Petrogenetic Processes Research Group (PetroGen)

Research projects

• Mineral transformations and REE, Th, U, Pb distribution during alteration processes of monazite, xenotime and allanite in nano- and microscale, and analytical improvements of electron probe microanalysis and Raman micro-spectroscopy for these phases

• Hydrothermal system in late Archean – its impact on an abiotic environment composition
• A nature of bimodal magmatism associated with Cambro-Ordovician rifting in Gondwana: the NE Bohemian Massif perspective in view of the integrated field data and multiisotopic studies on whole rocks and minerals, specifically zircons
• Reconstructions of orogenic processes based on studies of selected objects
• Accessory minerals, megacrysts and xenolites from mafic sources of great igneous provinces - their origins and transformation processes
• Petrochronology and alteration processes of REE phosphates and silicates in reconstructions of metamorphic and igneous processes
• The application of the EBSD (backscattered electron diffraction) technique in Poland for the mantle rocks study on the example of peridotite xenoliths from Mount Bar (Devès Volcanic Field, Massif Central, France)
• Development of the reference material(s) for U-Pb dating of apatite and U-Th-Pb dating of monazite
• Burning heaps as "modern volcanoes"
• Sulfide differentiation and enrichment in metals at the lower oceanic crust and crust-mantle transition zone: ICDP OmanDP holes
• Sulfide differentiation and enrichment in metals in the lower oceanic crust: IODP Holes 735B & U1473A, Atlantis Bank, Southwest Indian Ridge
• Large-scale global copper deposit exploration using satellite data
• Towards understanding ore formation on Mars: new data fromExoMars/TGO and geochemical fingerprinting of meteorites
• (MIRORES) Multiplanetary far-infrared spectrometer for prospecting deposit minerals
• Towards prospecting ore deposits on Mars: remote sensing of the planetary field analogue in the Rio Tinto mining area, Spain
• Understanding very small (<200 m in diameter) and small (<1.5 km in diameter) impact craters on Earth in order to determine the degree of environmental damage induced by such events by studying their proximal ejecta blankets
• Weathering of meteorites in soil

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News

03/2025     We are happy to announce that by the decision of the President of the Republic of Poland of March 24, 2025, Dr. hab. Bartosz Budzyń received the academic title of Professor of Natural Sciences in Earth and Related Environmental Sciences.

02/2025     PhD Fabian Tramm recieved funding from the Excite network for the project "Electron energy loss spectroscopy of altered zircon grains in nanoscale ".

08/2024     We would like to kindly inform you that at the EMC2024 (European Mineral Conference) the last 2020-2024 term of the European Mineralogical Union (EMU) was concluded and the authorities of the Executive Committee of the Union (EMU) were elected for the next term (2024-2028). The EMU President for the 2020 term was Prof. Ewa Słaby, from the Institute of Geological Sciences, Polish Academy of Sciences (Poland).

07/2024     PhD Fabian Tramm recieved funding from the Excite network for the project "Altered Zircon from Ontario – an evaluation from microscale to nanoscale ".

10/2023     PhD. Łukasz Kruszewski gave an interview on the rock usage in construction / urban planning, for the "A plan for the weekend" Podcast of the Radio dla Ciebie, within the activity of the Museum of Earth (PAS)in the 15th edition of the „Warsaw in Construction" festival activity entitled „The fever of the Warsaw night, or stone in the architecture of the capital"

05/2023     MSc. Maciej Jaranowski recieved funding from the Excite network for the project "Submicron-scale constraints on zircon growth and alterations under eclogite-facies metamorphism".

05/2023     Dr. Alicja Wudarska received theIAG Geoanalytical Research and Networking Grantfor the project titled "Development of new reference materials for boron and sulphur isotope analyses of apatite". Details in the "Research projects" tab.

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Team members

Publications

list of our papers published since 2016 >>