CVS goes to Hungary

Fieldtrip leaders: Andrea Di Capua, Federica Barilaro, Orsolya Sztanó, Péter Gál, Szabolcs Harangi, Réka Lukács
7 April – 11 April
Programme
- Day – 7th April (Monday)
Venue: Eötvös University Budapest (ELTE), Pázmány P. sétány 1/C, H-1117 Budapest, Hungary
Building C |
8:30-9:00 Registration at the Department of Petrology & Geochemistry (Building C, red coloured Southern one)
Enter the building at the gate facing towards the Danube and then it is on the left (see yellow arrow on the photo).
9:30-10:00 Introduction: presentations of the participants
10:00-12:00: Lectures
10:00-10:30 Orsolya Sztanó: Depositional environment in the Miocene in North Hungary
10:45-11:15 Szabolcs Harangi: Neogene volcanism in space and time in North Hungary
11:30-12:00 Andrea Di Capua: Volcanoclastic sediments – basics, nomenclature
12:00-13:00 Lunch at the Menza
13:30 Travel to Mátraverebély-Szentkút
15:00 Check-in to Mátraverebély-Szentkút, Zarándokház (https://szentkut.hu/#hotels)
15:30 Leave for Sámsonháza (andesitic sill, andesitic volcaniclastics)
18:00 Dinner at our accommodation in Mátraverebély-Szentkút, Zarándokház (https://szentkut.hu/#hotels)
(optional: shopping at a supermarket in Bátonyterenye)
20:00 Gathering at the conference room
- Day – 8th April (Tuesday)
7:30-8:30 Breakfast
8:30 leave for the fieldtrip
9:30 Tachty (Tajti), Slovakia (basaltic diatreme) 1.5 hour
11:00-11:30 (Surice, Sőreg; Hajnáčka, Ajnácskő) Fiľakovo (Fülek), Slovakia (basalt maar deposits) 1-2 hours
13:00 Lunch (Toilets) at the parking place
14:00-14:30 Páris creek, Nógrádszakál (volcanogenic conglomerates and sandstone, lahar deposits) 2-2.5 hours
17:00 leave for Bátortenyere
18:00 Dinner at Bátonyterenye, Szekér Restaurant (https://szekerfogado.hu/elerhetosegeink/)
(optional: shopping at a supermarket in Bátonyterenye)
20:00 Gathering at the conference room in Mátraverebély-Szentkút, Zarándokház
- Day – 9th April (Wednesday)
7:30-8:30 Breakfast
8:30 leave for the fieldtrip
9:30 Ipolytarnóc (primary PDCs, footprints) 2-3 hours
guide: Szarvas, Imre
12:30 Lunch (Toilets) at the Visitor center
13:30 leave for Tar
14:30 Tar (Fehérkő quarry, andesitic volcaniclastics, dacitic and andesitic PDC and sedimentary channels) 3 hours
17:30-18:00 leave for Mátraverebély-Szentkút, Zarándokház
18:00 Dinner at our accommodation in Mátraverebély-Szentkút, Zarándokház (https://szentkut.hu/#hotels)
(optional: shopping at a supermarket in Bátonyterenye)
20:00 Gathering at the conference room
- Day – 10th April (Thursday)
7:30-8:30 Breakfast
8:30 leave for the fieldtrip
9:30 Sirok (PDC, ignimbrite, channels) 3 hours
12:30 Lunch (Toilets) at the castle
13:15 leave for Demjén
(optional Egerbakta – concretions in Demjén ignimbrite; 1 hour)
14:00 Demjén (Nagyeresztvény quarry, welded ignimbrite) 3 hours
17:00 Check-in to Egerszalók, Thermal Park Egerszalók (https://egerszalok.eu/?_ga=2.141955319.471621647.1669126317-403988960.1669126317)
thermal bath and dinner (latest from 18:30)
20:00 optional walking tour to Egerszalók travertine
- Day – 11th April (Friday)
8:00-9:00 Breakfast
9:00 leave for the fieldtrip
(optional Egerszalók cave apartments; 1 hour; https://barlanghazak.hu/en/)
9:30 Eger, Homok street (paleosurface, PDC) 1 hour
10:30 Eger, Tihamér quarries (ignimbrite and related deposits, volcanogenic conglomerate and sand deposit) 3-4 hours
12:30 Lunch at the quarry
15:30-16:30 leave for Budapest (arrival between 18:00 and 19:00)
Costs: 400€ for accomodation and meals
Registration deadline: 31st of January at https://forms.gle/NRpviU3pDtPimgFm8
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