Miklós Kázmér

Abstract: An in situ late Miocene (Pannonian) fossil forest preserved as wood has been uncovered at Bukkabrany, Hungary. Excavation within the open-pit mine revealed 16 stumps that ranged from 1.8 to 3.6 m in diameter at the base and up to 6 m in height preserved atop a 16 m thick coal seam. A relative change in the elevation of Lake Pannon appears to have drowned the forest about 7 Ma ago. Sand deposited as part of a prograding delta covered the landscape and preserved the trunks in a waterlogged condition. Forest stand density was 36 stems per hectare. The trees grew 3 to 16 m apart. Their diameter at breast height ranged from 137 to 248 cm. Stem basal area varied from 3.46 to 8.44 m2 per tree, yielding a forest basal area of 240 m2/ha. The tree height was probably 44 to 52 m and the stem volume ranged from 44 to 125 m3. The total biomass of 1400 t/ha is estimated for the Miocene Bukkabrany forest. The net annual primary production was in the range of 2.8 t/ha.

TL;DR: Upper Eocene (Priabonian) Bryozoa from the Transdanubian Central Range (Hungary) are described in this paper, where the bryozoa assemblage is similar to those from Slovakia, Italy, Austria, and Romania.

TL;DR: In this article, twelve Priabonian (Late Eocene) bryozoan faunas of the Alps and Carpathians, collected from shallow to deep marine sediments, are compared by similarity indices.

TL;DR: Fossil shorelines produced by recent co-seismic movements were identified through asubmarine survey along the coasts of Ithaca and Fiscardo (Greece) as mentioned in this paper.