Dr. Tamás Mikes

Qualification

2008	Promotion (Dr. rer. nat., Geologie), Georg-August-Universität, Göttingen
2004 - 2008	Promotionstudium, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
2003	Diplom in Geologie, Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen
2002 - 2003	Geologiestudium Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen
1998 - 2002	Geologiestudium Eötvös Universität Budapest
1998	Abitur, Budapest

Career progression

seit 2009	Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter, Leibniz Universität Hannover
2004 - 2009	Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter und Doktorand, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen

Interests

• Quantitative Liefergebietsanalyse, Sedimentpetrologie, Geochemie, Geochronologie


• Zusammenspiel von Tektonik, Erosion, Klima und Sedimentation


• Regionale Geologie im westlichen Tethysraum (Alp-Karpathen-Pannon-Dinariden System, Anatolien)

Memberships

seit 2004	Mineralogical Society of America
seit 2003	Society of Sedimentary Geology
seit 2003	International Association of Sedimentology
seit 1998	Geological Society of Hungary (MFT)

Awards

2009	'Semsey Andor' Preis für junge Wissenschaftler (Geological Society of Hungary)
2005	'Kriván Pál' Preis für junge Wissenschaftler (Geological Society of Hungary)
2002	'Exzellenter Student der Fakultät' Preis, Eötvös Universität, Budapest

 

Publications

Papers

• Mikes, T., Baresel, B., Kronz, A., Frei, D., Dunkl, I., Tolosana-Delgado, R. and Hilmar von Eynatten, In review: Jurassic granitoid magmatism in the Dinaride Neotethys: geochronological constraints from detrital minerals. Terra Nova


• Mikes, T., Christ, D., Petri, D., Dunkl, I., Frei, D., Báldi-Beke, M., Reitner, J., Wemmer, K., Hrvatovic, H., and von Eynatten, H. (2008): Provenance of the Bosnian Flysch. Swiss Journal of Geosciences, 101, Supplement 1, S31-S54. DOI: 10.1007/s00015-008-1291-z


• Luzar-Oberiter, B., Mikes, T., von Eynatten, H. and Babic, Lj. Ophiolitic detritus in Cretaceous clastic formations of the Dinarides (NW Croatia): Evidence from Cr-spinel chemistry. nternational Journal of Earth Sciences, OnlineFirst publication. DOI: 10.1007/s00531-008-0306-3


• Mikes, T., Báldi-Beke, M., Kázmér, M., Dunkl, I., and von Eynatten, H. (2008): Calcareous nannofossil age constraints on Miocene flysch sedimentation in the Outer Dinarides. In: Siegesmund, S., Fügenschuh, B. and Froitzheim, N. (Eds) Tectonic Aspects of the Alpine-Carpathian-Dinaride System. Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 298: 335-363. DOI: 10.1144/SP298.16


• Mikes, T., Dunkl, I., Frisch, W. and von Eynatten, H. (2006): Geochemistry of Eocene flysch sandstones in the NW External Dinarides. Acta Geologica Hungarica, 49(2): 103-124. DOI: 10.1556/AGeol.49.2006.2.2

Book chapter

• Dunkl, I., Mikes, T., Simon, K. and von Eynatten, H. (2008): Brief introduction to the Windows program Pepita: data visualization, and reduction, outlier rejection, calculation of trace element ratios and concentrations from LA-ICP-MS data. In: Sylvester, P. (ed): Laser Ablation ICP-MS in the Earth Sciences: Current Practices and Outstanding Issues. Mineralogical Association of Canada, Short Course Series, 40: 334-340, Vancouver. ISBN: 978-0-921294-49-8

Papers in Hungarian language

• Varga, A., Mikes, T., Raucsik, B. (2009): A mecseki toarci feketepala Réka-völgyi szelvényének elozetes petrográfiai és nehézásvány-vizsgálati eredményei [Petrography and heavy minerals of the Toarcian black shale of the Réka Valley section of the Mecsek Hills: a pilot study]. Földtani Közlöny, 139: 33-53.

Conference proceedings

2009

• Mikes, T., Baresel, B., Kronz, A., Frei, D. Dunkl, I., Tolosana-Delgado R. and von Eynatten, H. Jurassic granitoid magmatism in the Dinaride Neotethys: geochronological constraints from detrital minerals. Geophysical Research Abstracts, 11:10838.


• Mikes, T., Jeffries, T.E., Dunkl, I. and von Eynatten, H. Double dating of detrital zircon from the Dinarides by fission-track and LA-ICPMS U/Pb analysis. Geophysical Research Abstracts, 11:10893.

