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Rifts and Passive Margins

Structural Architecture, Thermal Regimes
and Petroleum Systems

Thrustbelts

Structural Architecture, Thermal Regimes
and Petroleum Systems

Strike-slip Terrains and Transform Margins

Structural Architecture, Thermal Regimes and Petroleum Systems

Recent publications

Rybár, S., Nemčok, M., Kyselák, P., Ledvényiová, L., and Sliva, L., 2025. Exploring Low-Temperature Geothermal Systems in Hydrocarbon-Bearing Sedimentary Basins: A Case Study from the Czech Vienna Basin. Proceedings, 50th Workshop on Geothermal Reservoir Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, California, February 10-12, 2025, SGP-TR-229, 12 pages. 

Ledvényiová, L., Nemčok, M., Kyselák, P. and Rybár, S., 2025. Closer Look at Some Key Characteristics of Fluids in the Low-Temperature Geothermal System of the Vienna Basin – Czech Part. Proceedings, 50th Workshop on Geothermal Reservoir Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, California, SGP-TR-229, 9 pages.

Nemčok, M., Doré, A. G., Doran, H. and Henk, A., 2025. Strike-slip terrains and transform margins: structural architecture, thermal regimes and petroleum systems. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 733 pp, ISBN 9781316513958, https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108686631

Droppa, D. M., Hók, J., Rybár, S., Vojtko, R., Pelech, O., Kronome, B., Bielik, M., Šujan, M. & Šipka, F., 2024. Tectonic map of the pre-Cenozoic basement of the northern Danube Basin. Geologica Carpathica, 75(6), 375–386.

Tomašových, A., Galović, I., Hudáčková, N., Hyžný, M., Ruman, A., Rybár, S., Šimo, V., & Schlögl, J., 2024. Articulated and dislocated infaunal echinoids as unique markers of hypoxic environments from the Miocene of Central Paratethys. Lethaia, 57(4).

Subová, V., Rybár, S., Hudáčková, N., Jamrich, M., Jourdan, F., Mayers, C., & Sliva, Ľ., 2024. Implication of Cenozoic tectono-sedimentary evolution for the geoenergy potential in the NW Transcarpathian Basin. Geologica Carpathica, 75(4), 243–269.

Subová, V., Rybár, S., Sliva, L., & Šály, B., 2024. Seismic reflection data-driven tectono-sedimentary analysis and hydrocarbon field characterization of the Slovak part of the Transcarpathian Basin. In: G. C. Tari et al. (Eds.), The Miocene Extensional Pannonian Superbasin, Volume 2: Geoenergy Exploration (Geol. Soc. London, Special Publications, 555.

Jamrich, M., Rybár, S., Ruman, A., Kováčová, M. and Hudáčková, N., 2024. Biostratigraphy and paleoecology of the upper Badenian carbonate and siliciclastic nearshore facies in the Vienna Basin (Slovakia). Facies, 70:5.

Rybár, S., Šarinová, K., Jourdan, F., Mayers, C., & Sliva, Ľ. 2024. Middle Miocene volcanic flare-up preceding and synchronous with the Langhian/Serravallian sea-level decline in the North Pannonian Basin: Insights from 40Ar/39Ar dating, geo-seismic analysis, and 3D visualization of the subterranean Kráľová stratovolcano. Basin Research, 36, e12844.

Nemčok, M., Henk, A., Stuart, C. J., Vangelov, D., Higgins, R. E., Welker, C. and Ledvényiová, L., 2024. Normal fault localization controls during syn- and post-orogenic extension affecting thin-skinned architecture. Journal of Structural Geology, 188, 105243, https://doi.ord/10.1016/j.jsg.2024.105243.

Cronin, B., Nemčok, M. and Doran, H., 2023. Transform margin deposystems. In: Nemčok, M., Doran, H., Doré, A. G., Ledvényiová, L. and Rybár, S. (Eds), 2021. Tectonic development, thermal regimes and hydrocarbon habitat of transform margins, and their differences from rifted margins. Geological Society of London Special Publication No 524, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1144/SP524-2021-196.

Nemčok, M., Doran, H., Doré, A. G., Ledvényiová, L., Rybár, S., Staniaszek, S. and Gontar, T., 2023. Tectonic development, thermal regimes and hydrocarbon habitat of transform margins, and their differences from rifted margins – an introduction. In: Nemčok, M., Doran, H., Doré, A. G., Ledvényiová, L. and Rybár, S. (Eds), 2021. Tectonic development, thermal regimes and hydrocarbon habitat of transform margins, and their differences from rifted margins. Geological Society of London Special Publication No 524, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1144/SP524-2022-242.

