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Malopolska Block in the SE Poland is situated between the Upper Silesian Block and East European Craton. The calcareous complex of the Malopolska Block comprise all stages from Eifelian to Visean.
The calcareous complex is represented by alternating platform and basin facies. It was divided into the informal lithostratigraphic units - series (A-E), on the basis of the lithological and microfacial and geophysical analysis. Their stratigraphy is based on the foraminifers which are abundant and the conodonts which are rare. The series A (Eifelian-Lower Givetian) is made up of the marly dolomites, the dolomites, the mudstones, the marls; it is devoid of fossils. Lithostratigraphic series B (Upper Givetian-Frasnian) comprises the pelitic and granular limestones, dolomites, marls, conglomerates. The limestones represent the platform and/or basin facies. They are biomicrites and pelbiospars with; algae, calcisphaeres, foraminifers (Eonodosaria, Eogeinitzina, Tikhinella, unilocular), stromatoporoids (mainly Amphipora). Occur as well the lumpstones represented by: micrites, biomicrites, pelbiomicrites, intramicrites with tentaculitoids, foraminifers (Nanicella, Eonodosaria, Eogeinitzina and calcisphaeres. The series C (Famennian) consists of the granular and pelitic limestones, sometimes nodular or laminated, spiculitic limestones, marls, dolomites, silicoclastics. The limestones represent mainly the lagoon and the coastal facies, the basinal facies are rare. They are composed of bioclasts (crinoids, ostracods, foraminifers, gastropods, sponge spicules, algae, calcisphaeres), intraclasts, peloids which occur in the different proportions. Among the foraminifers appear Tournayellidae and Quasiendothyra.
Series D (Tournaisian) comprises the limestones, marls and silicoclastics. The limestones, of the open and restricted platform facies, are represented by biomicrites, intrapelbiospars, pelspars and pelbiospars. Crinoids, foraminifers (Chernyshinella glomiformis, Tournayellina beata, tuberculate forms), gastropods, sponge spicules, calcisphaeres, algae, are present. The series E (Visean) is developed mainly as the open platform limestones, the sediment calcareous of the restricted platform are rare. Here occur: biomicrites, biospars, intrabiospars, intraoomicrites. Fossils are very abundant and represented mainly by: crinoids, brachiopods, foraminifers (in turn: Eoparastaffella simplex, Uralodiscus rotundus, Pojarkovella nibelis, Globoendothyra globulus, Bradyina, Neoarchaediscus), ostracods, gastropods, algae, calcisphaeres. The thickness of the Upper Paleozoic calcareous complex reach 1880 m and the thickness individual series change in the broad limits. In it's development the synsedimental tectonic mouvements played an important part. These oscillating mouvements, variable in the time and espace, caused the differentiation of the facies and the thickness of the individual series.
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