A.Djanelidze Institute of Geology

Georgian Academy of Sciences

Address:

Geological Institute of Georgian Academy of Sciences,
Tbilisi- 380093,
st. M.Aleksidze 1, b.9.
Phone 293941, 940234, 335109.
E-mail: [email protected], [email protected]

Founded on December 25, 1925. Within the Georgian Academy of Sciences from the foundation of the latter (1941).

Scientific fields: regional geology, tectonics and seismotectonics, stratigraphy and paleontology, petrology, mineralogy, geochemistry, geology of mineral deposits, sedimentology, volcanology, minerageny, isotopic geochronology.

Director: corresponding member of Georgian Academy of Sciences, Professor Mirian Topchishvili (stratigraphy-paleontology).

Members of Academy: Academican Irakli Gamkrelidze;
Coresponding members: Mirian Topchishvili, David Shengelia;
Doctors of Sciences - 18
Candidates of Sciences -54

Scientific contacts and joint projects with foreign countries have not get established.

Institute’s periodical proceedings- Akhali seria (New series). Up to 1998 - 108 issues have been published.

Institute has 6 departments, 12 sectors, 4 large laboratories- chemical, physical crystallography, and also one scientific - research base. Institute carries out scientific research in nearly all fields of geology within the territory of Georgia. Among them ore works of significant scientific importance. All these works are kept in the Institute’s library.

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