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Middle to Late Jurassic in Poland T>KASO JlaSU DANMARKS OG GR0NLANDS GEOLOG I SK'E UNDERS0GELSE RAPPORT 1998/14 Mellem - 0vre Jura i Rolen EFP-1995 projekt: Det polske Mellem-0vre Jura Epikratoniske Bassin, Stratigrafi, Facies og Bassin Historie. Program 0steuropa. Poulsen, N. E., Bojesen-KoefoedJ., Drewniak, A., Glowniak, E., Ineson.J., Matyja, B.A, Merta,T., and Wierzbowski, A. r-i NO? 3 0 1998 OS Tl GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF DENMARK AND GREENLAND MINISTRY OF ENVIRONMENT AND ENERGY G E U S DISCLAIMER Portions of this document may be illegible in electronic image products. Images are produced from the best available original document. DANMARKS OG GR0NLANDS GEOLOGISKE UNDERS0GELSE RAPPORT 1998/14 Mellem - 0vre Jura i Rolen EFP-1995 projekt: Det polske Mellem-0vre Jura Epikratoniske Bassin, Stratigrafi, Facies og Bassin Historie. Program Osteuropa. Poulsen, N. E., Bojesen-Koefoed, J., Drewniak,A, Glowniak, E., Ineson.J., Matyja, BA, Merta,T., and Wierzbowski.A Final rapporter Bojesen-Koefoed, J„ 1996: EFP-95 ProjeccThe Polish Middle to Late Jurassic epicratonic basin, stratigraphy and basin history. Organic geochemical screening analysis of outcrop samples. GEUS report 1996/81,30 pp. Bronislaw Andrzej Matyja & Andrzej Wierzbowski, 1997: The quest for a unified Oxfordian-Kimmeridgian boundary: implication of the ammonite succession at the turn of the Bimammatum Zone and Planula Zones in the Wielun Upland (Central Poland). Agta Geologica Polonfeca 47 (1-2): 77-105. Kutek,J.,and Zeiss, A, 1997. The highest Kimmeridgian and the Lower Volgian in Central Poland: their ammonites and biostratigraphy". Acta Geologica Polonica 47 (3-4), 107-198. Poulsen, N. E., Drewniak, A, Glowniak, E., Ineson.J., Matyja, B.A, Merta,T„ and Wierzbowski.A, 1995: The Polish Middle to Late Jurassic Epicratonic Basin, stratigraphy, facies and basin history. Geological Survey of Denmark, Datadokumentation 14-1995,26 pp. 6 GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF DENMARK AND GREENLAND MINISTRY OF ENVIRONMENT AND ENERGY GEUS Forord Projektet omfattede en unders0gelse af Mellem Jura (Bajocien - Bathonien) organisk rige lerstens aflejringer og den overlej'rende Sen Jurassiske karbonat sekvens i Rolen. Sekven- sen blev underscgt med henblik pa at etablere en detaljeret h0j optoselig stratigrafisk korre- lation (kronostratigrafisk og dinoflagellat cyst zonering) af den polske submediterrane provins (nordlige Tethys Rige) og den subboreale provins (Nords 0omradet), samt vurdere polske Mellem Jurassiske bjergarter olie og gas potentiate, samt 0vre Jurassiske kalksten som reservoir mulighed i forbindelse med saltstrukturer. I studiet indgik ammonit biostratigrafi, palynologi, sedimentologi, og organisk geokemisk faciesbeskrivelse (modenheds analyse). Den Mellem Jurasiske ammonit stratigrafi for Polen er et forskningsfelt, der ikke har dyrket de sidste knap 25 ar. Der er under projektet opstillet en tidssvarende zonering for det pol ­ ske omrade. Den 0vre Jurassiske ammonit zonering for det polske omrade har vaeret in- tensivt studeret gennem de sidste mange ar. Under projektet har der specielt vaeret arbej- det med den Mellem - 0vre Oxfordien lagserien. Der er opstillet nye subzoner inden for denne sekvens. Detaljeret korrelations studier af Oxfordien - Kimmeridgien graensen fra Tethys Riget til Det Boreale Rige har forbedret forstaelsen af den diakrone definition af denne graense i de to riger. Endvidere studieme af Kimmeridgien - Volgien ammonit strati- grafien f0rt til korrelation af de Boreale Klimovi - Sokolovi Zoner med Tethys Hybonotum Zone. De 0vre Jurassiske ammonit studier er blevet udf0rt i taet samarbejde med arbejds- gruppeme for denne periode under Den Internationale Subkommission for Jurassisk Strati­ grafi (ISJS). Projektets resultater er blevet prsesenteret ved nationale (danske og polske) og Internatio­ nale m0der. Hovedparten af projektets resultater er under publicering. Enkelte er allerede publiceret. Projektet er blevet udf0rt under EFP-1995 programme!, programomrade 0steuropa. Pro ­ jektet havde to samarbejdspartnere, Geologisk Institut, Warszawa’s Universitet (Wydzial Geologii, Uniwersytet Warszawski) og Danmarks og Grenlands Geologiske Unders0gelse (GEUS). GEUS 3 GEUS 4 Indhold Rapporten er opdelt i en dansk del, der giver et generelt overblik over projektets resultater, samt seks delrapporter, der giver en gennemgang af specifikke discipliner i projektet. Forord 3 Indhold 5 Resultater 9 Biostratigrafi..................................................................................................................... 10 0verste Bajocien - Bathonien ammonit biostratigrafi i Czestochowa - Wielun omradet .10 Mellem Oxfordien ammonit biostratigrafi i Krakow - Wielun omradet.......................... 