Workshop & IGCP 469 Central European Meeting “FREIBERG 2004” Dept. of Palaeontology, Geological Institute, Freiberg University October, 9 - 11, 2004 _______________________________________________________________ "Environmental reconstruction and stratigraphy in the Palaeozoic" workshop in honour of the 125th obit of Bernhard von Cotta & "Late Westphalian terrestrial biotas and palaeoenvironments of the Variscan foreland and adjacent intramontane basins" 2004 Central European Meeting of IGCP 469 ▬▬▬ October, 9 – 11, 2004 ▬▬▬ Workshop & IGCP 469 Central European Meeting “FREIBERG 2004” Dept. of Palaeontology, Geological Institute, Freiberg University October, 9 - 11, 2004 _______________________________________________________________ BERNHARD VON COTTA Bernhard von Cotta, the famous German geologist, was born in a foresters lodge near Eisenach, on the 24th of October 1808. He was educated at Dresden, Tharandt, Freiberg and Heidelberg. From 1842 till 1874 he held the professorship of geology at the Bergakademie Freiberg ("mining academy"). Botany at first attracted him, and he was one of the earliest to use the microscope in determining the structure of fossil plants. Later on he gave his attention to practical geology, to the study of ore-deposits, of rocks and metamorphism. He was regarded as an excellent teacher. His classification and description of rocks (a Treatise on Lithology which was translated by P.H. Lawrence in 1866) was the first comprehensive work on the subject issued in the English language, and it gave great impetus to the study of rocks in Britain. Bernhard von Cotta died at Freiberg on the 14th of September 1879. Workshop & IGCP 469 Central European Meeting “FREIBERG 2004” Dept. of Palaeontology, Geological Institute, Freiberg University October, 9 - 11, 2004 _______________________________________________________________ organiser Prof. Dr. J.W. Schneider & Dr. Olaf Elicki Department of Palaeontology Geological Institute Freiberg University Bernhard-von-Cotta street 2 09599 Freiberg Germany phone : + 49 (0) 3731 - 39 - 2856 fax : + 49 (0) 3731 - 39 - 3599 email : [email protected] [email protected] URL : http://www.geo.tu-freiberg.de/palaeo/ Dr. Christopher Cleal Department Biosyb National Museums & Galleries of Wales Cardiff CF10 3NP United Kingdom phone : + 44 (0) 2920 573310 fax : + 44 (0) 2920 239829 email : [email protected] Dr. Stanislav Opluštil Faculty of Science Charles University Albertov 6 128 43 Praha Czech Republic phone : + 42 (0) 22195 1502 fax : + 42 (0) 2291 425 email : [email protected] Workshop & IGCP 469 Central European Meeting “FREIBERG 2004” Dept. of Palaeontology, Geological Institute, Freiberg University October, 9 - 11, 2004 __________________________________________________________________________ contents Welcome at Freiberg University ! ................. 1 List of participants ................. 2 Meeting schedule ................. 4 abstracts: Bek, J.: Carboniferous sphenophyllalean spores and their parent plants ................. 9 Cassinis, G. & Santi, G.: Westphalian to Triassic continental deposits between the Como and Maggiore lakes, Italy/Switzerland, and regional implications: an overview ................. 10 Cleal, C.J.: The Westphalian macrofloral record from the cratonic Central Pennines Basin, UK ................. 12 Dimitrova, T., Cleal, C.J. & Thomas, B.A.: Palynology of late Westphalian – early Stephanian coal-bearing deposits in the eastern South Wales Coalfield ................. 13 Doktor, M., Gradziński, R., Gmu, D. & Kędzior, A.: Sedimentary environments and changes of peat-forming conditions during deposition of the Kraków Sandstone Series, Upper Silesia Coal Basin, Poland ................. 14 Drábková, J.: Palynological assemblages from Radčice locality near Plzeň (Cantabrian, Nýřany Member, Plzeň Basin, Bohemian Massif) ................. 16 Evans, B.G.: Geoparks, coalfields and South Wales: a sustainable sombination? ................. 17 Jarzembowski, E.: Animal/animal interaction in the Late Carboniferous ................. 18 Kiersnowski, H., Maliszewska, A. & Jackowicz,E.: Advances in Rotliegend rocks stratigraphy, palaeogeography and petrology within the Brandenburg-Wolsztyn High and its vicinity (W-Poland Variscan Externides) ................. 20 Libertin, M.: Autecology of Calamites preserved in tuff (Czech Republic, Bolsovian) ................. 22 Lozovsky, V.: Paramount biological event inside of Permian ................. 23 McLean, D.: A review of late Westphalian palynological datasets from northwestern European basins ................. 25 Menning, M., Alekseev, A., Chuvashov, B.I., Davydov, V.I., Forke, H.C., Heckel, P.H., Jin, Y.G., Jones, P.J., Kozur, H., Nemyrovska, T.I., Schneider, J.W., Weddige, K., & Weyer, D.: Devonian-Carboniferous-Permian correlation chart 2003 (DCP 2003) ................. 