Łukasz Słonka, dr inż.

Principal research interests
seismic interpretation, seismic stratigraphy, carbonate seismology

Address:
Instytut Nauk Geologicznych Polskiej Akademii Nauk (ING PAN)
Institute of Geological Sciences, Polish Academy of Sciences
Ośrodek Badawczy w Warszawie 
Research Centre in Warsaw
Twarda 51/55, 00-818 Warszawa, Poland


Phone (Office):  (48) 22 69-78-727 
E-mail:   lukasz.slonka@twarda.pan.pl
Research Gate:  https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Lukasz_Slonka


Academic degrees

2021 – PhD in Earth Sciences, Institute of Geological Sciences, Polish Academy of Sciences.

PhD Thesis title: Seismic characteristics of the Upper Jurassic carbonate buildups in the Miechów Trough
Supervisor: Piotr Krzywiec

2013 – MSc in Applied Geophysics, AGH University of Science and Technology in Cracow. 
MSc Thesis title: The influence of the seismic time imaging techniques for mapping the salt diapir on synthetic sections

2012 – BSc in Geophysics, AGH University of Science and Technology in Cracow.

 

Professional career

2023 - now – Assistant Professor, Institute of Geological Sciences, Polish Academy of Sciences (PAS)

2018- 2023 – Reserach Assistant, Institute of Geological Sciences, Polish Academy of Sciences (PAS)

2014 - 2018 – Technician, Institute of Geological Sciences, Polish Academy of Sciences (PAS)

2013 - 2014 – Technician - Trainee, Institute of Geological Sciences, Polish Academy of Sciences (PAS)
 

Publications

Articles in scientific journals

  • SŁONKA Ł., KRZYWIEC P., 2020. Upper Jurassic carbonate buildups in the Miechów Trough, southern Poland – insights from seismic data interpretations. Solid Earth, Vol. 11, 1097–1119. Doi: https://doi.org/10.5194/se-11-1097-2020
  • SŁONKA Ł., KRZYWIEC P., 2020. Seismic Characteristics and Development of the Upper Jurassic Carbonate Buildups from the Miechów Trough (Southern Poland). Geosciences, Vol. 10, No. 6:239. Doi: https://doi.org/10.3390/geosciences10060239
  • KUFRASA M., STYPA A., KRZYWIEC P., SŁONKA Ł., 2019. Late Carboniferous thin-skinned deformation in the Lublin Basin, SE Poland: Results of combined seismic data interpretation, structural restoration and subsidence analysis. Annales Societatis Geologorum Poloniae, 89, 175–194. Doi: https://doi.org/10.14241/asgp.2019.09
  • KUFRASA M., SŁONKA Ł., KRZYWIEC P., DŹWINEL K., ZACHARSKI J., 2018. Fracture pattern pf The Lower Paleozoic Sedimentary Cover In The Lublin Basin (Se Poland) Derived From Seismic Attribute Analysis And Structural Restoration. Interpretation, Vol. 6(3), 73–89. Doi: https://doi.org/10.1190/INT-2017-0235.1
  • KRZYWIEC P., GĄGAŁA Ł., MAZUR S.,  SŁONKA Ł., KUFRASA M., MALINOWSKI M., PIETSCH K., GOLONKA J., 2017. Variscan deformation along the Teisseyre-Tornquist Zone in SE Poland: Thick-skinned structural inheritance or thin-skinned thrusting? Tectonophysics, Vol. 718, 83–91. Doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tecto.2017.06.008
  • CYZ M., MALINOWSKI M., KRZYWIEC P., MULIŃSKA M., SŁONKA Ł., 2016. Application of high-resolution 2D-3C seismic for characterization of the perspective Jurassic shale play in Central Poland. Tectonophysics, Vol. 689, 4–13. Doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tecto.2015.11.018
  • MARZEC P., NIEPSUJ M., SŁONKA Ł., PIETSCH K., 2013. Application of 2-D forward seismic modelling for improved imaging of sub-salt Rotliegend strata in Polish Basin. Annales Societatis Geologorum Poloniae, Vol. 83, No. 1., 65–80.

