Muierilor Cave is one of the most important caves in Romania from paleontological, biological, and archaeological points view. A newly discovered chamber, with unique yellow calcite crystals, fine-grained crusts, black sediments, connected to upper levels that contains fossil bones a large pile guano. Samples were taken this chamber another passage investigate diversity microorganisms related s...

The aim of the study was to assess trace metal air pollution in the Beskidy Mountains, the Outer Western Carpathians, Poland, with a widely used bioaccumulating organism, a lichen, Hypogymnia physodes. Lichens were collected at five stands (mountains) in parallel transect and analyzed for cadmium (Cd), copper (Cu), nickel (Ni), lead (Pb) and zinc (Zn) content. Concentrations of Cd, Pb and Zn in...

This paper presents a new method of automatic lineament extraction which includes the removal of the ‘artefacts effect’ which is associated with the process of raster based analysis. The core of the proposed Multi-Hillshade Hierarchic Clustering (MHHC) method incorporates a set of variously illuminated and rotated hillshades in combination with hierarchic clustering of derived ‘protolineaments’...

Deep-seated slope failures are common features in the mountains of the Raca Unit, Magura Nappe of the Flysch Belt of Western Carpathians. Since they represent very complicated system, understanding of their evolution and triggers still remains unclear. We tried to provide a back-analysis of their development by using a finite difference code (FDM) of continua (Flac 4.0). We confirmed that such ...

Przenosza (Western Carpathians, Poland) is an important palaeobotanical Cretaceous basement with morphologically well-preserved plant remains. Both the morphology of the macroremains and the microscopic examination of isolated plant cuticles correspond to typical species of coastal swampy palaeoenvironments, mainly the fern Weichselia reticulata (Stokes & Webb). After isolation of the plant rem...