Pancardi 2001 II. [antikvár]

ADDRESS OF WELCOMEOn behalf of the Local Organizing Committee all participants are kindly welcome to Sopron, at the western border of the Republic of Hungarian. The town is old it was founded by the Romans and its ruins were occupied by the Hungarians more than 1000 years ago as well as the local tradition of geosciences. The Society of the Hungarian Physicians and Natural Scientists (the so-called "observers of the nature") decided to establish the Geological Society of Hungary (Magyar Földtani Társulat) here in 1847. After the first world war the Mining Academy, which was founded in 1735 in Chemnitz (in Hungarian: Selmecbánya, in Slovakian: Banska Stiavnica), got a new home here.The geological and geophysical education was especially famous in Sopron between 1920 and 1956: the Department of Geology Qieaded by Miklós VENDEL, who published his well-known book on the regional geology of the Sopron Mountains), and the Department of Mineralogy and Petrology (headed by Elemér SZÁDECZKY-KARDOSS, the famous geo-chemist). The geodesist/geophysicist Antal TÁRCZY-HORNOCH had lectures on geophysics at this university as early as the thirties, and a department of geophysics, directed by Károly KÁNTÁS, was founded in Sopron in 1951. All of these professors were members of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.From pohtiCcd reasons the Mining and Metallurgy Faculties were forced to move from Sopron to Miskolc in 1959. Nevertheless, some geoscientific research has always remained in Sopron. In 1971 the Geodetic and Geophysical Research Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (GGRI) was founded from the Geodetic and Geophysical Research Laboratories of HAS.Nowadays, there is a new co-operation between the local university (University of Western Hungary) and the GGRI, starting among others a new academic educational programme in global environmental sciences in 2002.In the spirit of this tradition, the geophysicists of the GGRI, together with many other geoscientists from our country, have been involved in the ESF EUROPROBE project, especially into the PANCARDI key project from the very beginning. We appreciate the efforts of Prof. Dr. Gee, the chairman of the EUROPROBE and of Prof. C. Tomek in chair of the PANCARDI key project. Due to their directives a vast amount of valuable results on geology, geophysics, tectonics, geochemistry, volcanology, petrophysics, etc. will be represented at this conference as shown by the more than 100 abstracts divided into 4 great groups:Pannonian Basin (PC = oral, PP = poster) Carpathians(CO = oral, CP = poster)Dinarides(DO = oral, DP = poster)General(GO = oral, GP = poster).The abstracts of the oral presentations are numbered in the sequence of presentation, while the abstracts of the posters are listed in alphabetical order. (Except for the papers received much later than the original deadline.) The content of the abstract is at the responsibility of the authors. In spite our efforts several spelling mistakes might have occured during the transformation of the submitted abstracts, since it was not at all easy to produce all Central European characters in their correct form.Please find below the preliminary (the version of 21 August) programme of the PANCARDI 2001 Meeting. The LOG keeps the right to update it. The final programme, if necessary, will be distributed just before the meeting. (E.g. several late arrival papers, which can be found among the posters now, had been intended to be presented orally. The LOG considers them as stand-by oral contributions.)We wish you a successful meeting and very useful discussions during the conference and during the field excursions.We have fond memories of all preceding PANCARDI meetings, and we try to follow their examples.Have a nice time in SopronThe PANCARDI 2001 Local Organizing Committee