Institute of Geonics CAS

The mission of the Institute is defined as scientific research of Earth crust materials and processes and their effects on the environment. Research activities are aimed predominantly at the field of processes induced by human activities in the Earth's crust. The main topics of the Institute's research can be defined as follows: the structure and properties of materials in the upper part of the Earth's crust including anthropogenic sediments; physical laws and mechanisms of (human) induced processes in rock masses; methods and instruments used for both laboratory and field research of induced processes; mathematical methods and their application in computer simulation of processes in rock masses; unconventional methods of exploitation of the Earth's crust (geotechnologies, disintegration, properties influencing rock mass, special methods of waste material deposition); geography of the environment.