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Tichavekia: a giant among the earliest land plants

A paper describing the terrestrial plant Tichavekia grandis was published in the Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology journal. It is co-authored by two members of the Institute of Geology, Monika Uhlířová and Jiří Bek. The plant lived in the Barrandian area (Czech Republic) some 420 million years ago. It was named after František Tichávek of the West Bohemian Museum in Plzeň, who had found the described specimen.

Award for a popular geology book

Miroslav Ivanov Award in the category “Regional history” was granted to our colleague Václav Cílek and co-editors Z. Sůvová and J. Turek for the book “The Land of Joachim Barrande – A Journey to the Prehistory of Bohemia”, published in 2020, by the Club of Factual Literature Authors and the town of Jaroměř–Josefov. Other geologists of the Institute of Geology – Radek Mikuláš, Jindřich Hladil and Petr Štorch – contributed to the book as co-authors. Congratulations!

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Conference on planetary geology

Tomáš Kohout of the Institute of Geology CAS, who has been also long working for University of Helsinki, delivered a speech at the conference Cosmic Projects taking place within the Czech Space Week in Villa Lanna, Prague, on November 12, 2021. His contribution was related to mapping of the asteroid Didymos. The conference programme and individual presentations are published here; specifically, the talk of T. Kohout can be viewed by clicking here (starting from 42 min. of the recording).

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