The Anina (Steierdorf) coal mining district in Banat (Romania) on some old geological maps (1850–1884)

Abstract

The paper presents some old geological maps from the nineteenth century (1850-1884) related to the Anina (Steierdorf ) coal mining district -stored in the Library of the Geological Survey of Austria (Geologische Bundesanstalt): the manuscript map Steierdorf Banat (~1850); Spezialkarte des mittleren Theiles des Banater Gebirgszuges (1857); Banater Domäne: enthaltend den vormaligen k. k. aerarischen Montan-Complex nebst den Staats.Herrschaften Oravicza und Bokschan: Geognostische Karte (1860); Geologische Karte von Steierdorf im Banat (1867[?]);Geognostische Übersichtskarte des Kohlenbergbau Terrains von Steierdorf (1872[?]).The aim of this study is on the one hand, to offer a brief survey on the historical cartographic overview of the maps with special respect to the geological mapping activity concerning Anina (Steierdorf ) region (or in a wider sense, the Banat Mountains) in the midnineteenth century.On the other hand, the paper summarizes the cartographic analysis of the maps, which has been made using MapAnalyst software application in order to test their cartographic accuracy, as well as to make possible (or easier) the geo-referencing process.This analysis, together with the study of the geological content of the maps is necessary when the goal is to test their reliability for the present researches.We have distinguished two phases in the geological mapping of the Anina (Steierdorf ) rd nd region before the 3 Military Survey (1884).The first phase contains the maps plotted before the 2 Military Survey (1864), which nd represent a larger area on an approximate scale of 1:100,000.The second phase contains the maps compiled between the 2 and rd 1)*) 1) 2)

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