Continental Tectonics Group

prof. RNDr. Jiří Žák, Ph.D.

Professor, Group leader, Vice Dean for Geology at CUNI

Research interest

Physical Geology, Tectonics, Magmatic Processes, Rock Magnetism, Detrital zircon geochronology

Selected Publications

Žák J, Svojtka M, Gerdjikov I, Kounov A, Vangelov DA (2022) The Balkan terranes: a missing link between the eastern and western segments of the Avalonian–Cadomian orogenic belt? International Geology Review in press

Žák J, Tomek F, Svojtka M, Vacek F, Kachlík V, Ackerman L, Ježek J, Petronis MS (2021) Distributed crustal shortening followed by transpressional shearing in the Superior Province, northeastern Canada: a Late Archean analogy to modern accretionary plate margins? Precambrian Research 362: 106322

Žák J, Svojtka M, Hajná J, Ackerman L (2020) Detrital zircon geochronology and processes in accretionary wedges Earth-Science Reviews 207: 103214

Teaching

Physical geology I MG421P00
Introduction to Physical Geology MG421P31
Field course of geology MG420T06
Plutons, volcanoes, and orogeny through time MG420P10
Geologic field trips MG421T04

Mgr. Filip Tomek, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor, Head of Laboratory of Rock Magnetism

Research interest

Rock Magnetism, Volcanology, Tectonics

Selected Publications

Tomek F, Opluštil S, Svojtka M, Špillar V, Rapprich V, Míková J (2022) Altenberg–Teplice Caldera sourced Westphalian fall tuffs in the central and western Bohemian Carboniferous basins (eastern Variscan belt) International Geology Review 64: 441-468

Žák J, Tomek F, Svojtka M, Vacek F, Kachlík V, Ackerman L, Ježek J, Petronis MS (2021) Distributed crustal shortening followed by transpressional shearing in the Superior Province, northeastern Canada: a Late Archean analogy to modern accretionary plate margins? Precambrian Research 362: 106322

Tomek F, Žák J, Svojtka M, Finger F, Waitzinger M (2019) Emplacement dynamics of syn-collapse ring dikes: an example from the Altenberg–Teplice caldera, Bohemian Massif Geological Society of America Bulletin 131: 997–1016

Teaching

Laboratory course in physical geology I MG421C21A
Laboratory course in physical geology II MG421C21B
Rock magnetism in practice MG420P11
Journal Club of the Institute of Geology and Paleontology MG420P09
Fundamentals of geology for geographers MG421P09Z
Field course in Physical Geology MG421T02G

doc. RNDr. Václav Kachlík, CSc

Associate Professor

Research interest

Stratigraphy, Geochemistry, Geochronology, Tectonics

Selected Publications

Ackerman K, Žák J, Kachlík V, Pašava J, Žák K, Pack A, Veselovský F, Strnad L (2022) The significance of cherts as markers of Ocean Plate Stratigraphy and paleoenvironmental conditions: New insights from the Neoproterozoic–Cambrian Blovice accretionary wedge, Bohemian Massif. Geoscience Frontiers 14: 101478

Ackerman K, Žák J, Kachlík V, Svojtka M, Tomek F, Santolík V, Sláma J, Trubač J, Strnad L, Vacek F (2022) The diversity of sources of late Archean granites reflects a transition from plume-dominated to plate tectonics in the Superior Province, Canada. Precambrian Research 370: 106525

Žák J, Tomek F, Svojtka M, Vacek F, Kachlík V, Ackerman L, Ježek J, Petronis MS (2021) Distributed crustal shortening followed by transpressional shearing in the Superior Province, northeastern Canada: a Late Archean analogy to modern accretionary plate margins? Precambrian Research 362: 106322

Teaching

Field Training Course of Geological mapping MG421T10
Field Course from the Regional Geology MG421T24E
Regional Geology of the Czech Republic I MG421P07
Regional Geology MG421P08
Natural disasters MG421P21
Landscape assesment from the point of view of geosciences MDPS047

RNDr. František Vacek, Ph.D.

Senior Researcher

Research interest

Sedimentary Geology, Carbonate Petrology, Tectonics

Selected Publications

Roberts NMW, Žák J, Vacek F, Sláma J (2021) No more blind dates with calcite: fluid-flow vs fault-slip along the Očkov thrust, Prague Basin Geoscience Frontiers 12: 101143

Žák J, Tomek F, Svojtka M, Vacek F, Kachlík V, Ackerman L, Ježek J, Petronis MS (2021) Distributed crustal shortening followed by transpressional shearing in the Superior Province, northeastern Canada: a Late Archean analogy to modern accretionary plate margins? Precambrian Research 362: 106322

Vacek F, Žák J (2019) A lifetime of the Variscan orogenic plateau from uplift to collapse as recorded by the Prague Basin, Bohemian Massif Geological Magazine 156: 485–509

M.Sc. Reza Syahputra

Ph.D. student

Research interest

Sedimentology, Geophysics, Tectonics

Selected Publications

Žák J, Sláma J, Syahputra R, Nance RD (2023) Dynamics of Cambro–Ordovician rifting of the northern margin of Gondwana as revealed by the timing of subsidence and magmatism in rift-related basins International Geology Review (in press)

Syahputra R, Žák J, Nance RD (2022) Cambrian sedimentary basins of northern Gondwana as geodynamic markers of incipient opening of the Rheic Ocean Gondwana Research 105: 492–513

Mgr. Irena Olšanská

Ph.D. student

Research interest

Volcano-plutonic Systems, Rock Magnetism

Mgr. Petr Vitouš

Ph.D. student

Research interest

Volcano-plutonic Systems, Rock Magnetism

Selected Publications

Vitouš P, Tomek F, Petronis MS (2022) Magnetic fabrics of rhyolite ignimbrites reveal complex emplacement dynamics of pyroclastic density currents, an example from the Altenberg–Teplice Caldera, Bohemian Massif Bulletin of Volcanology, 84, 75

Tatiana Tkáčiková

Undergraduate student

Research interest

Experimental Tectonics

Jakub Ptáček

Undergraduate student

Research interest

Volcanology

Marek Rosol

Undergraduate student

Research interest

Brittle tectonics

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