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Symposium on Remote Sensing for Resources Development and Environmental Management / Enschede / August 1986
Remote sensing methods in geological research
of the Lublin coal basin, SE Poland
Stanislaw Kibitlewski & Barbara Daniel Danielska
Photogeological Department, Geological Institute, Warsaw, Poland
ABSTRACT! Some connections were found comparing the patterns of lineaments obtained from Landsat images and
side' looking radar /Toros/ ones with faults in Lublin coal basin area /LCB/, SE Poland. It concerns the satel
lite lineaments pattern and the radar one corresponding to the Upper Palaeozoic- and Meso-Cainozoic faults,
respectively. The conclusions suggest possibility of projection onto the reoent surface the deep linear struc
tures through the thick sedimentary cover which consists of soft and loose deposits - in LCB region.
1 INTRODUCTION
In the papers on photogeo logy there exist many eviden
ces of a tectonic character of lineaments observed on
the different remote sensing images of the structu
rally controlled areas exposed in a geological sense.
Many geologists treat sceptically such opinions when
they concern the regions covered with a thick layer
of soft and loose sediments especially in relation to
lineaments in a local or subregional scale. Big linea
ments - of regional or transcontinental quality -
seem to be, however, accepted as the traces of featu»-
res of tectonic origin despite of the nature of their
host rock.
The great part of territory of Poland has been cove
red with soft and loose thiok Cainozoio sediments
which bury older structures and render these structu
res recognition difficult using standar methods. That
is why it seems to be of special significance here to
apply the photogeologioal data as possible indicators
of tectonic phenomena /i.e. faults/.
The paper presents the results of a test done in aim
to estimate the significance of an appication of the
satellite Landsat images and airborne side-looking ra
dar images /of Soviet system Toros/ to examination of
the geological structure of coal-bearing region near
Lublin, SE Poland.
2 TEST DESCRIPTION
To check out a coincidence between remote sensing da
ta and the geological ones the test has been done in
an entirely small area chosen in respect to geological
recognition. The area tested covered all the characte
ristic structural units of the Lublin coal basin in
aim to extrapolate the testing results to the whole
basin - in case of positive resuts of the test. In
that very case it would be also possible to introduce
photogeological data to the construction and gradual
improvement of the structural model still existing.
The Lublin coal basin area is oovered by the thick
Cainozoic sediments and displays either block-faulting
or block-folding character of the inner structure
/fteliohowski 1972, Bojkowski and Porzycki I960/. It is
geologically well recognized at the several depths due
to a black-coal mines development.
3 GEOLOGICAL CHARACTER OP THE AREA
Lublin coal basin is situated in the south-west margi
nal part of East—Europeon platform in the region bet
ween Vistula and Bug rivers /Fig.l/. The terrigenic
sediments of Upper Proterozoic platform /zonally pre
served/ lie on the crystalline complex of Lower Prote
rozoic, top of whioh plunges from about 1000m b.s.l.—
in NE part, to 7000m-in SW part, Pig.2A/. The following
overlying strata of Lower Palaeozoic /of total thick
ness of 950-2500m/ are represented by the terrigenic
sediments of Lower and Middle Cambrian and/with depo-
sitional gaps/ those of Ordovician and Silurian. The
sediments are folded only in the zone of Caledonian
movements adjacent from 37/ to the platform margin
/outside the area tested/ - Fig.3.
Figure i. Scene: E-30087-08451 MSS-5,31 May 1978. In
vestigated area and image position are marked.
The platform conditions occur in the whole territo
ry discussed since Devonian. The Lower Devonian sedi
ments are terrigenic, while Middle and Upper Devonian
ones are suooesively those of lacustrine-marine and
terrigenic, partially carbonate /i.e.dotomitic/ as
well. The Devonian sediments thickness varies from
1590 to 6300m. Their top surface occurs recently from
800m b.s.l. in the NE part of the studied area down
to 2600m b.s.l. in the SW part of it.
Due to the Bretonian movements distinct system of
horst and grabens with NIV-SE and S'MJE orientation
and high amplitude has been developed. The NiV-SE
orientation seems to prevail in S’" part of the area
under investigation while that SW-NE - in NE part.
Those structures have been intensively eroded prior
to Carboniferous sedimentation.