Chapters in monographs

  • KRZYWIEC, P., STACHOWSKA, A., GRZYBOWSKI, Ł., NGUYEN, Q., SŁONKA,  Ł., MALINOWSKI, M., KRAMARSKA, R., AHLRICHS, N. AND HÜBSCHER. CH. 2022. The Late Cretaceous inversion of the Polish Basin and surrounding areas – a current perspective based on seismic data. In: Walaszczyk, I. and Todes, J. (Eds) 2022. Cretaceous of Poland and of adjacent areas. Field trip Guides, pp. 9-23. Faculty of Geology, University of Warsaw; Warsaw.
     
  • LEWANDOWSKI M., SŁONKA Ł., 2019. Seismic attributes similarity in facies classification. In: Bembenik, R., Skonieczny, Ł., Protaziuk, G., Kryszkiewicz, M., Rybiński, H. (eds), Intelligent Methods and Big Data in Industrial Applications. Studies in Big Data, vol 40, pp. 171–181. Springer, Cham. Doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-77604-0_13
     
  • KUFRASA, M., KRZYWIEC, P.,  SŁONKA, Ł., 2017. Model paleozoicznej ewolucji tektonicznej SE Polski (blok radomsko-kraśnicki i basen lubelski) w oparciu o wyniki interpretacji danych sejsmicznych. In: Golonka, J. & Bębenek, S. (eds), Opracowanie map zasięgu, biostratygrafia utworów dolnego paleozoiku oraz analiza ewolucji tektonicznej przykrawędziowej strefy platformy wschodnioeuropejskiej dla oceny rozmieszczenia niekonwencjonalnych złóż węglowodorów, pp. 337-355. Arka, Cieszyn.
     
  • STYPA, A., KRZYWIEC, P., KUFRASA, M., SŁONKA, Ł., 2017. Analiza krzywych subsydencji tektonicznej na obszarze basenu lubelskiego. In: Golonka, J. & Bębenek, S. (eds), Opracowanie map zasięgu, biostratygrafia utworów dolnego paleozoiku oraz analiza ewolucji tektonicznej przykrawędziowej strefy platformy wschodnioeuropejskiej dla oceny rozmieszczenia niekonwencjonalnych złóż węglowodorów, pp. 372-380. Arka, Cieszyn.

Abstracts

  • SŁONKA, Ł., KRZYWIEC, P., KRAJEWSKI, M. 2023. Utwory górnej jury w rejonie Pińczowa – stan wiedzy w oparciu o interpretację danych sejsmicznych i modelowania sejsmiczne. Polska Konferencja Sedymentologiczna POKOS 8, 5-7.09.2023, Chęciny.
     
  • KRZYWIEC, P., BUBNIAK, A., BUBNIAK, I., OSZCZYPKO, N., SŁONKA, Ł. 2023. Tektonika frontu orogenu karpackiego: porównanie strefy Kraków-Pilzno i Stary Sambor-Borysław. LXXXVIII Zjazd Polskiego Towarzystwa Geologicznego, 18-20.05.2023, Dobczyce.
  • KRZYWIEC, P., STACHOWSKA, A., NQUYEN, Q., SŁONKA, Ł., MALINOWSKI, M., AHLRICHS, N., HUEBSCHER, C.2022. Large-scale effects of the Late Cretaceous - Paleogene inversion tectonics within the offshore part of the Polish Basin and along the SW edge of the East European Craton. 16th Workshop of the International Lithosphere Program Task Force Sedimentary Basins & 7th Geoscience Symposium of the Romanian Society of Applied Geophysics, 4-5.10.2022, Bucharest, Romania.
  • KRZYWIEC, P., NQUYEN, Q., SŁONKA, Ł., MALINOWSKI, M., KRAMARSKA, R., HUEBSCHER, C., AHLRICHS, N. 2022. Tectonic control on Late Cretaceous sedimentation within the southern Baltic Sea, as revealed by regional analysis of seismic reflection data. 11th International Cretaceous Symposium, Warsaw, Poland.
  • KRZYWIEC, P., STACHOWSKA, A., NQUYEN, Q., SŁONKA, Ł., MALINOWSKI, M., HUEBSCHER, C., GRZYBOWSKI, Ł., KRAMARSKA R. 2021. Late Cretaceous syn-inversion sedimentation within the Polish Basin based on analysis of seismic data. 35th IAS Meeting of Sedimentology, Prague, Czech Republic.
     
