Ancient earthquakes

Rocky coasts

Fossil forests

Tree rings and environment

Paleogeography

History of Science

 

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Ancient earthquakes

 

Collaborations:

 

Balazs Major (Department of Archaeology, Pázmány Péter Catholic University, Piliscsaba, Hungary): Crusader castles in Syria; Erzsébet Gyori (Kövesligethy Radó Seismological Observatory, Budapest, Hungary): seismicity of Hungary; Zoltán Havas and Krisztián Anderkó (Aquincum Museum, Budapest, Hungary): Roman aquaeducts; Marko Vrabec (Department of Geology, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia): tectonics of the Adriatic coast; Mladen Juracic (Porec, Croatia): history and archaeology of the Eufrasius cathedral; Eleni Kolaiti (Athens, Greece): geology and tectonics of the Pelopponese; Stefano Furlani (Department of Mathematics and Earth Science, University of Trieste, Italy): three-dimensional photography of geological and archaeological surfaces; Panya Charusiri (Department of Geology, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand): active tectonics of Thailand; Agus Hariyadi (Faculty of Architecture, Gadyah Mada University, Yogyakarta, Thailand): seismicity and architecture; Andrey Korzhenkov (Moscow, Russia): archaeoseismology.

 

Papers:

 

15. Korzhenkov, A.M., Kol'chenko, V.A., Luzhansky, D.V., Rogozhin, E.A., Kazmer, M., Mazeika, J.V., Deev, E.V., Fortuna, B., Shen, J., Yudakhin, A.S., Abdieva, S.V., Rodina, S.N. (2016): Archaeoseismological investigation of the Kurmenty Medieval settlement site, northeastern Issyk-Kul region, Kyrgyzstan. - Seismic Instruments 52(2), 154-163.

 

14. Kázmér, M., Major, B. (2015): Strong motion directions from Safita castle and rockfalls in coastal Syria – an archaeoseismological study. – Comptes Rendus Geoscience 347, 181-190. . [online version] [reprint]

 

13. Korzhenkov, A.M., Kol'chenko, V.A., Luzhansky, D.V., Rogozhin, E.A., Kazmer, M., Mazeikas, J.V., Deev, E.V., Fortuna, A.B., Shen, J., Yudakhin, A.S., Abdieva, S.V., Rodina, S.N. (2015): Archeoseismological study of Kurmenty Medieval settlement (north-east of the Issyik-Kul lake region, Kyrgyzstan). - Voprosy inzhenernoy seysmologii 42(1), 70-81, Moskva. (In Russian, with English abstract) [reprint]

 

12. Kázmér, M. (2015): Archaeoseismology. In: Mukherjee, Soumyajit, (ed.): Atlas of Structural Geology.  Elsevier, Amsterdam, pp. 153-155, figs. 6.52-6.55. [online version] [reprint]

 

11. Kázmér, M., Kolaiti, E. (2015): Earthquake-induced deformations at the Lion Gate, Mycenae, Greece. In: Blumetti, A.M., Cinti, F.R., De Martini, P.M., Galadini, F., Guerrieri, L., Michetti, A.M., Pantosti, D., Vittori, E. (eds): 6th INQUA International Meeting on Paleoseismology, Active Tectonics and Archaeoseismology. 19-24 April 2015, Pescina, Fucino Basin, Italy. Miscellanea INGV 27, 248-251. [complete volume online version] (263 Mb) [reprint]

10. Kázmér, M. (2015): Off-fault damages to masonry buildings – a classification. In: Blumetti, A.M., Cinti, F.R., De Martini, P.M., Galadini, F., Guerrieri, L., Michetti, A.M., Pantosti, D., Vittori, E. (eds): 6th INQUA International Meeting on Paleoseismology, Active Tectonics and Archaeoseismology. 19-24 April 2015, Pescina, Fucino Basin, Italy. Miscellanea INGV 27, 244-247. [complete volume online version] (263 Mb) [reprint]

9. Kázmér Miklós & Kolaiti, Eleni (2015): Földrengés keltette alakváltozások a mükénéi Oroszlános-kapun (Görögország). [Earthquake-induced deformations at the Lion Gate, Mycenae, Greece.] Abs. In: Török, Á., Görög, P., Vásárhelyi, B. (szerk): Mérnökgeológia-Kőzetmechanika 2015, Hantken Kiadó, Budapest, pp. 89-96.  [online version] [reprint]