2008
• Mikes, T., Jeffries, T.E., Dunkl, I. and von Eynatten, H. Double dating technique of detrital zircons using combined fission track and LA-ICPMS U/Pb analyses. 9th European Workshop on Laser Ablation in Elemental Analysis, Prague, July 7-9, 2008, Prague, 114.


• Dunkl, I., Józsa, S., Frei, D., Karius, V., Simon, K., Baresel, B., Mikes, T., and von Eynatten, H.: Age-signature of the exotic boulders of the Délegyháza gravel pit. SlovTec08 Meeting Proceedings and Excursion Guide, April 23-26, 2008, Upohlav, Dionýz Stúr State Institute of Geology, Bratislava, 26-27.


• Tolosana-Delgado, R., van den Boogaart, K.G., Mikes, T. and von Eynatten, H.: Statistical treatment of grain-size curves and empirical distributions: densities as compositions? In: Daunis-i-Estadella, P. and Martín-Fernández, J.A. (Eds) Proceedings CoDaWork'08 - 3rd Compositional Data Analysis Workshop, May 27-30, 2008, Girona. ISBN: 978-84-8458-272-4 [CD-ROM]

2007
• Christ, D., Petri, R., Mikes, T., Dunkl, I., Báldi-Beke, M., Grathoff, G., Rantitsch, G., Reitner, J., Wemmer, K., Hrvatovic, H and von Eynatten, H. (2007): Geology of the Bosnian Flysch (Sarajevo - Zenica area, Bosnia and Herzegovina): Provenance, age and thermal history. In: Froitzheim, N., Bousquet, R., Fügenschuh, B., Schmid, S. and Tomljenovic, B. (Eds) Abstract Volume, 8th Workshop on Alpine Geological Studies, Davos/Switzerland, 10.-12. October 2007, Bonn, 12-13.


• Mikes, T., Báldi-Beke, M., Dunkl, I., Kázmér, M. and von Eynatten, H. (2007): Nannoplankton constraints on the Miocene age of Outer Dinaride flysch sedimentation. In: Froitzheim, N., Bousquet, R., Fügenschuh, B., Schmid, S. and Tomljenovic, B. (Eds) Abstract Volume, 8th Workshop on Alpine Geological Studies, Davos/Switzerland, 10.-12. October 2007, Bonn, 45-46.


• Luzar-Oberiter, B., Mikes, T., von Eynatten, H., Babic, Lj. (2007): Heavy mineral chemistry as a provenance indicator for Cretaceous synorogenic clastic formations from the Northern Dinarides (Croatia). Abstracts Book, 25th IAS Meeting of Sedimentology, 114, Patras.


• Christ, D., Petri, R., Mikes, T., Dunkl, I., Báldi-Beke, M., Reitner, J., Hrvatovic, H. and von Eynatten, H. (2007): Geology of the Bosnian Flysch (Sarajevo - Zenica area, Bosnia and Herzegovina) Part 1: Age and provenance. Sediment 2007 Abstracts, Geo.Alp 4: 9, Innsbruck.


• Mikes, T., Báldi-Beke, M., Kázmér, M., Dunkl, I., and von Eynatten, H. (2007): Nannoplankton constraints on the Miocene age of Outer Dinaride flysch sedimentation. Sediment 2007 Abstracts, Geo.Alp 4: 25, Innsbruck.


• Petri, R., Christ, D., Grathoff, G., Dunkl, I, Rantitsch, G, Wemmer, K, Mikes, T., Hrvatovic, H. and von Eynatten, H. (2007): Geology of the Bosnian Flysch (Sarajevo - Zenica area, Bosnia and Herzegovina) Part 2: Deformation and burial history. Sediment 2007 Abstracts, Geo.Alp 4: 73, Innsbruck.


• Dunkl, I., Mikes, T., Simon, K., and von Eynatten, H. (2007): Data management, outlier rejection, calculation of isotope ratios and trace element concentrations from LA-ICP-MS raw data. Accessory minerals in-situ: microanalytical methods and petrological applications workshop, 15-16.09.2007, Kraków, Mineralogia Polonica Special Papers, 30: 67, Kraków.


• Dunkl, I., Mikes, T., Simon, K., and von Eynatten, H. (2007): Data handling, outlier rejection and calculation of isotope concentrations from LA-ICP-MS analyses by PEPITA software. Goldschmidt Conference Abstracts 2007, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 71(15), Suppl. 1: A243.


• Mikes, T., Báldi-Beke, M., Kázmér, M., Dunkl, I., and von Eynatten, H. (2007): Age and timing of flysch development in the Dinaride foreland basin system. Geophysical Research Abstracts, 9: 09802.


• Mikes, T., Tolosana-Delgado, R. and von Eynatten, H. (2007): Garnet composition and provenance analysis: towards accurate source assignment of single grain analyses. Geophysical Research Abstracts, 9: 09086.

