Palaeomagnetic research is carried out in four principal fields:
Palaeogeographic and palaeomagnetic investigations of the pre-Variscan and Variscan rock formations are proposed within the Hercynian mobile belt, with emphasis of investigations of the Bohemian Massif, and especially the Barrandian terrane. Investigations of basic palaeomagnetioc parameters of Phanerozoic rocks mainly from the Bohemian Massif, Western Carpathians, and partly also from other regions (Egypt, France, Austria, China, Mongolia).
Magnetopstratigraphic (including high-resolution magnetostratigraphic) studies are carried out on Jurassic / Cretaceous boundary strata in Moravia, Slovakia, Italy and Spain. Correlation of biozones and magnetozones was the priority of these studies.
Environmental magnetism comprises a set of relatively new methods used for determination of environmental changes recorded mostly in Quaternary deposits. We apply KLY-3 and CS-3, devices (by AGICO Ltd.) for magnetic susceptibility and temperature dependence of magnetic susceptibility measurements to obtain magnetic signal of erosion, weathering or pedogenic processes.
Study of magnetic properties and magneto-mineralogy of meteorites helps us to look closer on Solar System evolution and origins of life. To obtain important data for meteorite petrophysics we apply rock-magnetism and palaeomagnetism tools on meteoritic material. The results are essential for the evaluation of the influence of the terrestrial enviroment on meteorite magnetic properties and for the interpretation of the data obtained during cosmic missions to the meteorite target bodies - the asteroides.
INTAS PROJECT Speleotherms and other cave sediments from Siberia: an archive from the boreal climate zone with the potential for climate reconstruction on an annual to decadal basins (SPELEOARCH)
Evaluation of published data for Europe ( Hercynian and Alpine collision zones) was carried out with the aim to elaborate model interptretation of tectonic and palaeogeographic phenomena.
Some of the above mentioned activities were carried out in collaboration with international specialists from different countries: Holland, Spain, Italy – magnetostratigraphy; Germany, Austria – palaeomagnetic dating of epigenetic mineralization; England, Bulgaria – basic palaeomagnetic research; Iraq – paleomagnetism of volcanics in Jordan. The Palaeomagnetic Laboratory in Průhonice is often visited by foreign specialists, research workers of this Laboratory took part in numerous national and international symposia such as IUGG, IAGA, EGS, AGU etc.
The workers of the Palaeomagnetic Laboratory are authors or co-authors of four monographs, of about 250 publications, many of them with impact factor and more than 50 abstracts and extended abstracts for respective symposia and conferences. The participants of the above research programmes and authors or co-authors of the mentioned publications will be supervisors of the fellows.
Finished projects:
IGCP Project No. 421. Applicant: R. Feist and J. Talent. North Gondwanan mid-Palaeozoic bioevents and biogeography in relation to crustal dynamics
EUROPROBE –Project TESZ
IGCP Project No.362. Tethyan and Boreal Cretacous
GA AV ČR (Grant Agency of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic) No. A 301 3802 (1998-2001) - Applicant: P. Pruner. Joint applicants: J. Hladil, M. Krs, F. Patočka, A.Galle , O. Man, D. Venhodová. Mineralogy, geochemistry and paleomagnetism of the Variscan diastrophic sediments of the Bohemian Massif: provenence and paleotectonic implications
GA ČR (Grant Agency of the Czech Republic) No. 205/97/0063 (1997-1999) - Applicant: P. Pruner. Joint applicants: M. Krs, V. Houša, O. Man, D. Venhodová. Magnetostratigraphic investigation and correlation of key profiles of Jurassic-Cretaceous boundary formations in the Tethyan realm ( Río Argos, Spain, Brodno, Slovakia)
GA ČR (Grant Agency of the Czech Republic) No. 205/99/0594 (1999-2001) - Applicant: P. Pruner. Joint applicants: M. Krs, O. Man, V. Suchý, P. Štorch, D. Venhodová. Palaeomagnetic studies and palaeogeographic interpretation of the Barrandian Lower Paleozoic with the respect to Bohemian Massif and peri-Gondwanan Europe