The lecture tells a story of global environmental change more than 300 million years ago. The supercontinent Pangaea had emerged and terrestrial life was confronted with an extraordinary geological constellation. Using fossil plants and the rock strata embedding them, the audience is taken on a search for traces of the cause and effect of a climate change at the end of the Palaeozoic era, which culminated in what was probably the largest mass extinction in the history of the Earth.

Dr. Ludwig Luthardt
Wissenschaftliche Sammlungsleitung Paläobotanik / Scientific Head of Paleobotany collection

The Freiberg Colloquium is a series of lectures by the Saxon State Office for the Environment, Agriculture and Geology, the Saxon State Archives/Bergarchiv Freiberg, the Saxon Upper Mining Office, the TU Bergakademie Freiberg, the Helmholtz Institute for Resource Research, terra mineralia and the Geocompetence Centre Freiberg e.V.

Location: TU Bergakademie Freiberg, Dietrich-von-Freiberg-Bau, Prüferstraße 4 in Freiberg.

Admission is free of charge

The lecture can also be listened to via livestream.