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Tradycyjne bruki w krajobrazie Krakowa
(Wydawnictwa AGH, 2009) Rajchel, Jacek
The author presents the historic rock materials and made of them stone pavements of streets and squares characteristic of Krakow. The blocks and slabs make one of widespread man--made layers, commonly exposed in the course of archaeological excavations carried out within the town limits. They represent a record of the cultural and the material history of Kraków and visualize changes of winning and utilizing the rocks that cover town's streets and squares. The rock materials applied in their constructing were initially quarried in the nearest vicinity of Kraków, i.e. in the Silesian-Cracow Monocline, and included Upper Jurassic limestone, Permian porphyry and Triassic Diplopora dolomite. Gradually, farther-situated stones were introduced: Carpathian flysch sandstones and andesite from the Pieniny Mts. The most distant are a Volhynian basalt and Lower Silesian granites as well as a gneiss of undetermined provenience. Preserving remnants of the old stone pavements of Kraków, a heritage of the town history, is highly advisable, considering the fact that their further existence is permanently threatened in a result of maintenance, reconstruction and modernization works.