Depositional Systems Research Unit

Krygowskiego 12, 61-680 Poznań, Poland
phone +48-61-829 6028

As the Depositional Systems Research Unit, we conduct research on fossil and modern continental, sedimentary, and biogeochemical depositional systems, such as fluvial, lacustrine, glacial, marine and peatbogs. Our research focuses on  identifying sediment provenance (e.g., heavy minerals, etc.) and recognising the processes and factors that determine and affect the transport, deposition, and post-depositional alterations, such as deformation and diagenesis. These investigations contribute to the comprehensive reconstruction of sedimentary environments. The techniques we employ include facies analysis, microfacies analysis, malacology, isotope geochemistry, geochronology, and others.

Our team members have gained experience in many foreign research institutions in Denmark, England, Portugal, Latvia and at German universities in Aachen, Greifswald, and Berlin.
We are members and experts of numerous national and international associations, such as INQUA (Peribaltic Group and PATA), the Geological Commission of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Quaternary Research Commission of the Polish Academy of Sciences (http://www.kbcz.pan.pl/home.html), Polish Geological Society.

Our teaching programme covers Quaternary Geology of Poland, Global environmental changes in the Holocene, Continental sedimentation environments, Geomorphology, Sedimentology, Facies analysis, Palaeontology and stratigraphy, Isotope geochemistry, Mineral Resources in Poland. We also conduct field courses on the Baltic Sea, in the Polish Lowlands and in the Sudetes.