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Zbigniew Kowalski, Polish Geological Institute in Warsaw (Poland)
Marek Graniczny, Polish Geological Institute in Warsaw (Poland)
Anna Piatkowska, Polish Geological Institute in Warsaw (Poland)
Andrzej Piotrowski, Polish Geological Institute (Poland)
Justyna Relisko-Rybak, Polish Geological Institute (Poland)
Wilhelm Dominik, Technische Universität Berlin (Germany)
Olaf Juschus, Technische Universität Berlin (Germany)
Johannes Schroeder, Technische Universität Berlin (Germany)
Fritz Brose, Technische Universität Berlin (Germany)
Werner Stackebrandt, 10. Landesamt fur Geowissenschaften und Rohstoffe Brandenburg (Germany)
Michael Schneider, Freie Universitaet Berlin (Germany)
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The Project was prepared within HUMAN RESOURCES AND MOBILITY (HRM) ACTIVITY; MARIE CURIE ACTIONS; Marie Curie Host Fellowships for the Transfer of Knowledge (ToK), Development Host Scheme. Several partner institution from different European countries have participated in the project, among them: Polish Geological Institute, Pomeranian Branch, Szczecin (co-ordinator), Technische Universitä t Berlin, Civil Engineering and Applied Geosciences, Freie Universitä t Berlin, Institut f r Geologische Wissenschaften, Hydrogeologie, Humboldt-Universitä t zu Berlin, Geographisches Institut,University of Aarhus, Department of Earth Sciences, Landesamt f r Bergbau, Geologii und Rohstoffe, Lithuanian Geological Survey LGS and IRPI - Bari. The project has enabled to create in PGI a new research team involved in elaboration of a new methodologies for construction of a Morphotectonic Map of European Lowland Area. PGI was the co-ordinator of the research works aimed at construction of the map. The project was executed by a team of scientists, employees of PGI and partner institutions, studying geo-environmental changes in their different aspects. The team's job has linked together knowledge on stratigraphy, tectonics and hydrogeology. On the basis of new scientific experiments, elaboration of an interdisciplinary method of studying changes was developed, happening in inanimate nature in Quaternary, in the past and present. The team's effort has resulted in creation of a uniform model of changes of the natural environment for the entire European Lowland Area.
The team dealt with the following problems and subjects:
• Impact of the various tectonic structures on the glacial processes in Pleistocene, in connection with multiphase liquid flow in the basement.
• Correlation of the in situ and remote sensing methods (including interferometry), in the analysis of the young Alpine, glacitectonic and neotectonic structures to define zones with especially intensive disturbances, influencing hydrodynamic field and initiating mass movements.
• Assessment of the nuclear physics techniques utilized in direct of age dating as well as testing environmental pollution.
• Applying of a new prospecting geophysical and geochemical techniques.
The Morphotectonic Map of European Lowland Area demonstrates the subsurface structures activity in connection with active subsurface and surface processes. The development of these processes in the course of time, together with a precisely defined age, enables research on the natural environment and forecasting of natural conditions of human living. The interdisciplinary approach was used during construction of the map.
Various research methods were applied, subject to data existence as well as to possibility of the implementation of those methods in different environments of the vast European Lowland area. The pilot sheet of the map of the "Model Area" is available in the format GIS database.
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