Investigations
on global warming and the associated climate change are one of the socially
most important field of current research trends. Studies on processes of the
geological past can significantly contribute to reliable estimations of expected
climate tendencies. The global processes are relatively well known, however,
modelling of regional and local phenomena requires new data. The detailed
paleoclimatic analyses of the Carpathian Basin can provide important data
for the estimations of future climate variations. However, it is a general
problem that the interpretations of geochemical records suffer from several
drawbacks that weaken the conclusions drawn. The solution is studying various
deposits and materials that reflect the same environmental conditions in different
ways. The members of the G&P Research Group deal with several different
formations and materials (sedimentary sections of major extinction events,
groundwaters, cave deposits, freshwater limestones, mollusc shells, paleosoils).
The expected result of the work of the Research Group is a coherent geochemical
modelling of climate change processes in the Carpathian Basin.