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W Y P R A W Y
GEOGRAFICZNE
MA
SPITSBERGEN
G E O G R A P H I C A L
SPITSBERGEN
EXPEDITIONS
I N S T I T U T E OF EARTH S C I E N C E S
OF MARIA C U R I E - S K Ł O D O W S K A U N I V E R S I T Y
P E R M A F R O S T C O M M I S S I O N OF THE C O M M I T T E E ON POLAR
P O L I S H A C A D E M Y OF S C I E N C E S
S P I T S B E R G E N
G E O G R A P H I C A L
RESEARCH
E X P E D I T I O N S
Polar Session
Problems of the Contemporaneous
and Pleistocene Periglacial Zone
Lublin - Poland, December 1995
UMCS
MARIA CURIE - S K Ł O D O W S K A UNIVERSITY
LUBLIN 1996
PRESS
I N S T Y T U T NAUK O Z I E M I
U N I W E R S Y T E T U MARII C U R I E - S K Ł O D O W S K I E J W
KOMISJA Z M A R Z L I N O Z N A W S T W A K O M I T E T U B A D A Ń
P O L S K I E J A K A D E M I I NAUK
W Y P R A W Y
G E O G R A F I C Z N E
M A
LUBLINIE
POLARNYCH
S P I T S B E R G E N
Sesja Polarna
Problemy współczesnej i plejstoceńskiej
strefy peryglacjalnej
Lublin, grudzień 1995
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WYDAWNICTWO
WYDAWNICTWO UNIWERSYTETU MARII
LUBLIN 1996
CURIE-SKŁODOWSKIEJ
OPRACOWANIE REDAKCYJNE
JANINA REPELEWSKA-PĘKALOWA
KAZIMIERZ PĘKALA
PROJEKT OKŁADKI
I STRON TYTUŁOWYCH
JERZY DURAKIEWICZ
TŁUMACZENIA
MARIA CHARMAS
TADEUSZ GRZESIK
FOTOGRAFIE NA OKŁADCE
JAN MAGIERSKI
KAZIMIERZ PĘKALA
REDAKCJA TECHNICZNA
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PREFACE
The Maria Curie-Skłodowska
University in Lublin is the organizer
of geographical expeditions to Spitsbergen and to the Russian Arctic.
Scientific programming is realised in cooperation with the Institute of
Archaeology
of the University
of Trondheim,
the Institute
of
Archaeology of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow and
with the Murmansk Marine Biological
Institute.
It has already become a tradition that polar session are organised
each year, during which the latest results are presented by different
groups of specialists engaged in polar studies.
The aim of the session which took place on the 4-5'h of December
1995, was the presentation of research on the natural environment of
the Arctic (Spitsbergen,
the Kara Sea, Novaya Zemlya, the Kola
Peninsula) as well as on the territories lying within reach of the
Pleistocene periglacial sphere (Poland,
Ukraine).
The reports and communiques prepared in the form of articles
reflect a wide range of research topics, they involve:
archaeology,
history, Earth sciences and ecology.
The Editors