Geologica Hungarica - Series Palaeontologica 55.

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geologica serib palaíoniologica, fASCICUlUS 55
1^-1 T-nf^Of^On fli Attila Vörös is currently
1 ILil IVJCÜ IV^Ct 5 Hungarian Academy of Scienc.
^ ' ii • ^ curator of invertebrate
'yr-^-;--^^^ , Loránd University, Budapest): I

Ittila Vörös is currently the Head of Research Group for Palaeontology of ;arian Academy of Sciences - Hungarian Natural History Museum, where he a curator of invertebrate palaeontology since 1970. University degrees (Eöt id University, Budapest): Dr. rer. nat. (MSc) ( 1971 ), Habilitation (2000). Acadei «S (Hungarian Academy of Sciences): CSc (1985), DSc (1997). He is Chairmai Scientific Commission on Palaeontology (Hungarian Academy of Seienc :sponding Member of the Subcommission on Triassic Stratigraphy (Intematit mission on Stratigraphy) and Honorary Member of the Hungarian Geolog ;ty. His main fields of scientific interest are Mesozoic palaeontology, stratigraphy ogeography
The Pelsonian Substage on the Balaton Highland (Middle Triassic, Hungary)... Tovább

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geologica serib palaíoniologica, fASCICUlUS 55
1^-1 T-nf^Of^On fli Attila Vörös is currently
1 ILil IVJCÜ IV^Ct 5 Hungarian Academy of Scienc.
^ ' ii • ^ curator of invertebrate
'yr-^-;--^^^ , Loránd University, Budapest): I

Ittila Vörös is currently the Head of Research Group for Palaeontology of ;arian Academy of Sciences - Hungarian Natural History Museum, where he a curator of invertebrate palaeontology since 1970. University degrees (Eöt id University, Budapest): Dr. rer. nat. (MSc) ( 1971 ), Habilitation (2000). Acadei «S (Hungarian Academy of Sciences): CSc (1985), DSc (1997). He is Chairmai Scientific Commission on Palaeontology (Hungarian Academy of Seienc :sponding Member of the Subcommission on Triassic Stratigraphy (Intematit mission on Stratigraphy) and Honorary Member of the Hungarian Geolog ;ty. His main fields of scientific interest are Mesozoic palaeontology, stratigraphy ogeography
The Pelsonian Substage on the Balaton Highland (Middle Triassic, Hungary)
mp of authors of the i, I. Szente, O.Piroi
volume. From left: A. Köj J. Pátjy, Gy. Lelkes
/J The present volume Is devoted to the synthesis of IJ stratigraphy and a redefinition of the Pelsonian 9 Substage on the Balaton Highland ^^BBHI 9 Balaton Highland is one of the most renowned
^H^K H and important reference areas of the Alpine-Tethyan ^^I^^Bl^l- «^E M Triassic stratigraphy. One of the stratigraphical
—^^^ J. W highlights here is the Pelsonian Substage called
^^REI^HRn? (íiSiiL -j^ f% W "Balatonisch" by Mojsisovics in 1895 and "Pelson" by ?KÍiPfMllflíi9l W \M m yielded "Ammonites
^H IjKjHv ^ sJk in Bttlatonicus" lending its name to one of the first
^^H jw ill !!escribed Middle Triassic genera (Balatoniles
^H ^H idB II Mojsisovics, 1879).
^H ! Is "itpoitant excavations and
^H S J ¦ill boreholes have been established at the Balaton Highland
1 I ' tl ¦ M ¦ I "1 OS part of the National Geological Key Section
^H I I " . : f B 11 I Programme and the detailed geological mapping project
^H - ' t »fjiB A I by the Geological Institute of Hungary. A grant by the
ÜS . . i » . Í J* ^ "iP ® National Scientific Research Fund (OTKAT2627S) was
9 ^ Í UwiriMtfHI^hi^MMk devoted to the updated synthesis of stratigraphy and a
!m^.A--------redefinition of the Pelsonian Substage on the Balaton
The group ofauilwrs ofthe volume. From left: a. Vörös, i. Szabd, Highland. The new data were integrated with the T. Budai, I. Szente, O. Piros, j. Pálfy, Gy. Lelkes previous knowledge into a coherent data base.
The present volume summarises the present knowledge on the Pelsonian Substage on the Balaton Highland, the biostratigraphical subdivision and definition of the Substage with designation of its boundaries and the description of its lithological andpalaeontological content
The first part ofthe volume gives an overall introduction to the geology and stratigraphy of the Pelsonian on the Balaton Highland.
The first chapter by T. Budai and A. Vörös is a concise introduction to the geological setting of the Balaton Highland and the general relationship ofthe Pelsonian formations.
The multi-authored chapter with the heading "Stratigraphy" (edited by A. Vörös) gives a comprehensive description of the results obtained in the Pelsonian stratigraphy of the Balaton Highland, with special emphasis on the biostratigraphy of several different fossil groups (amrnonoids, conodonts, foraminifers, dasycladaceans). Other aspects of stratigraphy, such as magneto- and sequence stratigraphy, are briefly summarised and an attempt to provide an integrated stratigraphy is also given. An informal designation ofthe stratotype of the Pelsonian Substage at its type region (Balaton Highland) closes the chapter.
A short review by T. Budai and A. Vörös emphasizes the significance of the Pelsonian events in the Triassic basin evolution ofthe Balaton Highland.
The second part of the volume contains a series of profusely illustrated chapters which provide the palaeontological documentation of the main fossil groups (except foraminifers, which were described monographically previously by Ora VECZ-Scheffer.1987) and portray the microfacies ofthe Pelsonian formations on the Balaton Highland.
Amrnonoids are systematically described by A. Vörös, the important conodonts are discussed and illustrated by S. Kovács. Systematic descriptions of other fossil groups include dasycladaceans (O. Piros), bivalves (I. Szente <L A. Vörös) and brachiopods (J. Pálfy); the carbonate microfacies are described and illustrated by Gy. Lelkes and A. Vörös.
The publication ofthe volume was substantially sponsored by the grant No. T2627S ofthe National Scientific Research Fund (O TKA). Essential financial and technical support was given by the Geological Institute of Hungary. Careful technical editing was done by O. Piros, computer graphics by D. Simonyi. Vissza