CURRICULUM VITAE (10/05/07) István Kovács Experimental Petrology Group Research School of Earth Sciences Australian National University, Canberra Mills Road, Blg 61, Canberra, ACT, 0200, Australia Tel. +61 02 6125 3416 E-mail: [email protected] Webpage: http://eotvos.elte.hu/~isaac/rooman.htm

DATE OF BIRTH: 4. April, 1980 PLACE OF BIRTH: Miskolc,

NATIONALITY: Hungarian

EDUCATION: M.Sc. in geology 2003, Eötvös University, Budapest, Hungary; Principal advisor: Csaba Szabó; Dissertation topic: Petrology and Geochemistry of Granulite Xenoliths from the Nógrád- Gömör Volcanic Field, (N-Hungary/S-Slovakia)

RESEARCH INTEREST: Water in nominally anhydrous minerals (NAMs), Water and mantle metasomatism, Evolution of the Subcontinental Lithosphere, Mantle Processes, Geodynamics of the Carpathian- Pannonian Region

POSITION: Ph.D. student Principal advisor: Hugh O`Neill; Jörg Hermann

PUBLICATIONS:

Scientific Papers:

Kovács I. , Bali, E., Kóthay, K., Szabó, Cs., Nédli, Zs. (2003):Petrogenetic significance of quartz and feldspar xenocrysts in basaltic rocks. Bulletin of the Hungarian Geological Society, 133, 394-42. (in Hungarian with Englih abstract)

Kovács, I., Zajacz, Z., Szabó, Cs. (2004): Type-II xenoliths and related metasomatism beneath the Nógrád-Gömör Volcanic Field (N-Hungary/S-Slovakia). Tectonophysics, 393, 139-161.

Szabó, Cs., Falus, Gy., Zajacz, Z., Kovács, I., Bali, E. (2004): Composition and evolution of lithosphere beneath the Carpathian-Pannonian Region: a review. Tectonophysics, 393, 119-137.

Kovács, I. & Szabó, Cs. (2005) Petrology and geochemistry of granulite xenoliths beneath the Nógrád-Gömör Volcanic Field, Carpathian-Pannonian Region (N- Hungary/S-Slovakia). Minerology and Petrology, 85, 3-4, 269-290.

Kovács, I. (2005) Origin of the South Australian heat flow anomaly. In: (eds.) Aikman, A., Lilly, K., Célérier, J., Kovács, I., and Estermann, G., An excursion guide to the Flinders Ranges, South Australia, Journal of the Virtual Explorer, Electronic Edition, ISSN 1441-8142, Volume 20, Paper 14.

Falus, Gy., Szabó, Cs., Kovács, I., Zajacz, Z. (2007) Symplectite in spinel lherzolite xenoliths from the , Western Hungary: a principle key for understanding basin evolution. Lithos, 90 (1-4), 230-247.

Kovács, I., Csontos, L., Szabó Cs., Falus, Gy., Bali, E., Benedek, K., Zajacz, Z. (2007) Paleogene-Early Miocene volcanic rocks and geodynamics of the Alpine-Carpathian- Pannonian-Dinaric region: an integrated approach, in Beccaluva, L., Bianchini, G., and Wilson, M., eds., Cenozoic Volcanism in the Mediterranean Area: Geological Society of America Special Paper 418, p. 93-112.

Hidas, K., Falus, Gy., Szabó, Cs., Szabó, J. P., Kovács, I., Földes, T. (2007) Geodynamic implications of flattened tabular equigranular textured peridotites from the - Balaton Highland Volcanic Field (western Hungary). Journal of Geodynamics, 43, 484-503

Zajacz, Z. , Kovács, I., Szabó, Cs., Werner, H., Pettke, T. (2007) Insights into the evolution of mafic alkaline melts crystallized in the uppermost lithospheric mantle of the Nógrád-Gömör Volcanic Filed (Northern Hungary): a melt inclusion study. Journal of Petrology, 48 (5), 853-883.

Kovács, I., Hidas, K., Hermann, J., Ntaflos, T., Sharygin, V., Szabó Cs. (2007) Fluid induced incipient melting in mantle xenoliths from the Minusinsk Region (Siberia, Russia) and some implications for the subcontinental lithospheric mantle. Geologica Carpathica, 58 (3), 211-228.

