Travels to the Rheic Ocean
photography series, book
2019 – ongoing
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photography series, book
2019 – ongoing
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In 2019 I spent several months exploring the rolling hills, quarries, and rock formations of the landscape of the Central Bohemian Region. It felt like a time travel and in fact it was – a travel to prehistory era.
Travels To the Rheic Ocean is a story about how fascinating it is to walk in the landscape of a landlocked country and find pieces of evidence that where we walk now, there used to be a sea floor full of life.
Travels To the Rheic Ocean is a story about how fascinating it is to walk in the landscape of a landlocked country and find pieces of evidence that where we walk now, there used to be a sea floor full of life.
About 400 million years ago, in the Paleozoic era, there used to be a Rheic ocean on the Planet Earth. The ocean was located between two continents – Euramerica
and Gondwana.
At that time, the area in the Czech Republic that is now called Český masiv used to be located close to the equator, in the tropics on the southern hemisphere. This area used to be a part of a warm, shelf sea which was directly a part of the Rheic ocean. Thanks to a good temperature and favorable conditions in general, the sea was full of underwater life. It had an immense volume of corals, trilobites, brachiopods, and many other organisms and plants.
and Gondwana.
At that time, the area in the Czech Republic that is now called Český masiv used to be located close to the equator, in the tropics on the southern hemisphere. This area used to be a part of a warm, shelf sea which was directly a part of the Rheic ocean. Thanks to a good temperature and favorable conditions in general, the sea was full of underwater life. It had an immense volume of corals, trilobites, brachiopods, and many other organisms and plants.