Bálint Péterdi

Mining and Geological Survey of Hungary · Department of Geological and Geophysical Collections

The Mining and Geological Survey of Hungary (MBFSZ) owns a comprehensive collection of mineral resources in Hungary. This paper presents the micromineralogical collection of MBFSZ belonging to the Mineralogy and Economic Geology Collection which provides information on the heavy mineral (HM) assemblages of clastic sediments (sand, gravel) of Hungar...

A Magyar Bányászati és Földtani Szolgálat (MBFSZ) jelentős, a magyarországi ásványi (nyers)anyagokat felölelő gyűjteménnyel rendelkezik. A jelen cikkben bemutatott mikromineralógiai gyűjtemény – amely a Szolgálat Ásványtan–Teleptani gyűjteményének részét képezi – a hazai törmelékes üledékek (homok, kavics) nehézásvány összetételéről ad információt....

This study introduces a possible archaeometric application of the micromineralogical collection belonging to the Mining and Geological Survey of Hungary. Micromineralogical (heavy mineral) assemblage of natural clastic sediments (clay, silt, sand) can characterize the plastic ceramic raw materials typical for a delimited region (i.e. a river catchm...

Balatonőszöd - Temetői dűlő is one of the largest excavated and longest-lived sites of the Late Copper Age Baden Culture in Hungary, where 500 lithic finds were registered. In the site finds belonging to the late Middle Copper Age Balaton-Lasinja Culture and the Late Copper Age Boleraz Culture were found too. This paper presents petrographic and g...

A lumineszcens kormeghatározás során végzett OSL (Optically Stimulated Luminescence) mérések alapján a kvarc lumineszcens tulajdonságai és OSL kormeghatározásra való alkalmassága helyi eltéréseket mutat. Tapasztalataink szerint Magyarországon és a Kárpát-medencén belüli közeli terüle-teken a késő-pleisztocén és holocén üledékek kvarc-szem-cséinek l...

The researchers of the Geological Institute of Hungary (now: Geological and Geophysical Institute of Hungary) have been studying the secrets of the geology of Hungary for nearly 150 years. During their surveys, many interesting fossils, minerals and stones have been found, most of which are housed at the Institute. Thus, the museum of the Institute...

The Złoty Stok Au-As deposit (SW Poland) hosts two distinct nephrite varieties: ‘type 1’ – a grayish green or pale green, translucent, with waxy to greasy luster nephrite composed of actinolite and abundant löllingite; ‘type 2’ – a deep or intense green, less-translucent, with sub-vitreous to dull luster nephrite composed of tremolite and actinolit...

The Gogołów-Jordanów Massif (GJM) in the Fore-Sudetic Block, SW Poland, hosts nephrites traditionally in terpreted as serpentinite-related (ortho-nephrite). This contribution confirms the serpentinite-related origin of the nephrites on the basis of mineralogy, bulk-rock chemistry, and O and H isotopes. Rock-forming amphiboles from nephrites of the...

The present study reports on results of petrographic and geochemical analyses on a stone adze from the archaeological Balatonőszöd – Temetői dűlő site (SW-Hungary, on the southern side of Lake Balaton). This is the largest excavated site of the Baden Culture in Hungary (more than 200,000 m2) and has the longest continuous settlement history. At the...

A Balatonőszöd mellett feltárt magyar lelőhely az őskor korszakában a világ egyik legnagyobb területen kutatott lelőhelyével, Çatal Höyükkel egyenértékű a feltárási terület nagyságát tekintve. A késő rézkor korszakának kutatásában meghatározó, korábban egymás utáni fázisokként meghatározott Boleráz és Baden, és a hol önálló kultúraként, hol a Baden...

Nephrite is mainly known in prehistoric context as raw material for polished stone tools. It is present among archaeological finds in Hungary only in a few numbers. They are known mostly from Transdanubian archaeological sites. The general aim of our investigations is the detailed petrographic and geochemical examination of the nephrite artefacts f...

Recently we have developed a new method in the SEM laboratory of Department of Petrology and Geochemistry; Eötvös Loránd University, in order to perform in situ mineral chemical and textural examination of artifacts. This method called as "original surface investigation method" allows to complete non-destructive in situ textural and mineral chemica...

The authors carried out the archaeometric analyses of 9 basalt preforms found at the Kádárta site in Veszprém county. Most of the analyses used non-destructive methods (macroscopic petrography, PGAA, MS and electron-microprobe (EDXEPMA) method developed within the frames of these investigations) and the traditional destructive petrographic and mine...

The present study reports results of petrographical and geochemical analyses on stone tools from the archaeological site Balatonszöd - Temeti dl (Hungary). Balatonszöd - Temeti dl is the largest excavated and longest-lived site of the Baden Culture in Hungary (more than 200.000 m2). In the site objects of the Balaton-Lasinja Culture (Middle Copper...

The present study reports some preliminary results of petrographic and geochemical analyses carried out on Sarmatian age grinding stones from the archaeological site Üllő 5 (Pest County, Hungary). The purpose of the study was to define the provenance of raw materials through a petrographic and geochemical description of the finds.