8. Kázmér, M. (2014): Damages to ancient buildings from earthquakes. In: Beer, M., Patelli, E., Kouigioumtzoglou, I., Au, I. S.-K. (eds): Encyclopedia of Earthquake Engineering, Springer, Berlin, 7 p., 18 figs. [online version]

7. Kázmér, M., Hariyadi, A. (2014): Damages to the 9th century Prambanan temple caused by the 2006 Yogyakarta earthquake (Java, Indonesia). In: Grützner, C., Choi, Jin-Hyuck, Edwards, P., Kim, Young-Seog (eds): 5th International INQUA Meeting on Paleoseismology, Active Tectonics and Archeoseismology (PATA), 21-27 September 2014, Busan, Korea, pp. 74–77. [reprint]

6. Kázmér, M. (2013): The rocking columns of Poreč – archaeoseismology in the Istria Peninsula, Croatia. In: Grützner, C., Rudersdorf, A., Pérez-López, R., Reicherter, K. (eds): Seismic Hazard, Critical facilities and Slow Active Faults. PATA Days. Proceedings of the 4th International INQUA Meeting on Paleoseismology, Active Tectonics and Archaeoseismology (PATA), 9-14 October 2013, Aachen, Germany, pp. 117-120. [reprint]

5. Kázmér Miklós (2013): Ahol nincsenek földrengések – a horvátországi Isztria archeoszeizmológiája. [There are no earthquakes here! – Archaeoseismology in Istria, Croatia.] Abs. In: Török, Á., Görög, P., Vásárhelyi, B. (szerk): Mérnökgeológia-Kőzetmechanika 2013, Hantken Kiadó, Budapest, pp. 195-204.  [online version] [reprint]

4. Kázmér, M., Sanittham, K., Charusiri, P., Pailoplee, S. (2011): Archaeoseismology of the AD 1545 earthquake in Chiang Mai, Thailand. In: Grützner, C., Pérez-López, R., Fernández Steeger, T., Papanikolaou, I., Reicherter, K., Silva, P.G. & Vött, A. (eds): Earthquake Geology and Archaeology: Science, Society and Critical Facilities. 2nd INQUA-IGCP 567 International Workshop on Active Tectonics, Earthquake Geology, Archaeology and Engineering, 19-24 September 2011, Corinth (Greece). Proceedings Volume 2, 102-105. [online version] [reprint]

3. Kázmér Miklós & Major Balázs (2011): Két földrengés Szíriában – Margat várának archeoszeizmológiája.  (Two earthquakes in Syria – Archaeoseismology in al-Marqab citadel) Abs. In: Kázmér, M. (szerk.): Környezettörténet 2 – Környezeti események a honfoglalástól napjainkig történeti és természettudományi források tükrében. Hantken Kiadó, Budapest, pp. 283–313. [reprint]

2. Kázmér M. & Hariyadi, A. (2011): A Prambanan-szentély sérülései a 2006-os földrengésben (Yogyakarta, Indonézia). [Damages of Prambanan temple during the 2006 Yogyakarta earthquake.] Abs. – In: Török Á. & Vásárhelyi B. (szerk.): Mérnökgeológia – Kőzetmechanika 2011. Mérnökgeológia-Kőzetmechanika Kiskönyvtár 12, 347–356, 12 ábra. Hantken Kiadó, Budapest. [reprint]

1. Kázmér, M., & Major, B. (2010): Distinguishing damages of two earthquakes – archeoseismology of a Crusader castle (Al-Marqab citadel, Syria). In: Stewart, I., Sintubin, M., Niemi, T. & Altunel, E. (eds): Ancient Earthquakes. Geological Society of America Special Paper, 471, 186 –199, 1 t., 13 figs, Boulder, Colorado. doi: 10.1130/2010.2471(16). [online version] [reprint]

 

 

Rocky coasts

 

Collaborations:

 

Niki Evelpidou (Faculty of Earth Sciences, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece): marine notches and coastal tectonics; Nilesh Bhatt (Department of Geology, University of Baroda, Vadodara, Gujarat, India) and Siddharth Prizomwala (Institute of Seismological Research, Gandhinagar, Gujarat, India): coastal processes in Saurashtra; Cherith Moses and David Ferguson (Department of Geography, University of Sussex, Brighton, United Kingdom): measuring coastal erosion by micro-erosion meter; Montri Choowong (Department of Geology, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand): active tectonics of Thailand; Mohd Shafeea Leman (Geology Program, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Bangi, Malaysia): coastal processes in Langkawi Islands; Felix Tongkul and Junaidi (School of Science and Technology, Universiti Malaysia Sabah, Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia): coastal erosion and active tectonics in Borneo; Aris Marfai (Faculty of Geography, Gadjah Mada University, Yogyakarta, Indonesia): coastal hazards; Hsieh Meng-Long (Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, National Chung Cheng University, Minhsiung, Taiwan): coastal processes; Chuki Hongo (Department of Physics and Earth Sciences, University of the Ryukyus, Okinawa, Japan): bioeorosion; Patrick Colin (Coral Reef Research Foundation, Koror, Palau): coral reef evolution; Danko Taborosi (ISland Research and Education Initiative, Pohnpei, Micronesia): coastal karsts

