Lavas or ignimbrites? Permian felsic volcanic rocks of the Tisza Mega-unit (SE Hungary) revisited: A petrographic study.

Permian felsic volcanic rocks were encountered in petroleum exploration boreholes in SE Hungary (eastern Pannonian Basin, Tisza Mega-unit, Békés-Codru Unit) during the second half of the 20th century. They were considered to be predominantly lavas (the so-called "Battonya quartz-porphyry") and were genetically connected to the underlying "Battonya granite." New petrographic observations, however, showed that the presumed lavas are crystal-poor (8-20 vol%) rhyolitic ignimbrites near Battonya and resedimented pyroclastic or volcanogenic sedimentary rocks in the Tótkomlós and the Biharugra areas, respectively.

Microbially Mediated Ore-Forming Processes and Cell Mineralization.

Sedimentary black shale-hosted manganese carbonate and oxide ores were studied by high-resolution detailed optical and cathodoluminescence microscopy, Raman spectroscopy, and FTIR spectroscopy to determine microbial contribution in metallogenesis. This study of the Urucum Mn deposit in Brazil is included as a case study for microbially mediated ore-forming processes. The results were compared and interpreted in a comparative way, and the data were elaborated by a complex, structural hierarchical method.

Evidence for oxygen isotopic exchange in chondrules from Kaba (CV3.1) carbonaceous chondrite during aqueous fluid-rock interaction on the CV parent asteroid.

We report on the mineralogy, petrography, and oxygen isotopic compositions of primary olivine and plagioclase/feldspathic mesostases in chondrules and of secondary magnetite and fayalite in chondrules and matrix of an oxidized Bali-like CV3.1 carbonaceous chondrite, Kaba. In this meteorite, compositionally nearly pure fayalite (Fa) associates with hedenbergite (FsWo), magnetite, and Fe,Ni-sulfides.

A new approach used to explore associations of current Ambrosia pollen levels with current and past meteorological elements.

The paper examines the sensitivity of daily airborne Ambrosia (ragweed) pollen levels of a current pollen season not only on daily values of meteorological variables during this season but also on the past meteorological conditions. The results obtained from a 19-year data set including daily ragweed pollen counts and ten daily meteorological variables are evaluated with special focus on the interactions between the phyto-physiological processes and the meteorological elements. Instead of a Pearson correlation measuring the strength of the linear relationship between two random variables, a generalised correlation that measures every kind of relationship between random vectors was used.