Pannonian Uniform Lithospheric Infrared Spectral Database

"Water" in the Earth`s lithosphere and its bearing on geophysical properties

This application relates to the “water” (i.e., H+, OH-, H₂O) distribution in the Earth's lithosphere and its bearing on the Earth’s geophysical properties. The aim of this proposal is to explore the distribution of “water” in the lithosphere and understand its effect on the geophysical properties (seismic and electric conductivity) of lithospheric rocks. This development has the potential to provide a better insight into the rheology and dynamics of the Earth’s lithosphere, and may facilitate assessment of the risk of earthquakes. This is because “water” is known to weaken minerals even at very low concentration levels (ppm). There are basaltic volcanoes in the Carpathian-Pannonian region, which sampled the Earth’s lithosphere by picking up rocks from the lithosphere (i.e., xenoliths) during their eruption. More importantly, some of these xenolith bearing basaltic volcanoes sit close to geophysical cross-sections which provides an extraordinary chance to correlate geophysical measurements against xenoliths and their “water” concentration. A new, revolutionary infrared method currently discovered at the Research School of Earth Sciences in Australia will be utilized by the Geological and Geophysical Institute of Hungary which will allow a much simpler analysis of a large number of xenoliths for “water”.

The aims of the proposal are the following:

• study diffusion profiles of “water” in xenoliths to reveal their representativity for the source region
• understanding the distribution of “water” in the lithosphere
• to improve geophysical models by integrating the newly emerging information on “water” distribution in mantle rocks into already existing seismic databases

SCI publications related to the NAMs-230937 project so far

1 Xia, Q., Liu, J., Liu, S.C., Kovács, I., Feng, M., Dang, L. (2013): High water content in Mesozoic primitive basalts of the North China Craton and implications for the destruction of cratonic mantle lithosphere Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 361, 85-97

2 Magyari, E.K., Demény, A., Buczkó, K., Kern, Z., Venneman, T., Fórizs, I., Vincze, I., Braun, M., Kovács, I., Udvardi, B., Veres, D. (2012): A 13,600-year diatom oxygen isotope record from the South Carpathians (Romania): Reflection of winter conditions and possible links with North Atlantic circulation changes Quaternary International, 293, 136-149

3 Kovács, I., Green, D., Rosenthal, A., Hermann, J., O’Neill, H. St. C., Hibberson, W.O., Udvardi, B. (2012) : An experimental study of water in nominally anhydrous minerals in the upper mantle near the water saturated solidus. Journal of Petrology, 53, 2067-2093.

4 Green D.H., Hibberson, W.O., Kovács, I., Rosenthal, A. (2010): Water and its influence on the lithosphere – asthenosphere boundary. Nature, 467, 448-451.

5 Balan, E., Ingrin, J., Delattre, S., Kovács, I., Blanchard, M. (2011): Theoretical infrared spectrum of OH-defects in forsterite. European Journal of Mineralogy, 23; 285-292.

6 Janik, T., Grad, M., Guterch, A., Vozár, J., Bielik, M., Vozárova, A., Hegedűs, E., Kovács, Csaba Attila; Kovács, I., Keller, G.R.(2011): Crustal structure of the Western Carpathians and Pannonian Basin: seismic models from CELEBRATION2000 data and geological implications. Journal of Geodynamics, 52, 97-113.

7 Oeberseder, T., Behm, M., Kovács, I., Falus, G. (2011): A seismic discontinuity in the upper mantle between the Eastern Alps and the Western Carpathians: Constraints from wide angle reflections and 3 geological implications. Tectonophyscis, 504, 122-134.

8 Kovács, I., Falus, Gy., Stuart, G., Hidas, K., Szabó, Cs., Flower, M., Hegedűs, E., Posgay, K., Zilahi-Sebess, L. & Fancsik, T. (2011): Asthenospheric flow as a driving force for Tertiary extrusion and extension. Magyar Geofizika, 52, 79-87. (in Hungarian with English abstract)

9 Kovács, I., Falus, Gy., Stuart, G., Hidas, K., Szabó, Cs., Flower, M., Hegedűs, E., Posgay, K. & Zilahi-Sebess, L. (2012): Seismic anisotropy and deformation patterns in upper mantle xenoliths from the central Carpathian-Pannonian region: asthenospheric flow as a driving force for Cenozoic extension and extrusion? Tectonophysics, 514–517, 168–179.

