Post-conference trips
Option 1: Field trip
Rocks and accessory minerals in Slovakia and Czech Republic
Fee: € 150.00
The fee includes:
- Guidance in English
- Bus transportation from and back to Vienna
- Accomodation Sept 16-17 in hotel Atrium, Vyškov
(http://www.hotelatrium.eu/en/en-hotel/)
- Meals (Sept 16 lunch and dinner, Sept 17 breakfast and lunch);
plus snacks and refreshments
- Field-trip booklet
| Field-trip guides:
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Igor Broska, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava
Pavel Uher, Comenius University, Bratislava
Milan Novák, Masaryk University, Brno |
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Typical landscape of the Little Carpathians (Heštún, Jastrabnik, Malé Karpaty).
Image credit Ján Madarás, Slovak Academy of Sciences |
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| Saturday, September 16, 2017 |
08:00
9:30 – 10:30 |
Vienna departure: Universitätszentrum, Althanstr. 14, 1090 Wien
Bratislava castle (castle wall; Bratislava S-type granites and pegmatites, historical site) |
11:00 – 11:30
13:00
14:00 – 15:00 |
Bratislava Hlboká street (dioritic granite body)
lunch (picnic)
Dubová (zircon and REE-bearing accessory minerals in Ca-skarn and adjacent I-type granites and pegmatites) |
| 16:00 – 17:00 |
Pezinok - Rybnicek (V-Cr-REE accessory minerals in carbon-rich amphibolite metapyroclastic rocks) |
| 19:00 |
Arrival at accomodation in hotel Atrium (Vyškov, Moravia) |
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| Sunday, September 17, 2017 |
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"Erlan": Calc-silicate skarn from Dolinkovský vrch near Modra-Harmónia), showing large grossular grains.
Image credit Ján Madarás, Slovak Academy of Sciences |
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08:30
09:00 – 10:00
11:30 – 12:30
13:00 |
Vyškov departure
Luleč (monazite and titanite alterations in the Carboniferous conglomerates)
Nedvědice (muscovite-tourmaline orthogneiss with fluorite)
Lunch |
| 14:30– 15:30 |
Hlina, Brno pluton (granite with Y,RRE-rich garnet) |
| ~ 19:00 |
Arrival in Vienna |
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Option 2: Museum visit
Fee: € 16.00
The fee includes:
- English guide
- Entrance fee
Guide:
Dr. Vera M. F. Hammer (Chief curator of the mineral and gemstone collection, NHM Wien)
| Saturday, September 16, 2017 |
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© K. Kracher, NHM-Wien |
9:00 meeting point at the side entrance (map) of the Natural History Museum Vienna (Link)
Visit of the mineral, gemstone and meteorite collections of the Museum.
11:00: Closure. |
