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Putiš M., Koppa M., Snárska B., Koller F., Uher P., 2012: The blueschist-associated perovskite–andradite-bearing serpentinized harzburgite from Dobšiná (the Meliata Unit), Slovakia. Journal of Geosciences, 57, 221–240.

Li, X.-H., Putiš, M., Yang, Y.-H., Koppa, M., Dyda, M., 2014: Accretionary wedge harzburgite serpentinization and rodingitization constrained by perovskite U/Pb SIMS age, trace elements and Sm/Nd isotopes: Case study from the Western Carpathians, Slovakia. Lithos 205, 1–14.

Putiš, M., Li, X.-H., Yang, Y.-H., Li, Q.-L., Nemec, O., Ling, X., Koller, F., Balen, D., 2018: Permian pyroxenite dykes in harzburgite with signatures of the mantle, subduction channel and accretionary wedge evolution (Austroalpine Unit, Eastern Alps). Lithos 314–315, 165–186.

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., 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.

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APVV-19-0065 (2020-2023, hlavný riešiteľ) "Petrologicko-geochronologický záznam riftogenézy a kôrovoplášťovej recyklácie v orogénnej prizme Západných Karpát/ Petrological-geochronological record of riftogenesis and crust-mantle recycling in the Western Carpathians orogenic wedge". Predmetom výskumu sú špecifické skupiny kôrových a plášťových hornín a ich minerálov ako indikátorov riftogénnych zón a to aj napriek tomu, že často majú znaky mladšieho tektono-termálneho prepracovania v dôsledku ich začlenenia do orogenetických zón. Používame mineralogicko-petrologické (EPMA, micro-Raman, LA-ICP-MS, XRF, ICP-MS), izotopovo-geochemické (LA-MC-ICP-MS, TIMS) a geochronologické (U-Pb SIMS, LA-ICP-MS, Ar-Ar, K-Ar) metódy na určenie chemizmu minerálov a hornín, vrátane vybraných rádiogénnych izotopov (U-Pb, Pb-Pb, Sm-Nd, Rb-Sr, Zr-Hf, Re-Os) na určenie ich veku a genézy. / APVV-19-0065 (2020-2023, principal investigator) "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. 

2016YFE0203000 (2017-2020; riešiteľ/principal investigator Prof. Dr. Qiu-Li Li; zodpovedný spoluriešiteľ za SR/principal co-investigator for Slovakia: Prof. Dr. Marián Putiš) "Cooperative research of microbeam analytical techniques of rock and minerals". Funded by “Strategic international cooperation for technology Innovation” of National Key Research and Development Plan. The China Ministry of Science and Technology Project between the Institute of Geology and Geophysics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing and Comenius University in Bratislava, Slovakia. Projekt sa zaoberá vývojom metodiky a izotopovým datovaním zirkónu a rutilu metódou U/Pb SIMS, nano-SIMS a LA-ICP-MS v Ústave geológie a geofyziky Čínskej akadémie vied v Pekingu a na univerzite vo Wuhane. Datoval sa protolit a metamorfný vek eklogitov z veporika Západných Karpát a austroalpinika Východných Álp (Putiš et al., 2017, 2018, 2019). Aplikáciou nano-SIMS sa nám podarilo datovať aj zirkón veľmi malých rozmerov z permských metavulkanitov a metavulkanitov (Putiš et al., 2016; Ondrejka et al., 2018), ako aj veľmi jemnozrnnej (do 100 µm) detritickej frakcie zirkónu z aniskeho zatiaľ neznámeho magmatického zdroja zistenej v hlbokovodných oceánskych sedimentoch meliatika (Putiš et al., 2019). Novovyvinutá metodika na datovanie rutilu sa aplikovala úspešne aj pri datovaní metamorfného rutilu z eklogitov Východných Álp, ako aj z metamorfitov veporika a meliatika Západných Karpát (zatiaľ nepublikované údaje). Ide o prvé datovania rutilu v týchto regionóch, ktoré zároveň patria k prvým na svete. Project deals with the development of methodics for isotopic dating of zircon, rutile and other phases by U-Pb SIMS, nano-SIMS and LA-ICP-MS at the Institute of Geology and Geophysics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing and Wuhan University. We dated protolith and metamorphic ages of eclogites from the Veporic Superunit of the Western Carpathians and the Upper Austroalpine Unit of the Eastern Alps (Putiš et al., 2017, 2018, 2019). Application of nano-SIMS was successful at the dating of very fine-grained zircon (<100 µm) from volcanics and metavolcanics (Putiš et al., 2016; Ondrejka et al., 2018). This method also revealed an unknown Anisian magmatic zircon source the detrital zircon of which appeared in deep-water oceanic Meliatic sediments (Putiš et al., 2019). Newly-developed methodics for rutile dating was successfully aplied at the dating of metamorphic rutile from Veporicum and Meliaticum of the Western Carpathians, as well as rutile from eclogites of the Eastern Alps (Sieggraben and Kreuzeck ares; unpublished data). These are the first rutile datings in these regions, which provide the first rutile datings in the world.

