Polsko-Słowacka Grupa Robocza Systemu Jurajskiego (2011–2021) – pierwsza sekcja jurajska afiliowana przy dwóch narodowych towarzystwach geologicznych

Abstract

The Polish-Slovak Working Group of the Jurassic System (2011–2021) – the first Jurassic section affiliated with two national geological societies.A b s t r a c t . The Polish-Slovak Working Group of the Jurassic System was founded in 2012 as the continuation of the activity of the Polish Working Group of the Jurassic System established in 1999. The Group has been officially approved by and affiliated as the thematic section at the two national societies – the Polish Geological Society and the Slovak Geological Society. The foundation of the section resulted from growing integration of the Polish and Slovak geological researches, especially in the Carpathians placed at the border of the two states. This resulted in further arrangement of joint studies in that area, and the organization of six new field meetings (JURASSICA), four of them dedicated to the Carpathian Jurassic. The newly arranged meetings included: the JURASSICA IX (2011) at Małogoszcz, south-western Mesozoic margin of the Holy Cross Mts., central Poland; the JURASSICA X (2012) in the Pieniny Klippen Belt of the Transcarpathian Ukraine; the JURASSICA XI (2014) at Sławno, north-western Mesozoic margin of the Holy Cross Mts., central Poland; the JURASSICA XII (2016) at the Smolenice Castle in Malé Karpaty mountain range, south-western Slovakia; the JURASSICA XIII (2017) at Zakopane, Tatra Mts. at the Polish and Slovak state border; and the JURASSICA XIV (2019) in Bratislava, with excursions to the western sector of the Pieniny Klippen Belt in Slovakia. The close cooperation with the Berriasian Working Group of the International Commission on Stratigraphy of IUGS, and participation of many foreign geologists, gave the meetings an international character, being the place of exchange of studies and ideas connected with a widely treated “Jurassic” geology. The special field-guides included the abstracts of presentations and explanations to the geology of the particular areas edited on the occasion of the meetings (the last ones in English, indicated in the references below). Because of the COVID-19 pandemic the meeting has not been arranged for the last two years, but the forthcoming one is planned at Iłża, north-eastern Mesozoic margin of the Holy Cross Mts., in 2023. We hope that the future meeting will be an occasion for a wider cooperation with geologists working in the Jurassic System not only of our two states but also in other countries.