Publications 2016-2020

Selected scientific papers published between 2016 to 2020

ANDREI AS, BARICZ A, ROBESON MS, PĂUŞANMR, TĂMAŞ T, CHIRIAC C, SZEKERES E, BARBU-TUDORAN L, LEVEI EA, COMAN C, PODAR M, BANCIU HL, 2017. Hypersaline sapropels act as hotspots for microbial dark matter. Scientific Reports, 7:6150, doi:10.1038/s41598-017-06232-w.

ANDREI AS, PĂUŞAN M, TĂMAŞ T, HAR N, BARBU-TUDORAN L, LEOPOLD N, BANCIU HL, 2017. Diversity and Biomineralization Potential of the Epilithic Bacterial Communities Inhabiting the Oldest Public Stone Monument of Cluj-Napoca (Transylvania, Romania). Frontiers in Microbiology, doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2017.00372.

BALICA C, DUCEA MN, GEHRELS GE, KIRK J, ROBAN RD, LUFFI P, CHAPMAN JB, TRIANTAFYLLOU A, GUO J, STOICA AM, RUIZ J, BALINTONI I, PROFETA L, HOFFMAN D, PETRESCU L, 2020. A zircon petrochronologic view on granitoids and continental evolution. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 531: 6.

BALINTONI I, BALICA C, 2016. Peri-Amazonian provenance of the Euxinic Craton components in Dobrogea and of the North Dobrogean Orogen components (Romania): A detrital zircon study. Precambrian Research, 278: 34-51, doi: 10.1016/j.precamres.2016.03.008.

BARON S, TĂMAȘ CG, RIVOAL M, CAUUET B, TELOUK P, ALBAREDE F, 2019. Geochemistry of gold ores mined during Celtic times from the North-Western French Massif Central. Scientific Reports, 9, article number: 17816; DOI: 10.1038/s41598-019-54222-x.

BĂLC R, TĂMAȘ T, POPIȚĂ G, VASILE G, BRATU MC, GLIGOR DM, MOLDOVAN C, 2018. Assessment of chemical elements in soil, grapes and wine from two representative vineyards in Romania. Carpathian Journal of Earth and Environmental Sciences, 13(2): 435-446.

BENEA IM, GOREA M, LAZARESCU VA, 2016. Contribution to the study of Suceag pottery, Cluj county, Romania, Studia Universitatis Babes-Bolyai Chemia, 61(2):73 – 88.

BINDIU-HAITONIC R, FILIPESCU S, 2016. Paleocene „flysch type” agglutinated foraminifera from the northern part of the Eastern Carpathians (Romania), Studia UBB Geologia, 60 (2): 17-30.

BINDIU R, FILIPESCU S, BALC R, COCIS L, GLIGOR D, 2016. The middle/late Eocene transition in the Eastern Carpathians (Romania) based on foraminifera and calcareous nannofossil assemblages. Geological Quarterly, 60 (1): 38-55.

BINDIU-HAITONIC R, NICULICI S, FILIPESCU S, BALC R, AROLDI C, 2016. Biostratigraphy and paleoenvironments of the Eocene deep-water deposits of the Tarcau Nappe (Eastern Carpathians, Romania) based on agglutinated foraminifera and calcareous nannofossil assemblages. In: Kaminski, MA, Alegret, L, (Eds) Proceedings of the Ninth International Workshop on Agglutinated Foraminifera Grzybowski Foundation Special Publication, 22: 15-35.

BINDIU-HAITONIC R, 2018. Relația dintre asociațiile de foraminifere fosile și mediile depoziționale din Nordul Pânzei de Tarcău (Carpații Orientali, România). Presa Universitară Clujeană, 237 pp.

BINDIU-HAITONIC R, FILIPESCU S, AROLDI C, OLTEAN G, CHIRA CM, 2019. Eocene Deep Water foraminifera from the Eastern Carpathians (Romania) Paleoenvironments and biostratigraphical remarks. Micropaleontology, 65 (1): 47-61.

