On 7-11 October 2024, at the Institute of Geological Sciences of the Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Poland, the 18th International Lithosphere Program Task Force Sedimentary Basins meeting took place.

The meeting brought together 69 geologists from different parts of the world and was co-organized on the part of PGI-NRI by Rafal Sikora, PhD, and Adam Kozlowski, PhD.

The meeting brought together an exceptionally large representation of participants from Poland, including five representatives of PGI-NRI.

The conference was preceded by a field trip, the main point of which was a visit to the Wieliczka Salt Mine with the Underground Exposition of the Cracow Saltworks Museum.

Meeting participants – geologists from Saudi Arabia, Australia, China, France, the Netherlands, Kurdistan, Germany, Norway, Poland, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Switzerland, Sweden, the USA, Hungary, Italy and the United Arab Emirates (photo: P. Krzywiec)

Numerous paper sessions were held during the event. In the session titled 'Evolution of sedimentary cover', the lead paper was presented by Maria I. Waksmundzka ( PGI-NRI). The presentation dealt with the evolution of the Carboniferous sedimentary fill of the Lublin Basin in the light of sequence stratigraphy and its impact on the prospectivity for energy resources, bauxite and CO2 sequestration.

Maria I. Waksmundzka (photo: M. Jarosiński)

As part of the same session, Marta Adamuszek (PGI-NRI) described tectonic structures documented inside a leached cavern in the Altaussee salt diapir in Austria.

Marta Adamuszek (right) (photo: M. Jarosiński)

In turn, Michal Slotwinski (PGI-NRI) presented the effect of the presence of a single anhydrite overlayer on the rate of cavity tightening in salts.

As part of the poster session, Marek Jarosinski (PGI-NRI) discussed the concept of the leading role of hydrocarbons in the development of a penetrative fracture network in shale complexes, using the example of sediments of the Baltic Basin's early Paleozoic.

Marek Jarosiński  (photo: M.I. Waksmundzka)

Text: Marek Jarosiński, Maria I. Waksmundzka, Marta Adamuszek