"Geology in the heart of Europe"
FIELD TRIPS
FIELD TRIP 1
Archives of ancient marine environments at the contact of the Bohemian Massif
and Western Carpathians
All-day field trip
- Sloup village and Sloup-Šošůvka caves: Late Devonian reefoidal limestones (Variscan preorogenic sedimentation)
- Old Quarry near Šošůvka: Early Carboniferous slope siliciclastics (Variscan flysch sedimentation)
- Malý Chlum hill: Late Cretaceous epicontinental siliciclastics (platform cover of the Bohemian Massif)
- Turold quarry: Late Jurassic and Late Cretaceous carbonates (Western Carpathian preorogenic sedimentation)
- Old quarry at Boleradice: Oligocene slope and basin siliciclastics (Western Carpathian flysch sedimentation)
- Mušov sandpit: Miocene algal limestones (Western Carpathian molasse sediments)
FIELD TRIP 2
Nedvědice-Rožná excursion profile – mineralogical and petrological localities
on the boundary between Strážek Moldanubicum and Svratka Crystalline Complex
All-day filed trip
- Nedvědice: Nedvědice blue marbles and Ca-skarns
- Pernštejn I: metamorphosed tourmalinites in mica schists, outcrops of tourmalinite belt
- Pernštejn II: quarry with Fe-skarns in mica-garnet schists, old iron mining
- Věžná I: beryl-columbite pegmatite in serpentinites, desilicated pegmatite dike with rare element mineralization
- Věžná II: serpentinite rocks with late fissure mineralization, serpentinite quarry, Skalka potential radioactive waste store
- Rožná: complex Li-pegmatite of lepidolite subtype, large pegmatite dike at Hradisko and Borovina hill (type locality of lepidolite)
- Rožná I: above-ground part of the oldest active uranium mine in the world
FIELD TRIP 3
Terrestrial and deltaic siliciclastic sediments in southeastern part of Bohemian Massif
and in Carpathian Foredeep
All-day filed trip
- Brno - Červený kopec profile: Lower-middle Devonian alluvial sediments on Brunovistulicum
- Čebínka hill: Lower Permian alluvial and floodplain sediments an eastern part Boskovice graben (Variscan molasse intramountaine basin)
- Železné old quarry and Tišnov: Lower Permian alluvial sediments an western part Boskovice graben (Variscian molasse intramountaine basin) and their sources
- Bačov village and old quarry: Lower Permian lacustrine and floodplain sediments and their fossil record in central part Boskovice graben (Variscian molasse intramountaine basin)
- Barová Cave and Býčí Cave: palaeontological excavation, pleistocene profiles and cave excursion to inaccessible parts of the cave system; necessary equipment for excursion: helmet, headlamp, hiking boots, clothes suitable for caving (7°C and clayey soil, possibility of dirty clothes), and of course lack of claustrophobia
- Luleč: Lower Carboniferous coarsegrained fan deltaic sediments in Variscian flysh unit
- Nemojany old sandpit: Miocene (Lower Badenian) coarsegrained fan deltaic sediments on northwestern margin of Carpathian Foredeep.
FIELD TRIP 4
Geological Brno City Tour: from proterozoic to quaternary rocks
All-day field trip
- Špilberk castle and Petrov hill: proterozoic volcanic metabazite zone of Brno Batholith
- Stránská rock: mesozoic marine coral limestones with hornstones, crinoidal limestones, prehistoric mining of hornstones
- Hády old quarry: variscian orogeny in proterozoic limestone profile in Líšeň formation of Moravian Karst, transgresiv of juraisic rocks
- City tour: Historical utilization of geological material in local great historical builiding