BOTKA D, MAGYAR I, CSOMA V, TÓTH  E, ŠUJAN M, RUSZKICZAY-RÜDIGER S, CHYBA A, BRAUCHER R, SANT K, ĆORIĆ S, BARANYI V, BAKRAČ K, KRIZMANIĆ K, BARTHA IR, SZABÓ M, SILYE L, 2019. Integrated stratigraphy of the Guşteriţa clay pit: a key section for the early Pannonian (late Miocene) of the Transylvanian Basin (Romania). Austrian Journal of Earth Sciences 112(2): 221-247.

BUCUR II, BRANZILA M, FILIPESCU S, MELINTE-DOBRINESCU M, POPA ME, BRUSTUR T, GRIGORESCU D, LAZAR I, POPA M, SILYE L, 2018. Stratigrafia In: Radulescu D, Panin N, Anastasiu N, Brustur T (coord). Istoria geoştiinţelor în România; ştiinţele geologice Ed Acad Rom, 155-191.

BUCUR II, KARIM KH, DAOUD H, GRANIER B, KHANAKA PA, 2018. A new organ species dasycladalean green alga from Darbandickhan, Kurdistan, Iraq. Arabian Journal of Geosciences, 11: 484 https://doiorg/101007/s12517-018-3840-8.

BUCUR II, LAZAR I, BRANZILA M, 2018. Paleontologia nevertebratelor In: Radulescu D, Panin N, Anastasiu N, Brustur T (coord). Istoria geoştiinţelor în România; ştiinţele geologice Ed Acad Rom, 106-116.

BUCUR II, RIGAUD S, DEL PIERRO N, FUCELLI A HEERWAGEN E, PEYBERNES C, PEYROTTY G, VERARD C, CHABLAIS J, MARTINI R, 2020. Upper Triassic calcareous algae from the Pantyalassa Ocean. Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia, 126(2): 499-540.

BUCUR I I, SĂSĂRAN E, PASCARIU L, 2017.  Remarks on Petrascula bugesiaca Bernier, 1979 from the uppermost Jurassic−lowermost Cretaceous limestones of Romania. Island Arc; 26e12186 DOI 101111/iar12186.

BUCUR II, SCHLAGINTWEIT F, 2018. Moulladella jourdanensis (Foury, Moullade, 1966) n gen, n comb: Valanginian-Early late Barremian larger benthic foraminifera from the northern Neotethyan margin. Acta Palaeontologica Romaniae, 14(2): 45-59.

BUCUR II, SCHLAGINTWEIT F, RASHIDI C, SABERZADEH B, 2016. Morelletpora turgida (Radoicic, 1975 non 1965) a Tethyan calcareous green alga (Dasycladales): Taxonomy, stratigraphy and paleogeography. Cretaceous Research, 58: 168-182.

BUCUR II, SUDAR M, SASARAN E, JOVANOVIC D, PLES G, POLAVDER S, 2018. Rediscovery of the type locality of the udoteacean alga Boueina hochstetteri TOULA, 1884, in the Lower Cretaceous of Serbia. Carnets de Géologie, 18 (4): 123-137.

BUCUR II, SUDAR M, SCHLAGINTWEIT F, PLEŞ G, SĂSĂRAN E, JOVANOVIĆ D POLAVDER S, RADOIČIĆ R, 2020. Lowermost Cretaceous limestones from the Kukaj zone (Carpatho-Balkanides, Eastern Serbia): new data on their age assignement. Cretaceous research, 116, 104575.

BUCUR II, YARAHMADZAHI H, MIRCESCU CV, 2019. The Lower Cretaceous Tirgan Formation in the Gelian section (Kopet Dagh, North Iran): Microfacies, microfossils, and their biostratigraphic significance. Acta Palaeontologica Romaniae, 15(1): 13-33 https://doiorg/1035463/japr2019.0102.

CARTER VA, BOBEK P, MORAVCOVÁ A, ŠOLCOVÁ A, CHIVERRELL RC, CLEAR JL, FINSINGER W, FEURDEAN A, TANŢĂU I, MAGYARI E, BRUSSEL T, KUNEŠ P, 2020. The role of climate-fuel feedbacks on Holocene biomass burning in upper-montane Carpathian forests. Global and Planetary Changes 193. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloplacha.2020.103264.