10 Kovács, I., O’Neill, H. St. C., Hermann, J., Hauri, E. (2010): Site-specific infrared O-H absorption coefficients for water substitution into olivine. American Mineralogist, 95, 292-299.

1 Liptai,N., Patkó, L., Aradi, L.E. Kovács, I., Szabó, Cs. & Tommasi, A. (2013): Crystal preferred orientation as a result of deformation effects in the upper mantle beneath the Nógrád-Gömör Volcanic Field - a study on peridotite xenoliths. 11^th Meeting of the Central European Tectonic Studies Group (CETeG), April 24-27, 2013, Várgesztes, Hungary, Abstract Book, 45.

2 Kovács, I., Falus, Gy., Szabó, Cs., Pintér, Zs., Liptai, N. & Patkó, L. (2013): Dynamics of the lithosphere-asthenosphere system in the Carpathian-Pannonian region following the Miocene extension. 11^th Meeting of the Central European Tectonic Studies Group (CETeG), April 24-27, 2013, Várgesztes, Hungary, Abstract Book, 35.

3 Liptai,N., Patkó, L., Kovács, I., Falus, Gy., Hidas, K., Szabó, Cs., Vaselli, O., Barou, F. & Tommasi, A. (2013): Crystal preferred orientations of upper mantle peridotite xenoliths from the Nógrád-Gömör Volcanic Field (Northern Pannonian Basin). EGU General Assembly, April 08-12, 2013, Vienna, Austria, Geophysical Research Abstract, Vol. 15, EGU2013-13154-1.

4 Kovács, I., Falus, Gy., Szabó, Cs., Pintér, Zs., Hegedűs, E., Mihály, J., Németh, Cs., Liptai, N., Patkó, L., Tommasi, A., Barou, F., Zajacz, Z., Tribus, M.,Konzett, J. & Stalder, R. (2013): Evolution of the lithosphere-asthenosphere system in the Carpathian-Pannonian region following the Miocene extension: as viewed in petrology, geochemistry, deformation pattern of mantle xenoliths and gephysical observations. EGU General Assembly, April 08-12, 2013, Vienna, Austria, Geophysical Research Abstract, Vol. 15, EGU2013-10396-1.

5 Udvardi, B., Kovács, I., Viczián, I., Hámor-Vidó, M., Mihály, J., Németh, Cs. (2013): The correlation of attenuated total reflectance infrared (ATR-FTIR) spectoscopic data with X-ray diffraction (XRD) parameters and its potential use for mineral identification and quntification in drilling cores: examples from the Pannonian basin, Hungary. EGU, April 04-12, 2013, Vienna, Austria, Geophysical Research Abstract, USB Flash Drive

6 Raucsik, B., Varga, A., Kovács, J., Udvardi, B., Kovács, I., Újvári, G. & Mihály, J. (2012): Clay mineralogy of Quaternary loess–paleosol sections at Beremend and Paks, Hungary: a comparative study. Joint MSCC-CEMC, Miskolc, Hungary, April 19-21, Acta Mineralogica Petrographica, Abstract Series, 117.

7 Udvardi, B., Pintér, Zs., Kovács, I, Hidas, K., Kutassy, L., Zelei, T., Falus, Gy., Lendvay, P., Fancsik, T. & Szabó, Cs. (2012): A comprehensive infrared database to recognize the water content of minerals: Pannonian Uniform Lithospheric Infrared Spectral Database (PULI). 5th Mineral Sciences in the Carpathians Conference and 3rd Central-European Mineralogical Conference, 20–21 April, 2012, University of Miskolc, Miskolc, Hungary, Acta Mineralogica-Petrographica, Abstract Series, 143.

8 Pintér, Zs., Kovács, I., Berkesi, M., Szabó, Cs., Németh, Cs., Mihály, J., Perucchi, A. & Vaccari, A. (2012): Multiple application of FTIR spectroscopy for nominally anhydrous mantle minerals and their fluid inclusions in mantle xenoliths from the Cameroon Volcanic Line, Cameroon. European Mineralogical Conference 2012, Vol.1, EMC2012-691.