  • KRZYWIEC, P., SŁONKA, Ł., NGUYEN, Q., MALINOWSKI, M., KUFRASA, M., STACHOWSKA, A., HUEBSCHER, C., AND KRAMARSKA, R.: Late Cretaceous – Cenozoic history of the transition zone between the East European Craton and the Paleozoic Platform, Polish sector of the Baltic Sea, revealed by new offshore regional seismic reflection data (BALTEC project), EGU General Assembly 2021, online, 19–30 Apr 2021, EGU21-13383, doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu21-13383, 2021.
     
  • TARI G., JANIASHVILI A., KRZYWIEC, P., PACE P., SANISHVILI A., SŁONKA Ł., VINCENT S.,2020. Upper Jurassic carbonate build-ups along the northern margin of the Tethys; a broad underexplored reservoir play fairway between the Vienna and the Amu Darya basins. AAPG Europe Regional Conference, Athens, January 28-29, 2020.
     
  • SŁONKA Ł., KRZYWIEC P., 2019. Seismic characterization of the Upper Jurassic organic buildups in the Miechów Trough (S Poland). European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2019, Vienna. Geophysical Research Abstracts, Vol. 21. EGU2019-4299.
     
  • SŁONKA Ł., KRZYWIEC P., JARZYNA J., PUSKARCZYK E., KRAKOWSKA P., WAWRZYNIAK-GUZ K., 2018. Seismic interpretation of the Upper Jurassic carbonate buildups from the Nida Trough (S Poland). The 18th international Symposium on Deep Seismic Profiling of the Continents and their Margins (SEISMIX), Abstract Book, p.126.
     
  • KRZYWIEC P., STACHOWSKA A., STYPA A., SŁONKA Ł., KUFRASA M., 2018. On Mesozoic regional uplifts in SE and N Poland – insight from regional seismic data. The 18th international Symposium on Deep Seismic Profiling of the Continents and their Margins (SEISMIX), Kraków, 17–22.06.2018.
     
  • KRZYWIEC P., KUFRASA M., POPRAWA P., POMIANOWSKI P., ŁUKASZEWSKI M., MAZUR S. & SŁONKA Ł., 2018. New tectonostratigraphic model of the Interior Basin, onshore Gabon, based on reinterpreted seismic data, or how the Central Atlantic was opened. The 18th international Symposium on Deep Seismic Profiling of the Continents and their Margins (SEISMIX), Kraków, 17–22.06.2018.
     
  • SŁONKA Ł., KRZYWIEC P., PUSKARCZYK E., KRAKOWSKA P., WAWRZYNIAK-GUZ K., JARZYNA J., 2018. Sejsmiczna identyfikacja górnojurajskich budowli węglanowych z południowo-wschodniej części niecki nidziańskiej. Polska Konferencja Sedymentologiczna POKOS 7, G. Św. Anny, 4–7.06.2018.
     
  • KUFRASA M., SŁONKA Ł., KRZYWIEC P., 2018. Late Carboniferous fracture system in NE part of the Lublin Basin (Poland): results of seismic attribute analysis and fracture modeling. 17th Symposium of Tectonics, Structural Geology and Crystalline Geology, Jena, Germany.
     

  • STYPA A., KURASA M., SŁONKA Ł., KRZYWIEC P., 2018. Application of backstripping and subsidence analysis in paleothickness reconstruction: case study from the Lublin Basin (Poland) and potential sources of uncertainty. 17th Symposium of Tectonics, Structural Geology and Crystalline Geology, Jena, Germany.
     

  • KRZYWIEC P., KUFRASA M., GĄGAŁA Ł., MAZUR S., SŁONKA Ł., 2018. Variscan (late Carboniferous) tectonics of the SE Lublin Basin. 16 Meeting of the Central European Tectonic Studies Groups, Rytro,18–21.04.2018.
     

  • KUFRASA M., SŁONKA Ł., KRZYWIEC P., 2018. Late Paleozoic fracture system in the Lublin Basin: results of seismic attribute analysis and fracture modeling. 16 Meeting of the Central European Tectonic Studies Groups, Rytro,18–21.04.2018.
     

  • KUFRASA M., SŁONKA Ł., KRZYWIEC P., 2018. Subseismic-scale fracture system in Carboniferous strata of the Lublin Basin (Poland): results of seismic enhancement and interpretation. 16 Meeting of the Central European Tectonic Studies Groups, Rytro,18–21.04.2018.
     