Papers in press, accepted for publication, submitted and in preparation:

Kovács. I., Szabó, Cs, (2007) Middle Miocene volcanism in the vicinity of the Middle Hungarian Line: evidence for an inherited enriched mantle source: a review (in press)

Sambridge, M., FitzGerald, J., Kovács, I., O’Neill, H. St. C., Hermann, J. (2007) Quantitative IR spectroscopy with unpolarized light, Part I: Mathematical development, American Mineralogist (accepted)

Kovács, I., Hermann, J., O’Neill, H. St. C., FitzGerald, J., Sambridge, M., Horváth, G., (2007) Quantitative IR spectroscopy with unpolarized light Part II: Empirical evidence and practical application (submitted), American Mineralogist (accepted)

Bali, E., Zajacz, Z., Kovács, I., Halter, W., Szabó, Cs., Vaselli, O., Török, K., Bodnar, R. J. (2007) Evidence for melting of subducted slab: quartz-bearing orthopyroxene-rich websterite xenolith from the Bakony – Balaton Highland Volcanic Field (western Hungary, Pannonian Basin). Journal of Petrology, (submitted)

Guzmics, T. Kodolányi, J., Kovács, I., Szabó, Cs., Bali, E., Ntaflos, T. (2007) Apatite- and K feldspar-hosted primary carbonatite melt inclusions in clinopyroxene-rich mantle xenoliths from lamprophyres, Hungary: implications for generation and evolution of carbonatite melts in the Earth’s mantle. Mineralogy and Petrology, (submitted)

Szabó, Cs., Hidas, K., Bali, E., Zajacz, Z., Kovács, I., Yang, K., Guzmics, T., Török, K., (2007) Mafic melt/peridotitic wall rock interaction as shown by silicate melt inclusions in upper mantle xenoliths from the central Pannonian Basin (western Hungary). Island Arc (submitted)

Popular science papers:

Kovács, I. & Szabó, Cs. (2003): Why exactly Vietnam? Bulletin of Sciences (Temészet Világa), 134, 218-221 (in Hungarian)

Kovács, I. & Szabó Cs. (2004) All over South Korea. Bulletin of Sciences (Temészet Világa), 135, 551-554 (in Hungarian)

Kovács, I. (2005) Memories of a cosmic impact event. Bulletin of Sciences (Temészet Világa), 136, 345-347 (in Hungarian)

Kovács, I., (2007) The importance if H2O in the Earth’s mantle. Life and Science (Élet és Tudomány). (in Hungarian)

Book sections:

Kovács, I. (2004) Geodynamical significance of granulite xenoliths beneath the Nógrád- Gömör Volcanic Field. Bulletin of the Pro Scientia Gold Medallist, 204-210 (in Hungarian)

Kovács, I., Falus, Gy., Bali, E., Benedek, K., Csontos, L., Zajacz, Z., Szabó, Cs. (2005) Paleogene geodynamics of the Carpathian Pannonian region in the light of the recent geological data. Bulletin of the Pro Scientia Gold Medallist, 158-163 (in Hungarian)

Edited and translated issues:

Aikman, A., Lilly, K., Célérier, J., Kovács, I. and Estermann, G. (in ed.) (2005) An excursion guide to the Flinders Ranges, South Australia, Journal of the Virtual Explorer (in progress)

Kaponya, Z. & Kovács, I. (in ed.) (2005) ADSUMUS III. Bulletin of the Eötvös Collegium. pp 230. (in Hungarian)

Participation in the translation of “Császár, G. (2002): Urgon formations in Hungary with special reference to the Eastern Alps, the Western Carpathians and the Apuseni Mountains. Geologica Hungarica, Series Geologica, 25:1-209, Budapest” into English

Manuscripts:

Zajacz, Z. & Kovács, I. (2000) Petrogenetic importance of sulfide blebs in cumulate xenoliths from Nógrád-Gömör Volcanic Field (Hungary). Department of Petrology and Geochemistry, Eötvös University, Budapest, pp: 43. (Thesis of the National Scientific Conference of Students, in Hungarian with English abstract)

