kreidefossilien.de • The Saxonian-Bohemian Cretaceous

Traditionally, the Saxonian and Bohemian Cretaceous Basins (SCB and BCB) are subject to a more or less "separated" research especially due to language and political barriers. A lot of the recently published literature about the SCB and BCB is written in english and now much more easy to use for most of the researches. Especially due to administrative aspects e.g. obtaining proper data differs for the political areas and in some cases is quite difficult. On some very basic level: Getting a proper, simplified (geological) map of all the Cretaceous sediments was quite a problem (for me). What I wanted was one map of the de facto ONE basin - Bohemo-Saxonian or Saxo-Bohemian Cretaceous Basin. I compiled a map with QGIS and freely accessible data of the BSCB (or SBCB) which extends over Germany, Poland and most of it over the Czech Republic .

In September 2019 the State Survey of Saxony (Germany) published a few of their datasets under a "Open-Data" license. Datasets like the satellite imagery (DOP) or the digital elevation models (DEM - German: Digitales Geländemodell DGM) are now available for free, without any charge and it seems with a proper license for even a commercial reuse. The DEM-datasets are offered in different resolutions and level of details, ranging from the DGM1, DGM2 up to DGM20. The latter one seems to be detailed enough to enhance a offline navigation app like OsmAnd+ for Smartphones, but not having troubles with file sizes of hundreds MB or even Gigabytes of data. Creating an enhanced hillshading layer with a tolerable file size was the aim of this small project.

During the last years the bibliography has grown up to over 1500 single entries. The main focus of this collection is the published (and unpublished) literature on geology and paleontology of the Saxonian-Bohemian Cretaceous. It contains monographs, articles in journals, excursion guides, conference abstracts and even PhD and diploma thesis for example. Since a couple of weeks there is the possibility to export this literature database to the *.bib file format (BiBTeX), which can be used with the most common software for data and literature management like Citavi, Endnote or JabRef.

Hans Schander, 1923. Die cenomane Transgression im mittleren Elbtalgebiet. Geologisches Archiv – Zeitschrift für die gesamte Geologie und deren Nachbargebiete (E. Kraus) Königsberg. II (2): 49–96.

List of digitized geoscientific Journals (mainly historical geology/palaeontology). At least one issue has been published before 1930 and is freely accessible (exceptions marked).