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The fossil traces - TV channel ČT 2, January 24, 03:05 p.m.

Where to find fossil traces of past animals? How did they originate, and what can be learnt by reading them? These and many other questions were put to Radek Mikuláš from the Institute of Geology, Czech Academy of Sciences. For our understanding the fossil traces, he visited unique geologic exposures throughout the Czech Republic and he compared them to places where analogous traces originate at present.

The video and the photogalery are here (in Czech)

Visit of Professor Paul Williams from the University of Auckland, New Zealand

On September 12, 2014, the Institute of Geology AS CR was visited by Paul Williams, Emeritus Professor of University of Auckland, New Zealand. Prof. Williams specializes in the dating of Quaternary sediments and cave speleothems. His visit, organized by the Bohemian Switzerland National Park Administration, included discussions of geological and geomorphological history of sandstone areas of the Bohemian Cretaceous Basin, most notably that of the Elbe Sandstones area. (Photos by Pavel Lisý)