Kovács, I. & Zajacz, Z. (2000) Petrographic and geochemical study of cumulate xenoliths from Nógrád-Gömör Volcanic Field (Hungary). Department of Petrology and Geochemistry, Eötvös University, Budapest, pp: 51. (Thesis of the National Scientific Conference of Students, in Hungarian with English abstract)

Benkó, Zs., Kovács, I., Prohászka, A. (2000) Sedimentology and petrology of Quaternary river gravels at the northern part of Sarret (/Hungary). Department of Palaeontology, Eötvös University, Budapest, pp: 51. (Thesis of the National Scientific Conference of Students, in Hungarian with English abstract)

Kovács, I. (2002) Petrogenetic significance of quartz and feldspar xenocrysts in basaltic rocks (Nógrád-Gömör Volcanic Field and Balaton-Highland/Hungary). Department of Petrology and Geochemistry, Eötvös University, Budapest, pp: 47. (Thesis of the National Scientific Conference of Students, in Hungarian with English abstract)

Gáspár, E., Zajacz, Z., Kovács, I., Pocsai, T., Benkó, Zs. (2002) Significant structural features of the West Gerecse Mountains (Hungary). Department of Physical and Historical Geology, Eötvös University, Budapest, pp: 42. (Thesis of the National Scientific Conference of Students, in Hungarian with English abstract)

Kovács, I. (2003) Petrology and Geochemistry of Granulite Xenoliths from the Nógrád- Gömör Volcanic Field (N-Hungary/S-Slovakia). MSc thesis. pp: 87 (in Hungarian with English abstract) AWARDS:

1/ Outstanding Student of the Faculty, Eötvös University, Budapest, 2001 2/ Stipendium of the Hungarian Republic in 2001/2002 3/ 2nd place at the National Scientific Conference of Students, 2001 4/ 3rd place at the National Scientific Conference of Students, 2001 5/ Outstanding Student of the Faculty, Eötvös University, Budapest, 2002 6/ Stipendium of the Hungarian Republic in 2002/2003 7/ 1st place at the 33rd Hungarian Young Earth Scientists Conference, 2002 8/ Outstanding Student of the Faculty, Eötvös University, Budapest, 2003 9/ 1st place at the 34th Hungarian Young Earth Scientists Conference, 2003 10/ 1st place at the National Scientific Conference of Students, 2003 11/ Portus Award of the Eötvös Collegium, Budapest, 2003 12/ Pro Scientia Gold Medal Award of the National Scientific Conference of Students, 2003 13/ 1st place at the 35th Hungarian Young Earth Scientists Conference, 2004 14/ Semsey Andor Award of the Hungarian Geological Society for the best publication by young scientist, 2005 15/ Szádeczky-Kardoss Elemér Award of the Hungarian Acedemy of Sciences, 2006

SCHOLARSHIPS:

1/ a 10-day fellowship (April 1-10, 2002) of the IGCP430 and UNESCO for delivering lectures at the workshop and participation in the subsequent fieldtrip, Ha Long Bay City, Vietnam 2/ a 10-day fellowship (September 1-14, 2002) for analysis with EPMA and LA-ICPMS provided by the EC Marie Curie Training Site, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Bristol 3/ visiting student for 14 days (July 30–August 14, 2003) at the Institute of Mineralogy and Petrology in Novosibirsk (Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences) supported by the Hungarian and Russian Academy of Sciences 4/ a 7-day fellowship (December 8-15, 2003) from the Foundation for the Korean-Hungarian Technological Cooperation, Hungarian and Korean Academy Sciences for delivering lectures and participation in the subsequent fieldtrip, Pusan National University 5/ a 5-day scholarship (July 20-25, 2004) of the ETH Zürich for performing LA-ICP-MS measurements on silicate melt inclusions in mantle xenoliths at Department of Mineral Resources and Isotope Geochemistry 6/ Ringwood International Postgraduate Research Scholarship (February, 2005 – ) from the RSES at the Australian National University, Canberra. 7/ Mervyn and Katalin Paterson Fellowship, from the RSES at the ANU for undertaking research work in a third country (November, 2006). TEACHING EXPERIENCE:

