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Contents

Development of the theme
Palynological results of the individual countries
  Croatia
  Slovenia
  Yugoslavia - Bosnia
  Albania
  Bulgaria
  Greece
  Romania
  Moldova
  Ukraine
  Slovakia
  Czech Republic
  Austria
  Poland
  Turkey
Evaluation
References
Plates

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Introduction

In 1990 an initiative of the International Secretariat of the Geological Institute of Hungary made it possible to develop common scientific plans for the Geological Institutes of the countries participating in the Alps-Adriatic programme. For this reason I presented to the Pentagonale a plan of collaboration of the Central Paratethyan Neogene palynologists of Hungary, Austria, Yugoslavia and Czechoslovakia. I requested the palynologists of these countries to collaborate, what they accepted. The responsible organisation notified us through official channels about the acceptation of the project. Shortly afterwards the Polish palynologists requested in official way to join this working group.

The organiser of the Pentagonale informed me that we would not get any financial support unless from our own institutes. In spite of this fact the contacts between the palynologists were continuous, we used all possible occasions for collaboration. The bilateral agreements of our institutes for the exchange of scientists gave us the possibility to visit our colleagues almost yearly and to discuss our results. In 1992 Éva Planderová organised a symposium in Bratislava, where the results of our research work were presented. These lectures were printed in a volume by the Dionys Štúr Geological Institute, Bratislava. In this volume a joint paper was published from the data of our Neogene palynological research work (Planderová et al. 1993). In 1992 I published a chapter in my monograph about this subject: "Comparisons made between the Neogene palynoflora of Hungary and of the surrounding areas" (Nagy 1992, p. 367-372).

These summaries have not given satisfactory display of all palynological problems of the Central Paratethyan Neogene. In one hand they have not contained the whole region of the Central Paratethys: e.g. Romania was not participating in the above mentioned working group, on the other hand some of the participants (in the volume) do not belong to this territory, e.g. Belorussia. I took advantage of the opportunity of the Hungarian Research Found (OTKA) for continuing the work on the theme. I tried to summarise the large amount of palynological data, and to discover the palaeobotanical coherences. This work was justified by Hungary's central position and my enormous experience.

The geological basis of this work was provided by the "Neogene Palaeogeographic Atlas of Central and Eastern Europe" (Hámor et al. 1988), and the table of Géza Hámor (1995, 1997) "The evolutional, palaeogeographical and facies model of the Pannonian Basin with lithostratigraphic units" (A Pannon medence neogén fejlődéstörténeti, ősföldrajzi és fáciesmodellje, litosztratigráfíai egységekkel. /Hámor Géza 1995/.)

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