Cracow-Częstochowa Jurassic region, polygenesis of the limestone rocks, karst processes, environmental issues.

19:00 Dinner

Tuesday, 13^th September

8:00 Breakfast

9:00 Excursion:

Guide: Dr Marcin Krajewski

The vicinities of Podzamcze, Mt Smoleń, the Wodąca valley. Geology and geomorphology of that part of the Cracow-Częstochowa Jurassic region, karst processes, environmental issues.

14:00 Lunch

15:00 Student's presentations:

1. Edyta Łokas – Sediments of lakes, ponds and floodplains as archives of environmental changes using ²¹⁰Pb.

2. Sylwia Korput – High precision radiocarbon measurements and tree-ring dating.

19:00 Dinner

Wednesday, 14^th September 2005

8:30 Breakfast

10:00 Lecture: Dr Jacek Pawlyta – Radiocarbon dating of "modern" samples.

Student's presentations

1. Jarosław Sikorski – ²¹⁰Pb in lake sediments.

2. Piotr Moska – Optically stimulated luminescence as a dating tool.

13:30 Lunch

19:00 Dinner

Thursday, 15^th September 2005

8:30 Breakfast

10:00 Lecture: Dr Adam Michczyński – Evaluation of uncertainty – remarks concerning dating results.

Student's presentations

1. Danuta Nawrocka - Radiocarbon dating ancient lime mortars.

2. Grzegorz Poręba - The use of caesium-137 as a tracer in soil erosion and sedimentation investigations. Some sugestion about estimating baseline inventory.

13:30 Lunch

18:00 Dinner