Semester Course Co-Lecturer Nr of hours 2002/2003, 2st semester M. Sc. course on ‘Ac 30 problems in the light the Earth history’ 2003/2004, 1st semester M. Sc. course on ‘Evolu as coordinator 30 dinamics in paleontologic record’ 2003/2004, 1st semester M.Sc. course Csaba Szabó 30 ‘Geochemistry-I’ Szabolcs Harangi 2003/2004, 2st semester M.Sc. course on ‘Chap 30 from the geolog evolution of Hungary’ 2003/2004, 2st semester M. Sc. course Csaba Szabó 30 ‘Geochemisty-II’ 2005/2006, 1 and Academic Mentor semester John XXIII College

SUPERVISING ACTIVITY:

Undergraduate students with geology major co-supervised with Csaba Szabó

Lehel Szász: Websterite vein from the Persany Mountain – Essay for the Transylvanian Scientific Conference of Students, pp. 37; 3rd place at the Scientific Conference of Students, organized by the University of Babes-Bolyai in Cluj (Romania), 2001 Károly Hidas: Melting processes in the mantle in the light of natural samples – Department of Petrology and Geochemistry, Eötvös University, 2004- Tibor Guzmics: Carbonate and silicate melt inclusions in mantle xenoliths from lamprophyre dikes, Department of Petrology and Geochemistry, Eötvös University, 2004-

Undergraduate student with geography major co-supervised with Dávid Karátson

Szabolcs Kósik: Volcanological constraints on the Zsivány-cliffs in the Visegrád Mountains. Department of Geography, Eötvös University, 2003-

AFFILIATIONS:

Hungarian Geological Society (1998-) Society of Economic Geologist (2002-2003) Society of Pro Scientia Gold Medalist (2003-) Mineralogical Society of America (2006-) American Geophysical Union (2006-)

LANGUAGE SKILLS:

Hungarian – mother tongue English – fluent (TOEFL: 250 points) Latin - elementary

HUNGARIAN CONFERENCES (presented lectures and posters in Hungarian also as a co- author):

1/ Scientific Conference of Students held at the Faculty of Science, Eötvös University, 2000 2/ 32th Hungarian Young Earth Scientists Conference. Organized by the Hungarian Geological Society and the Hungarian Geophysical Society, 2001 3/ 25th National Scientific Conference of Students, 2001 4/ II. Eötvös Conference, Budapest, 2001 5/ VII Bolyai Conference, Budapest, 2002 6/ 33th Hungarian Young Earth Scientists Conference. Organized by the Hungarian Geological Society and the Hungarian Geophysical Society, 2002 7/ III. Eötvös Conference, Budapest, 2002 8/ Scientific Conference of Students held at the Faculty of Science, Eötvös University, 2002 9/ VIII Bolyai Conference, Budapest, 2003 10/ 34th Hungarian Young Earth Scientists Conference. Organized by the Hungarian Geological Society and the Hungarian Geophysical Society, 2003 11/ 26th National Scientific Conference of Students, 2003 12/ IV. Eötvös Conference, Budapest, 2003 13/ International Conference and Exhibition for Geophysics: Fluid mining – Environmental protection – Earth Sciences, 2003 14/ 35th Hungarian Young Earth Scientists Conference. Organized by the Hungarian Geological Society and the Hungarian Geophysical Society, 2004 15/ V. Eötvös Conference, Budapest, 2004

INTERNATIONAL MEETINGS (presented lectures and posters in English also as a co-author):