CAUUET B, TĂMAȘ CG, BOUSSICAULT M, MUNOZ M, 2018. Quantités et contrôle de l’or produit à l’âge du Fer en Gaule du Centre-Ouest, Mélanges de la Casa de Velazquez. Madrid, Espagne, Nouvelle série, 48(1): 13-42.

CHELARU R, BUCUR II, 2016. The taxonomy of middle Miocene red algae from the Gârbova de Sus Formation (Transylvanian basin, Romania) Carnets de Géologie, 16 (11), 307-33.

CHELARU R, SASARAN E, TĂMAȘ T, BALC R, BUCUR II, PLES G, 2019. Middle Miocene carbonate facies with rhodoliths from the NW Transylvanian Basin (Vălenii Șomcutei cave, Romania). Facies, 65:4 https://101007/s10347-018-0546-z.

CHICINAŞ R, BEDELEAN H, MĂICĂNEANU A, 2016. Romanian (Măcicaș) zeolitic volcanic tuff for malachite green removal, Studia Universitatis Babeș-Bolyai Chemia, 61(4): 243-254

CHICINAŞ R, TĂNASE A. BEDELEAN H, MĂICĂNEANU A, 2016. Characterization of Romanian Bentonitic Clays for the Removal of Dyes from Wastewater, Analytical Letters, 49(16): 2686-2701.

CHIRA CM, AROLDI C, POPA MV, JURAVLE DT, FLOREA F, 2018. Oligocene – Lower Miocene Biostratigraphy and Sedimentology of the Borsa Formation (N Romania, Maramures region). Acta Palaeontologica Romaniae, 14(1): 57-67

CLEARY D, FEURDEAN A, TANȚĂU I, FORRAY F, 2019. Pollen, δ15N and δ13C guano-derived record of late Holocene vegetation and climate in the southern Carpathians, Romania. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology,244: 203-216

CLEARY DM, ONAC BP. 2020: Using isotopic ratios in cave guano to assess past environmental changes. Geological Society, London, Special Publication, 507; https://doi.org/10.1144/SP507-2020-13.

CLEARY DM, ONAC BP, FORRAY FL, WYNN JG, 2016. Controls on δ15N values of cave bat guano: an assessment for reconstructing paleoclimate and environmental changes. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 461: 87-97, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2016.08.012.

CLEARY DM, ONAC BP, TANȚĂU I, WYNN JG, FORRAY FL, IONIȚĂ M, TĂMAȘ, T, 2018. A guano-derived δ13C and δ15N record of climate since the Medieval Warm Period in NW Romania. Journal of Quaternary Science, 33 (6): 677-688;doi: 10.1002/jqs.3044.

CLEARY DM, WYNN JG, IONITA M, FORRAY FL, ONAC BP, 2017. Evidence of long-term NAO influence on East-Central Europe winter precipitation from a guano-derived δ15N record. Scientific Reports 7: 14095; doi:10.1038/s41598-017-14488-5.

DAVIS B, CHEVALIER M, SOMMER P, CARTER V, FINSINGER W, … TANŢĂU I, TINNER W, et al, 2020. The Eurasian Modern Pollen Database (EMPD), Version 2. Earth System Science Data 12, 2423–2445. https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-12-2423-2020.

DIACONU A, GRINDEAN R, PANAIT A, TANTAU I, 2016. Late Holocene palaeohydrological changes in a Sphagnum peat bog from NW Romania based on Testate Amoebae. Studia UBB Geologia, 2016, 60 (1): 21-28.

