GÁBOR DOBOSI

DSc

scientific adviser

phone: +361 309 2600 / ext 1108

fax: +361 319 3137

e-mail: dobosi@geochem.hu

room:  310

Research Areas

- Petrology and geochemistry of upper mantle and lower crustal xenoliths from the Carpathian-Pannonian Area

- Petrology and geochemistry of the Plio- Pleistocene alkali basalts from the Pannonian Basin

- Composition and zoning of rock forming silicates (mainly clinopyroxene) in igneous rocks and applicalitons to magma evolution and thermobarometry

- Geochemical study of policrystalline diamonds (framesite, diamondite) and their silicate intergrowths

- Mineralogy of hydrothermal ore mineralizations in Hungary

- Application of in situ analytical methods (electron microprobe, laser ablation ICP-MS) in petrology and geochemistry

Curriculum Vitae

Born: 1951 Budapest

Occupation: 1975-present: Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Institute for Geochemical Research

Position: scientific adviser

Education:

- M.Sc. in chemistry, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, 1975
- M Sc. in geology, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, 1979
- Dr. univ., Kossuth Lajos University, Debrecen, 1981.
- Ph.D. (C. Sc.) Committee of Scientific Qualifications, Budapest, 1994. 

- D.Sc. Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, 2004.

Fellowships:

- 1996-1998. NATO Fellowship, Department of Earth Sciences, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada

- 1993-1994. Fulbright Fellowship, Department of Marine, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA

- 1991. Széchenyi Fellowship, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, Massachusetts, USA
 

Awards:

Vendl Mária Medal 2006 (Hungarian Geological Society)

Szádeczky-Kardoss Elemér Award 1989

Szádeczky-Kardoss Elemér Award 1987

Selected recent publications

Full list of publications

Litvin Yu A, Kurat G, Dobosi G (2005) Experimental study of diamondite formation in carbonate-silicate melts: a model approach to natural processes. Russian Geology and Geophysics 46, 1285-1299

Bjerg E.A., Ntaflos T., Kurat G., Dobosi G., Labudía C.H. (2005): The upper mantle beneath Patagonia, Argentina, documented by xenoliths from alkali basalts. Journal of South American Earth Sciences 18, 125-145.

Embey-Isztin A, Dobosi G (2004): Chemical composition and differentiation of the Earth (In Hungarian). Hungarian Journal of Chemistry 109-110, 166-172.

Dobosi G., Embey-Isztin A. (2004): Characteristics and origin of the lower crust beneath the Pannonian Basin - a review (In Hungarian). Bulletin of the Hungarian Geological Society 134, 481-498.

Maruoka T, Kurat G, Dobosi G, Koeberl C (2004): Isotopic composition of carbon in diamonds of diamondites: Record of mass fractionation in the upper mantle. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 68, 1635-1644.

Buda Gy, Dobosi G (2004): Lamprophyre-derived high-K mafic enclaves in Variscan granitoids from the Mecsek Mts. (south Hungary). Neues Jahrbuch für Mineralogie Abhandlungen 180, 115-147.

Dobosi G., Downes H., Embey-Isztin A., Jenner G.A. (2003): Origin of megacrysts and pyroxenite xenoliths from the Pliocene alkali basalts of the Pannonian Basin (Hungary). Neues Jahrbuch für Mineralogie Abhandlungen 178, 217-238.

Dobosi G., Kempton P., Downes H., Embey-Isztin A., Thirlwall M., Greenwood P. (2003): Lower crustal granulite xenoliths from the Pannonian Basin, Hungary, Part II: Sr-Nd-Pb-Hf and O isotope evidence for formation of continental lower crust by tectonic emplacement of oceanic crust. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology 144, 671-683.

Embey-Isztin A., Downes H., Kempton P., Dobosi G., Thirlwall M. (2003): Lower crustal granulite xenoliths from the Pannonian Basin, Hungary, Part I: Mineral chemistry, thermobarometry and petrology. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology 144, 652-670.

Dobosi G., Kurat G. (2002): Trace element abundances in garnets and clinopyroxenes from diamondites: a signature of carbonatitic fluids. Mineralogy and Petrology 76, 21-38.

Embey-Isztin A, Dobosi G, Altherr R and Meyer H-P. (2001): Thermal evolution of the lithosphere beneath the western Pannonian Basin: evidence from deep-seated xenoliths. Tectonophysics 331, 285-306.

Kurat G., Dobosi G. (2000): Garnet and diopside-bearing diamondites (framesites). Mineralogy and Petrology, 69, 143-159.

Bukovanska M., Dobosi G., Brandstätter F., Kurat G. (1999): Dar al Gani 400: petrology and geochemistry of some major lithologies. Meteoritics and Planetary Sciences 34, Suppl. A46.

Dobosi G., Kurat G., Jenner G.A.,  Brandstätter F. (1999): Cryptic metasomatism in the upper mantle beneath Southeastern Austria: a Laser Ablation Microprobe - ICP - MS study. Mineralogy and Petrology 67, 143-161.

Dobosi G., Jenner G.J. (1999): Petrologic implications of trace element variation in clinopyroxene megacrysts from the Nógrád volcanic province, north Hungary: a study by laser ablation microprobe - inductively coupled plasma - mass spectrometry. Lithos 46 (4), 731-749.