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Project contributed by the Institute awarded a Czech Science Foundation prize

The prize of the chairwoman of the Czech Science Foundation 2019 was awarded to five researchers of the best basic research projects completed last year. Jiří Bruthans of the Faculty of Science, Charles University received an award for the project titled “Effect of gravity-induced stress on sandstone erosion: physical and numerical modelling”. Co-applicants of this project were Michal Filippi of the Institute of Geology of the CAS and Jana Schweigstillová of the Institute of Rock Structure and Mechanics of the CAS. The winning projects were decided by the Presidium of the Czech Science Foundation among proposals by the relevant subject area commissions. This year, 5 projects were awarded (in the fields of chemistry, medicine, geology, zoology and sociology) of a total of 448 projects. The results of the awarded geological project were presented, for example, in the journals Geomorphology, Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, Earth-Science Reviews and Geology (including the title page). Congratulations on this success!
For additional details on prize winners and projects click here.

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Field study of Late Archean granites (ca. 2.9–2.6 Ga) in northeastern Canada

A joint research group from the Institute of Geology CAS and Charles University returned from a field study of several geological transects across the James Bay area in northeastern Canada (province of Quebec). The team documented petrology and inner structures of several lithological types of plutonic and metamorphic rocks in the Bienville subprovince: Opinaca, La Grande and Opatica units. In this wilderness area, the team also collected a huge amount of rock material focusing especially on the analysis of internal pluton fabrics, including anisotropy of magnetic susceptibility (AMS), and metasediments for zircon geochronological U-Pb dating. Photos.

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Director Tomáš Přikryl interviewed by the Týden magazine

In his interview for the Týden magazine (in Czech), Tomáš Přikryl covered the themes of discovering new animal species and a human impact on planet Earth.

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