1/ PANCARDI, Geological Meeting on Dynamics of Ongoing Orogeny, Dubrovnik, 2000 2/ ECROFI XVI, European Current Research on Fluid Inclusions, Porto, 2001 3/ EMU Workshop, Solid Solutions in Silicate and Oxide Systems, Lubeck, 2001 4/ PANCARDI, Pannonian Basin, Carpathian and Dinaride System. Geological Meeting on Dynamics of Ongoing Orogeny, Sopron, 2001 5/ MINPET 2001, Vienna, 2001 6/ Mantle Responses to Tethyan Closure IGCP 430 2nd Annual Workshop. Halong Bay City, 2002 7/ EUROCARB WORKSHOP: „European carbonatites: implications for the sub-European mantle and their geohazard potential”. Chieti, 2002 8/ EMU Workshop, Short Course on „Energy modeling in minerals”, Budapest, 2002 9/ WORKSHOP – Short Course on Volcanic Systems Geochemical and Geophysical Monitoring. Melt inclusions: method, application and problems, Napoli, 2002 10/ SHORT-COURSE - Subduction – collision processes from ultrahigh pressure to ultralow temperature and from Archean to present-day. Berlin, 2002 11/ Mining, Metallurgy and Geology Conference. Zilau, 2003 12/ 2nd “Mineral Sciences in the Carpathians” International Conference, Miskolc, 2003 13/ 3rd Stephan Müller Conference, Retyezát, 2003 14/ ECROFI XVII, European Current Research on Fluid Inclusions, Budapest, 2003 15/ EMU Workshop, Short Course on „UHP metamorphism”, Budapest, 2003 16/ Korea-Hungary International Joint Seminar on Lithosphere Evolution of the Korean Peninsula and Subcontinental Lithospheric Mantle Study in the Pannonian Basin, Hungary., Pusan National University, Pusan, 2003 17/ 2nd meeting of the Central European Tectonic Studies Group (Ceteg) and 9th meeting of the Czech Tectonic Studies Group (CTS), Lucenec. 2004 18/ Conference – Workshop on Geodynamics of central Europe, Zakopane, 2004 19/ Goldscmidt Geochemistry, Copenhagen, 2004 20/ 3rd ISPET Seminar: High and Ultrahigh Pressure Metamorphism: A Window on Subduction Processes. Monte Ortone, 2004 21/ 32th International Geological Congress, Florence, 2004 22/ EMU Workshop, Short Course on „Spectoscopic methods in mineralogy”, Vienna, 2004 23/ At the joints of the Apls, Carpathians and Dinarides, Joint meeting of the Hungarian and Croatian Geological Society, Siofok, Hungary, 2004 24/ 4rd ISPET Seminar: Advanced analytical and experimental techniques in petrology: Canberra, 2005 25/ XVIII. ECROFI, Siena, 2005 26/ Pridotite Workshop, Lanzo, 2005 27/ 4he meeting of the Central European Tectonic Studies Group (Ceteg), Zakopane, 2006 28/ 16. Annual Goldschmidt Conference, Melbourne, 2006 29/ XVIIIth Congress of the Carpathian-Balkan Geological Association, Belgrade, 2006 30/ Workshop on Nominally Anhydrous Minerals, Verbania, 2006 31/ AGU Spring Meeting, Acapulco Bay, 2007

Invited speaker

1) Eötvös University, Geochemistry Workshop, September, 2006 (Budapest, Hungary) 2)Eötvös College, Geography and Geoscience Workshop, September, 2006 (Budapest, Hungary) 3) University of Boston, May, 2007 (Boston, USA) Selected international conference abstracts

2007

Kovács, I., Hermann, J., O`Neill, H. St. C. (2007) Water solubility in forsterite and enstatite: a key for understanding mantle rheology. AGU Joint Assembly, May, Acapulco Bay.

Kovács, I., Hermann, J., O’Neill, H. St. C., Sambridge, M., FitzGerald, J., Horváth, G. (2007) Quantitative IR spectroscopy with unpolarized light. AGU Joint Assembly, May, Acapulco Bay.

2006

Hidas, K., Falus, Gy., Szabó, P. J., Földes, T., Kovács, I., Szabó, Cs. (2006) Geodynamic Implications of Flattened Equigranular Textured Peridotites from the Central Part of the Carpathian–Pannonian Region. 4he meeting of the Central European Tectonic Studies Group (Ceteg), 20-24 April, 2006, Zakopane, Poland. Geolines, 2006, 20, 50-51.

Kovács, I., Csontos, L., Szabó, Cs., Bali, E., Falus, Gy. (2006) Paleogene-Early Miocene Igneous Rocks and Geodynamics of the Alpine-Carpathian-Pannonian-Dinaric Region: an Integrated Approach. 4he meeting of the Central European Tectonic Studies Group (Ceteg), 20-24 April, 2006, Zakopane, Poland. Geolines, 2006, 20, 69-70.

