The outwash plain of the rospuda river valley –a record of depositional environments

The Rospuda subglacial chan nel hosts not only deep rib bon lakes and the Rospuda River it self, but also an outwash plain. The pa per deals with a lithofacies anal y sis of de pos its from ex po sures within the Rospuda outwash plain. With the sup port of geomorphological and geo log i cal anal y ses, it has been found that the outwash plain formed along the Rospuda subglacial chan nel that was be ing ex posed from un der the ice cover. The lithological re cord of the Rospuda outwash plain shows a dis tinct di vi sion into a prox i mal and a dis tal zone. The de pos its un der study re veal a re cord of a break in basial sed i men ta tion, when ice-wedge casts de vel oped un der con ditions of periglacial cli mate. The de vel op ment of the Rospuda outwash plain is linked with the ice-mar ginal zone of the Pom er a nian phase, sim i larly to the Olecko-Rajgród outwash plain that is lo cated to the west.