Jacek Szczygieł
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Jacek Szczygieł
@speleojacek.bsky.social
Geologist at Uni. Silesia in Katowice (Poland) focus on active tectonics, mountains geomorphology, speleology
📢Hot off press: Pitfalls of multiplied 3D landforms projection

Why #mapping still matters in the #LiDAR-dominated times?

We published some thoughts, tips and tricks on #cave mapping using the example of >10 km long, >1km deep Gamssteig Cave System in the Göll Massif #Alps
doi.org/10.5038/1827...
January 27, 2026 at 7:41 AM
Exploring a #cave by #climbing is the top tier of initiation. Clip from one of the three chimneys we climbed recently in one of the Tatra Mountains caves. From dozens and hundreds of days underground, days like this are remembered forever
January 11, 2026 at 9:57 AM
Our paper, discussing the curious case of a short #fault scarp in the Podhale Basin and its Implications for the #Quaternary geodynamics of the Western #Carpathians, is now out. Link with 50 days of access
authors.elsevier.com/a/1mJha,3sl42u…
@paleoseismicity.bsky.soci
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https://authors.elsevier.com/a/1mJha,3sl42u…
December 23, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Hot off the press📢
Some fault doesn't want to behave properly
Read our story about the curious case of a short fault scarp in the Podhale Basin, Carpathians🇵🇱
That was quite a challenge for us: first to interpret it and later publish…

www.sciencedirect.com:5037/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com
December 13, 2025 at 3:12 PM
#FridayFault Strike-slip fault plane outcropping in the Melissotrypa cave in Thessaly 🇬🇷 look at the size of perfectly preserved structures
@christospennos.bsky.social for scale
@ncn.gov.pl SonataBIS fieldwork
November 28, 2025 at 10:57 AM
Last week, I had the pleasure of organizing in the #Tatra Mts. 59 Polish speleological symposium. Inspiring invited lectures, great talks, and most importantly, discussions in the field where we shared the last decade of our research😁I am happy we could award 4 #ECR grants
October 23, 2025 at 10:01 AM
There are still a few weeks left to apply for the postdoc position in my @NCN_PL project.👇 You can model using #FEM OR you're interested in #seismology OR structural resistance to #seismic waves? Help me test some controversial hypotheses! Let's break some rocks and calculate how they break :)
October 7, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Not only do speleothems make caves enjoyable! Textbook hypogene morphology in Brzozowa #cave in the Polish Jura upland: cupolas, feeders, ghostrock.
September 28, 2025 at 2:05 PM
📢Fresh off the press
Unexpected latest Pleistocene W-dipping reverse fault-slip in the Maritimes Alps (SE France)—Insights from passage offset in Mescla Cave
Now available in J. Of Quaternary Science

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
All started from discussion on PATAdays22
@paleoseismology
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/jq…
September 5, 2025 at 6:36 PM
#climbing … because even the most passionate caver needs a sun ☀️ from time to time😉
Byczkowski route on the western face of Kościelec, #Tatra
September 5, 2025 at 5:39 AM
Discovering unknown… love it
August in the Northern Calcarouse Alps, the Göll massif.
Oh, btw, the new #cave passages are on the N-S #fault which I described here: doi.org/10.2113/2024...
September 3, 2025 at 4:23 PM
We're hiring! 2-year #PostDoc in #speleothem #seismic vulnerability from FEM modeling to enhance @paleoseismicity.bsky.social of Hellenides (Greece)
Part of @ncn.gov.pl project at the University of Silesia, Poland
Deadline: 31th October 2025
Details 👇

skk.erecruiter.pl/Offer.aspx?o...
Assistant Professor in the group of research staff (post-doc) 51/2024/NA/WNP/INoZ/pd/02​, Uniwersytet Śląski, Sosnowiec
Job offer Assistant Professor in the group of research staff (post-doc) 51/2024/NA/WNP/INoZ/pd/02​, Uniwersytet Śląski, Sosnowiec
skk.erecruiter.pl
August 13, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Here is the 50-day free access link
authors.elsevier.com/c/1lUJp8RViAsze
In contrast to previouse research, we show that even small #glaciers (2km long) can produce #microtextures on quartz #grains; hence, even small glaciers can be “caught” in depositional record via #SEM and reconstructed.
July 31, 2025 at 6:24 AM
Reposted by Jacek Szczygieł
#EarthquakeReport for M8.8 #Earthquake offshore of #Kamchatka #Russia

been busy responding and still doing that
aftershock pattern matches 1952 M9 rupture patch
'24 and 20 July '25 foreshocks

see report to learn more about 1952:
earthjay.com?p=12053

earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/...
July 30, 2025 at 8:26 AM
Reposted by Jacek Szczygieł
⚒️ 🧪

A M8.8 earthquake just ruptured the subduction zone offshore Russia’s Kamchatka peninsula. This is one of the world’s truly huge earthquakes, and a triggered tsunami is currently traveling across the Pacific ocean.

This same fault ruptured on July 20th in a M7.4, and last August in a M7.1.
M8.8 earthquake strikes offshore Kamchatka
A dangerous subduction megathrust ruptures once again
earthquakeinsights.substack.com
July 30, 2025 at 4:05 AM
Visiting Cork County 🇮🇪☘️ was a real structural #geology feast🤩
I’ll start with #boudinage, the extensional structure of a rigid layer is stretched and deformed between less competent surroundings.

Shanvallybeg Beach near Bantry
July 29, 2025 at 12:14 PM
When #cave columns are compressed and a bunch of fallen stalactites are lying around, one knows something more than just a gravity breakdown happened 😁
Hunting for #earthquakes traces in caves on Crete with @christospennos.bsky.social
@ncn.gov.pl
@paleoseismicity.bsky.social
July 26, 2025 at 6:55 PM
You want to see some sexy #cleavage on the beach?
Crosshaven, Cork County 🇮🇪
#fridayfold
July 25, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Super proud of my first PhD student Dawid Siemek, critically thinking young scientist who just published “Size does not matter: Glacial record on quartz grains from Pleistocene #glacial deposits in Tatra Mts. (Western Carpathians) revealed by #SEM

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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July 24, 2025 at 7:54 AM
Here’s some action 😉
A bit cringe #gopro clip from the fieldwork in Dadulas #cave nearby Siti #fault zone in eastern Crete: looking for the broken #speleothems
@ncn.gov.pl @christospennos.bsky.social
July 23, 2025 at 7:46 AM
Co-seismic offset or co-goat-running exposure 🧐
Western Giouchtas Fault, Heraklion Basin, Crete
@christospennos.bsky.social and 🐐for scale
@ncn.gov.pl
July 21, 2025 at 9:28 AM
2h on Crete and already such a beauty 🤩
Surface rupture of the Lastros Fault doi.org/10.1016/j.te...
We are heading even further east to look for more of those that have not been studied, and of course look for some deformation in caves
@ncn.gov.pl @paleoseismicity.bsky.social
July 14, 2025 at 8:59 AM
Polish polish science @ncn.gov.pl
July 11, 2025 at 6:23 AM
In my @ncn.gov.pl project on #coseismic #cave deformation in Greece, we use cutting-edge technology 💪
July 10, 2025 at 5:20 AM