DIACONU AC, TANŢĂU I, KNORR KH, BORKEN W, FEURDEAN A, PANAIT A, GAŁKA M, 2020. A multi proxy view of hydroclimate trends over the last millennium in Eastern Carpathians (Romania). Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 358, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2019.109390

DIACONU AC, TÓTH M, LAMENTOWICZ M, HEIRI O, KUSKE E, TANŢĂU I, PANAIT AM, BRAUN M, FEURDEAN A, 2017. How warm? How wet? Hydroclimate reconstruction of the past 7500 years in northern Carpathians, Romania. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 482: 1-16.  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2017.05.007

DUCEA MN, CHAPMAN AD, BOWMAN E, BALICA C, 2020. Arclogites and their role in continental evolution; part 2: Relationship to batholiths and volcanoes, density and foundering, remelting and long-term storage in the mantle. Earth Science Reviews. DOI: j.earscirev.2020.103476

DUCEA MN, GIOSAN L, CARTER A, BALICA C, STOICA AM, ROBAN RD, BALINTONI I, FILIP F, PETRESCU L, 2018. U-PB Detrital Zircon Geochronology of the Lower Danube and Its Tributaries: Implications for the Geology of the Carpathians. Geochem Geophy Geosy 19: 3208-3223.

DUMITRU OA, FORRAY FL, FORNÓS JJ, ERSEK V, ONAC BP, 2017. An assessment of stable isotopes variability in precipitation, cave drip, and groundwater from Mallorca Island, Western Mediterranean. Hydrological Processes, 31: 104-116; doi: 10.1002/hyp.10978.

DUMITRU OA, ONAC BP, POLYAK VJ, WYNN JG, ASMEROM Y, FORNÓS JJ, 2018, Climate variability in the western Mediterranean between 121 to 67 ka derived from a Mallorcan speleothem record. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 506: 128-138.

DUMITRU OA, AUSTERMANN J, POLYAK VJ, FORNÓS JJ, ASMEROM Y, GINÉS J, GINÉS A, ONAC BP, 2019.Constraints on global mean sea level during Pliocene warmth. Nature, 574: 233-236, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41586-019-1543-2.

ENEA-GIURGIU A, IONESCU C, HOECK V, TĂMAŞ T, ROMAN C, 2019. An archaeometric study of early Copper Age pottery from a cave in Romania. Clay Minerals, 54(3):255-268. doi:https://doi.org/10.1180/clm.2019.35

ENESCU F, IRIMICIUC S, CIMPOEȘU N, BEDELEAN H, BULAI G, GURLUI S, AGOP M, 2019. Investigations of Laser Produced Plasmas Generated by Laser Ablation on Geomaterials. Experimental and Theoretical Aspects, Symmetry-Basel, 11: 1391-1413.

ERSEK V, ONAC BP, PERSOIU A. 2018. Kinetic processes and stable isotopes in cave dripwaters as indicators of winter severity. Hydrological Processes, 32: 2856-2862; DOI: 10.1002/hyp.13231.

FERNÁRDEZ SM, WANG X, VREMIR M, LAURENT C, NAISH D, KAISER K, DYKE G, 2019. A mixed vertebrate eggshell assemblage from the Transylvanian Late Cretaceous. Scientific Reports, 9:1944.https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-36305-3.

FEURDEAN A, FLORESCU G, TANŢĂU I, VANNIERE B, DIACONU AC, PFEIFFER M, WARREN D, HUTCHINSON SM, GORINA N, GAŁKA M, KIRPOTIN S, 2020. Recent fire regime in the southern boreal forests of western Siberia is unprecedented in the last five millennia. Quaternary Science Reviews, 244, 106495. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2020.106495.

FEURDEAN A, FLORESCU G, VANNIERE B, TANŢĂU I, O’HARA RB, PFEIFFER M, GAŁKA M, HUTCHINSON SM, MOSKAL-DEL HOYO M, HICKLER T, 2017. Fire has been an important driver of forest dynamics in the Carpathian Mountains during the Holocene. Forest Ecology and Management, 389: 15-26.

FEURDEAN A, GAŁKA M, FLORESCU G, DIACONU AC, TANŢĂU I, KIRPOTIN S, HUTCHINSON SM, 2019. 2000 years of variability in hydroclimate and carbon accumulation in western Siberia and the relationship with large-scale atmospheric circulation: a multi proxy peat record. Quaternary Science Reviews, 226, 105948. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2019.105948.

