Professor
Stanislav Opluštil
Curriculum Vitae
After graduating in 1987 from the Department of
Geology & Mineral Resources of Charles University in Prague
I worked as a mining geologist at the Slaný Coal Mine near
Kladno. In 1990 I was invited to return to Charles University as
part of their Coal Geology Research Group, and am now an associate
professor and Vice-Head of the Institute of Geology and Palaeontology.
I specialise in the genesis of coal-bearing strata, basin stratigraphy
and palaeogeography, coal petrography, palaeobotany and palaeoecology
of the Late Palaeozoic terrestrial ecosystems. In particular I have
been investigating the upland intra-montane basins of central Europe
in an attempt to determine their palaeogeogeography, including their
elevation above sea level at the time of deposition. I have collaborated
with Jiri Bek on in situ spores found in fructifications of lycospids,
sphenopsids and ferns, with the aim of improving their use for palaeovegetation
studies. Recently, I have been a participant in the resaearch programme
looking at the middle Westphalian in situ coal swamp vegetation
preserved in ash deposits within the Radnice Coal (as deposits known
as the Whetstone Horizon).
I have participated in many domestic and several international
grant projects including the IGCP 469 and IGCP 575. Recently I have
become a member of the editorial board of the International Journal
of Coal Geology.
Selected Recent Papers
Bek, J. & Opluštil, S. 1998. Some lycopsid, sphenopsid
and pteropsid fructifications and their miospores from the Upper
Carboniferous basins of the Bohemian Massif. Palaeontographica,
Abteilung B, 248, 127-161.
Bek, J. & Opluštil, S. 2004. Palaeoecological constraints
of some Lepidostrobus cones and their parent plants from the Late
Palaeozoic continental basins of the Czech Republic. Review of Palaeobotany
and Palynology, 131, 49-89.
Drábková, J., Bek, J. & Opluštil, S. 2004.
The first compression fossils of Spencerites (Scott) emend., and
its isospores, from the Bolsovian (Pennsylvanian) of the Kladno-Rakovník
basins, Czech Republic. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, 130,
59-88.
Opluštil, S. 2005. Evolution of the Middle Westphalian river
valley drainage system in central Bohemia (Czech Republic) and its
palaeogeographic implication. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology,
Palaeoecology, 222, 223-258.
Opluštil, S. & Bek, J. 2009. Some Pennsylvanian arborescent
lycopsid cones and their microspores from the British coalfields.
Bulletin of Geosciences, 84, 203-225.
Opluštil, S. & Drábková, J.. 2009. A new
bisporangiate lycopsid cone genus Thomasostrobus gen. nov. from
the Late Pennsylvanian of the Intra-Sudetic Basin (Czech Republic).
Bulletin of Geosciences, 84, 283-300.
Opluštil, S., Martínek, K. & Tasáryová,
Z. 2005. Facies and architectural analysis of fluvial deposits of
the Nýøany Member and the Týnec Formation (Westphalian
D - Barruelian) in the Kladno-Rakovník and Pilsen basins.
Bulletin of Geosciences, 80, 45-66.
Opluštil, S., Sýkorová, I. & Bek, J. 1999.
Sedimentology, coal petrography and palynology of the Radnice Member
in the S-E part of the Kladno-Rakovník Basin, Central Bohemia.
Acta Universitatis Carolinae - Geologica, 43, 599-623.
Pešek, J., Opluštil, S., Kumpera, O., Holub, V., Skocek,
V., Dvorák, J., Prouza, V. & Tásler, R. 1998.
Paleogeographic atlas Late Paleozoic and Triassic formations Czech
Republic. Czech Geological Survey, Prague, 53 pp, 41 appendices.
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