NEOPROTEROZOIC AND CAMBRIAN SUCCESSIONS DEPOSITED ON THE EAST EUROPEAN PLATFORM AND CADOMIAN BASEMENT AREA IN POLAND

A short review of the Neoproterozoic and Cambrian sedimentary and volc anogenic successions in Poland is concerned with depositional and tect onic developments. The successions accumulated in shallow shelf and de eper slope environments. They overlie Palaeoproterozoic crystalline ba sement of the Baltic Craton and Gondwana-derived Neoproterozoic Cadomi an basement. This discrepancy in the nature of the basement is viewed as indicating distinct terranes. During the course of Palaeozoic time, the discrete terranes were assembled along the Teisseyre-Tornquist Li neament and the Trans-European Suture Zone adjacent to the Baltica pal aeocontinent.