Fennoscandian erratics in glacial deposits of the polish lowland - Methodical aspects

In the gla cial de pos its of the Pol ish Low land, there are er ratic boul ders drifted with the last con ti nen tal ice sheet. Their out crops are situ ated in the Bal tic Shield area as well as south of it, in the bot tom of the cen tral and south ern Bal tic Sea. In di ca tor er rat ics, sta tis ti cal er rat ics and the oth ers can be dis tin guished in coarse- gravels as so cia tions. The stud ies on iden ti fi ca tion of the in di ca tor er rat ics are de signed for speci fi ca tion of the Scan di na vian and Bal tic ali men ta tion cen - tres of gla cial tills of dif fer ent age and their flu vio gla cial coun ter parts; they are also aimed at de ter min ing the di rec tion of the dis tant trans port as well as the ice- sheet and its streams’ trans gres sion routes to the depo si tion places. Ef fec tive - ness of the analy sis de pends to a large ex tent on the cor rect clas si fi ca tion of er rat ics, and this abil ity hap pens in turn to be bur dened with a sub jec tive evalua tion of the clearly visi ble fea tures of an er ratic. In the pres ent pa per, an at ten tion is paid to ad van tages and dis ad van tages of the analy sis on the in di ca tor boul ders of the gla cial de pos its.