Kovács, I., Hermann, J., O`Neill, H. (2006) Water solubility in forsterite and enstatite: implications for the secular evolution of mantle convection. 16th Annual Goldschmidt Conference, 27 August–1 September, 2006, Melbourne, Australia. (http://www.goldschmidt2006.org/

Kovács, I., Sambridge, M., Hermann, J., O`Neill, FitzGerald, J., Horváth, G., (2006) Quantitative IR spectroscopy with unpolarized light. Workshop on Nominally Anhydrous Minerals, 1-4 October, 2006, Verbania, Italy. Abstract Volume, p. 61.

Kovács, I., Hermann, J., O`Neill, H. (2006) Water solubility in forsterite and enstatite as a function of temperature and silica activity. Workshop on Nominally Anhydrous Minerals, 1- 4 October, 2006, Verbania, Italy. Abstract Volume, p. 25.

2005

Bali, E., Zajacz, Z., Szabó, C., Halter, W., Kovács, I., Török, K., Vaselli, O., Bodnar R.J. (2005) Evidence for melting of subducted slab: silicate melt inclusion study on quartz- bearing orthopyroxene-rich websterite xenolith from the Bakony – Balaton Highland Volcanic Field (western Hungary, Pannonian Basin). XVIII ECROFI Conference, 6-9 July, 2005, Siena, Italy. (http://www.unisi.it/eventi/ECROFIXVIII/abstract.htm)

Guzmics, T., Szabó, C., Bali, E., Kovács, I., Ntaflos, T. (2005) S-bearing phosphorous carbonatite melt inclusions in alkali clinopyroxenite xenoliths from lamprophyre dikes (Transdanubian Central Range, Hungary). XVIII ECROFI Conference, 6-9 July, 2005, Siena, Italy. (http://www.unisi.it/eventi/ECROFIXVIII/abstract.htm)

Szabó, C., Bali, E., Banks, D.A., Bodnar, R.J., Kovács, I., Zajacz, Z., Török, K., Halter, W. (2005) Evidence for percolation of different alkaline melts in the upper mantle beneath the Pannonian basin: a silicate melt inclusion study on peridotite xenoliths. XVIII ECROFI Conference, 6-9 July, 2005, Siena, Italy. (http://www.unisi.it/eventi/ECROFIXVIII/abstract.htm)

Guzmics, T, Szabó, Cs., Bali, E., Kovács, I., Ntaflos, T. (2005) Phosphorous carbonatite melt inlusions in clinopyroxenite xenoliths from lamprophyres (Transdanubian Central Range, Hungary). Peridotite Workshop 2005, 27-30 September, 2005, Lanzo, Italy. Ofioliti, 2005, 30 (2), p. 188.

2004

Szabó, Cs., Falus, Gy., Kovács, I., Török, K., Bali, E., Dégi, J., Hidas, K. (2004) New aspects of lithospheric research: How xenolith analysis may contribute to deep geophysical observations and interpretation. Geodynamics of Central Europe, 15–20 May, 2004, Zakopane, Poland. (http://geodev.igf.edu.pl/GeoDyn2/program.htm)

Zajacz, Z., Kovács, I., Szabó, C., Halter, W., Pettke, T. (2004) Petrogenesis of cumulate xenoliths from Nograd-Gomor Volcanic Field (northern Hungary/southern Slovakia): Results from olivine hosted melt inclusions. 14th Annual Goldschmidt Conference, 5-11 June, 2004, Copenhagen, Denmark. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 68(11): A719- A719.

Kovács, I., Török, K., Szabó, Cs. (2004) Geodynamic significance of granulite xenoliths beneath the Nógrád-Gömör Volcanic Field, northern Pannonian Basin (N-Hungary/S- Slovakia). 32nd International Geological Congress, 20-28 August, 2004, Florence, Italy. Abstract Volume G05.03.