9 Udvardi, B., Kovács, I., Pintér, Zs., Hidas, K., Kutassy, L., Falus, Gy., Lendvay, P., Zelei, T., Fancsik, T., Gál, T., Mihály, J., Németh, Cs., Ingrin, J., Xia, Q., Hermann, J., Perucchi, A., Vaccari, L. & Szabó, Cs. (2012): The water content of olivines: Pannon Uniform Lithospheric Infrared spectral Database (PULI). European Mineralogical Conference 2012, Vol.1, EMC2012-686.

10 Kovács, I., Falus, Gy., Szabó, Cs., Pintér, Zs., Mihály, J., Németh, Cs., Berkesi, M. & Völgyesi, P. (2012): Tracing the fossil lithosphere-asthenosphere boundary beneath the Carpathian-Pannonian region. European Mineralogical Conference 2012, Vol.1, EMC2012-665-1.

11 Németh, B., Török, K., Kovács, I. & Szabó Cs. (2012): Melting, fluid migration and fluid-rock interactions in mafic garnet granulite xenoliths from the Bakony-Balaton Highland Volcanic Field (Hungary) 02-06 September, 2012, Frankfurt, Germany, 1st European Mineralogical Conference, Flash Drive: EMC2012-531.

12 Udvardi, B., Raveloson, A., Visnovitz, F., Kovács, I., Székely, B. & Szabó, Cs. (2012): Sedimentological features of lateritic and saprolitic horizons in a mid-slope lavaka, Central Highlands, Madagascar, EGU (European Geosciences Union) General Assembly, Vienna, Austria, April 22-27, Geophysical Research Abstracts, USB Flash Drive.

13 Pintér, Zs., Kovács, I., Mihály, J., Németh, Cs. & Szabó, Cs. (2012): An FTIR study on nominally anhydrous minerals in mantle xenoliths with diverse textures from the central Carpathian-Pannonian region (Bakony-Balaton Highland Volcanic Field, Hungary). EGU General Assembly, April, 23-27, 2012, Vienna, Austria, Geophysical Research Abstracts, Vol. 14, EGU2012-12120-1.

14 Kovács, I., (2011): Water and its effect on the lithosphere-asthenosphere boundary. 3-5 October, 2011, Budapest. B36.

15 Pintér, Zs., Kovács, I., Berkesi, M., Szabó, Cs., Tene, D. J. F., Tchouankoue, J.P., Perucchi, A. (2011): Unique phlogopite and amphibole-bearing fluid inclusions in upper mantle xenoliths from Cameroon Volcanic Line European Current Research on Fluid Inclusions (ECROFI-XXI) Montanuniversität Leoben, Austria, 9–11 August, 2011. Abstracts, p. 158-1589

16 Kovács, I., Green, H.D., Rosenthal, A., Hermann, J., O'Neill, H, Hibberson, O.W., Udvardi, B. (2011): A new methodology to experimentally determine water incorporation into upper mantle olivine and pyroxene. 21th Goldschmidt Conference, Prague, August 14-19, 2011. Abstracts, 1229.

17 Green et al. (2011): Experimental Study of the Role of Water in the Uppermost Mantle IUGG 2011 General Assembly Earth on the Edge: Science for a Sustainable Planet 28 June - 7 July 2011 Melbourne, Australia

18 Rosenthal et al. (2011): Phase and Melting Relations of a Residual Eclogite/Pyroxenite within an Upwelling Heterogeneous Upper Mantle IUGG 2011 General Assembly Earth on the Edge: Science for a Sustainable Planet 28 June - 7 July 2011 Melbourne, Australia.

19 Kovács et al. (2011): Re-evaluating the concentration of water in olivines from the shallow upper mantle with a uniform FTIR protocol and a unique international spectral database: PULI Geophysical Research Abstracts Vol. 12, EGU2011-12912-3, 2010 EGU General Assembly 2011.

20 Green, D.H., Hibberson, W.O., Kovács, I., Rosenthal, A. (2010): Water and its influence on the lithosphere – asthenosphere boundary. AGU, 13-17. December, 2010. San Fransisco, AGU.

21 Kovács, I., Green, D. H., Hermann, J., O’Neill, H. St. C., Rosenthal, A, Hibberson, W. O. (2010): An experimental study of water incorporation into peridotite minerals near the water saturated solidus. Geophysical Research Abstracts Vol. 12, EGU2010-367, 2010 EGU General Assembly 2010.