FEURDEAN A, GALKA M, TANŢĂU I, GEANTĂ A, HUTCHINSON S, HICKLER T, 2016. Tree and timberline shifts in the northern Romanian Carpathians during the Holocene and their sensitivity to environmental changes. Quaternary Sciences Review, 134: 100-113.

FEURDEAN A, TANŢĂU I, 2017. The evolution of vegetation from the Last Glacial Maximum until the present. In:Rădoane M, Vespremeanu-Stroe A. (Eds.). Landform dynamics and evolution in Romania, Springer, 67-86.

FEURDEAN A, TONKOV S, PFEIFFER M, PANAITA, WARREN D, VANNIÈRE B, MARINOVA E, 2019. Fire frequency and intensity associated with functional traits of dominant forest type in the Balkans during the Holocene. European Journal of Forest Research, 138(6):1049-1066. https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-2019-260.

FEURDEAN A, VANNIÈRE B, FINSINGER W, WARREN D, CONNOR SC, LIAKKA J, PANAIT A, ANDRIČ M, BOBEK P, CARTER VA, DAVIS B, DIACONU AC, DIETZE E, FEESER I, FLORESCU G,  TANŢĂU I, et al. 2020. Fire hazard modulation by long-term dynamics in land cover and dominant forest type in Eastern and Central Europe. Biogeosciences, 17: 1213-1230. https://doi.org/10.5194/bg -17-1213-2020

FILIPESCU S, TĂMAȘ DM, BERCEA R-I, TĂMAȘ A, BĂLC R, ȚABĂRĂ D, BINDIU-HAITONIC R, SILYE L, AUER A, KRÉZSEK C, SCHLÉDER Z, SÃSÃRAN E, 2020. Biostratigraphic re-evaluation of the Lower to Middle Miocene succession in the Eastern Carpathians: a case study related to the oil fields of the Diapir Fold Zone, Romania. Geological Quarterly, 64 (3): 781–800, doi: 10.7306/gq.1554.

GAŁKA M, FEURDEAN F, HUTCHINSON S, MILECKA K, TANŢĂU I, APOLINARSKA K, 2018. Response of a spring-fed fen ecosystem in Central Eastern Europe (NW Romania) to climate changes and human impact during the last 4000 years: a high resolution multi-proxy reconstruction. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 504: 170-185.

GAŁKA M, TANŢĂU I, CARTER VA, FEURDEAN A, 2020. The Holocene dynamics of moss communities in subalpine wetland ecosystems in the Eastern Carpathian Mountains, Central Europe. The Bryologist, 123: 84-97. https://doi.org/10.1639/0007-2745-123.1.084

GAŁKA M, TANŢĂU I, ERSEK V, FEURDEAN A, 2016. A 9000 year record of cyclic vegetation changes identified in a montane peatland deposit located in the Eastern Carpathians (Central-eastern Europe): Autogenic succession or regional climatic influences?  Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 449: 53-61.

GAŁKA M, TANŢĂU I, FEURDEAN A, 2017. Plant succession in a peatland in the Eastern Carpathian Mts. (CE Europe) during the last 10,200 years: implications for peatland development and palaeoclimatic research. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, 244: 203-216.

GIURGIU A, IONESCU I, HOECK V, TĂMAŞ T, ROMAN C, CRANDELL ON, 2017. Insights into the raw materials and technology used to produce Copper Age ceramics in the Southern Carpathians (Romania). Archaeological Anthropological Sciences, 9: 1259-1273.

GOREA M, HAR N, 2017. Study of (Pb, Ba) – CRT glass waste behaviour as a partial aggregate replacement in cement mortars. Studia UBB Chemia, 4(II): 343-356.

GRANIER  B, BUCUR II, 2017. Révission de la collection Juliette Pfender 3e partie A propos de quelques algues vertes fossiles. Carnets de Géologie, 17(14): 251-269.

GRANIER B, BUCUR II DIAS-BRITO D, 2017. About Trinocladus Raineri, 1922: when some Permocalculus (Gymnocodiacean algae) reveal to be Triploporellacean algae (Revision of the Jesse Harlan Johnson Collection Part 5). Facies, 63:27 DOI 101007/s10347-017-0508-x.