 

Papers:

 

6. Evelpidou, N., Karkani, A., Kázmér, M., Pirazzoli, P.A. (2014): Late Holocene shorelines deduced from tidal notches on both sides of the Ionian Thrust (Greece): Fiscardo Peninsula (Cephalonia) and Ithaca Island. – Geologica Acta 14, 13-24, 8 figs, 5 tab., Barcelona. [download]

 

5. Kázmér, M., Leman, M.S., Mohamed, K.R., Ali, C.A., Taborosi, D. (2015): Features of intertidal bioerosion and bioconstruction on limestone coasts at Langkawi Islands, Malaysia. – Sains Malaysiana 44(7), 921-929. [online version] [reprint]

 

4. Moses, C., Robinson, D., Kázmér, M., Rendel, W. (2015): Towards an improved understanding of erosion rates and tidal notch development on limestone coasts in the Tropics: ten years of micro-erosion meter measurements, Phang Nga Bay, Thailand. – Earth Surface Processes and Landforms 40(6). 771-782. [online version]

3. Taboroši, D. & Kázmér, M. (2013): Erosional and depositional textures and structures in coastal karst landscapes. In: Lace, M.J., Mylroie, J. (eds): Coastal Karst Landforms. Coastal Research Library 5, Springer Science, Dordrecht, pp. 15-58. [online version]

2. Kázmér, M. & Taboroši, D. (2012): Bioerosion on the small scale – examples from the tropical and subtropical littoral. – Hantkeniana 7, 37-94, 96 figs, 1 t., Budapest. [reprint]

1. Kázmér, M. & Taboroši, D. (2012): Rapid profiling of marine notches using a handheld laser distance meter. – Journal of Coastal Research 28 28/4, 964–969. [online version] [reprint]

 

Fossil forests

Collaborations:

Boglárka Erdei (Department of Botany, Hungarian Natural History Museum, Budapest, Hungary): palaeobotany of the Bükkábrány Fossil Forest; Keyan Fang (College of Geographical Sciences,  Fujian Normal University, Fuzhou, China): Shenhu Bay Fossil Forest      

Papers:

3. Kázmér, M. (2011): Structure of the 7 Ma Bükkábrány fossil forest in Hungary. – Japanese Journal of Historical Botany 19/1-2, 47-54, Tokyo. [reprint]

2. Császár G., Erdei, B., Kázmér, M., Magyar, I. (2009): A possible Late Miocene fossil forest paleopark in Hungary. – In: Lipps, J.H. & Granier, B. (eds): PaleoParks – The protection and conservation of fossil sites worldwide. – Carnets de Géologie / Notebooks on Geology: Book 2009/3, Chapter 11, 121–133, 19 figs. [online version] [reprint]

1. Kázmér, M. (2008): The Miocene Bükkábrány Fossil Forest in Hungary – field observations and project outline. – Hantkeniana 6, 229 – 244, 22 figs, Budapest. [reprint]

 

Tree rings and environment

Collaborations:

Zoltán Kern (Lendület Project, Geological and Geochemical Institute, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary): chemical analysis of incremental growth (trees, fossils, speleothems, ice); Yunchao Zhou (Forestry College, University of Guizhou, Guiyang, China): soil erosion; Keyan Fang (College of Geographical Sciences,  Fujian Normal University, Fuzhou, China): tree rings an climate

 

Papers:

7. Kern, Z., Patkó, M., Kázmér, M., Fekete, J., Kele, S., Pályi, Z. (2013): Multiple tree-ring proxies (earlywood width, latewood width, and δ13C) from pedunculate oak (Quercus robur L.), Hungary. – Quaternary International 293, 257-267. [online version]

6. Kern, Z., Kázmér, M., Bosnakoff, M., Bajnóczi, B., Váczi, T., Katona, L. (2012) Incremental growth and mineralogy of Pannonian (Late Miocene) sciaenid otoliths – palaeoecological implications. – Geologica Carpathica 63/2, 175-178. [online version] [reprint]

