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Putiš, M., Danišík, M., Ružička, P., Schmiedt, I., 2014: Constraining exhumation pathway in an accretionary wedge by (U-Th)/He thermochronology-Case study on Meliatic nappes in the Western Carpathians. Journal of Geodynamics, 81, 80-90.

Vďačný, M., Ružička, P., Vozárová, A., 2016: Geochemistry and C, O, and Sr isotope composition of the Foderata Group metacarbonates (southern Veporicum, Western Carpathians, Slovakia): constraints on the nature of protolith and its depositional environment. Turkish Journal of Earth Sciences, 25, 6, 513-537.

Putiš, M., Danišík, M., Siman, P., Nemec, O., Tomek, Č., Ružička, P., 2019: Cretaceous and Eocene tectono-thermal events determined in the Inner Western Carpathians orogenic front Infratatricum. Geological Quarterly, 63, 2, 248-274.

Putiš, M., Soták, J., Qiu-Li, Li., Ondrejka, M., Xian-Hua, Li., Zhaoachu, Hu., Xiaoxiao, Ling., Nemec, O., Németh, Z., Ružička, P., 2019: Origin and Age Determination of the Neotethys Meliata Basin Ophiolite Fragments in the Late Jurassic-Early Cretaceous Accretionary Wedge Melange (Inner Western Carpathians, Slovakia). Minerals, 9, 11, 1-38, No. 652.

Putiš, M., Sláma, J., Li, Q.-L., Nemec, O., Ondrejka, M., Li, X.-H., Koller, F., Ackerman, L., Strnad, L., Ružička, P., 2024. Lithology, U–Pb zircon geochronology, and geochemistry of the Austroalpine Sieggraben Complex: Pre-Alpine vs. Alpine history. Lithos 482–483, 107739.

Putiš, M., Scherer, E.E., Nemec, O., Ackerman, L., Ružička, P., 2023: Geochemistry, Lu–Hf garnet ages, and P–T conditions of blueschists from the Meliatic and Fatric nappes, Western Carpathians: Indicators of Neotethyan subduction.Geosystems and Geoenvironment 2, 100150.

Putiš, M., Nemec, O., Danišík, M., Jourdan, F., Soták, J., Tomek, Č., Ružička, P., Molnárová, A., 2021. Formation of a Composite Albian–Eocene Orogenic Wedge in the Inner Western Carpathians: P–T Estimates and 40Ar/39Ar Geochronology from Structural Units. Minerals 11, 988, 1–77.

Nemec, O.; Putiš, M.; Bačík, P.; Ružička, P.; Németh, Z. Metamorphic Conditions of Neotethyan Meliatic Accretionary Wedge Estimated by Thermodynamic Modelling and Geothermobarometry (Inner Western Carpathians). Minerals 2020, 10, 1094.

Putiš, M., Soták, J., Li, Q.-L., Ondrejka, M., Li, X.-H., Hu, Z., Ling, X., Nemec, O., Németh, Z., Ružička, P., 2019: Origin and age determination of the Neotethys Meliata basin ophiolite fragments in the Late Jurassic–Early Cretaceous accretionary wedge mélange (Inner Western Carpathians, Slovakia). Minerals, 2019, 9(11), 652.

Putiš, M., Soták, J., Li, Q.-L., Ondrejka, M., Li, X.-H., Hu, Z., Ling, X., Nemec, O., Németh, Z., Ružička, P., 2019: Origin and age determination of the Neotethys Meliata basin ophiolite fragments in the Late Jurassic–Early Cretaceous accretionary wedge mélange (Inner Western Carpathians, Slovakia). Minerals, 2019, 9, 11, 652.

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Németh, Z., 2021: Lithotectonic units of the Western Carpathians: Suggestion of simple methodology for lithotectonic units defining, applicable for orogenic belts world-wide. Mineralia Slovaca 53, 2, 81-90.

