XV ALL-UKRAINIAN SCIENTIFIC CONFERENCE “PROBLEMS OF GEOLOGY OF UKRAINE” AT THE IVAN FRANKO NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF LVIV

Abstract

The article describes the work of the XV All-Ukrainian Scientific Conference Problems of Geology of Ukraine, which is dedicated to the centenary of the establishment and activity of the Department of General and Historical Geology and Palaeontology at Ivan Franko National University of Lviv and the University Day. In October 2010, on the initiative of the then Head of the Department of Historical Geology and Paleontology, Professor Roman Leshchukh, the first conference was held by the department's staff. The co-organizer of the conference was the Ukrainian Paleontological Society, then headed by its president, Academician Petro Gozhyk (Institute of Geological Sciences of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kyiv). Every year, the results of the conference are covered in a collection of scientific papers that reveal problematic issues of geology, the current state and prospects for the development of geological research in Ukraine. The conference covers a wide range of topical issues of paleontology and stratigraphy, regional geology and tectonics, oil and gas geology, mineralogy and petrography, mineral geology, engineering geology, hydrogeology, geotourism, environmental issues and other scientific areas of geological research. The conference is annually attended by scientists from various geological production and educational institutions from all regions of Ukraine. Due to the challenges of today, this year’s conference was held in a mixed format: in-person and remote. And traditionally, every year, the conference includes interesting excursions along geological routes to get acquainted with the Mesocene deposits in Kartaty, Zakarpattia, Volyn-Podillya, Roztochya, and geological trips in Lviv and its surroundings.