5. Fang, Keyan, Gou Xiaohua, Chen Fahu, Li Yingjun, Zhang Fen, Kázmér, Miklós (2012): Tree growth and its association with climate between individual tree-ring series inferred from at three mountain ranges in north Central China. – Dendrochronologia 30/2, 113-119. [online version] [reprint]

4. Fang K, Gou X, Chen F, Frank D, Li J, Kázmér M (2012): Precipitation variability during the past 400 years in the Xiaolong Mountain (central China) inferred from tree rings. – Climate Dynamics 39, 1697-1707. [online version] [reprint] [supplement]

3. Kóródy G., Kázmér M. & Székely B. (2009): Vízmosásfejlődés mérése gyökérkitakaródással (Bátaapáti, Mórágy-Geresdi-dombság). (Dating gully erosion by root exposure (Bátaapáti, Mórágy-Geresd Hills, Hungary) Abs. In: Kázmér M. (ed.). Abs. In: Kázmér M. (ed.): Környezettörténet. Az elmúlt 500 év környezeti eseményei történeti és természettudományi források tükrében. Hantken Kiadó, Budapest, pp. 367–380. (In Hungarian) [reprint]

2. Kázmér Miklós (2009): Geológia, archeológia és história – a környezettörténet forrásai. [Geology, archaeology and history – sources to environmental history.] In: Kázmér M. (szerk.): Környezettörténet. Az elmúlt 500 év környezeti eseményei történeti és természettudományi források tükrében. Hantken Kiadó, Budapest, pp. 11-20. [reprint]

1. Grynaeus, A. & Kázmér, M. (2003): The Budapest Tree-Ring Laboratory. – Association for Tree-Ring Research Newsletter 1, 5–6. [reprint]

 

Paleogeography

Collaborations:

Papers:

9. Hadid, Yarin, Németh, Attila; Snir, Sagi; Pavlíček, Tomáš; Csorba, Gábor; Kázmér, Miklós, Major, Ágnes; Mezhzherin, Sergei; Rusin, Mikhail; Coşkun,Yüksel; Nevo, Eviatar (2012): Is evolution of blind mole rats determined by climate oscillations? – PLoS ONE 7/1, e30043, pp. 1–8. [online version] [reprint]

8. Márton., E., Zampieri, D., Kázmér, M., Dunkl, I. & Frisch, W. (2011): New Paleocene-Eocene paleomagnetic results from the foreland of the Southern Alps confirm the decoupling of stable Adria from the African plate. – Tectonophysics 504, 89-99. [online version] [reprint] (2.1 Mb)

7. Cornée, J.-J., Moissette, P., Saint Martin, J.-P., Kázmér, M., Tóth, E., Görög, Á., Dulai, A. & Müller, P. (2009): Marine carbonate systems in the Saematian (Middle Miocene) of the Central Paratethys: the Zsámbék Basin of Hungary. – Sedimentology  56/6, 1728-1750. [online version] [reprint] (3.3 Mb)

6. Mikes, T., Báldi-Beke, M., Kázmér, M., Dunkl, I., von Eynatten, H. (2008): Calcareous nannofossil age constraints on Miocene flysch sedimentation in the Outer Dinarides (Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, and Montenegro). – In: Siegesmund, S., Fügenschuh, B. & Froitzheim, N. (eds): Tectonic Aspects of the Alpine-Carpathian-Dinaride System. Geological Society Special Publication 298, 335–363, London. [online version] [reprint] (2 Mb)

5. Erdei, B., Lilla Hably, L., Kázmér, M., Utescher, T. Bruch, A. A.  (2007): Neogene flora and vegetation development in the Pannonian Basin - relations to palaeoclimate and palaeogeography. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 253, 131-156. [online version] [reprint] (4.3 Mb)

4. Moissette, P., Dulai, A., Escarguel, G., Kázmér, M., Müller, P., Saint Martin, J. P. (2007): Mosaic of environments recorded by bryozoan faunas from the Middle Miocene of Hungary. – Paleogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 252, 530–556. [online version] [reprint] (1.9 Mb)

3. Philippe, M., Barbacka, M., Gradinaru, E., Iamandei, E., Iamandei, S. & E., Kázmér, M., Popa, M., Szakmány, Gy., Tchoumatchenco, P.,  Zaton, M. (2006): Fossil wood and Mid-Eastern Europe terrestrial palaeobiogeography during the Jurassic–Early Cretaceous interval.  Review of  Palaeobotany and Palynology 142, 15-32, Amsterdam. [online version] [reprint] (0.9 Mb)

