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Michal Kováč

Michal Kováč

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Earth Science

D-Index
31
Citations
4676
World Ranking
8871
National Ranking
3

Overview

Michal Kováč is affiliated with Comenius University in Slovakia and specializes in Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a focus on subfields including Geophysics, Paleontology, Oceanography, Atmospheric Science, and Earth-Surface Processes. Their research encompasses a broad array of topics related to geological formations and processes, paleontology and stratigraphy of fossils, and marine and environmental studies.

The main topics explored in their work include:

  • Geological Formations and Processes Exploration
  • Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils
  • Marine and environmental studies
  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Geological formations and processes
  • Geological and Geochemical Analysis
  • Ancient and Medieval Archaeology Studies

Michal Kováč has contributed to several peer-reviewed publications. Notable recent papers include:

  • The connection between the Alps and the Carpathians beneath the Pannonian Basin: Selective reactivation of Alpine nappe contacts during Miocene extension (2020, Global and Planetary Change)
  • The polyphase rifting and inversion of the Danube Basin revised (2020, Global and Planetary Change)
  • Paleoenvironmental evolution of Central Paratethys Sea and Lake Pannon during the Cenozoic (2020, Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology)
  • The Pannonian Basin System northern margin paleogeography, climate and depositional environments in the time range during MMCT (Central Paratethys, Novohrad-Nógrád Basin, Slovakia) (2020, Palaeontologia Electronica)
  • The late Badenian-Sarmatian (Serravallian) environmental transition calibrated by sequence stratigraphy (eastern Danube Basin, Central Paratethys) (2020, Geologica Carpathica)

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Michal Kováč include:

  • Michal Šujan
  • Michal Jamrich
  • Samuel Rybár
  • Katarína Šarinová
  • Natália Hudáčková

The primary venues where their work has been published are:

  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Geologica Carpathica
  • Geological Society London Special Publications
  • Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology
  • Palaeontologia Electronica

Best Publications

  • Tertiary evolution of the Intra-Carpathian area: A model

    L. Csontos;A. Nagymarosy;F. Horváth;M. Kovác

  • Lithological-paleogeographic maps of Paratethys : 10 maps late Eocene to Pliocene

    S.V. Popov;F. Rögl;A.Y. Rozanov;Fritz F. Steininger

  • Tertiary evolution of the Intra-Carpathian area: a model

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  • Badenian evolution of the Central Paratethys Sea: paleogeography, climate and eustatic sea level changes

    Michal Kováč;Aida Andreyeva-Grigorovič;Zlatan Bajraktarević;Rostislav Brzobohatý

  • LITHOLOGICAL -PALEOGEOGRAPHIC MAPS OF PARATETHYS

    S.V. Popov;A.Y. Rozanov;F. Rögl;F.F. Steininger

  • Alpine uplift history of the central western Carpathians: geochronological, paleomagnetic, sedimentary and structural data

    M. Kovac;J. Kral;E. Marton;D. Plasienka

  • Paleogene palaeogeography and basin evolution of the Western Carpathians, Northern Pannonian domain and adjoining areas

    Michal Kováč;Dušan Plašienka;Ján Soták;Ján Soták;Rastislav Vojtko

  • Neogene evolution of the Carpatho-Pannonian region: an interplay of subduction and back-arc diapiric uprise in the mantle

    V. Konečný;M. Kováč;J. Lexa;J. Šefara

  • On Late Oligocene to Pliocene depocentre migrations and the evolution of the Carpathian-Pannonian system

    J.E. Meulenkamp;M. Kováč;I. Cicha

  • The Central Paratethys palaeoceanography: A water circulation model based on microfossil proxies, climate, and changes of depositional environment

    Michal Kovac;Natalia Hudackova;Eva Halasova;Marianna Kovacova

  • QUANTITATIVE SUBSIDENCE ANALYSIS AND FORWARD MODELLING OF THE VIENNA AND DANUBE BASINS : THIN-SKINNED VERSUS THICK-SKINNED EXTENSION

    Anco Lankreijer;Michal Kováč;Sierd Cloetingh;Pavol Pitoňák

  • Neogene palaeogeography and basin evolution of the Western Carpathians, Northern Pannonian domain and adjoining areas

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  • New morphostructural subdivision of the Western Carpathians: An approach integrating geodynamics into targeted morphometric analysis

    Jozef Minár;Miroslav Bielik;Michal Kováč;Dušan Plašienka

  • Palaeogene and Neogene

    Michael W. Rasser;Mathias Harzhauser;Olga Y. Anistratenko;Vitaliy V. Anistratenko

  • The Western Carpathians—interaction of Hercynian and Alpine processes

    Miroslav Bielik;Ján Šefara;Michal Kováč;Vladimír Bezák

  • Towards better correlation of the Central Paratethys regional time scale with the standard geological time scale of the Miocene Epoch

    Michal Kováč;Eva Halásová;Natália Hudáčková;Katarína Holcová

  • Late Miocene to Early Pliocene sedimentary environments and climatic changes in the Alpine–Carpathian–Pannonian junction area: A case study from the Danube Basin northern margin (Slovakia)

    Michal Kováč;Ivan Baráth;Klement Fordinál;Aida S. Grigorovich

  • Late Tertiary paleogeographic evolution of the Western Carpathians

    Michal Kováč;András Nagymarosy;Ján Soták;Katarína Šutovská

  • The Karpatian - a Lower Miocene Stage of the Central Paratethys

    Rostislav Brzobohatý;Ivan Cicha;Michal Kováč;Fred Rögl

  • The East Slovakian Basin — A complex back-arc basin

    M. Kováč;P. Kováč;F. Marko;S. Karoli

  • Late Miocene sedimentary record of the Danube/Kisalföld Basin: interregional correlation of depositional systems, stratigraphy and structural evolution

    Orsolya Sztanó;Michal Kováč;Imre Magyar;Michal Šujan

  • Cretaceous—Quaternary tectonic evolution of the Tatra Mts (Western Carpathians): constraints from structural, sedimentary, geomorphological, and fission track data

    Silvia Králiková;Rastislav Vojtko;Ubomír Sliva;Jozef Minár

  • Quantifying the mass transfer from mountain ranges to deposition in sedimentary basins: Source to sink studies in the Danube Basin–Black Sea system

    Liviu Matenco;Paul Andriessen

Frequent Co-Authors

Régis Braucher
Régis Braucher Aix-Marseille University
Bernhard Fügenschuh
Bernhard Fügenschuh University of Salzburg
Nestor Oszczypko
Nestor Oszczypko Jagiellonian University
Mathias Harzhauser
Mathias Harzhauser Natural History Museum Vienna
Sierd Cloetingh
Sierd Cloetingh Utrecht University
Oleg Mandic
Oleg Mandic Natural History Museum Vienna
Frank Horváth
Frank Horváth Eötvös Loránd University
Didier Bourlès
Didier Bourlès Aix-Marseille University
Gianluca Bianchini
Gianluca Bianchini University of Ferrara
Frank P. Wesselingh
Frank P. Wesselingh Naturalis Biodiversity Center

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