Chang, R., Neubauer, F., Liu, Y., Liu Y., Genser, J., Yuan, S., Huang, Q., Li, W., Yu, S., 2022: Protolith and metamorphic age of the Sieggraben Eclogites: Implications for the Permian to Cretaceous Wilson cycle in the Austroalpine unit. Lithos 434-435, 15, 106923.

Németh, Z., Maglay, J., Petro, Ľ., Stercz, M., Grega, D., Pelech, O., Gaál, Ľ., 2023: Neo-Alpine uplift and subsidence zones in the Western Carpathians: Product of kinematic activity on Cenozoic AnD3 (NW-SE and NE-SW) and AnD4 (E-W – subequatorial and N-S – submeridian) regional faults. Mineralia Slovaca, 55, 2, 103-116.

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Broska, I., Petrík, P., Yi, K., Majka, J., Barnes, J. B., Vojtko, R., Madarás, M., Kurylo, S., Kubiš, M., 2024: Alpine stacking of two Variscan granite blocks recognised from mineral stabilities, age and structural data (Western Carpathians). Chemical Geology 648: 121959.

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Plašienka, D., Méres, Š., Ivan, P., Sýkora, M., Soták, J., Lačný, A., Aubrecht, R., Bellová, S., Potočný, T., 2019: Swiss Journal of Geosciences 112, 1, 55-81.

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Potočný, T., Jeřábek, P., Plašienka, D., 2023: Subduction–exhumation cycle recorded by calcite deformation microstructures: blueschist-facies metacarbonates and kinematic implications for deformation of the Meliata Unit (Western Carpathians). International Journal of Earth Sciences, 112, 8, 2097-2117.

Butek, J., Dufourcau, D., Duchene, S., Laurent, O., Grégoire, M., Spišiak, J., 2023: A petrochronological study of Fe-Ti oxides in rodingites of the Western Carpathians, Slovakia. Lithos 460-461, 1, 107393.

Vďačný, M., Ružička, P., Vozárová, A., 2016: Geochemistry and C, O, and Sr isotope composition of the Foderata Group metacarbonates (southern Veporicum, Western Carpathians, Slovakia): constraints on the nature of protolith and its depositional environment. Turkish Journal of Earth Sciences, 25, 6, 513-537.

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Putiš, M., Li, Jiao, Ružička, P., Ling, Xiao-Xiao, Nemec, O., 2016: U/Pb SIMS zircon dating of a rhyolite intercalation in Permian siliciclastics as well as a rhyodacite dyke in micaschists (Infratatricum, W. Carpathians). Mineralia Slovaca, 48, 2, 135-144

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Putiš, M., Soták, J., Qiu-Li, Li., Ondrejka, M., Xian-Hua, Li., Zhaoachu, Hu., Xiaoxiao, Ling., Nemec, O., Németh, Z., Ružička, P., 2019: Origin and Age Determination of the Neotethys Meliata Basin Ophiolite Fragments in the Late Jurassic-Early Cretaceous Accretionary Wedge Melange (Inner Western Carpathians, Slovakia). Minerals, 9, 11, 1-38, No. 652.

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APVV-15-0050 (2016-2019, principal investigator prof. M. Putiš, member of the research team P. Ružička): Interaction models of crustal and mantle rocks with fluids in accretionary wedges of the Western Carpathians, eastern Alps and northern Turkey; correlation of P-T-X-t parameters. Project investigated the fluid-driven alteration processes in crust-mantle prism rocks exposed in Alpidic orogene of the Western Carpathians, Eastern Alps and northern Turkey. We focused on fluid-rock interaction zones, the genesis of which had not yet been investigated: i) in subduction-accretionary wedges blueschists, eclogites and metaultramafics, ii) in lower crust orthogneisses, granites, metabasites and metaultramafics, iii) in skarns and iv) in lamprophyres and mantle xenoliths. These processes represent a fluid-rock interaction at the different lithosphere levels. Modern microscopic, electron-optic, rtg diffraction and spectroscopic methods were used for determination of the alteration zones mineral and rock chemical compositions. Thermodynamic modelling and geothermobarometry were applied for the estimation of the alteration reactions P-T-X conditions. Fluid-ultramafic rock interaction model was proposed, and the age of this process was established by the U-Pb SIMS and LA-ICP-MS dating of perovskite as a product of this interaction.