11 Ammonit stratigrafien ved Oxfordien - Kimmeridgien grsensen i Wielun omradet .......... 11 0verste Kimmeridgien - Nedre Volgien ammonit biostratigrafi ...................................... 12 Dinoflagellat cyst zoneringen....................................................................................... 12 Sedimentologi og kildebjergartsundersagelser. ...............................................................13 Lithologi og aflejringsmilj 0 for Bathonien leraflejringeme.............................................. 13 Arkitektur og udvikling af svampe bioherm komplekser i Oxfordien i det nordvestlige Polen ........................................................................................................................... 13 Source rock data.......................................................................................................... 14 Palasogeografisk udvikling for Mellem - 0vre Jura i Polen .............................................14 Formidling af projektets resultater 17 Publikationer .................................................................................................................... 17 Manuskripter, som forventes publiceret...........................................................................18 Moder, postere og foredrag ............................................................................................ 18 Oxfordien (Jura) M0de i Polen, 26-28 maj 1997 .......................................................... 18 Halvdag DGF temam0de 20 oktober 1997 ....................................................................19 Rapporter .........................................................................................................................20 Udnyttelse af resultateme og eventuelle nye aktiviteter...................................................20 Publicering ................................................................................................................... 20 Kongresbidrag .............................................................................................................. 20 Tiltag som f0lge af dette projekt ................................................................................... 21 Konklusion 23 Lithology and depositionai environment of the Bathonian clays 25 Introduction ...................................................................................................................... 25 The black clays within the Czestochowa area................................................................ 25 Lithology...................................................................................................................... 25 Sedimentary structures and bioturbation ...................................................................... 27 Sedimentary environment.......................................................................................... 28 Ammonite biostratigraphy of the Uppermost Bajocian and Bathonian in the Czesto ­ chowa-Wielun area 43 Introduction ......................................................................................................................43 Ammonite stratigraphy of the uppermost Bajocian and Bathonian in Poland.................. 44 GEUS 5 Ammonite succession in the sections studied................................................................ 44 Uppermost Bajocian ..................................................................................................... 44 Lower Bathonian.......................................................................................................... 45 Middle Bathonian......................................................................................................... 45 Upper Bathonian .......................................................................................................... 46 Bajocian to Oxfordian palynology of the Polish Jurassic 55 Abstract........................................................................................................................... 55 Introduction ...................................................................................................................... 55 Investigated exposures .................................................................................................57 Stratigraphical background........................................................................................... 58 Dinoflagellate cyst stratigraphy ....................................................................................... 59 Conclusions ..................................................................................................................... 66 Acknowledgements ......................................................................................................... 67 Ammonite successions of the Plicatilis and the Transversarium Zone
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