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Abstract
Abstract. Based on the vectorization of the 55-volume book series the Quarry Inventories of the Czechoslovak Republic/Czechoslovak Socialist Republic, published in the years 1932–1961, a new comprehensive database was built comprising 9958 surface mining sites of raw materials, which were active in the first half of the 20th century. The mapped area covers 40.9 % of the territory of the Czech Republic. For the purposes of visualization, a map application, the Quarry Inventories Online, was created that enables the data visualization.
Highlights
The sites of former surface winning of mineral raw materials mirror a notable part of the heritage of every nation
The project of vectorization of the surface mining sites, rising from the collection of volumes of the Quarry Inventories of the Czechoslovak Republic/Czechoslovak Socialist Republic, maps the condition of objects which were active in the first half of the 20th century mainly
Its scope in time is deeper than other similar projects in the Czech Republic – such as “Stones, Sandpits and Limestone quarries in the Czech Republic”, mapping the currently quarried raw materials sources used especially for renewal of www.geosci-instrum-method-data-syst.net/5/143/2016/
Summary
The sites of former surface winning of mineral raw materials mirror a notable part of the heritage of every nation They provide an overview of cultural, economic, and industrial history; they enable the study of architecture and arts; they reflect development and maturity of technologies; and they can serve the geoscientific education of the important sites of national geoheritage (Petersen, 2002; López-García et al, 2011). They represent remarkable objects from the point of view of landscape ecology (Raška et al, 2011). Small quarries in towns or villages used to be left for natural succession, and nowadays they represent important refugia increasing the biological diversity
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