Nemčok, M. and Frost, B., 2023. Along-strike magma-poor/magma-rich spreading transitions. In: Nemčok, M., Doran, H., Doré, A. G., Ledvényiová, L. and Rybár, S. (Eds), 2021. Tectonic development, thermal regimes and hydrocarbon habitat of transform margins, and their differences from rifted margins. Geological Society of London Special Publication No 524, DOI: 10.1144/SP524-2022-183. Supplementary material: https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.c.6332993.

Kiss, P., Hudáčková, N., Titschack, J., Siccha, M., Heřmanová, Z., Silye, L., Ruman, A., Rybár, S., and Kučera, M. 2023: Convergent evolution of spherical shells in Miocene planktonic foraminifera documents the parallel emergence of a complex character in response to environmental forcing. Paleobiology, 1–17. doi:10.1017/pab.2022.48

Rybár, S., and Kotulová, J. 2023: Petroleum play types and source rocks in the Pannonian basin, insight from the Slovak part of the Danube Basin. Marine and Petroleum Geology, 149, 106092. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2022.106092.

Sinha T. S. and Nemčok, M., 2022. Stretching-buoyancy interplay in the magma-poor rifting process. In: Nemčok, M., Doran, H., Doré, A. G., Ledvényiová, L. and Rybár, S. (Eds), 2021. Tectonic development, thermal regimes and hydrocarbon habitat of transform margins, and their differences from rifted margins. Geological Society of London Special Publication No 524, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1144/SP524-2022-162.

Nemčok, M., Pospíšil, L., Melnik, A., Henk, A., Doré, A. G., Rybár, S., Sinha, S. T., Choudhuri, M., Sharma, S., Stuart, C. J., Welker, C., Sinha, N., Nuttall, P. and Venkatraman, S., 2022. Crust first/mantle second and mantle first/crust second; lithospheric breakup scenarios along the Indian margins. In: Nemčok, M., Doran, H., Doré, A. G., Ledvényiová, L. and Rybár, S. (Eds), 2021. Tectonic development, thermal regimes and hydrocarbon habitat of transform margins, and their differences from rifted margins. Geological Society of London Special Publication No 524, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1144/SP524-2021-109. Supplementary material: https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.c.5912978.

Subová, V., Rybár, S., Šarinová, K., Hudáčková, N., Jamrich, M., Sliva, Ľ., Šály, B., and Hlavatý, I. 2022: Evolution of the lower Badenian depositional system in the East Slovakian Basin: Implications for reservoir rock potential. Geologica Carpathica, 73, 4, 319 – 352. DOI: https://doi.org/10.31577/GeolCarp.73.4.3

Vlček, T., Kováčová, M., Šarinová, K., Rybár, S., Hudáčková, N., Ruman, A., Jamrich, M. & Franců, J., 2022: Multiproxy constraints on Central Paratethys Sea and Lake Pannon paleoclimate and paleoenvironment transitions during the Middle-Late Miocene (Danube Basin, Slovakia). Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology. 600. 111058. 10.1016/j.palaeo.2022.111058.

Nemčok, M., Doran, H., Doré, A. G., Ledvényiová, L. and Rybár, S. (Eds), 2021. Tectonic development, thermal regimes and hydrocarbon habitat of transform margins, and their differences from rifted margins. Geological Society of London Special Publication No 524, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP524.

Nemčok, M., Ledvényiová, L., Henk, A., Rybár, S., Sinha, S. T., Pospíšil, L., Mikuška, J., Jánošík, M., Csibri, T., Staniaszek, S., Baranowski, A. and Gontar, T., 2021. Early post-breakup kinematic adjustments of continental-oceanic transform fault zones; Cape Range, Coromandal and Romanche transform margin case study. In: Nemčok, M., Doran, H., Doré, A. G., Ledvényiová, L. and Rybár, S. (Eds), 2021. Tectonic development, thermal regimes and hydrocarbon habitat of transform margins, and their differences from rifted margins. Geological Society of London Special Publication No 524, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1144/SP524-2021-110. Supplementary material: https://doi.org/10.6084/m9figshare.c.5762388

Šarinová, K., Hudáčková, N., Rybár, S., Jamrich, M., Jourdan, F., Frew, A., Mayers, C., Ruman, A., Subová, V. and Sliva, Ľ., 2021: 40Ar/39Ar dating and palaeoenvironments at the boundary of the early‐late Badenian (Langhian‐Serravallian) in the northwest margin of the Pannonian basin system. Facies, 67, 29. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10347-021-00637-w

Šarinová, K., Rybár, S., Jourdan, F., Frew, A., Mayers, C., Kováčová, M., Lichtman, B., Nováková, P., Kováč, M., 2021: 40Ar/39Ar geochronology of Burdigalian paleobotanical localities in the central Paratethys (south Slovakia). Geologica Acta, Vol.19.5, 1-19, I-IV. DOI: 10.1344/GeologicaActa2021.19.5

Šujan, M., Rybár, S., Kováč, M., Bielik, M., Majcin, D., Minár, J., Plašienka, D., Nováková, P., Kotulová, J., 2021: The polyphase rifting and inversion of the Danube Basin revised. Global and Planetary Change 196, 103375.

