Christoph Breitkreuz (Freiberg)
Petr Budil (Prague)
David Buriánek (Brno)
Oldřich Fatka (Prague)
Friedrich Finger (Salzburg)
František Holub (Prague)
Vojtěch Janoušek (Prague)
Ulf Linnemann (Dresden)
Manfred Menning (Potsdam)
Stanislav Opluštil (Prague)
Bas van de Schootbrugge (Frankfurt am Main)
Kryštof Verner (Prague)
Jiří Žák (Prague)
Gernold Zulauf (Frankfurt am Main)
	 Joint conference of the Czech and German geological societies
	 Crustal evolution and geodynamic
	 processes in Central Europe
	 First Circular
	
Plzeň (Pilsen) September 16th
to 19th
2013
In 1842, a German brewer Josef Groll was invited to Pilsen and the world-famous beer Pilsner Urquell saw the light
of day. More than 170 years after this historic milestone, the Czech–German efforts continue and we are pleased
to announce that a joint conference of the Czech and German geological societies will be held in Pilsen, a city
built on rocks with exciting and long-lasting geological history from Precambrian to Quaternary. The main mission
of the conference is not only to discuss the latest views on the geodynamic evolution of Central Europe but also to bring
together specialists across the entire range of Earth Science disciplines.
Scientific committee
Scientific program
Topic 1: Building Central Europe: geodynamics of the Variscan lithosphere
Topic 2: Composing Central Europe: mantle and crustal evolution through time
Topic 3: Sedimentary basins of Central Europe: a geologic archive from Precambrian to Cenozoic
Topic 4: Shaping Central Europe: surface processes from past to present
Topic 5: Earth systems management in Central Europe: geosciences and the environment
Pre-conference field trips
	 From Cadomian accretion to Variscan collision: a crustal-scale traverse across the northwestern Teplá–Barrandian unit
	 (Leaders: J. Žák, G. Zulauf, W. Dörr, J. Hajná, K. Verner)
	 Lower Paleozoic successions of the southwestern Barrandian area (Leaders: P. Budil, O. Fatka)
Contact persons
Jiří Žák jirizak@natur.cuni.cz
Gernold Zulauf g.zulauf@em.uni-frankfurt.de
More to be announced soon
Syn-conference beer trip
	 Pilsner Urquell Brewery
Post-conference field trip
	 Destruction of the Variscan orogen: development of Carboniferous basins and tropical rainforests
	 in western Bohemia (Leaders: S. Opluštil, J. Pšenička)
Important dates and conference schedule
	 January, 15th
thru March, 30th
Abstract submission and online registration
	 September, 16th
Pre-conference field trips
	 September, 17th
–18th
Poster and oral presentations
	 September, 19th
Post-conference field trip
Publications and abstracts
	Abstracts will be published in Schriftenreihe der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Geowissenschaften (ISSN 1860-1782)
	 Potentially, the most interesting contributions will be published in a special issue or a thematic
	 set in Journal of Geosciences or Zeitschrift der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Geowissenschaften
	 /German Journal of Geosciences
An official conference website with online registration and abstract
submission will be launched at www.geopilsen2013.com
in mid-January 2013