Date: 27-31 May 2019
Location: Hungary
The registration is open until 20th April 2019.
Description
The aim of the international field course is to introduce participants to the recognition and understanding of spatial and temporal patterns of hydrothermal fluid-rock interaction in magmatic and sedimentary environments.
The course starts with introductory lectures on mineralogical and geochemical aspects of hydrothermal fluid-rock interaction and to the regional geology, hydrogeology and economic geology of areas visited.
During the following four days, the course will examine outcrops of hydrothermal systems in Tertiary volcanic and Mesozoic-Tertiary volcanic and sedimentary units in the volcanic belts of Hungary, as well as thermal karst and warm spring areas of the Buda Hills.
The course is recommended to MSc and PhD students, as well as early carrier scientists interested in mineralogy, geochemistry, hydrogeology and economic geology.
The field program requires general fitness for fieldwork.
Field accommodations will be provided in double or shared rooms, transportations by bus. The total travel lengths are about 1000 km.
Registration
The maximum number of participants is 20.
Applications for participation in the field course are accepted on the basis of the order of registrations.
Program*
Introductory lectures (27 May)
- Introduction to the geology and structural evolution of the Pannonian Basin and its surroundings – János Haas, ELTE
- Mesozoic submarine volcanism and related hydrothermal systems in North Eastern Hungary – Gabriella B. Kiss, ELTE
- Paleogene and Neogene volcanism and related hydrothermal systems in Hungary – Ferenc Molnár, GTK
- Geological evolution and fluid-rock interaction in the Buda Thermal Karst – Andrea Mindszenty, ELTE
- Introduction to fluid-rock interaction in terrestrial volcanic-hydrothermal systems: mineralogy and geochemistry – Ferenc Molnár, GTK
- Introduction to fluid-rock interaction in submarine volcanic-hydrothermal systems: mineralogy and geochemistry – Gabriella B. Kiss, ELTE
- Numerical simulation of hydrothermal fluid flow in the Buda Hill area over geological time scales – Timea Havril, ELTE
- Introduction to fluid rock interaction and fluid flow patterns in the Buda Thermal Karst – Anita Erőss, ELTE
Field program (28-31 May)
Buda Hills
- Hydrogeology and recent precipitates and minerals of the Buda Thermal Karst system through the example of Molnár János Cave, Boltív spring, Lukács springs and wells, Budapest
- Tour in the Szemlőhegy Cave, Budapest
- Powdered dolomite quarry and travertine at János Hill, Budapest
Velence Mts.
- Hydrothermal alteration of a Variscan granite intrusion and Paleogene andesite necks at the Nadap quarry
- Advanced argillic alteration with pyrophyllite in Paleogene andesite at Zsidó Hill, Pázmánd
Mátra Mts.
- Advanced argillic alteration and silicification in the Recsk intrusive-volcanic complex at Etelka pit, Parád
- Hydrothermal breccia of the Timsós pit, Ilona-valley
- Northern gulley, advanced argillic alteration in crystal tuff at Lahóca Hill
- Submarine hydrothermal alteration of Mesozoic pillow basalt of Recsk, Nagyrézoldal
Tokaj Mts.
- Tuff quarry, fresh, poorly welded ignimbrite with gas-emanation channels at Vizsoly
- Hot-spring fed lake environment with silica pods and argillites at Kerektölgyes, Mád
- Zonal hydrothermal alteration with alunite in a steam heated hydrothermal alteration zone hosted by ignimbrite at Király Hill, Mád
- Perlite and peperitic perlite (hot rhyolite lava interaction with water-saturated sediments) in the perlite quarry of Pálháza
- Medieval gold mining pits and K-feldspar alteration in ignimbrite at Rudabányácska, Bányi Hill
- Silicification with cinnabar mineralization, Sárospatak, Botkő
* We reserve the right to make minor changes in the program.
The field course is organized by ENeRAG H2020 project and co-organized by József & Erzsébet Tóth Endowed Hydrogeology Chair and Foundation.