Carboniferous fructifications and their spores from the Upper Silesian Basin (Namurian-Westphalia D), Czech Republic and Poland

The main goal of the project is the determination of relations of parent plants and their spores from Czech and Polish parts of the Upper Silesian Basin by the combination of macropalaeobotanical and palynological methods. The comparison and correlation of the occurrences of fertile and sterile parts of Carboniferous plants and their spores will be made in both parts of the basin. The combination of micro- and macropalaeobotanical methods will determine the classification and stratigraphical ranges of Carboniferous plants of the Upper Silesian Basin. The synonymisation of plant taxa will be proposed. Another goal of the project is the reconstruction of the coal-forming vegetation at the whole area of the Upper Silesian Basin during the sedimentation from the Namurian to the Westphalian D.