Geology
Karkonosze Mountains, uplifted by convergent movements of the Alpinie Oregony during the Tertiary period are the highest mountain group of the Sudetenland. Karkonosze Mountains are a solid characterised by a square surface above which overlooks the highest mount of Karkonosze – Œnie¿ka (1602 MSL). A factor which had an impact on today’s shape of the Karkonosze Mountains was a glaciation of the Quaternary period. The glaciation ended approximately 10 000 years ago. To its remaining belong, characteristic for Karkonosze, pot – holes and glacial lakes, granite rocks and rock rubbles together with rubble circles brought to existence as a result of frost weathering.
A fragment of geologic map of Borowic from 1930 r. (thanks to the kindness of Karl-Heinz Drescher)
Numerous streams of Karkonosze drift forming waterfalls. The most famous are
the Waterfall of Kamieñczyk (Wodospad Kamieñczyka),
the Waterfall of Szklarka (Wodospad Szklarki), and
the Cascades of the £omniczka River (Kaskady £omniczki) . To the ones that can be found next to Borowice belong:
the Waterfall of Jod³ówka (Wodospad Jod³ówki),
the Waterfall of Podgórna (Wodospad Podgórnej),
the Cascades of the Myja River (Kaskady Myi), and
the Silver Cascades (Srebrne Kaskady). Natural aquatic pockets are glacial mountain lakes formed on the bottom of some cirques (
the Great Pond - Wielki Staw,
the Small Pond - Ma³y Staw,
the Snow Ponds - Œnie¿ne Stawki).
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