Once again, employees of the Polish Geological Institute-NRI took part in the preparation of the annual international conference of the Central European Tectonic Studies Groups (CETEG). This time it was the 20th anniversary edition of this conference, which took place on April 24-27, 2024 in Srebrna Góra in the Sudetes.

The conference was attended by 93 participants representing scientific institutions, industry and geological surveys from Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Austria, Germany, France and Taiwan. In addition to scientists and industry specialists dealing with tectonics, the participants also included students, PhD students and scholarship holders (including from Middle Eastern countries).

The conference began and ended with interesting field sessions in the Sudetes and the Fore-Sudetic block. During the two days of full-time sessions, 37 papers and 55 posters were presented on topics including structural geology, tectonics, regional geology, petrology of crystalline and sedimentary rocks, sedimentology, reservoir geology and geohazards.

PGI-NRI staff actively participated in the conference, delivering six papers, presenting 12 posters and leading a post-conference field session. The geological surveys of other CETEG countries were also represented.

The ceremonial culmination of the conference was the summing up of the scientific career of professor Paweł Aleksandrowski from the Lower Silesian Branch of PGI-NRI in Wrocław - a long-standing, active participant and co-organiser of the CETEG conference - on the 40th anniversary of the defense of his doctorate at the Institute of Geological Sciences of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Kraków.

The course of the conference, its high level of content and organisation, including attractive side events, was highly appreciated by the participants. This year's CETEG anniversary meeting was an excellent opportunity to maintain valuable scientific contacts and, for younger participants, to make them last. It also proved to be an important integrative stimulus for Polish geologists. For the first time in many years, it was possible to bring together at a thematic conference a group of more than forty active Polish scientists involved in structural geology and tectonics. This group is shown in one of the photographs below.

See more: https://echelon.natur.cuni.cz/ceteg/sites/default/files/images/pdf/c24/CETEG2024_Abstract_book.pdf http://www.ptgeol.pl/biblioteka/materialy-konferencyjne/

Text: Rafał Sikora

Participants in a pre-conference field session at the exposure of the shaly shale in Kamieniec Ząbkowicki. Explains Sławomir Ilnicki from the University of Warsaw (photo A. Kowalski)

Polish participants at the conference. Such joint shots go down in the history of geology in Poland (photo M. Mendecki)

Poster sessions are an important part of today's scientific conferences (photo A. Głuszyński)

Distinctions for presentation and poster were awarded to Małgorzata Nowak (UWr) and Kamil Bulcewicz (PGI-NRI, UWr), PhD students of prof. Jacek Szczepański (UWr). The award for Kamil is also a recognition for a research project conducted at PGI-NRI (managed by Rafał Sikora) in cooperation with the University of Wrocław: "Record of metamorphism of high pressures and low temperatures in the rock sequence of the Kobierzyce-1 borehole in reference to the Variscan collision of the Saxoturingia and Brunowistulikum terranes” (Photo S. Ilnicki)

The post-conference session led by Aleksander Kowalski from PGI-NRI was very popular (Photo K. Bulcewicz)