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Bielik, M., Šefara, J., Kováč, M., Plašienka, D., Bezák, V., 2004: The Western Carpathians - Interaction of Hercynian and Alpine processes. Tectonophysics, 393, 1-4, 63-86. IF (JCR) 2004=1,838

Tašárová, Z., Fullea, J., Bielik, M., Sroda, P., 2016: Lithospheric structure of Central Europe: Puzzle pieces from Pannonian Basin to Trans-European Suture Zone resolved by geophysical-petrological modeling. Tectonics, 35, 3, 722-753. https://doi.org/10.1002/2015TC003935. IF (JCR) 2016=3,784. Kvartil Q: wos-jcr: Q1 [geochemistry and geophysics, 2016]

Janik, T., Grad, M., Guterch, A., Vozar, J., Bielik, M., Vozárová, A., Hegedus, E., Kovács, C.A., Kovács, I., Keller, G.R., CELEBRATION 2000 Working Group, 2011: Crustal structure of the Western Carpathians and Pannonian Basin: Seismic models from CELEBRATION 2000 data and geological implications, Journal of Geodynamics 52: 97–113, doi:10.1016/j.jog.2010.12.002m

Zahorec, P., Papčo, J., Pašteka, R., Bielik, M., Bonvalot, S., Braitenberg, C., Ebbing, J., Gabriel, G., Gosar, A., Grand, A., Götze, H.J., Hetényi, G., Holzrichter, N., Kissling, E., Marti, U., Meurers, B., Mrlina, J., Nogová, E., Pastorutti, A., Scarponi, M., Sebera, J., Seoane, L., Skiba, P., Szűcs, E., Varga, M., 2021: The first pan-Alpine surface-gravity database, a modern compilation that crosses frontiers. Earth System Science Data. Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 13, 2165–2209. https://doi.org/10.5194/ssd-13-2165-2021. IF (JCR) 2020 = 11,93, Kvartil Q: wos-jcr – Q1 (Earth and Planetary Sciences)

Šimonová, B., Zeyen, H., Bielik, M., 2019: Continental lithospheric structure from the East European Craton to the Pannonian Basin based on integrated geophysical modelling. Tectonophysics, 750, 289-300. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tecto.2018.12.003. IF (JCR) 2018=2,764, wos-jcr - Q2 (geochemistry and geophysics – 2018), scimago -- Q1 (Earth-surface processes – 2018)

Šujan, M., Rybár, S., Kováč, M., Bielik, M., Majcin, D., Minár, J., Plašienka, D., Nováková, P., Kotulová, J., 2021: The polyphase rifting and inversion of the Danube Basin revised. Global and Planetary Change, 196, 103375. www.elsevier.com/locate/gloplacha. IF (2019) = 4.448, , IF (JCR) 2019 = 4,448, 5-Year IF = 5.142, Kvartil Q: wos-jcr – Q1 (Global and Planetary Change Q1, Oceanography Q1

Zahorec, P., Papčo, J., Pašteka, R., Bielik, M., Bonvalot, S., Braitenberg, C., Ebbing, J., Gabriel, G., Gosar, A., Grand, A., Götze, H.J., Hetényi, G., Holzrichter, N., Kissling, E., Marti, U., Meurers, B., Mrlina, J., Nogová, E., Pastorutti, A., Scarponi, M., Sebera, J., Seoane, L., Skiba, P., Szűcs, E., Varga, M., 2021: The first pan-Alpine surface-gravity database, a modern compilation that crosses frontiers. Earth System Science Data. Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 13, 2165–2209. https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-13-2165-2021 IF (JCR) 2018 = 9,99, Kvartil Q: wos-jcr – Q1 (Earth and Planetary Sciences)

Bielik, M., Zeyen, H., Starostenko, V., Makarenko, I., Legostaeva, O., Savchenko, S., Dérerová, J., Grinč, M., Godová, D., Panisová, J., 2022: A review of geophysical studies of the lithosphere in the Carpathian Pannonian region. Geologica Carpathica, 73, 6, 499–516. https://doi.org/10.31577/GeolCarp.73.6.2 IF (JCR) 2021=1.415, Q2 [Geology] -- 2021

Plašienka D., Bielik, M., 2024: The Kolárovo gravity and magnetic anomaly body in a subcrop of the Danube Basin: A new geological interpretation. Geologica Carpathica, 2024, 75, 1, 49–59, https://doi.org/10.31577/GeolCarp.2024.03 IF (JCR) = 1.3, Geology - Q2, - 2023

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Program (ILP) project “Continental Lithosphere: a Broadscale Investigation – CoLiBrI” (2021-2025, one of 4 principal investigators: György HETÉNYI - University Lausanne Switzerland, Helena ŽLEBČÍKOVÁ - GFI of the AS Czech Republic, Miroslav BIELIK - ESI of the SAS, Juan Carlos AFONSO - Macquarie University, Australia)). Annotation: 1. Matching structure and physical properties across geoscience disciplines. For this, the necessary steps for large-scale geophysics are (i) homogeneous processing of datasets, (ii) joint inversion of several physical parameters, (iii) quantification of anisotropy, (iv) assessment of the possible range of results and uncertainties. 2. Lithospheric discontinuities. The new field datasets provide a rich source to revisit the structure and definition of the Moho and of the lithosphere-asthenosphere boundary. 3. Orogenic continental lithosphere. The European Alps and the neighbouring, broadly deforming regions are our primary focus region due to the richness of available geoscience datasets. These will allow us to create multi-disciplinary models of both the shallow (crust) and mantle parts of the lithosphere, whose structure, rheological and physico-chemical characteristics are still debated. https://www.sclilporg/fileadmin/sclilp/science/ILP_COLIBRI.pdf