GRANIER B, COUGNON M, BUCUR II, PRIEUR A, 2016. Redécouverte de Tersella incomplete J Morellet in J Morellet, Ters, 1952, une algue dasycladale du Jurassique basal de Vandée (centre-ouest de la France). Archives des Sciences, 68: 163-172.

GRĂDINARU M, LAZĂR I, BUCUR II, GRĂDINARU E, SĂSĂRAN E, DUCEA MN, ANDRĂŞANU A, 2016. The Valanginian history of the eastern part of tge Getic Carbonate Platform (Southern Carpathians, Romania): Evidence for emergence and drowning of the platform. Cretaceous Research, 66: 11-42.

GRINDEAN R, TANŢĂU I, FEURDEAN A, 2017. Doda Pilii, Apuseni Mountains (Romania). Grana, 6: 478-460. DOI:10.1080/00173134.2017.1329342.

GRINDEAN R, TANŢĂU I, FEURDEAN A, 2019. Linking vegetation dynamics and stability in the old-growth forests of Central Eastern Europe: Implications for forest conservation and management. Biological Conservation, 229: 160-169. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2018.11.019.

GRINDEAN R, NIELSEN AB, TANŢĂU I, FEURDEAN A, 2019. Relative pollen productivity estimates in the forest steppe landscape of southeastern Romania. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, 264: 54-63. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.revpalbo.2019.02.007

HAR N, 2016. Stone Artefacts from the Cotofeni Settlement in Bretea Muresana. Geo-Archeological Analyses. Acta Musei Napocensis 53(I): 61-72.

HAR N, LĂZĂREAN  A, ILIESCU M, CIONT N, ABRUDAN IF, 2019. Degradation processes of iron-sulfide and calcite containing aggregates from asphaltic mixture. Construction And Building Materials, 212: 745-750.

ILIEȘ IA, OLTEAN G, BINDIU-HAITONIC R, FILIPESCU S, MICLEA A, JIPA C, 2020. Early middle Miocene paleoenvironmental evolution in southwest Transylvania (Romania): Interpretation based on foraminifera. Geologica Carpathica, 71 (5): 444-461.

IRIMICIUC S, ENESCU F, BEDELEAN H, GURLUI S, AGOP M, 2020. Space-and time-resolved optical investigations on ns-laser produced plasmas on various geological samples, Spectrochimica Acta Part B: Atomic Spectroscopy, 170: 105904.

JAKAB G, SILYE L, SÜMEGI P, TÓTH A, SÜMEGI B, PÁL I, BENKŐ E, 2020. Relict Anthropogenic Ecosystem from the Middle Ages: History of a Salt Marsh from Transylvania (Sic, N Romania). Environmental Archaeology 25(1): 96-113.

JURAVLE DT, CHIRA CM, MARE S, IONESI V, BULGARIU D, BREABĂN IG, JURAVLE A, 2016. Events in the Northern Paleogene Foreland Basin of the Eastern Carpathians (Romania, Bucovina), at the Ypresian-Lutetian transition. Carpathian Journal of Earth and Environmental Sciences. 11(1): 131-146.

KIS BM, BACIU C, ZSIGMOND AR, KÉKEDY-NAGY L, KÁRMÁN K, PALCSU L, HARANGI S, 2020. Constraints on the hydrogeochemistry and origin of the CO2-rich mineral waters from the Eastern Carpathians – Transylvanian Basin boundary (Romania), Journal of Hydrology, 591, 125311.

KIS BM, CARACAUSI A, PALCSUL, BACIU I, IONESCU A, FUTÓ I, SCIARRA, A, HARANGI S, 2019. Noble gas and carbon isotope systematic at the seemingly inactive Ciomadul volcano (Eastern-Central Europe, Romania. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 20, 6, 3019-3043.

KOLODZIEJ B, BUCUR II, 2020. An early Cretaceous mesophotic coral ecosystem built by platy corals (middle Aptian, Southern Carpathians, Romania). Cretaceous Research, 109, 104374.