27 Oliwkiewicz-Miklašinska, M.: Record of plant communities in peat and surrounding areas on the base of palynological analysis (examples from coal-bearing succession in Upper Silesia Coal Basin) ................. 28 Opluštil, S.: Lepidodendraceae of the Late Paleozoic continental basins of the Czech Republic ................. 29 Paul, J.: Stratigraphy and facies analysis of the Naab Basin (Permo-Carboniferous, E-Bavaria, Germany) ................. 30 1 Workshop & IGCP 469 Central European Meeting “FREIBERG 2004” Dept. of Palaeontology, Geological Institute, Freiberg University October, 9 - 11, 2004 __________________________________________________________________________ Pešek, J. & Sýkorová, I.: Significance of clastic dykes and coal clasts for timing of organic matter coalification ................. 32 Popa, M.E.: Carboniferous megafloras from Romania ................. 34 Pšenicka, J., Bek, J. & Opluštil, S.: Carboniferous ferns from the tuff horizon, Kladno Formation (Bolsovian), Czech Republic ................. 36 Süß, H. & Schultka, S.: Fusain from Upper Jurassic marine influenced sediments in Tanzania ................. 37 Šimůnek, Z.: Palaeobotanical research in the Carboniferous and Permian horizons of the Boskovice Furrow ................. 38 Štamberg, S.: Lower Permian actinopterygian fishes and their occurrence in the fossiliferous horizons of the Boskovice Graben ................. 39 Tenchov, Y.: Early Westphalian sediments of Dobrudzha Coal Field (NE Bulgaria) – stratigraphy, depositional conditions, interpretation ................. 40 Thomas, B.: A re-examination of some Upper Carboniferous herbaceous lycophytes from the Westphalian of the Zwickau coalfield, Germany ................. 41 Tröger, K.-A.& Walter, H.: The significance of Bernhard von Cotta for the development of the geological sciences ................. 43 van Waveren, I.M., Hasibuan, F., Booi, M., Boer, P.L., Chaney, D., Konijnenburg J.H.A. & Wagner, R.H.: First results from the 2004 expedition to the lower Permian of Sumatra: are the different plant associations from the Mengkarang Formation related to differences in lithofacies? ................. 45 workshop handouts: Gaitzsch, B. & Schneider, J. W.: Lower Carboniferous paralic to peri-montaneous palustine and fluvial environments ................. 47 Schneider, J.W., Walter, H. & Tschernay, P.: Lower Permian volcanic influenced lacustrine biota from the NW Saxony Volcanite Complex ................. 56 Schneider, J.W., Kaulfuß, U. & Fischer, J.: Autunian fluvial to lacustrine facies from the Massif Central (France) ................. 60 Legler, B., Schneider, J.W., Gand, G. & Körner, F.: Playa and sabkha environments from Northern Germany and Southern France ................. 64 excursion guide: Schneider, J.W.: "Permocarboniferous of the Erzgebirge basin" ................. 84 2 Workshop & IGCP 469 Central European Meeting “FREIBERG 2004” Dept. of Palaeontology, Geological Institute, Freiberg University October, 9 - 11, 2004 __________________________________________________________________________ Welcome at Freiberg University ! Dear participants, we are very delighted to welcome you at the Geological Institute of the Freiberg University. The intension of this scientific meeting is to follow the thread of our international workshops on the Rotliegend in 1997 and on the Upper Carboniferous and early Triassic in 2002. So, we are looking forward to new ideas and interesting discussions during the three next days. This time, there is a very fortunate combination of an international workshop in honour of the 25th obit of Bernhard von Cotta: “Environmental reconstruction and stratigraphy in the Palaeozoic”, and the IGCP 469 Central European Meeting on: “Late Westphalian terrestrial biotas and palaeoenvironments of the Variscan foreland and adjacent intramontane basins”. The broad range of scientific topics in the numerous oral and poster presentations is fully in the sense of Cotta, who has done his phd on silicified woods from the Rotliegend, who has further worked on field mapping projects in Saxony and Thuringia, who has documented many drillings and who has evaluated the coal deposits in Saxony as a competent expert. Furthermore, Cotta was interested in palaeobotany, in the distribution of species through time and in the reconstruction of the global climate history. This broad range is the idea of our meeting, too: from local observation to regional conclusions and global processes. So, we wish interesting sessions, a successful excursion and a very pleasant stay at the Geological Institute of the world’s oldest montanous university Bergakademie and at our nice mediaeval silver-mining