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Field trip: Heritage stones of N part of Bohemian massif

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Date: October 19-20, 2017

Program: First day we visited famous heritage stones deposits: Ruprechtice (typical granit deposit “Liberecká žula”) and Spa Bělohrad – quarry Javorka (nicely coloured sandstones). Then we moved to Hořice town, famous by its sculpture school, which we also visited. Here we joined the lecture about “How the statue is made” and also seen different processes and approaches of making statues. Besides the school we also visited a famous park and graveyard with many sculpture works (many times made by famous sculptors) from local school.

Leader: RNDr. Barbora Dudíková Schulmannová (Czech Geological Survey)

Attendance: 10 members of our Chapter

Field trip and conference: Various deposits of the South Karelia region (Sortavala- Pitkäranta) – joined field trip with the SGA Student Chapter – North-West Russia

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Date: October 3-9, 2017

Program: Presentation of poster at student conference of St. Petersburg University. Excursion about heritage stones in St. Petersburg. Field trip in Karelia region with various types of deposits (different zones of skarns, marble and rapakivi granite used as heritage stone, nice samples of almandines in micashist and visit of central uplift island in Yanis”Yarvi lake made after impact).

Leader: NW Russia Chapter

Attendance:

members of NW Russia Chapter

4 members of our Student Chapter