  • SŁONKA Ł., KRZYWIEC P., KRAKOWSKA P., WAWRZYNIAK-GUZ K., PUSKARCZYK E., JARZYNA J., 2017. Seismic characteristics of the Oxfordian carbonate buildups in the Nida Trough. Jurassica XIII Conference, Abstract and Field Trip Guidebook p. 55-56.
     
  • KUFRASA M., SŁONKA Ł., KRZYWIEC P., 2017. Combined Seismic Attribute Analysis and Structural Restoration as Effective Tool for Prediction of Fault Geometry at Depth and Fracture System Modeling: Case Study From the Lublin Basin (South East Poland). AAPG International Conference and Exhibition (ICE 2017), London, United Kingdom, 15-18.10.2017.
     
  • LEWANDOWSKI M., SŁONKA Ł., 2017. Seismic attribute similarity in facies classification. 23rd International Symposium on Methodologies for Intelligent Systems ISMIS 2017, (extended abstract). 
     
  • KRZYWIEC P., MAZUR S., MALINOWSKI M., GĄGAŁA Ł., KUFRASA M., SŁONKA Ł., LEWANDOWSKI M., BUFFENMYER V., PIETSCH K., GOLONKA J., KUROVETS, I., 2016. New look at the boundary of Precambrian and Palaeozoic Europe – recent deep seismic data from the SW margin of the East European Craton in Poland. 35 International Geological Congress, 27.08 – 4.09, Cape Town, South Africa.
     
  • KRZYWIEC P., STACHOWSKA A., STYPA A., SŁONKA Ł., JARZYNA J., KRAKOWSKA P., PUSKARCZYK E., WAWRZYNIAK-GUZ K., 2016. Model późnokredowej ewolucji niecki miechowskiej - wyniki interpretacji danych sejsmicznych i analizy subsydencji. VI Polska Konferencja Sedymentologiczna POKOS 6 - Granice Sedymentologii, 28 czerwca – 1 lipca 2016. Abstrakty s.165-166.
     
  • KRZYWIEC P., MAZUR S., GĄGAŁA Ł., MALINOWSKI M., KUFRASA M., SŁONKA Ł., LEWANDOWSKI M., BUFFENMYER V., PIETSCH K., GOLONKA J., KUROVETS I., 2016. Late Paleozoic crustal-scale wrenching or thin-skinned thrusting in SE Poland and W Ukraine? Seismology at the crossroads”, SEISMIX 2016 conference, May 15-20, 87.
     
  • KRZYWIEC P., MAZUR S., GĄGAŁA Ł., MALINOWSKI M., KUFRASA M., SŁONKA Ł., LEWANDOWSKI M., BUFFENMYER V., PIETSCH K., GOLONKA J., KUROVETS I., 2016. Late Paleozoic crustal-scale wrenching or thin-skinned thrusting in SE Poland and W Ukraine? “Petroleum systems of Alpine-Mediterranean Fold Belts and Basins”, AAPG European Regional Conference & Exhibition, Romania, Bucharest, May 19-20, 78-79.
     
  • SŁONKA Ł., KRZYWIEC P., MULIŃSKA M., MALINOWSKI M., CYZ M., ROSOWSKI T., POPRAWA P., STYPA A., 2016. Seismic recognition of lithological variations of the Upper Jurassic shaly interval in central Mid-Polish Trough. “Petroleum systems of Alpine-Mediterranean Fold Belts and Basins”, AAPG European Regional Conference & Exhibition, Bucharest, Abstract Book p. 151-152.
     
  • SŁONKA Ł., KRZYWIEC P., MULIŃSKA M., MALINOWSKI M., KRAKOWSKA P., CYZ M., ROSOWSKI T., 2016. Defining “sweet spots” of the Upper Jurassic unconventional hydrocarbon system in central part of the Mid-Polish Trough using seismic inversion, seismic attribute analysis and seismic stratigraphic modelling. AAPG International Conference and Exhibition, Barcelona, SEG Global Meeting Abstracts, p. 329. Doi: https://doi.org/10.1190/ice2016-6341175.1
     
  • KRZYWIEC, P., SŁONKA, Ł., MALINOWSKI, M., STYPA, A., MAIO, F., ROSOWSKI, T., MULIŃSKA, M., ROWAN, M., KUFRASA, M., CYZ, M., GÓRSZCZYK A., 2015. Salt tectonics versus Jurassic sedimentation in central Mid-Polish Trough – results of integrated geological – geophysical study, IAS 31st Meeting of Sedimentology, Kraków, 2015 (abstract).
     
