3rd Mid-European Clay Conference – MECC 06 Abstracts Book edited by Igor VLAHOVIĆ, Darko TIBLJAŠ, Goran DURN & Vanja BIŠEVAC Papers in this Abstract Book were reviewed in order to correct the text and to unify their final layout. We are grateful to the reviewers: Vladimir BERMANEC, Goran DURN, Biljana KOVAČEVIĆ ZELIĆ, Ladislav PALINKAŠ, Esad PROHIĆ, Mira RISTIĆ, Darko TIBLJAŠ & Neda VDOVIĆ Abstracts Book CONTENTS KEYNOTE ABSTRACTS BAHRANOWSKI, K. & SERWICKA, M.: Layered minerals in catalysis........................................................................... 3 CUADROS, J.: Clay minerals in the making.......................................................................................................................... 4 DOHRMANN, R., RÜPING, K., KLEBER. M. & JAHN, R.: XRD texture measurements of oriented clay aggregates – a quantification tool................................................................................................................................................... 5 MADEJOVÁ, J.: Near infrared spectroscopy: a powerful method to learn more on modified smectites..................... 6 MURAD, E.: Mössbauer spectroscopy of geological materials........................................................................................... 7 PETIT, S., JOUSSEIN, E. & GRAUBY, O.: New insight into halloysite physico-chemical properties............................ 8 RAUCSIK, B., RAUCSIK-VARGA, A., SZAKMÁNY, Gy. & KOVÁCS-KISS, V.: Clay mineralogy, petrography and geochemistry of Late Palaeozoic siliciclastic rocks from the Mecsek–Villány area (SW Hungary): implications for source-area weathering, provenance and diagenesis.......................................................................................... 9 RUIZ-HITZKY, E.: Clay-based bionanocomposites............................................................................................................. 10 TIBLJAŠ, D. & ŠĆAVNIČAR, S.: Zeolite deposits in Croatia............................................................................................. 11 ZNIDARČIĆ, D.: Engineering properties of clays................................................................................................................ 12 3r d Mid-European Clay Conference – MECC 06 – MECC Conference Clay d Mid-European ABSTRACTS ABU-JDAYIL, B. & AL-MALAH, K.: Waterproof polymeric heat insulators based on clay fillers: mechanical proper- ties................................................................................................................................................................................... 15 ACTIŅŠ, A., SUPE, L. & SARCEVIČA, I.: Latvian smectite clay and bentonite interaction with tetraoctyl-ammoni- um bromide................................................................................................................................................................... 16 ADAMCOVA, R., HAASOVA, Z. & MAAS, P.: Engineering geological research of highly compacted bentonites in Slovakia.......................................................................................................................................................................... 17 AL-JUBOURY, A.: Clay mineralogy in northern Iraq during the Miocene: paleoenvironmental indicators.............. 18 ANDREJKOVIČOVÁ, S., JANOTKA, I. & KOMADEL, P.: Phase composition and geotechnical evaluation of ben- tonite from Lieskovec, Slovakia................................................................................................................................... 19 ARANDA, P., MANOVA, E., MARTÍN-LUENGO, M.A., LETAÏEF, S. & RUIZ-HITZKY, E.: TiO2/delaminated–clay nanocomposites............................................................................................................................................................ 20 AUGUST, C.: Mineralogy of a Carboniferous bentonite from the Sudetes (SW Poland), northern margin of the Bo- hemian Massif – preliminary data.............................................................................................................................. 21 BALOGH, K., ÁRKAI, P., JUDIK, K., ITAYA, T., HYODO, H. & BALOGH, I.: Development of a simple method for Ar/Ar dating of micrometer-sized minerals: a progress report.......................................................................................... 22 BARUDŽIJA, U., TADEJ, N. & TADEJ, J.: Clay minerals assemblage in the Upper Albian carbonate succession (Tinjanska Draga, Istria, Croatia)............................................................................................................................... 23 BAYHAN, E.: Upper Cretaceous–Lower Tertiary clay mineral successions of southern Haymana region (Ankara, Turkey)........................................................................................................................................................................... 