22 Janik, T., Grad, M., Guterch, A., Vozár, J., Bielik, M., Vozárova, A., Hegedűs, E., Kovács, A. Cs., Kovács, I., and CELEBRATION 2000 Working Group (2010): Crustal structure of the Western Carpathians and Pannonian Basin System: seismic models from CELEBRATION 2000 data and geological implication. Geophysical Research Abstracts Vol. 12, EGU2010-2946, 2010 EGU General Assembly.

23 Kovács, I., Falus, Gy.,, Hidas, K., Szabó, Cs., Hegedűs, E., Posgay, K., Zilahi-Sebess, L. (2010): Seismic anisotropy and deformation patterns in upper mantle xenoliths from the central Carpathian-Pannonian region: indications for a collision driven asthenospheric flow? XIX Congress of the Carpathian Balkan Geological Association. Thessaloniki, Greece, 23-26. September, 2010.

24 Kovács, I., Hidas, K., Dégi, J., Ingrin, J., Hermann, J., Falus, Gy. (2010): Towards a protocol for quantitative micro-FTIR measurements of water in the nominally anhydrous minerals of the upper mantle. 20th General Meeting of International Mineralogical Association (IMA2010), 21-27 August, 2010, Budapest, Hungary, Acta Mineralogica-Petrographica Abstract Series 6, p. 169

25 Kovács, I., Falus, Gy., Hidas, K., Szabó, Cs., Ingrin, J. (2010): Water concentrations in the lithosphere from three different tectonic settings of the Carpathian-Pannonian region. 20th General Meeting of International Mineralogical Association (IMA2010), 21-27 August, 2010, Budapest, Hungary, Acta Mineralogica-Petrographica Abstract Series 6, p. 174

26 Pintér, Zs., Tene Djoukam, J. F., Kovács, I., Tchouankoue, J. P., Szabó, Cs., Perucchi, A. & Vaccari, L. (2010): CO2-rich fluid inclusions in upper mantle xenoliths from the Cameroon Volcanic Line. 3rd Biennial Conference on Asian Current Research on Fluid Inclusions (ACROFI III) and International Conference on Thermobarogeochemistry (TBG-XIV), September 15-20, 2010, Novosibirsk, Russia, Abstracts, 170-171.

27 Berkesi, M., Szabó, Cs., Dubessy, J., Kovács, I. & Bodnar, R.J. (2010): Mantle mineral- and glass-hosted fluid inclusions in mantle xenoliths from the Central Pannonia Basin, Hungary: The significance to determine the bulk composition in CO2-rich system. 3rd Biennial Conference on Asian Current Research on Fluid Inclusions (ACROFI III) and International Conference on Thermobarogeochemistry (TBG-XIV), September 15-20, 2010, Novosibirsk, Russia, Abstracts, 28-29.

28 Berkesi, M., Dubessy, J., Kovács, I., Szabó, Cs., Perucchi, A. & Vaccari, L. (2010): Using different methods to determine the composition of upper mantle fluid inclusions from the Central Pannon basin. 20th General Meeting of the International Mineralogical Association, August 21-27, 2010, Budapest, Acta Mineralogica-Petrographica, Abstract Series, 189.

29 Berkesi, M., Hidas, K., Guzmics, T., Szabo, Cs., Dubessy, J., Bodnar, R.J., Kovács, I. (2010): Fluid inclusions from mantle xenoliths, Central Pannonian Basin: a comparative study. Pan-American Current Research on Fluid Inclusions (PACROFI-X), 7-10 June, 2010, Las Vegas, USA, Abstract Series

30 Falus, Gy., Kovács, I., Hidas, K., Szabó, Cs. (2009): Water in Xenoliths from the Lithospheric Mantle of the Carpathian-Pannonian Region: Implications for a Subduction Imprint? Goldschmidt Conference, 21-26 June, Davos

31 Kovács, I., O’Neill, H. St. C., Hermann, J., Hauri, E. (2009): O-H absorption coefficients of four common mechanisms for water substitution in olivine. Goldschmidt Conference, 21-26 June, Davos

32 Kovács, I., Falus, Gy., Hidas, K., Szabó, Cs. (2009): Asthenospheric flow in Central Europe: a new interpretation for Cenozoic geodynamics? CETEG, 13-16 May, Pécs