FULLY BOOKED - PRE-1: Upper Cretaceous and Paleogene at the northwestern Tethyan margin (Austria, S Germany): Boundaries, Events, Cycles and Sequences (4 days bus excursion)

Dates: August 17–August 20, 2017

Route: Vienna - Gams/Styria - Gosau - Abtenau - Regensburg (Germany) - Vienna

Guides: M. Wagreich, E. Wolfgring, M. Wilmsen, B. Niebuhr, T. Pürner

Field Trip will start on August 17, 2017, at the conference site, at the meeting place in front of buildings UZA1 (biology) and UZA2, Althanstraße 14, 1090 Vienna, near tram station Althanstraße of tram line D. Departure time is 7:30 in the morning.

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FULLY BOOKED - PRE-2: Lower to mid-Cretaceous of the Western Carpathians, Slovakia (1 day bus excursion) 

Date: August 19, 2017

Route: Vienna - Bratislava - Trencin - Vienna

Guides: D. Rehakova & Jozef Michalik

Field Trip will start on August 19, 2017, at the conference site, at the meeting place in front of buildings UZA1 (biology) and UZA2, Althanstraße 14, 1090 Vienna, near tram station Althanstraße of tram line D. Departure time is 7:30 in the morning.

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FULLY BOOKED - PRE-3: Cretaceous Building Stones of Vienna (1/2 day city walk)

Date: August 20, 2017 (starting at 13:00)

Route: Natural History Museum - Vienna city area

Guide: H. Summesberger

Field Trip will start on August 20, 2017, in front of the Natural History Museum, Burgring 7, at the main entrance Maria-Theresien-Platz, 1010 Vienna.

PRE-4 Dinosaurs and Santonian continental sediments, Iharkút, Hungary (1 day bus excursion) - TOUR CANCELLED (update 2017/05/18)

POST-1: Upper Cretaceous of the Bohemian Cretaceous Basin, Czech Republic (3 days bus excursion) - TOUR CANCELLED (update 2017/05/18)

POST-2: Shallow-water Cretaceous, carbonate platforms - TOUR CANCELLED

POST-3: Eustasy and sea-level changes in the footsteps of Eduard Suess

This (historically inspired) field trip will follow the famous Austrian geologist Eduard Suess, (theory and definition of ‘eustasy’ by Eduard Suess, 1888, ‘Eustatische Bewegungen’) to exhibitions and outcrops of Cretaceous and Cenozoic sediments around the picturesque town of Eggenburg (Lower Austria, ca. 70km NW of Vienna).

Date: August 25, 2017

Route: Vienna - Eggenburg - Vienna

Guides: F. Steininger, B. Sames

Field Trip will start on August 25, 2017, at the conference site, at the meeting place in front of buildings UZA1 (biology) and UZA2, Althanstraße 14, 1090 Vienna, near tram station Althanstraße of tram line D. Departure time is 8:00 in the morning.

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