!!!Geologische Bundesanstalt, GBA

Geologische Bundesanstalt, GBA (Geological Survey), in the 3%%sup rd/% 
 district of Vienna (in Rasumofsky Palace), scientific institute 
subordinate to the  Ministry of Education, founded 1849 by W.  
Haidinger as the Imperial Geological Institute (Geologische 
Reichsanstalt). The G. B. was established to systematically 
explore the geology of the Austro-Hungarian empire; the oldest 
institution of its kind in Europe. Originated from the  Mining and 
Metallurgy Museum of the Imperial  Hofkammer for minting and mining. 
Its task is to research and document the geology of Austria. It was 
reorganised on the basis of the Research Organisation law 
(Forschungsorganisationsgesetzes 1981). In 2000 the G. B. A. 
housed Austria´s largest geoscientific library (300,000 vols., 
50,000 maps and other media) and geoscientific archives with 
collections of rocks, minerals and fossils from Austria and the former 
monarchy.

!Publications
geoscientific maps, almanac, essays, reports of the 
Archiv fuer Lagerstaettenforschung (research into mineral deposits), 
annual reports, bibliography of geoscientific literature on Austria.

!Literature
M. T. Laburda, Die ersten Jahrzehnte der Geologischen 
Reichsanstalt, doctoral thesis, Vienna 1951.


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