APVV-19-0065 (2020-2023, principal investigator prof. M. Putiš, member of the research team P. Ružička): Petrological-geochronological record of riftogenesis and crust-mantle recycling in the Western Carpathians orogenic wedge. Specific groups of rocks and their minerals are searched as indicators of the riftogenic zones, despite they often have signatures of superimposed tectono-thermal overprinting from their incorporation into the orogenic zones. Mineralogical, petrological (EPMA, micro-Raman, LA-ICP-MS, XRF, ICP-MS), isotopic-geochemical (LA-MC-ICP-MS, TIMS) and geochronological (U-Pb SIMS, LA-ICP-MS, Ar-Ar, K-Ar) methods will be applied to establish the chemical composition of minerals and rocks, their isotopic characteristics (U-Pb, Pb-Pb, Sm-Nd, Rb-Sr, Zr-Hf, Re-Os) and the ages. 

VEGA 1/0079/15 (2015-2018, principal investigator prof. M. Putiš, member of the research team P. Ružička): Serpentinites and rodingites of metaperidotites from accretionary complexes of the Inner Western Carpathians and eastern Austro-Alpine margin: petrology and genetic aspects. The object of study were newly-discovered types of metasomatites in two areas of the Eastern Alps and Western Carpathians. Perovskite-Grt serpentinites and rodingites were investigated in the Meliatic accretionary wedge of the Inner Western Carpathians. While eclogite-facies peridotites with metarodingites were investigated in the Sieggraben Austro-Alpine eclogitic complex. Mineral, rock and isotope compositions were searched by EPMA, LA-ICP-MS, mikro-Raman, XRF and ICP-MS methods; isotopic study and dating were performed by LA-MC-ICP-MS, SIMS and 40Ar-39Ar methods. Metasomatism mechanisms and estimated P-T conditions will be used for a genetic model of serpentinization and rodingitization in these areas.

VEGA-1/0151/19 (2019-2021, principal investigator prof. M. Putiš, member of the research team P. Ružička): Petrology and geochronology of crustal and mantle dyke systems in Cretaceous accretionary wedge of the Western Carpathians and eastern Austroalpine margin. Cretaceous accretionary wedges of the Western Carpathians and the Austro-Alpine unit of the eastern Alps contains dykes of the crustal and mantle rocks. These rocks are significant indicator of Permian-Triassic or Jurassic-Cretaceous extension and the opening of the Neotethys and Atlantic Tethys respectively. They are of the key importance for the reconstruction of palaeotectonic and geodynamic evolution of the Carpathians and Alps. The mineral rock composition (EPMA, LA-ICP-MS) and their whole-rock chemistry (ICP-MS) will be used for definition of their palaeotectonic origin. The isotopic study (Rb/Sr, Lu/Hf, Sm/Nd. U/Pb) of the rocks and minerals, and their isotopic dating (U-Pb SIMS, nano-SIMS, LA-MC-ICP-MS, K-Ar) will enhance creation of geodynamic evolution model of mentioned accretionary complexes. Their occasional economic potential can be estimated. We will utilize possibilities of our broad international co-operation particularly in isotope geochronology.

VEGA 1/0028/24 (2024-2026, principal investigator prof. M. Putiš, member of the research team P. Ružička): The object of study are the crust-mantle rock complexes in geosuture zones of the West-Carpathian Paleozoic basement play a key role in determination of Proto- and Paleotethyan oceanic basins at the northern Godwana margin from Cambrian to Mississippian. The project goal is to define the ocean crust relics within the Variscan metamorphic complexes of the Tatric, Veporic and Gemeric basement. The inferred indicators are suites of metamafic rocks, including eclogites and peridotites.Reconstructed evolutionary model of the tethyan basins rock complexe in the West-Carpathian basement will be correlated in the framework of terrane paleogeography of the European Variscides.