Szabó, Cs., Falus, Gy., Zajacz, Z., Kovács, I., Bali, E. (2004) New textural and geochemical evidence for spatial and temporal evolution of the subcontinental lithospheric mantlebeneath the Pannonian Basin. 32nd International Geological Congress, 20-28 August, 2004, Florence, Italy. Abstract Volume G20.09

2003

Szabó, Cs., Falus, Gy., Bali, E., Kovács, I., Zajacz, Z., Hidas, K. (2003) Composition and evolution of lithospheric mantle beneath the Pannonian Basin: a petrographic and geochemical review. 2nd „Mineral Sciences in the Carpathians” Conference, 6-7 March, 2003, Miskolc, Acta Mineralogica-Petrographica, Abstract Series 1, 98.

Zajacz, Z., Kovács, I., Falus, Gy., Hidas, K., Szabó, Cs., Ntaflos, T. (2003) Cumulate xenoliths in the alkaline basalts of Nógrád-Gömör Volcanic Field (N-Hungary/S-Slovakia): a melt inclusion study. European Current Research on Fluid Inclusions (ECROFI) XVII., 5-7 June, 2003, Budapest, Acta Mineralogica-Petrographica, Abstract Series 2, 232-233.

Szabó, Cs., Falus, Gy., Bali, E., Kovács, I., Zajacz, Z., Hidas, K., Peate, D. W. (2003) Composition and evolution of lithosphereic mantle beneath the Pannonian Basin: a petrographic and geochemical review. 4th Stephan Müller Conference of the European Geosciences Union, 31 May-5 June, 2003, Retezat Mts., Romania. Abstracts Book p. 16.

Kovács, I., Török, K. (2003) Significance of granulite xenoliths from the Nógrád-Gömör Volcanic Field (N-Hungary/S-Slovakia) 5th EMU School & Symposium and Erasmus IP on Ultra-High Pressure Metamorphism, 21-25 July, 2003, Budapest, Hungary. Acta Mineralogica-Petrographica, Abstract Series 3, Szeged, p. 17.

Szabó, Cs., Falus, Gy., Zajacz, Z., Kovács, I., Bali, E., Hidas, K. (2003) Composition and evolution of lithosphere beneath the Carpathian-Pannonian Region: a review. Korea- Hungary International Joint Seminar on Lithosphere Evolution of the Korean Peninsula and Subcontinental Lithospheric Mantle Study in the Pannonia Basin, Hungary, 8-14 December, 2003, Pusan, South Korea, p. 1-4.

Török, K., Dégi, J., Kovács, I. (2003) Mafic granulite xenoliths from Neogene alkaline basalts of the Pannonian Basin. Korea-Hungary International Joint Seminar on Lithosphere Evolution of the Korean Peninsula and Subcontinental Lithospheric Mantle Study in the Pannonia Basin, Hungary, 8-14 December, 2003, Pusan, South Korea, p. 29-34.

Kovács, I. , Zajacz, Z., Szabó, Cs. (2003) Type-II xenoliths and metasomatism beneath the Nógrád-Gömör Volcanic Field, Carpathian-Pannonian Region. Korea-Hungary International Joint Seminar on Lithosphere Evolution of the Korean Peninsula and Subcontinental Lithospheric Mantle Study in the Pannonia Basin, Hungary, 8-14 December, 2003, Pusan, South Korea, p. 62-68.

2002

Kovács, I., Zajazc, Z., Szabó, Cs. (2002) History of the lithosphere beneath the Nógrád- Gömör Volcanic Field (N-Hungary/S-Slovakia). IGCP 430 2nd Annual Workshop „Mantle Responses to Tethyan Closure”, 1-10 April, 2002, Halong Bay City, Vietnam. Abstract Volume, p. 28.

Szabó, Cs., Kovács, I., Bali, E., Falus, Gy., Török, K., Vaselli, O. (2002) Composition and Evolution of lithosphere beneath the Carpathian-Pannonian Region. IGCP 430 2nd Annual Workshop „Mantle Responses to Tethyan Closure”, 1-10 April, 2002, Halong Bay City, Vietnam. Abstract Volume, p. 58.

Zajacz, Z., Kovács, I., Falus, Gy., Szabó, Cs. (2002) Origin of sulfide inclusions in ultramafic cumulate xenoliths from Nógrád-Gömör Volcanic Field, Pannonian basin (North Hungary/South Slovakia) Workshop – Short Course on Volcanic Systems Geochemical and Geophysical Monitoring Melt inclusions: method, application and problems, 26-30 September, 2002. Seiano di Vico Equenese (Sorrento Peninsula)–Napoli, Italy. Abstract Volume, p. 253-255.