VEGA-1/0151/19 (2019-2021, riešiteľ/principal investigator) “Petrológia a geochronológia kôrových a plášťových dajkových systémov v kriedovej akrečnej prizme Západných Karpát a východného okraja austroalpinik/Petrology and geochronology of crustal and mantle dyke systems in Cretaceous accretionary wedge of the Western Carpathians and eastern Austroalpine margin”. Kriedová akrečná prizma orogénu Vnútorných Západných Karpát a austroalpinika Álp obsahuje dajky kôrových a plášťových hornín. Ich magmatický vývoj je indikátorom permsko-triasovej, alebo jursko-kriedovej extenzie a otvárania oceánov neotetýdy a atlantickej tetýdy. Ich metamorfóza odráža paleotektonické prostredie, ale aj geodynamický vývoj Karpát a Álp po uzavretí týchto oceánov. Minerálne zloženie (EMPA, LA-ICP-MS) a celohorninový chemizmus (ICP-MS) budú využité na definíciu ich magmatického pôvodu pôvodu. Izotopické zloženie (Rb/Sr, Lu/Hf, Sm/Nd, U/Pb) poskytne informáciu o ich plášťovom či kôrovom zdroji. Izotopické datovanie (U-Pb SIMS, nano-SIMS, LA-MC-ICP-MS, K-Ar) umožní vytvorenie geodynamického modelu vývoja dajkových systémov v akrečných komplexoch. P-T podmienky magmatickej a metamorfnej etapy budú modelované najnovšími termodynamickými softvérmi (Melts, Perple_X, Thermocalc). Posúdi sa ich ekonomický potenciál. Využijeme možnosti medzinárodnej spolupráce pre izotopovú geochronológiu. 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.

APVV-15-0050 (2016-2019, riešiteľ/principal investigator) "Modely interakcie kôrových a plášťových hornín s fluidami v akrečných prizmách Západných Karpát, východných Álp a severného Turecka; korelácia P-T-X-t parametrov/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". Projekt sa zaoberal fluidno-alteračnými procesmi v horninách kôrovo-plášťovej prizmy v alpidnom orogéne Západných Karpát, východných Álp a severnej časti Turecka. Zamerali sme sa na viaceré typy fluidno-horninových interakčných (alteračných) zón, ktorých genéza bola predmetom výskumu: i) v subdukčno-akrečných komplexoch modrých bridlíc, eklogitov a ultramafitov, ii) v spodnokôrových ortorulách, granitoch, metabazitoch a metaultramafitoch, iii) v skarnoch, ako aj iv) v lamprofýroch. Podstatou týchto procesov je interakcia hornín s fluidami v rôznych hĺbkových úrovniach litosféry. Použili sme mikroskopické, elektrónovo-optické, rtg-difraktometrické a spektrometrické metódy na zistenie chemizmu minerálov a hornín alteračných zón. Určil sa model a vek interakcie ultramafitu s fluidom na perovskite ako produktu tejto interakcie. 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.

VEGA 1/0028/24 (2024-2026, riešiteľ/principal investigator) "Kôrovo-plášťové horninové komplexy variských geosuturných zón západokarpatského fundamentu petrologicko-geochemické a geochronologické indikátory periférnych paleozoických bazénov Gondwany, paleogeografická korelácia/ Crust-mantle rock complexes from the Variscan geosuture zones of the West-Carpathian basement petrological-geochemical and geochronological indicators of peri-Gondwanan Paleozoic basins, paleogeographic correlation". Predmetom výskumu sú kôrovo-plášťové horninové komplexy geosuturných zón staropaleozoického fundamentu Západných Karpát, ktoré sú kľúčom k identifikácii proto- a paleotethýdnych oceánskych bazénov pri severnom okraji Gondwany od kambria až do spodného karbónu. Našim cieľom je definovať relikty oceánskej kôry, ktoré sa stali po uzatvorení bazénov súčasťou variskej stavby kryštalinického podložia tatrika, veporika a gemerika. Predpokladaným indikátorom sú komplexy metabazitov s eklogitmi a peridotitmi. Rekonštruovaný evolučný model vývoja horninových komplexov tethýdnych bazénov včlenených do fundamentu Západných Karpát bude korelovaný v rámci paleogeografie terranov európskych variscíd. 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.