Dr Péter Horváth

Dr Péter Horváth

Lecturer

Metamorphic Petrology

PhD 2002 Eötvös University (Budapest, Hungary)

MSc 1997 Eötvös University (Budapest, Hungary)

Phone: +27 (0)46 603 8312

Fax:  +27 (0)46 603 7346

E-mail:  p.horvath(at)ru.ac.za

RESEARCH INTERESTS

• Modelling of metamorphic processes using quantitative phase diagrams
• Archaean granulite facies metamorphic rocks in South Africa and Swaziland
• Alpine and pre-Alpine metamorphism in the basement of the Pannonian Basin

TEACHING

• Geology 201: Mineralogy/Geochemistry/Phase Diagrams
• Geology 202, 302 and Honours: Metamorphic Petrology

PUBLICATIONS

• Horváth P., Balen D., Finger F., Tomljenovic B., Krenn E. 2010: Contrasting P-T-t paths from the basement of the Tisia Unit (Slavonian Mts., NE Croatia): Application of quantitative phase diagrams and monazite age dating. Lithos, 117/1-4, p. 269-282.

• Koroknai B., Árkai P., Horváth P., Balogh K. 2008: Anatomy of a transitional brittle-ductile shear zone developed in a low-T meta-andesite tuff: a microstructural, petrological and geochronological case study from the Bükk Mts. (NE Hungary). Journal of Structural Geology, 30/2, p. 159-176.

• Horváth P. 2007: PT pseudosections in KFMASH, KMnFMASH, NCKFMASH and NCKMnFMASH systems: a case study from garnet-staurolite mica schist from the Alpine metamorphic basement of the Pannonian Basin (Hungary). Geologica Carpathica, 58/2, p. 107-119.

• Balen D., Horváth P., Tomljenovic B., Finger F., Humer B. Pamic J., Árkai P. 2006: A record of pre-Variscan Barrovian regional metamorphism in the eastern part of the Slavonian Mountains (NE Croatia). Mineralogy and Petrology, 87/1-2, p. 143-162.

• Horváth P., Árkai P. 2005: Amphibole-bearing assemblages as indicators of microdomain-scale equlibrium conditions in metabasites: an example from Alpine ophiolites of the Meliata Unit, NE Hungary. Mineralogy and Petrology, 84/3-4, p. 233-258.

• Faryad S.W., Spisiak J., Horváth P., Hovorka D., Dianiska I., Józsa S. 2005: Petrological and geochemical features of the Meliata mafic rocks from the sutured Triassic oceanic basin, Western Carpathians. Ofioliti, 30/1, p. 27-35.

• Horváth P., Kovács G., Szakmány Gy. 2003: Eclogite and garnet amphibolite pebbles from Miocene conglomerates (Pannonian Basin, Hungary): implications for the Variscan metamorphic evolution of the Tisza Megaunit. Geologica Carpathica, 54/6, p. 355-366.

• Horváth P., Árkai P 2002: Pressure-temperature path of metapelites from the Algy?-Ferencszállás area, SE Hungary: thermobarometric constraints from coexisting mineral assemblages and garnet zoning. Acta Geologica Hungarica, 45/1, p. 1-27.

• Koroknai B., Horváth P., Balogh K., Dunkl I. 2001: Alpine metamorphic evolution and cooling history of the Veporic crystalline basement in Northern Hungary: new petrological and geochronological constraints. International Journal of Earth Sciences (Geologische Rundschau), 90/3, p. 740-751.

• Horváth P. 2000: Metamorphic evolution of gabbroic rocks of the Bódva Valley Ophiolite Complex, NE Hungary. Geologica Carpathica, 51, p. 121-129.