Polish Jurassic Highland.
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- Distance
- 28.73 mi
- Elevation gain
- 1,594 ft
- Technical difficulty
- Easy
- Elevation loss
- 1,440 ft
- Max elevation
- 1,500 ft
- TrailRank
- 29
- Min elevation
- 1,048 ft
- Trail type
- One Way
- Time
- 2 hours 2 minutes
- Coordinates
- 735
- Uploaded
- March 28, 2015
- Recorded
- June 2014
near Skarżyce, Województwo śląskie (Rzeczpospolita Polska)
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Itinerary description
The Kraków-Częstochowa Upland, also known as the Polish Jurassic Highland or Polish Jura, is part of the Jurassic System of south–central Poland, stretching between the cities of Kraków, Częstochowa and Wieluń. The Polish Jura borders the Carpathian Mountains to the south, including part of the Carpathians of the Slovak Republic and the highland of Central Poland to the north, toward the Świętokrzyskie Mountains.
The Polish Jura consists of a hilly landscape with Jurassic limestone rocks, cliffs, valleys and vast limestone formations, featuring some 220 caves. The relief of the upland developed since the Paleogene, under climatic conditions changing considerably. Its main component is a peneplain, crowned by monadnocks, rocky masses that resisted erosion, generated as hard rock on Late Jurassic buildup surrounded by less resistant bedded limestone of the same age.
The Polish Jura consists of a hilly landscape with Jurassic limestone rocks, cliffs, valleys and vast limestone formations, featuring some 220 caves. The relief of the upland developed since the Paleogene, under climatic conditions changing considerably. Its main component is a peneplain, crowned by monadnocks, rocky masses that resisted erosion, generated as hard rock on Late Jurassic buildup surrounded by less resistant bedded limestone of the same age.
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