Zoltán Kovács, M.Sc.

Office: Budapest, Pázmány Péter sétány 1/C,

Hungary 1117

Phone: (36-1) 372 2500 ext.

E-mail: ,

Advisors: Csaba Szabó and Szilvia Kövér

Research Interests:  Silicate melt inclusions

Memberships:

  • Hungarian Geological Society (2013-);
  • Eötvös Loránd University Student Chapter of the Society of Economic Geologists (ELUSCEG) (2015-);
  • European Association of Geochemistry (2016-);

Awards, grants:

  • 3rd place in Poster session at the XLV. Conference of Young Hungarian Earth Scientist held in Balatonföldvár (Hungary), 2014;
  • Outstanding Student of the Faculty of Science, Eötvös University, Budapest (Hungary), 2015;

Scholarships:

  • Visiting student for fourteen days at IFP Energies Nouvelles, August 11-24, 2014, Rueil-Malmaison (France);
  • Visiting student at State Geological Institute of Dionýz Štúr, May 06-07, 2015, Bratislava (Slovakia);
  • Visiting student for ten days at Instituto Andaluz de Ciencias de la Tierra, CSIC, March 14-23, 2016, Granada (Spain);
  • Visiting student for twenty-one days at Instituto Andaluz de Ciencias de la Tierra, CSIC, May 4-25, 2016, Granada (Spain);

Workshops and short courses:

  • High-Pressure Experimental Techniques and Applications to the Earth’s Interior, DMG short course organized by Dr. Stefan Keyssner (Bayerisches Geoinstitut, Bayreuth), February 23-27, 2015, Bayreuth (Germany);
  • Geo.X School - Methods in Geosciences, short course organized by Britta Bookhagen (IASS, Potsdam), September 28-October 02, 2015, Berlin (Germany);
  • Fluid in the Earth, short course by Dr. Robert J. Bodnar (Virginia Tech, USA), Dr. Leonid Danyushevsky (Tasmania University, Australia), Dr. James D. Webster (American Museum Natural History, N.Y., USA), Dr. Maria Luce Frezzotti (Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca, Italy), Coordinator: Dr. Benedetto DeVivo (University of Napoli Federico II), October 19-24, 2015, Napoli (Italy);
  • Tectonics of sedimentary basins, short course by Dr. Sierd Cloetingh (University of Utrecht), April 26-28, 2016, Budapest (Hungary);
  • Sedimentary Provenance Analysis, short course organized by Dr. Hilmar von Eynatten (Georg-August-Universität Göttingen), September 20-23, 2016, Göttingen (Germany);

Papers:

 

Manuscripts:

  • Kovács, Z. (2013) Products of the terrestrial endogen process in the territory of the Novohgrad-Nógrád Geopark (in Hungarian). B.Sc. Thesis, Lithosphere Fluid Research Lab, Department of Petrology and Geochemistry, Eötvös University, Budapest, pp: 33.
  • Kovács, Z. (2014) Petrographic study on ultramafic xenoliths from Mindszentkálla (in Hungarian). Thesis of the Scientific Conference of Students, Lithosphere Fluid Research Lab, Department of Petrology and Geochemistry, Eötvös University, Budapest, pp: 36.
  • Kovács, Z. (2014) Petrographic study on ultramafic xenoliths from Sabar-hegy (in Hungarian). Thesis of the Scientific Conference of Students, Lithosphere Fluid Research Lab, Department of Petrology and Geochemistry, Eötvös University, Budapest, pp: 40.
  • Kovács, Z. (2015): Tracing of multiple metasomatic processes in the upper mantle of Mindszentkálla (in Hungarian). M.Sc. Thesis, Lithosphere Fluid Research Lab, Department of Petrology and Geochemistry, Eötvös University, Budapest, pp: 84.