  • STACHOWSKA A., SŁONKA Ł., KRZYWIEC P., WYSOCKA A., JARZYNA J., KRAKOWSKA P., PUSKARCZYK E., WAWRZYNIAK-GUZ K., KUFRASA M., 2015. Late Cretaceous tectonics vs. Sedimentation within the Miechów Trough (SE Poland) or how inversion of the Alpine foreland shaped local depositional systems, IAS 31st Meeting of Sedimentology, Kraków, 2015 (abstract).
     

  • KRZYWIEC, P., MALINOWSKI, M., MAIO, F., ROSOWSKI, T., MULINSKA, M., ROWAN, M. G., SŁONKA, Ł., KUFRASA, M., CYZ, .M, GORSZCZYK, A., Control of Salt Tectonics on Mesozoic Unconventional Petroleum System of the Central Mid-Polish Trough, AAPG Annal Convention & Exhibition 2015, Denver, USA (abstract).
     

  • KRZYWIEC, P., ROWAN, M. G., MAĆKOWSKI, T., GÓRECKI, W., SŁONKA, Ł., KUFRASA, M., 2015. Mesozoic salt tectonics of the Mid-Polish Trough and its control on potential unconventional hydrocarbon system,  AAPG  European Regional Conference & Exhibition, Lisbon, May 18-19, 2015 (abstract).
     

  • SŁONKA Ł., 2015. Improved seismic imaging of the Szamotuły salt diapir (NW Poland) based on finite-difference full waveform modelling. European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2015, Vienna. Geophysical Research Abstracts, Vol. 17. EGU2015-3692.
     
  • KRZYWIEC, P., VOLTERRANI, S., SŁONKA, Ł., LIS, P., BUFFENMYER, V., MALINOWSKI, M., LEWANDOWSKI, M., 2014. From Regional Depositional Architecture to Reservoir-Scale Considerations, Lower Paleozoic Baltic Basin, N Poland. SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, October, 27-29, 2014.
     
  • KRZYWIEC, P., MALINOWSKI, M., MAZUR, S., BUFFENMYER, V., LEWANDOWSKI, M., SŁONKA, Ł., KUFRASA, M., 2014. Structure and evolution of the Lower Paleozoic basin developed above the East European Craton in Poland: new insight from regional high-effort seismic reflection data. GeoShale 2014: Recent Advances in Geology of Fine-Grained Sediments, Warsaw, Poland, September, 24-26, 2014.
     
  • KRZYWIEC, P., MALINOWSKI, M., MAIO, F., ROSOWSKI, T., MULIŃSKA, M., PLECH, M., KUFRASA, M., SŁONKA, Ł., CYZ, M., GORSZCZYK, A., 2014. Salt tectonics within the central Mid-Polish Trough and its control on unconventional petroleum system. GeoShale 2014: Recent Advances in Geology of Fine-Grained Sediments, Warsaw, Poland, September, 24-26, 2014.
     
  • KRZYWIEC, P., MALINOWSKI, M., MAIO, F., ROSOWSKI, T., MULIŃSKA, M., PLECH, M., SŁONKA, Ł., KUFRASA, M., CYZ, M., GORSZCZYK, A., 2014. Salt Tectonics and Mesozoic Petroleum System of the Central Mid-Polish Trough. AAPG International Conference & Exhibition, Istanbul, Turkey, September 14-17, 2014.
     
  • KRZYWIEC, P., MALINOWSKI M., MAIO F., ROSOWSKI T., MULIŃSKA M., PLECH M., KUFRASA M., SŁONKA Ł., CYZ M. & GORSZCZYK A., 2014. Salt tectonics within the central Mid-Polish Trough and its control on unconventional petroleum system. AAPG  European Regional Conference & Exhibition, Barcelona, May 13-15, 2014.
     
  • SŁONKA Ł., 2013. Analysis of Poststack FD Migration Efficiency on 2D Synthetic Section Calculated for Geological Model of Salt Tectonics. 75th EAGE Conference & Exhibition Extended Abstract. Doi:  https://doi.org/10.3997/2214-4609.20131105
     
  • SŁONKA Ł., 2011. Microgravity Estimation of Filling up the Near Surface Mineshaft – Example of the Gravity Modelling Usage. EAGE Near Surface 2011, Leicester, 2011 Extended Abstract. Doi: https://doi.org/10.3997/2214-4609.20144455