Biostratigraphy and palaeoenvironment of the Podhale Palaeogene (Inner Carpathians, Poland) in the light of palynological studies. Part II. Summary and systematic descriptions

The purpose of the present study was to establish the age of the Podhale Palaeogene on the basis of dinocysts and to reconstruct its palaeoenvironment using palynofacies analysis. The area of study was limited to the occurrence of the Podhale Palaeogene deposits in Poland (Figs 1, 2). 514 samples were taken from natural outcrops and boreholes from all units of the Podhale Palaeogene (Fig. 3). Schematic location of studied sections is shown in Fig. 4; their lithological correlation is shown in Fig. 5; sample position in the sections is shown in Figs. 6-23. All samples were processed according to standard palynological procedure: HCl and HF treatment; 15 ľm sieve sieving; heavy liquid sepa- ration (density 2.0 G/cm3).