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Geological Collections
The Collections and Material Documentation Depositories give access to studying geological material acquired by the CGS staff members and other organizations. The collections along with their stores hold about 300,000 specimens, which represent the second largest funds in the Czech Republic of worldwide importance.
Apart from depository exhibits, the Czech Geological Survey presents a geological exhibition on the ground floor in its Prague building at Klárov (photo above right).
Offices of the Collections and Material Documentation
- Praha-Klárov - the widest range of material administered: paleontological
collections, geological-mineralogical collections, administration of repositories at Lužná
- Lužná - the collection repository of thin sections, part of geological-mineralogical collections, material documentation, documentation of drill cores, locality paleontological collections, and material from abroad
- Brno - primarily thin section material and drill core documentation, micropaleontological collection
- Jeseník - material and drill core documentation relating to the Jeseníky Mts. area
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Services
Czech Geological Survey offers for study an extensive material geological fund in its Collections, depositories and stores of material documenentation. During the working hours it is possible to study the stored material on-site, measure and photograph it in the study room or make latex casts. The loan service applies only for study materials, not for the types and originals. More information can be found in the rules for borrowers.
Working laboratory and photo chambre
The equipment is accessible for all CGS employees and external researchers in a lab next to the Collections. The equipment includes fume chambre with a basic set of chemicals, facility for covering palaeontological samples with white powder for photography, tripod for photography and a stand for magnifier, NIKON binocular microscope, digital camera, as well as equipment for processing classical photographs.
Sample preparation facility
After prior arrangement the staff of the Collections can prepare your paleontological and mineralogical samples by using a very modern equipment. This facility has until present been available only in commercial firms specialising in sales of nature products. It supplies fully prepared sample materials from paleontolgical and mineralogical collections.
To obtain more information please contact Mr Zdenek Novotný, tel. 00420 257 089 512, e:mail: zdenek.novotny@geology.cz. The preparation of study material is provided free for the staff members of the Czech Geological Survey, external users are charged by fees specified in the price list.
Contacts
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Study room
Opening hours:
Mon-Fri: 8-15 hod, after prior arrangement
Czech Geological Survey
Klárov 3
118 21 Praha 1
Czech Republic
phone (00420) 257 089 512
sbirky@geology.cz
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The study room of the CGS Collections, Prague (Klárov) |
| March 15, 2010
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Newly re-furnished depository of the CGS Collections, Praha-Klárov |
New CGS repository of the material documentation, Lužná at Rakovník |
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