APVV-21-0159, (2022-2026, co-investigator) "Atlas of Tectonic Dislocations of the Earth´s Crust in the Territory of Slovakia". Annotation: The knowledge of tectonic dislocations (faults) is essential for various areas of economic activity (e.g. large transport constructions, dams, nuclear power plants, mineral exploration and exploration of geothermal waters), and it has an impact on environmental issues (e.g. seismic risks, slope deformations, sites for radioactive waste storage). The systematic processing of data on the dislocations of crust in Slovakia in the form of a comprehensive monograph is highly needed. This is the aim of our DISLOCAT project. Based on the excerption of available published and archived data, all significant tectonic dislocations of crust will be characterized according to uniform criteria. We will focus on the faults from the youngest Neoalpine tectonic development, many of which are still active today. The basic parameters of the faults will include the manifestations of the aults in the geological map and/or aerial and satellite images, its course, inclination and depth, thickness of the disturbed zone, structural data and kinematics, age, seismicity, available geodetic measurements of recent movements, geomorphological manifestations and springs of water or emanations. Great attention will be paid to seismoactive fault zones. The information about selected faults will be collected and made more precise by field research into the geological structure and geophysical, mainly magnetotelluric measurements. Here, the project builds on the methodology of fault research, which was tested in the recently completed APVV WECAFARE project, which was focused mainly on the creation of a methodology to examine the faults and tested in the selected faults in Slovakia. The characteristics of faults will be supplemented by geological sections or photo documentation. The monograph – a catalog of tectonic dislocations with a map of faults in printed and electronic (GIS) version – will be the project output.

VEGA-1/0107/23 (2023-2026, co-investigator) “Integrated geophysical and geological detection of the course of the Vikartov fault and the Muráň fault line and the characterization of their parameters in combination with morphotectonic and structural analysis and dating of fault fills (Hornád Basin, Levočské vrchy Mts)". Annotation: Faults are very attractive structures in both basic and applied geological research. Determining the exact course of faults and their orientation in space, depth reach, width, character and age of the fill is important for science, but also for the socio-economic sphere – spatial planning, construction activities, valuation of health risks, localization of sources, or migration routes of groundwater. In the covered terrain of the Slovak territory of the Western Carpathians, it is problematic to map the course of faults using the classic method of direct observation. In previous projects, an exact geophysical methodology for identifying and mapping the course of faults on the surface and determining their parameters to shallow depths was optimized. The submitted project is focused on its development. The structure of the Vikartov and Murano faults will be investigated in 5 selected sections by geophysical methods, structural analysis of mesoscopic faults from the outcrops and morphotectonic analysis of fracture manifestations in morphostructures (analysis of remote sens, DTM and LiDAR images).

VEGA-2/0002/23 (2023-2026, co-investigator) “Application of modern gravimetric and other geophysical methods to selected problems of geological structure of the earth crust and lithosphere and of its geodynamic processes”. Annotation: Application of modern approaches of gravimetric inversion and structural density and integrated modeling, supported by additional geophysical and geological methods, to solving selected current problems of crustal and lithospheric structure and its tectonic development, as well as dynamic processes therein. For that sake methods of joint modelling of several geophysical fields and diverse datasets will be adopted, along with gravimetric inversion based on model exploration and growing source bodies of free geometry (the Growth approach). The Growth inversion approach will be applied also to interpretation of spatiotemporal gravity changes. For structural studies interpretation of new geoelectric and MT data, and existing seismic profile data, will be employed. Isotope dating and petrological and geochemical analyses will be utilized also. The determined rheological properties will be incorporated into the structural models to infer tectonic implications.

APVV-19-0150 (2020-2024, coinvestigator) "New Bouguer anomaly map of the Alpine-Carpathian area: a tool for gravity and tectonic applications". Annotation:Exact calculation of the complete Bouguer anomalies (CBA) plays an important role in applied gravimetry, whereas these serve as the main input into geological, structural and tectonic interpretation (in CBA maps all non-geological influences – mainly the manifestation of relief - are suppresed and the density inhomogeneities in lithosphere structure are displayed). The team of investigators of the submitted project was invited in the frame of an European initiative (AlpArray Gravity Research Group) with the aim to create a new map of CBA from the Alpine-Carpathian area. Up to day published solutions, coming from the so-called „Slovak gravimetric school“ (e.g.: reambulation of gravimetric databases on the national level, calculation of near and distant topographic effects, regularized, transformations of potential fields, 3D complex density modelling with the introduction of the geological corrections, stripping of gravimetric fields) could be further developed and applied during the tectonic interpretation of the new CBA map from the Alpine-Carpathian region with the aim to improve the knowledge about Alpine orogenesis and its relation to the upper-mantle dynamics. As a part of the project, there are planned also verification field measurements, which can contribute to the improvement of the precision of the gravimetrical dataset of the Alpine-Carpathian area. Project has chance to develop the methodics of CBA calculation in high-mountains environment using the concept of ellipsoidal heights and to deliver to other experts an unique new gravimetric map from the region of Western and Central Europe. Main output of the project will be the new CBA map from the Alpine-Carpathian region in a digital format (grid 4x4 km), which will be provided for a realisation of gravimetric, geodynamic, exploration, geothermal and other studies and researches. Additional outputs of the project will be the transformed maps (grids) of CBA field.