CARPATHIAN SPRINGS OF SULPHUROUS WATERS OF FROM THE KOMBORNIA AND SANOK REGIONS AS MONUMENTS OF INANIMATE NATURE

Abstract

A detailed study of three sulphurous springs and physico–chemical investigations of their waters were carried out within the Silesian Nappe of the Polish Carpathians. A project of protecting the springs as monuments of inanimate nature has been prepared and approved. Two of the sulphurous springs, the „Bogumiła” in Kombornia and the „Bartłomiej” in Wola Komborska, are located ­within the Czarnorzeki-Strzyżów Landscape Park. The water of the „Bogumiła” spring is of the HCO3–Ca–Mg+H2S ­geochemical type and ­represents an acratopega with the TDS value 0.6 g/dm3 and the H2S content 4.6 mg/dm3. The water of the „Bartłomiej” spring is of the HCO3–Ca–Na+H2S type; it is a fresh water with the TDS content 0.3 g/dm3 and the H2S content 3 mg/dm3. The third spring, called „Nad Wodo­spadem”, is located in Sanok-Olchowce within the Słonne Mountains Landscape Park. The spring provides an acratopega of the HCO3–Cl–Ca–Na+H2S type with the TDS content 0.7 g/dm3 and the H2S content 3.8 mg/dm3. Having been covered by legal protection, the three springs extend the number of such elements within the areas of both parks, thereby increasing their touristic attraction.