Excursion

During the EGU General Assembly 2006, on Thursday, 6 April 2006,  Mathias Harzhauser, Michael Wagreich and Werner E. Piller will organize an excursion entitled: "Vienna Basin Excursion".

Please note that this excursion is fully booked (24 February 2006)!

Vienna Basin Excursion

Programme: Thursday, 6 April 2006
12:45Meeting at the Main Entrance
13:00Departure from the Congress Center
14:00Vienna Basin Geology – Introduction at Steinberg
Stop at the largest fault zone in Central Europe
15:00Stop 1: Nexing, Lower Austria
A Sarmatian Flood-Tidal Delta and its Internal Structure on a Middle Miocene Oolite-Shoal
16:00Stop 2: Maustrenk, Lower Austria
Sarmatian Bryozoan-Algal pools and Oolite shoals
17:00Visit a traditional wine cellar
20:00Return to the Congress Center

Organization and Contact

Mathias Harzhauser
Natural History Museum Vienna
Geological-Paleontological Department
Burgring 7
1010 Wien
Austria

mathias.harzhauser@nhm-wien.ac.at

Michael Wagreich
University of Vienna
Institut für Geologische Wissenschaften
UZA II – Althanstrasse 14
1090 Wien
Austria

michael.wagreich@univie.ac.at

Werner E. Piller
University of Graz
Institute for Geology and Paleontology
Heinrichstrasse 26
8010 Graz
Austria

werner.piller@uni-graz.at