Nearly 400 exceptionally well-preserved fossils dating back 470 million years have been discovered in the south of France by a couple of amateurs.
Current events
As part of the official visit of Prime Minister Petr Fiala to Ethiopia, a presentation of key Czech development cooperation projects was held on Saturday, November 4th, at the Ministry of Water and Energy in Addis Ababa.The high-level event was...
The Czech Geological Survey has published an updated version of the Geological Map of the Trans-Altai Gobi at a scale of 1:500,000. The map originally published in 2008 was completely sold out.
On 4-6 September 2023, the Kick-off meeting of the project "Innovation of Geological Information Systems in Bosnia and Herzegovina", led by CGS, took place in Bosnian Jajce.
Last week, the first campaign of modern airborne geophysical research was carried out at the reference site of the Staré Ransko ore district within the framework of the international SEMACRET project.
The Czech Geological Survey won the first prize in the category of „Atlases and map sets“ of the 25th edition of the prestigious Map of the Year competition of the Czech Cartographic Society with the map compilation Geology, Soil Environment and...
The UNFC workshop under the auspices of the Ministry of Industry and Trade took place at the CGS on April 18 – 20, 2023.The "United Nations Framework Classification of Resources" (UNFC) allows for the classification of primary and secondary mineral...
Several photogrammetric 3D models of fossils from the CGS collections and methodology for creating paleontological models have been created as part of CGS internal project, which focuses on 3D reconstructions and presentations of selected fossil...
On Thursday, February 2, Vít and I set about preparing a detailed overview of this year’s continuation of the CO2-SPICER project. We expected we would complete the overview on Friday, February 3. We will not.
In 2022, a monographic issue of the important British Geological Society of London, Special Publication No. 485 entitled "The Great Ordovician Biodiversification Event: Insights from the Tafilalt Biota, Morocco" was published.This issue is dedicated...
The paper The 23rd International Geological Congress (Prague, 1968) and the Five Warsaw Pact Members Occupation of Czechoslovakia was published in the IUGS journal EPISODES.
From 29 October till 2 November 2022, Università degli Studi di Cagliari (Sardinia) hosted a workshop 'Recalculation, graphical representation and petrogenetic modelling of whole-rock geochemical data from igneous rocks using GCDkit/R'.
On 5–11 September 2022, the Department of Geology, Centre of Advanced Study, Kumaun University, Nainital (Uttarakhand – India) hosted a one-week workshop “Advanced Training Programme on Granites and Related Rocks” sponsored by the DRT...
The Czech Geological Survey published the work Calcareous Nannofossils. Upper Cretaceous of the Bohemian Cretaceous Basin and the Outer Western Carpathians by Lilian Švábenická.
After a two-year covid break, a geological expedition to Mongolia was organized again in July 2022. Under the leadership of Prof. K. Schulmann and Assoc. prof. O.
A kick-off meeting of the 16-member consortium of the new European project SEMACRET funded by Horizon Europe program (2022-2024) took place at the Oulu Mining School in Finland on 7th and 8th June 2022.
On 21 February 2022, the CO2GeoNet Association, with Czech Geological Survey as an active member on board, organised a webinar dedicated to introduction of its report ´State of Play on CO2 Geological Storage in 32 European Countries´.
Czech geological survey (CGS), Geological survey of Norway (NGU) and EuroGeoSurveys - Urban geology expert group (UGEG) produced educational animated video promoting urban geology and role of geological surveys in subsurface planning in cities.
A special issue of Journal of Geosciences From experimental mineralogy and crystallography to mineral deposit: a tribute to Milan Drábek, containing a number of papers related to his field of studies, is available online.
The final expedition to Georgia within the international project Georgia 2021 took place in November.