Abstracts:

  • Patkó, L., Aradi, L.E., Liptai, N., Bodnar, R.J., Fedele, L., Kovács, Z., Cesare, B., Vaselli, O., Fioretti, A.M., Jeffries, T. & Szabó, Cs. (2013) Wehrlitization processes within the upper mantle beneath the Northern Pannonian Basin (Hungary). 23rd V.M. Goldschmidt Conference, August 25-30, 2013, Florence (Italy), Mineralogical Magazine, 77(5) 1934.
  • Kovács, Z. (2014) Petrographic study on upper mantle xenoliths from a new ocality of Mindszentkálla (Bakony–Balaton Highland Volcanic Field). XLV. Conference of Young Scientists, March 28-29, 2014, Balatonföldvár (Hungary), Abstracts and Programs, 23.
  • Novák, A., Klébesz, R., Szabó, Cs., Patkó, L., Liptai, N., Kovács, Z., Wesztergom, V., Ádám, A., Lemperger, I., Kis. Á., Molnár, Cs. & Szendrői, J. (2014) Determination of the Lithosphere-Asthenosphere Boundary (LAB) beneath the Nógrád-Gömör Volcanic Field by combined geophysical (magnetotellurics) and geochemical methods. EGU General Assembly, April 27- May 02, 2014, Vienna, Austria, Geophysical Research Abstracts, Vol. 16, EGU2014-10893.
  • Kovács, Z., Patkó, L. & Creon-Bocquet, L. (2015) Investigating mantle heterogenities by X-ray microtomography in upper mantle xenoliths from Mindszentkálla (Bakony-Balaton Highland, Western Pannonian Basin). XLVI. Meeting of Young Geoscientists, March 27-28, Sopron, Hungary, Abstracts and Programs, 50-51.
  • Kovács, Z. (2015): Petrographic study on upper mantle xenoliths from Sabar-hegy. XXXII. National Scientific Conference of Students, April 15-18, 2015, Kolozsvár (Cluj, Transylvania), Abstract Volume, 284.
  • Kovács, Z. (2015): Small scale examination of upper mantle heterogeneities: X-ray microtomographic study on mantle xenoliths from Mindszentkálla (Bakony─Balaton Highlands). XVI. Eötvös Conference, April 24-26, Budapest, Hungary, Abstract Volume, 33.
  • Kovács, Z., Patkó, L., Creon-Bocquet, L. & Szabó, Cs. (2015): Exploration of mantle heterogeneity by 3D X-ray microtomography in upper mantle xenoliths from Mindszentkálla (Bakony-Balaton Highland, Western Pannonian Basin). 6th Mineralogical Sciences in the Carpathians Conference, May 16-19, Veszprém, Hungary, Acta Mineralogica-Petrographica Abstract Series 9, 34.
  • Kovács, Z., Patkó, L., Klébesz, R., Aradi, L.E., Creon-Bocquet, L. & Szabó, Cs. (2015) Lithological changes of the lithospheric mantle beneath the Bakony-Balaton Highlands (in Hungarian). 34th Autumn Meeting of the Association of the Hungarian Geophysicists, 24-26 September, 2015, Budapest (Hungary), Abstract Book, 21-22.
  • Kovács, Z., Patkó, L., Aradi, L.E., Klébesz, R., Hidas, K., Garrido, C.J., Creon-Bocquet, L. & Szabó, Cs. (2016) Orthopyroxene-enriched, dunite veined upper mantle xenoliths from Mindszentkálla (Bakony-Balaton Highland, Western Pannonian Basin): traces of a subducted slab? 2nd European Mineralogical Conference, 11-15 September, 2016, Rimini, Italy, Abstract Book, 133.
  • Szabó, Á., Tóth, A., Hidas, K., Kovács, Z., Patkó, L. & Szabó, Cs. (2016) Subduction-related mantle metasomatism beneath the eastern Transylvanian Basin? 2nd European Mineralogical Conference, 11-15 September, 2016, Rimini, Italy, Abstract Book, 79.
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