24 BAYHAN, H., GÜLEÇ, F., BAYHAN, E., TEMEL, E. & HÜRYILMAZ, H.: Clay mineralogy of Tertiary sedimentary se- quence from Gökçeada Island (northeast Aegean Sea, Turkey).............................................................................. 25 BIŠEVAC, V., BALEN, D., BALOGH, K. & TIBLJAŠ, D.: K–Ar dating of Cretaceous metamorphism recorded in the eastern part of Mt. Papuk, Slavonia, Croatia............................................................................................................. 26 BISHOP, J.L., BROWN, A.J., CLOUTIS, E., DYAR, M.D., HIROI, T., LANE, M.D., MILLIKEN, R.E., MURAD, E. & MUSTARD, J.F.: A multispectral study of clay minerals: Mössbauer, reflectance, transmittance, and emission spectroscopy................................................................................................................................................................... 27 BLANCO GARCÍA, I., LUQUE, J., BARRENECHEA, J.F., AZCARATE, J.A., ELSEN, J., RODAS, M., SWENNEN, R., SÁNCHEZ, C.J. & DONDI, M.: Production of synthetic lightweight aggregates (LWA) from mining wastes.............................................................................................................................................................................. 28 BLANCO GARCÍA, I., SWENNEN, R. & ELSEN, J.: Physical properties and behaviour during leaching of synthetic aggregates made with polluted dredged sediments from Flanders, Belgium........................................................ 29 I Abstracts Book BOJAR, A.-V., OTTNER, F., GRIGORESCU, D. & CSIKI, Z.: Maastrichtian calcisols from the Hateg basin, South Car- pathians: mineralogical and stable isotopic investigations...................................................................................... 30 BRUS, J., URBANOVA, M., KOLOUSEK, D. & ANDERTOVA, J.: Solid-state NMR study of stability of “geopoly- mers” prepared from alkaline activated metakaoline............................................................................................... 31 BUJDÁK, J., IYI, N. & CZÍMEROVÁ, A.: Clay mineral template-controlled formation of molecular assemblies of rhodamine 6G................................................................................................................................................................ 32 ČEKLOVSKÝ, A. & BUJDÁK, J.: Spectroscopic study of interaction of porphyrin dyes with layered silicates............ 33 CERJAN-STEFANOVIĆ, Š., ZABUKOVEC-LOGAR, N., MARGETA, K., ŠILJEG, M. & VOJNOVIĆ, B.: Metal complex exchange in natural zeolites......................................................................................................................... 34 CZÍMEROVÁ, A., BUJDÁK, J. & IYI, N.: Energy transfer between cations of laser dyes in dispersions of reduced charge montmorillonites.............................................................................................................................................. 35 DAINYAK, L.G.: A new approach to the interpretation of Fe2+ quadrupole doublets in Mössbauer spectra of diocta- hedral trans-vacant micaceous minerals.................................................................................................................... 36 DELLISANTI, F., MINGUZZI, V. & VALDRÈ, G.: Influence of controlled mechanical deformation on structural, thermal and technological properties of commercial talc....................................................................................... 37 DILL, H.G., SACHSENHOFER, R., GRECULA, P., SASVÁRI, T., PALINKAŠ, L.A., BOROJEVIĆ ŠOŠTARIĆ, S., STRMIĆ PALINKAŠ, S., PROCHASKA, W., GARUTI, G., ZACCARINI, F., ARBOUILLE, D. & SCHULZ, M.: The origin of mineral and energy resources of Central Europe (accompanied by metallogenic map 1:2.500,000).................................................................................................................................................................... 38 DOBNIKAR, M., DONDI, M., MIRTIČ, B., ROKAVEC, D. & ZANELLI, C.: Mineralogical transformations during firing of some Plio–Quaternary clays from NE Slovenia........................................................................................ 39 DOMINKOVIĆ ALAVANJA, S. & OREŠKOVIĆ, J.: Application of IP method for discovering clay zones in carbon- ate terrains...................................................................................................................................................................... 40 DOUŠOVÁ, B., GRYGAR, T., MARTAUS, A., KOLOUŠEK, D., FUITOVÁ, L. & MACHOVIČ, V.: Mechanism of As sorption on Fe-treated clays.......................................................................................................................................