News

This will be the twentieth time the Stone Exhibition and DOM i OGRÓD i TY [Gardening Expo] will host the conference organized by the Świętokrzyskie Division of thr Polish Geological Institute. The conference is open to all those who find this year's theme interesting.

Programme

11:00 – 11:10 The conference opening  Sylwester Salwa PhD, the director of the Świętokrzyskie Division of the Polish Geological Institute -PIB in Kielce

11:10 - 12:50 Presentations

•  Glacial erratics in WielkopolskaMaria Górska-Zabielska PhD. Hab, Associate Professor at Jan Kochanowski University in Kielce, Poland
•  Podole's miocene rock materials (Ukrainian part of the Carpathian Foredeep)
   Marek Jasionowski (Polish Geological Institute -PIB), Andrei Pobereżski, Oksana Stupka (National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Lviv),  Janina Wiszniewska (Polish Geological Institute-PIB)
•  Utilisation of Podolia alabaster in architectural objects in Lviv, Krakow and Warsaw
   Janina Wiszniewska PhD Hab
•  Volyn rock materials in the urban architecture of the Second Republic of Poland
    Janina Wiszniewska PhD, Elżbieta Tołkanowicz MA (Polish Geological Institute-PIB)
•  Water reservoirs in the quarries as a new landscape element
   Professor Elizabeth Pietrzyk-Sokulska PhD Hab. Polish Academy of Sciences PAN (The Mineral and Energy Economy Research Institute of PAN Kraków)

12:50-13:05 Break

13:05 - 14:25 Presentations

•  Rock minerals from Polish deposits in the context of railway aggregate production
    Barbara Radwanek-Bak PhD Hab, Professor of  PIG-PIB (Polish Geological Institute-PIB)
•  Rock materials within Łysa Góra Monastery - educational and aesthetic values
   Zbigniew Szczepanik PhD (Polish Geological Institute -PIB)
•  Mineral extraction traditions in Ponidzie region
    Jan Urban PhD (Institute of Nature Conservation, PAN Kraków)
•  Post-mining land utilisation trends exemplified with selected geosites of Chęcińskie Hills  - current status and prospects
   Grzegorz Pabian MA (Jan Kochanowski University, Kielce)

14:25 - 14:40 Discussion and the conference conclusion