KOVÁCS R, TĂMAȘ CG, 2020. Cu3(As,Sb)S4 minerals from the Baia Mare metallogenic district, Eastern Carpathians, Romania – a case study from the Cisma ore deposit. Geological Quarterly, 62 (2).

KÖVECSI, S.-A, SILYE, L, LESS, G, FILIPESCU, S, 2016. Odd partnerships among middle Eocene (Bartonian) Nummulites: Examples from the Transylvanian (Romania) and Dorog (Hungary) Basins. Marine Micropaleontology 127: 86-98.

KÖVECSI SA, ZÁGORŠEK K, FILIPESCU S, SILYE L. 2018. First report of Kylonisa triangularis Keij, 1971 (Bryozoa) from the middle Eocene (Bartonian). Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Palöontologie-Abhandlungen 289(3): 325-330.

KROLL JJ, KOLODZIEJ B, BUCUR II, 2018. Coral reefs near the Eocene–Oligocene boundary in the northern Transylvanian Basin, Romania: Composition and paleoenvironmental interpretation. Geological Journal 53: 565-579 DOI 101002/gj2913.

KUCERA M, SILYE L, WEINER AKM, DARLING K, LÜBBEN B, HOLZMANN M, PAWLOWSKI J, SCHÖNFELD J, MORARD R, 2017. Caught in the act: anatomy of an ongoing benthic–planktonic transition in a marine protist. Journal of Plankton Research 39(3): 436-449.

LAMENTOWICZ M MARCISZ K, GUZOWSKI P, GAŁKA M,  DIACONU AC, KOŁACZEK P, 2020. How Joannites’ economy eradicated primeval forest and created anthroecosystems in medieval Central Europe. Scientific Reports, 18775 https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-75692-4

LAURENT CM, AHMED SI, BOARDMAN R P, COOK RB, DYKE, G, PALMER C, SCHNEIDER P, DEKAT R, 2019.Imaging techniques for observing laminar geometry in the feather shaft cortex. Journal of Microscopy.00(0) 2019, 1-6, https://doi.org/10.1111/jmi.12820.

LONGMAN J, VERES D, ERSEK V, PHILLIPS DL, CHAUVEL C, TĂMAȘ CG, 2018. Quantitative assessment of Pb sources in isotopic mixtures using a Bayesian mixing model. Scientific Reports, 8:6154 , doi:10.1038/s41598-018-24474-0.

MARCISZ K, KOŁACZEK P, GAŁKA M, DIACONU AC, LAMENTOWICZ M, 2020. Exceptional hydrological stability of a Sphagnum-dominated peatland over the late Holocene. Quaternary Science Reviews. 231: 106180. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2020.106180.

MARGARIT N, HAR N, MARCHETTI DS, BIGI SS, GUALTIERI A, 2016. Pprogress in mineralogical quantitative analysis of rock samples: application to quartzite from Denali National park, Alaska Range (SUA). Powder Diffraction, 31(1): 31-9.

MARINOVA E, HARRISON S.P, BRAGG F, CONNOR S, DE LAET V, LEROY SAG, MUDIE P, ATANASSOVA J, BOZILOVA E, CANER H, CORDOVA C, DJAMALI M, FILIPOVA-MARINOVA M, GERASIMENKO N, JAHNS S, KOULI K, KOTTHOFF U, KVAVADZE E, LAZAROVA M, NOVENKO E, RAMEZANI E, RÖPKE A, SHUMILOVSKIKH L, TANŢĂU I, TONKOV T, 2018. Pollen-derived biomes in the Eastern Mediterranean – Black Sea – Caspian Corridor. Journal of Biogeography, 45(2): 484–499.

MĂICĂNEANU A, BEDELEAN H, 2020. Na+-NH4+ cation exchange study on treated zeolitic volcanic tuff in fixed bed column, Studia Universitatis Babeș-Bolyai Chemia, 65(3): 89-100.

MĂICĂNEANU A, PLEȘA CHICINAȘ R, BEDELEAN H, 2019, Treated diatomite for Toluidine Blue removal from wastewater. Is it worth it?, Studia Universitatis Babeș-Bolyai Chemia, 64(4):  37-51.

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