First Circular
of a meeting titled
„Way and type of occurrences and activities of deep-seated faults of the eastern part of
Austria and Western Hungary”
Date: 21 October 2011
Place: Sopron, Csatkai E. u. 8. (Hungary), POB 05
Venue: Geodetic and Geophysical Research Institute
Antecedents
Based on joint proposal an agreement has been approved by the Austrian and Hungarian
Academies of Sciences titled “Correlation of tectonic lines and units in the upper crust
revealed by geological methods and deep crustal/lithospheric structures imaged by
geophysical methods in the East Alpine – Pannonian domain” aiming to identify
correspondences and solve contradictions found between surface occurrences and downward
disappearences of deep-seated faults of the study area.
Scientific aspects and objectives
The Pannonian Basin and the surrounding Eastern Alsp, Carpathians, and Dinarides have
been a fascinating scientific target for many generations of geoscientists. Geological research
has a long tradition in this area and gained a wealth of information on composition, structure
and tectonic development. An intensive phase of geophysical exploration of the crust and
deeper lithosphere began about 10 years ago. Geophysical – especially seismic – models were
generated and new results emerge continuously. All this data show that a transformation of
the geophysical image into the geological view, and vice versa, is not an easy task. Scientific
cooperation and exchange of ideas and arguments between geologists and geophysicists have
substantially improved during the last decades. However, further increasing collaboration is
necessary to bring together geological and geophysical views and to achieve a deep
understanding of geodynamic processes in this area.
The main objective of the proposed cooperation is the development of tectonic/geodynamic
models of the Eastern Alps and the Pannonian domain by integrating existing geological and
geophysical data and models. The achievement of this goal implies that participating
geologists and geophysicists get a sound understating of meaning, accuracy, resolution, and
uniqueness of all geoscientific data integrated into the models.
At the kick-off meeting held in the “Montan Universität” Leoben have been decided that
geophysicists and geologists interested in the subject get together annually in Hungary and in
Austria. The first scientific meeting will be organized in Sopron.
Preliminary program of the day
Morning session: 10:00-13:00
Lunch-break: 13:00-14:00
Afternoon session: 14:00-17:00
Subjects of the meeting
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Structure of the Mohorovicic discontinuity and Upper Mantle of the broader area
(Eastern Alps, Western Carpathians, Pannonian Basin)
General geological and geophysical introduction of the Mid-Hungarian, the
Periadriatic-Balaton, the Rába, and the Mur-Mürz Lines
Geophysical methods used for delineating tectonic structures (seismic and non seismic
ones)
Although this meeting is planned as a two-sided project geophysicists and geologists from
Poland and Czech Republic, Slovakia, Slovenia, Croatia are also welcome.
On behalf of the thematic organizers:
Prof. Ewald Brückl
From Austrian Part
e-mail: ebrueckl@mail.tuwien.ac.at
Prof. Géza Császár
From Hungrian Par
e-mail: csaszar.geza@gmail.com
Local organizers:
A. Ádám em. research professor, e-mail: adam@ggki.hu
V. Wesztergom scientific deputy director, e-mail: vw@ggki.hu
in the Geodetic and Geophysical Research Institute.
It is kindly asked to inform the host (A. Ádám and V. Wesztergom) by the given e-mails your
intention of participation at the meeting with the title of the presentation. The presentation is
limited 15+5 Min.