Federal Geological Office

The Geological Survey of Austria ( GBA) in Vienna ( 3rd district ), the Geological Survey of Austria. As one of the Federal Ministry for Science and Research ( BMWF) subordinate agency serves the Federal Republic and its government functions as a central information and counseling center in the Department of Geosciences.

The most important product of the GBA are geological maps. They appear in different scales as so-called sheet cut cards, in special cases, as area maps. They form the basis for answering many practice-related issues ( rocks and tectonics, deposits of mineral raw materials, sediments, landfills, hydrogeology and water supply, special roads, ...) and also for research. The JCC is located in the district of Wien- Landstraße.

History

The origins of the GBA back to the Museum of Mining, which was founded in 1835 at the Haymarket in Vienna and served among other things as a collection of minerals, rocks and ore samples and as a college for graduates of the mining academies. In 1840 Wilhelm Karl Ritter von Haidinger the director of the museum, the 1847 was responsible for creating the first geognostical map of the Austrian Empire. By Haidinger geology became more important and so the independent imperial- royal geological Reichsanstalt ( GRA ) was in the episode on November 15, 1849 by Emperor Franz Joseph founded with Haidinger as its first director. The institution was located from its founding until 2005 at the Palais Rasumofsky in Rasumofskygasse. [Note 1] In February 2005, she moved into the Neulinggasse 38, next to the S1- speed rail line, which runs path on the former Wiener Neustadt Canal. The buildings are a synthesis of adapted buildings of the former Veterinary University of Vienna and a new building (architect Stefan Hübner ).

Legal foundations

The most important legal basis for the Geological Survey of Austria ( GBA) is the Austrian Research Organization Act (FOG ), which lists the essential tasks. Further information relevant to the activities of the JCC statutory provisions are contained in the Federal Act on research by the federal territory according usable minerals ( deposit law ) and included in the Mineral Resources Act.

The partial legal capacity allows the designs of projects on private-sector basis. Focus of the project-oriented work are issues from the field of applied geosciences, in particular for the mineral raw materials.

In the border areas, the GBA cooperates with geological surveys of the neighboring countries ( Germany, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Slovenia and Hungary). Furthermore, there are agreements with the Geological Surveys of Poland and Croatia.

Organizational form

The management of the GBA is performed by the Director; by his side is the " Office of International Cooperation and Public Relations". The further subdivision is based on departments ( Geological Mapping, Applied Geosciences, information services ) these are divided into more specialized departments, which take over the operational implementation of the tasks. Thematic priorities exist in the fields of geology ( sedimentary geology and crystallization Geology ), palaeontology, geochemistry, geophysics, hydrogeology, engineering geology and resource geology. The production Geological maps only by means of geographical information systems (GIS ), the distribution of the Geological maps and publications ( Yearbook of Geological Survey, Archives of Mineral Resources of the Geological Survey, Proceedings of the Geological Survey, etc. ) is done via its own publishing house.

Services

The core function of GBA is the creation, analysis and publication of geological maps and other spatial data.

  • The standard map series of the GBA is the Geological Map of the Republic of Austria ( GÖK ) 1:50 000 (some 1:25 000 ). It corresponds in the leaf section of the official topographic map Austrian ( ÖK ) 1:50 000 of the Federal Office of Metrology and Surveying.
  • In addition, the Geological Overview of the Austrian provinces in scale 1:200 000, the Geological map of the Republic of Austria 1:2 000 000 and more general maps on larger scales (1:500 000, 1:1 million, 1:1.5 million. ) created. In addition, the Provisional geological maps ( GEOF @ ST) to be 1:50 000 published inventories of various older geological country recordings that do not yet meet the modern criteria of the scheme and legend excretion of GÖK, but should be made available anyway.
  • More geoscientific maps are the base card in advance of the Alps 1:20 000, the metallogenic map 1:500 000, the Bergbau-/Haldenkataster 1:25 000 ( 1:5000 ) (in collaboration with the department of raw materials geology), the Geochemical Atlas of Austria 1:1 000 000 and 1:500 000 Hydrogeological Map of Austria
  • Important records relate to geological recordings and surveys on construction minerals and loose rock, measurements with Aeromagnetics, ground-based magnetics and geothermal ( with the department Geophysics ) and gamma-ray spectroscopy ( natural background ), further prospecting of oil and gas, measurements alpine mass movements.
  • For the GBA data include contributions to the Hydrological Atlas of Austria ( HAA ), in cooperation with the Ministry of Life) studies on the topic of thermal and mineral waters, the hydrochemical geogenic background value of various elements and compounds in the groundwater body ( GeoHint ), as well as the mapping of geological sites in Austria as natural monuments.

Publications are made available online on the GBA website, the archive dates back to the year 1919.

The second pillar is the library of the service facilities of the JCC. It is Austria's largest earth science library and manages more than 360,000 library units. Part of the library are also special collections ( collection of maps, Scientific Archive, Graphic Arts and Audiovisual Media ). It is the central collection and documentation center geoscientific literature on Austria and is of the general public.

Directors

Each with a duration of action than director

  • Wilhelm von Haidinger, 1849-1866 (founder )
  • Franz von Hauer, 1866-1885
  • Dionys Stur, 1885-1892
  • Emil Tietze, 1902-1919
  • Georg Geyer, 1919-1923
  • Wilhelm Hammer, 1924-1935
  • Otto Ampferer, 1935-1937
  • Gustav Götzinger, 1938 and 1945-1950
  • Heinrich Beck, acting director of the now Reich Office for Soil Research, Vienna Branch, 1938-1941
  • Franz Lotze, 1941-1945
  • Gustav Götzinger, 1945 to January 1950
  • Heinrich Küpper, 1950-1969
  • Anton Ruttner (1911-2006), Director of 1969-1973
  • Felix Ronner (1922-1982), 1974-1982
  • Erich Traugott Gattinger (1922-2006), Director of 1983-1993
  • Hans Peter Schönlaub, 1993-2009
  • Peter Seifert, from 2009
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