2006
• Mikes, T., von Eynatten, H. and Dunkl, I. (2006): Detrital chrome spinel in Upper Cretaceous to Paleogene synorogenic sediments of the Sava-Vardar belt. Proceedings XVIIIth Congress of the Carpathian-Balkan Geological Association, September 3-6, 2006, Belgrade, 379-380, Belgrade.


• Mikes, T., Oláh, I., Simon, K. and von Eynatten, H. (200): LA-ICP-MS analyses of rutile inclusions in detrital corundum: application of the Zr-in-rutile thermometer. 8th European Workshop on Laser Ablation in Elemental Analysis, ETH Zürich, July 19-21, 2006, 42, Zürich.


• Luzar-Oberiter, B., Mikes, T., von Eynatten, H., Babic, Lj., Crnjakovic, M. and Gaupp, R. (2006): Ophiolitic detritus in three Cretaceous clastic formations of the Croatian Dinarides: evidence from Cr-spinel chemistry. Schriftenreihe der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Geowissenschaften, 45: 113, Hannover.


• Raucsik, B., Varga, A. and Mikes, T. (2006): Mineralogy and geochemistry of a Toarcian black shale sequence (Mecsek Hills, S Hungary): implications for climato-environmental conditions of the Early Jurassic Tethys. Schriftenreihe der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Geowissenschaften, 45: 137, Hannover.


• Mikes, T., Dunkl, I. and von Eynatten, H. (2006): Detrital Cr-spinel in Tertiary synorogenic sediments of the Sava-Vardar belt. Schriftenreihe der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Geowissenschaften, 45: 118, Hannover.

2005
• von Eynatten, H., Triebold, S., Mikes, T. and Dunkl, I. (2005): Quantitative Provenance Analysis (QPA): Reconstructing source rocks and climatic-physiographic conditions. In: Workshop "Erdoberflächenprozesse" am 25/26.11.2005 in Göttingen - Kurzfassungen - (Ed. Kuhlemann, J.), Tübinger Geowissenschaftliche Arbeiten, A73:107.


• Mikes, T., Dunkl, I. and von Eynatten, H. (2005): Significance of ophiolitic and high-grade metamoprhic detritus in the Tertiary External Dinaride flysch belt. In: 7th Workshop on Alpine Geological Studies, Opatija - 29.09-01.10.2005, Abstracts Book (Eds B. Tomljenovic´, D. Balen and I. Vlahovic´), pp. 61-62, Zagreb.


• Mikes, T., Dunkl, I. and von Eynatten, H. (2005): Significance of ophiolitic detritus in the Tertiary External Dinaride flysch belt. Schriftenreihe der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Geowissenschaftenem>, 38: 110-111, Hannover.


• Kázmér, M., Mikes, T., Benkó, Z., Kovács, I., Pocsai, T., Prohászka, A., Fekete, N., Krolopp, E., Tímár, G. and Székely, B. (2005): Small-scale Quaternary flexural basins in the Carpathian-Pannonian system: the Transdanubian Sárrét Basin as an example. Geophysical Research Abstracts, 7: 09450.

2004
• Mikes, T., Dunkl, I. and Frisch, W. (2004): Provenance mixing in a foreland basin as revealed by sandstone geochemistry and detrital zircon fission track analysis: the Eocene flysch of the NW Dinarides. In: 23rd IAS Meeting of Sedimentology, Coimbra - September 15-17, 2004, Abstracts Book (Eds R. Pena dos Reis, P. Callapez and P. Dinis), pp. 199, Coimbra.

2003
• Mikes, T., Dunkl, I. and Frisch, W. (2003): Provenance of the Eocene Flysch of NW Istria and the Brkini Basin (NW Dinarides, Slovenia): inferences from heavy minerals and their chemistry. In: 22nd IAS Meeting of Sedimentology, Opatija - September 17-19, 2003, Abstracts Book (Ed I. Vlahovic´) pp. 127, Opatija.


• Mikes, T., Dunkl, I. and Frisch, W. (2003): Heavy mineral chemistry as a guide to sediment provenance: the Eocene flysch in the NW Dinarides. In: Shallow Tethys 6 International Symposium, Budapest - August 25-28, 2003, Acta Mineralogica-Petrographica, Abstract Series 4: 28-29, Szeged.


• Mikes, T., Dunkl, I. and Frisch, W. (2003): Source area heterogeneity of Eocene flysch successions at the Southern Alps - Dinarides junction: new insights from chemistry of heavy minerals. Annales Universitatis Scientarium Budapestinensis, Sectio Geologica, 35: 104-105, Budapest.