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Contents

Directors' Preface (Hans-Peter Schönlaub, Geologische Bundesanstalt - Gaál Gábor, Magyar Állami Földtani Intézet)
Editors' Introduction (Harald Lobitzer, GBA - Dudich Endre, MÁFI)

HISTORY OF GEOLOGY
Ups and Downs - the Hungarians in the Austrian Empire from 1740 through 1869 (Endre Dudich)
The first hundred years of teaching geological sciences at the Selmecbánya (Schemnitz) School (later Academy) of Mines (László Zsámboki)
Austro-Hungarian geological mapping before 1869 (Károly Brezsnyánszky)
Austria's contribution to the mineralogical exploration of Hungary until 1869 (Albert Schedl & Otto Schermann)
Austria's contribution to the palaeontological research in Hungary until the foundation of the Royal Hungarian Geological Survey in 1869 (Franz Stojaspal)

STRATIGRAPHY & PALEONTOLOGY
Palynology of the middle Upper Pannonian lignite occurrences in the area of Torony-Höll-Deutsch-Schützen-Bildein (Hungary/Austria) (Ilse Draxler, Eszter Nagy, Günther Pascher & Reinhard Zetter)
A representative leaf assemblage of the Pannonian Lake from Dozmat near Szombathely (West Hungary), Upper Pannonian, Upper Miocene (Lilla Hably and Johanna Kovar-Eder)
Revision of Hungarian Tertiary holoplanktonic gastropods housed in the collections of the Hungarian Museum of Natural History in Budapest (Irene Zorn & Margit Bohn-Havas)
Integrated stratigraphic correlations of the Upper Cretaceous sequence in the borehole Bakonyjákó 528 (Miklós Lantos, Michael Wagreich, Ágnes Siegl-Farkas, Erika Bodnár, Géza Császár)
Dasycladaceae from "Zaimkalk" (=lagoonal Bachstein Limestone) of the Mandling Unit (Styria, Austria) (Olga Piros, Gerhard W. Mandl & Harald Lobitzer)
Correlation of palyno- (spores, pollen, dinoflagellates) and calcareous nannofossil zones in the Late Cretaceous of the Northern Calcareous Alps (Austria) and the Transdanubian Central Range (Hungary) (Ágnes Siegl-Farkas & Michael Wagreich)
Bivalve assemblages from the Austrian and Hungarian Hierlatzkalk (Lower Jurassic): a comparison (István Szente)

GEOCHEMISTRY, PETROLOGY & APPLIED GEOLOGY
Organic geochemistry and facies of the Carnian Göstling Beds and Opponitz Formation (Northern Calcareous Alps, Austria) (Alice Brukner-Wein, Harald Lobitzer & Pavel Müller)
Young alkali basalt volcanism from the Graz Basin to the Eastern Carpathians (Antal Embey-Isztin & Gero Kurat)
Thermal history of Austroalpine basement rocks of the borehole Fertőrákos-1004, Western Hungary (Wolfgang Frank, Gyöngyi Lelkes-Felvári & István Dunkl)
The DANREG programme - an international effort for unified geological database and evaluation along the river Danube (G. Császár, J. Hricko, W. Janoschek, M. Kováčik, L. Nemesi & A. Matura)

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Preface

A formal cooperation agreement between the Geological Survey of Austria (Geologische Bundesanstalt, GBA) and the Hungarian Central Office of Geology (Központi Földtani Hivatal, KFH) was signed in 1968.

In 1988, on the 20th anniversary of this agreement, it was decided to present the achievements of joint research in jubilee publications.

Due to technical and organisational problems encountered in both countries the publication suffered considerable delay. However, two parts of the jubilee volume (Jubiläumsschrift 20 Jahre Geologische Zusammenarbeit Österreich-Ungarn - A 20 éves magyar-osztrák földtani együttműködés jubileumi kötete) were issued in 1991 and 1994, respectively.

Teil 1.-1.rész, S. 1-400 old., eds. H. Lobitzer & G. Császár, Wien-Bécs, Sept. 1991
Teil 2.-2. rész, S. 1-520 old., eds. H. Lobitzer, G. Császár & A. Daurer, Wien-Bécs, Nov. 1994

Part 1 contained 21, Part 2 27 scientific papers from the fields of Stratigraphy and Facies, Tectonics and Palaeogeography, Environmental, Engineering and Hydrogeology, Raw material Geology (Mineral Resources), Geophysics and Museum Collections.

In the Directors' Preface, the historical background has been briefly reviewed, so there is no need to elaborate on this here.

Furthermore, a special issue of "Geophysical Transactions" was also published by ELGI in 1991.

Joint research has been going on ever since, in spite of the reorganisation and severe budget cuts which affected in particular MÁFI and ELGI in 1993-1994.

The double state anniversary occurring in 1996 (1100 years of the Hungarian state and 1000 years of the Austrian one) provides us with an excellent opportunity to continue our reporting on the advances of joint Austrian-Hungarian geological research. The much shorter time span concerned and the very considerable reduction of MÁFI's scientific staff are the main reasons for the much shorter extent of the present volume as compared to the two previous ones. Nevertheless it offers a certain insight into the variety and the results of joint research, which hopefully will go on successfully in the future, too.

Hans-Peter Schönlaub
Geologische Bundesanstalt

Gaál Gábor
Magyar Állami Földtani Intézet

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