2. Kuhlemann, J., Frisch, W., Dunkl, I., Kazmer M. & Schmiedl, G. (2004): Miocene siliciclastic deposits of Naxos island: geodynamic and environmental implications for the evolution of the southern Aegean Sea (Greece). In: Bernet, M. & Spiegel, C. (eds.): Detrital Thermochronology – Provenance Analysis, Exhumation, and Landscape Evolution of Mountain Belts. Geological Society of America, Special Paper 378, 51—65, Boulder, Colorado. [reprint] (1.1 Mb)

1. Kazmer, M., Dunkl, I., Frisch, W., Kuhlemann, J., Ozsvart, P. (2003): The Palaeogene forearc basin of the Eastern Alps and Western Carpathians: subduction erosion and basin evolution. – Journal of the Geological Society, London 160, 413—428. [online version] [reprint] (0.5 Mb)

 

History of science

Collaborations:

Gábor Papp (Department of Mineralogy, Hungarian Natural History Museum, Budapest, Hungary): mineralogical collections in 17-19th century

 

Papers and a book:

 

10. Kázmér Miklós (2015): Sources to the history of geology in Hungary, 1153-1850. Források a magyarországi geológia történetéhez. Hantken Press, Budapest, 221 p. [download] [reprint]

 

9. Kazmer, M. (2004): Dr. Edward Browne’s visit in the mining towns of Lower Hungary in 1669. In Kubassek János (ed.): A Kárpát-medence természeti értékei. Natural Heritage of the Carpathian Basin. Magyar Földrajzi Múzeum, Hungarian Geographical Museum, Érd, 193-220. (English and Hungarian)

8. Rózsa, P., Kazmer, M. & Papp, G. (2003): Activities of volcanist and neptunist ’natural philosophers’ and their observations in the Tokaj Mountains (NE Hungary) in the late 18th century (Johann Ehrenreich von Fichtel, Robert Townson and Jens Esmark). – Bulletin of the Hungarian Geological Society 133/1, 125-140, Budapest. [reprint]

7. Kazmer, M. & Vavra, N. (2002): Micropalaeontology in Vienna at the turn of the 19th century: foraminifer and bryozoan studies of Leopold von Fichtel and Johann Paul Carl von Moll. In: Wyse Jackson, P. N. & Spencer, M. (eds): Annals of Bryozoology: aspects of the history of research on bryozoans. International Bryozoology Association & The Society for the History of Natural History. Dublin, Ireland, pp. 117—132. [order book]  [reprint]

6. Kazmer, M. (2002): Johannes Kentmann’s minerals from Hungary in 1565. – Bulletin of the Hungarian Geological Society 132/3—4, 457—470, Budapest. [reprint]

5. Kázmér Miklós (1999): A werneriánus Robert Townson  és ,kőzettani' térképe Magyarországról. An early Wernerian in Hungary: the Englishman Robert Townson and his `petrographic' map of 1797.  In: Rózsa Péter (ed.): Robert Townson magyarországi utazásai. Az 1997. szeptember 26-án Debrecenben tartott ,Townson Emlékülés' előadásai. (Robert Townson's Travels in Hungary. Proceedings of the `Townson Symposium' held in Debrecen, 26th September 1997). Kossuth Egyetemi Kiadó, Debrecen, pp. 51–58. [reprint]

4. Kazmer, M. & Papp, G. (1999): Minerals from the Carpathians in an eighteenth-century British collection. – Annales Historico-Naturales Musei Nationalis Hungarici 91, 5-36, Budapest. [reprint]

3. Kazmer M. (1999): Eine Widmung im Buch des Schweizer Wissenschaftlers Johann Jakob Scheuchzer an Samuel Koleseri. – Zeitschrift fur Siebenburgische Landeskunde 22, 64-66, Koln. (In German) . [reprint]

2. Kazmer M. (1998): Carpathian minerals in the eighteenth-century Woodwardian Collection at Cambridge. – Journal of the History of Collections 10, 159-168, Oxford. [online version] [reprint]

1. Kázmér Miklós (1997): Köleséri Sámuelnek szóló ajánlás J. J. Scheuchzer svájci orvos könyvében. (Une dédicace à Sámuel Köleséri dans le livre du médecin suisse J. J. Scheuchzer.) – Magyar Könyvszemle 1997/3, 318–320, Budapest. [online version] [reprint]