Vlček, T., Šarinová, K., Rybár, S., Hudáčková, N., Jamrich, M., Halásová, E., Šujan, M., Franců, J., Nováková, P., Sliva, Ľ., Kováč, M. and Kováčová, M. 2020: Paleoenvironmental evolution of Central Paratethys Sea and Lake Pannon during the Cenozoic. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 559, 109892, (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2020.109892).

Nováková, P., Rybár, S., Šarinová, K., Nagy, A., Hudáčková, N., Jamrich, M., Teodoridis, V., Kováčová, M., Šujan, M., Vlček, T. and Kováč, M. 2020: The late Badenian-Sarmatian (Serravallian) environmental transition calibrated by sequence stratigraphy (Eastern Danube Basin, Central Paratethys). Geologica Carpathica, 71, 4, 291 – 313.

Sant, K., Kuiper, K.F., Rybár, S., Grunert, P., Harzhauser, M., Mandic, O., Jamrich, M., Šarinová, K., Hudáčková, N. and Krijgsman, W., 2020: 40Ar/39Ar geochronology using high sensitivity mass spectrometry: Examples from middle Miocene horizons of the Central Paratethys. Geologica Carpathica, 71, 2, 166–182 https://doi.org/10.31577/GeolCarp.71.2.5

Rybár, S., Šarinová K., Sant, K., Kuiper, K.F., Kováčová, M.,Vojtko, R., Reiser, M.K., Fordinál, K., Teodoridis, V., Nováková, P., Vlček, T., 2019: New 40Ar/39Ar, fission track and sedimentological data on a middle Miocene tuff occurring in the Vienna Basin: implications for the North-Western Central Paratethys region. Geologica Carpathica, 70, 5, 386-404. doi: 10.2478/geoca-2019-0022.

Nemčok, M., Welker, C., Sinha, S., Choudhuri, M., Sharma, S., Venkatraman, S. and Sinha, N., 2018. Distal margin examples from the continental passive margin of Gabon. In: Misra, A. A. and Mukherjee, S. (Eds), Atlas of structural geological interpretation from seismic images. First Edition, John Wiley & Sons Ltd., Hoboken, New Jersey, pp. 253-255.

Nemčok, M., Welker, C., Sinha, S., Choudhuri, M., Sharma, S., Venkatraman, S. and Sinha, N., 2018. Proximal and distal margin examples from the eastern continental passive margin of India. In: Misra, A. A. and Mukherjee, S. (Eds), Atlas of structural geological interpretation from seismic images. First Edition, John Wiley & Sons Ltd., Hoboken, New Jersey, pp. 241-252.

Šarinová, K., Rybár, S., Halásová, E., Hudáčková, N., Jamrich, M., Kováčová, M. & Šujan, M., 2018: Integrated biostratigraphical, sedimentological and provenance analyses with implications lithostratigraphic ranking: the Miocene Komjatice Depression of the Danube Basin. Geologica Carpathica, 69, 4, 382–409 doi: 10.1515/geoca-2018-0023

Kováč, M., Rybár, S., Halásová, E., Hudáčková, N., Šarinová, K., Šujan, M., Baranyi, V., Kováčová, M., Ruman, A., Klučiar, T. & Zlinská, A., 2018: Changes in Cenozoic depositional environment and sediment provenance in the Danube Basin. Basin Research, 30, 97-131. doi: 10.1111/bre.12244 Choudhuri, M., Nemčok, M., Melichar, R. and Sinha, N., 2017. Propagation of hotspot volcanism driven flexure in oceanic crust-85°E Ridge case Study. Journal of Marine and Petroleum Geology, doi: 10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2017.01.021.

Mukherjee, S., Misra, A., Calvès, G. Nemčok, M., 2017. Tectonics of the Deccan Large Igneous Province: an Introduction. In: Mukherjee, S., Misra, A. A., Calves, G. and Nemčok, M. (Eds), Tectonics of the Deccan Large Igneous Province. Geological Society of London Special Publication No 445, 1-9. Mukherjee, S., Misra, A. A., Calvès, G. and Nemčok, M. (Eds), 2017. Tectonics of the Deccan Large Igneous Province. Geological Society of London Special Publication No 445, http://doi.org/10.1144/SP445.