Jurassic sediments and microfossils of the Andrychow Klippes (Outer western Carpathians)

Shallow-water carbonate Jurassic sediments of the Andrychow Klippes (Inwald , Pafiska Gora, Targanice and Roczyny klippes) differ in origin and environ ment of deposition from the surrounding flysch complexes. In Jurassic paleo geography they represented a marginal part of the European Plate (Golonka e t al. 2000), the morphology of which was characterized by the presence of e levated blocks, separated by basins. During Alpine north-directed movements , several blocks were detached from the continent and incorporated into fly sch sediments, mainly in the front of the Silesian Nappe. Oxfordian cherty limestones of Andrychow Klippes show significant similarities to coeval sed iments deposited on Eurasia's southern margin. The Tithonian shallow-water limestones with abundant nerineacean-diceratidcoral fauna, numerous algae ( dasycladales, codiaceans, solenoporeaceans), foraminifers (lituolids, milio lids, involutinids) and calcareous dinocysts show similarities to the Stram berk limestones, and remnants of carbonate sediments of the European Plate which occur as blocks and exotics in flysch deposits of the Outer Carpathia ns.