2001

Zajacz, Z., Kovács, I., Falus, Gy., Szabó, Cs. (2001) Origin of sulfide inclusions in ultramafic cumulate xenoliths from Nógrád-Gömör Volcanic Field, Pannonian Basin (North Hungary/South Slovakia). XVI European Current Research on Fluid Inclusions (ECROFI), 2-4 May, 2001, Porto, Portugalia. Abstract volume, p. 459-461.

Zajacz, Z., Kovács, I., Falus, Gy. (2001) Origin of sulfide inclusions in ultramafic cumulate xenoliths from Nógrád-Gömör Volcanic Field, Pannonian Basin (North Hungary / South Slovakia). Solid solutions in silicate and oxide systems of geological importance. 3rd EMU Workshop, 24-29 June, 2001, Lübeck, Germany. Abstract Volume, p. 39.

Kovács, I., Nédli, Zs., Kóthay, K., Bali, E., Zajacz, Z., Szabó, Cs. (2001) Quartz and feldspar xenocrysts in mafic lavas from the Nógrád -Gömör volcanic field, Bakony-Balaton Highland volcanic field and Villány Mountains (Hungary). MinPet, 24-26 September, 2001, Vienna, Austria. Mitteilungen der Österreichischen Mineralogischen Gesellschaft, 146, p. 155-156.

Zajacz, Z., Szabó, Cs., Kovács, I. (2001) Petrogenetic significance of sulfide inclusions in ultramafic cumulate xenoliths form Nógrád-Gömör Volcanic Field, Pannonian Basin. MinPet, 24-26 September, 2001, Vienna, Austria. Mitteilungen der Österreichischen Mineralogischen Gesellschaft, 146, 326-328.

Kovács, I., Zajacz, Z., Szabó, Cs. (2001) Metasomatized cumulate xenoliths from the Nógrád-Gömör Volcanic Field (N-Hungary/S-Slovakia). PANCARDI, 19-23 September, 2001, Sopron, Hungary. Abstract Volume, PP-7.

2000

Falus, Gy., Szabó, Cs., Azbej, T., Kovács, I. & Zajacz, Z. (2000) Mantle evolution beneath the Carpathian-Pannonian Region: Evidence from sulphide inclusions in upper mantle xenoliths. PANCARDI 1-4 November, 2000, Dubrovnik, Croatia. Vijesti 37/3, p. 37.

LABORATORY EXPERIENCE

SEM Philips XL-30 Scanning Electron Microscope, University of Bristol supervised by Stuart Keans

JEOL JSM6400 (SEM, 1990), Research School of Biological Sciences, ANU supervised by Frank Brink EPMA JEOL superprobe JXA 8600, WDS microprobe at University of Florence supervised by Orlando Vaselli

JEOL superprobe JXA 8200, WDS microprobe at University of Bristol supervised by Stuart Kearns

Cameca SX 100, University of Vienna supervised by Theodoros Ntaflos

Cameca SX 100, Research School of Earth Sciences, ANU supervised by Jörg Hermann and Ashley Norris PISTON CYLINDER Research School of Earth Sciences, ANU supervised by Dean Scott, EXPERIMENTS David Clark, Bill Hibberson FITR Bruker, Research School of Earth Sciences, ANU supervised by Jörg Hermann and Andrew Berry LA-ICPMS VG Elemental Plasma Quad II laser ablation system, University of Bristol supervised by Dr. Bruce Patterson

Elan 6100 DRC, a novel quadrupole mass spectrometer with a prototype of 193 nm ArF Excimer laser, Department of Mineral Resources and Isotopgeochemistry, ETHZ supervised by Zoltán Zajacz

SHRIMP SHRIMP-II, Research School of Earth Sciences, ANU supervised by Peter Holden and Trevor Ireland

SIMS Cameca ims 6f , Carnegie Institution, Department of Terrestial Magnetism supervised by Erik Hauri and Jianhua Wang