Dr. habil. Vratislav Hurai

Profile

Academic positionAssociate Professor, Senior Lecturer, Reader
Research fieldsGeochemistry (Inorganic, Organic, Biological),Mineralogy, Crystallography
KeywordsFluid Inclusions, Geochemistry, Mineralogy, Petrology, Stable Isotopes

Current contact address

CountrySlovakia
CityBratislava
InstitutionSlovak Academy of Sciences
InstituteGeological Institute
Homepagehttp://www.researchgate.net/profile/Vratislav_Hurai

Host during sponsorship

Prof. Dr. Joachim HoefsGeochemie und Isotopengeologie, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Göttingen
Dr. Elfrun-E. HornGeochemie und Isotopengeologie, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Göttingen
Start of initial sponsorship01/02/1991

Programme(s)

1990Humboldt Research Fellowship Programme

Publications (partial selection)

2015Vratislav Hurai, Monika Huraiova, Marek Slobodnik, Rainer Thomas: Geofluids. Developments in Microthermometry, Spectroscopy, Thermodynamics and Stable Isotopes. Elsevier, 2015
2014Vratislav Hurai, Maria Wierzbicka-Wieczorek, Martin Pentrak, Monika Huraiova, Rainer Thomas, Anna Swierczewska: X-ray diffraction and vibrational spectroscopic characteristics of hydroxylclinohumite from ruby-bearing marbles (Luc-Yen district, Vietnam). In: International Journal of Mineralogy, 2014, 11
2013Vratislav Hurai, Martin Danisik, Monika Huraiova, Jean-Louis Paquette, Alexander Adam: Combined U/Pb and (U-Th)/He geochronometry of basalt maars in Western Carpathians - implications for age of intraplate volcanism and origin of zircon metasomatism. In: Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 2013, 1235-1251
2013Vratislav Hurai, Monika Huraiova, Rastislav Milovsky, Jarmila Luptakova, Patrik Konecny: High-pressure aragonite phenocrysts in carbonatite and carbonated syenite xenoliths within an alkali basalt. In: American Mineralogist, 2013, 1074-1077
2013S. Borojevic Šoštaric, A.I. Palinkaš, F. Neubauer, V. Hurai, V. Cvetkovic, Z. Roller-Lutz, M. Mandic, J. Genser: Silver-base metal epithermal vein and listwaenite hosted deposit Crnac, Rogozna Mts., Kosovo, Part II: A link between magmatic rocks and epithermal mineralization, structural and genetic model.. In: Ore Geology Reviews, 2013, 97-117
2012Rastislav Milovský, Alfons van den Kerkhof, Jochen Hoefs, Vratislav Hurai, Walter Prochaska: Cathodoluminescence, fluid inclusion and stable C-O isotope study of tectonic breccias from thrusting plane of a thin-skinned calcareous nappe. In: International Journal of Earth Sciences, 2012, 535-554
2012Marek Slobodnik, Rostislav Melichar, Vratislav Hurai, Ronald Bakker: Litho-stratigraphic effect on Variscan fluid flow within the Prague Synform, Barrandian: evidence based on C, O, Sr isotopes and fluid inclusions. In: Marine and Petroleum Geology , 2012, 128-138
2012Vratislav Hurai, Jean-Louis Paquette, Monika Huraiova, Martin Sabol: U-Pb geochronology of zircons from fossiliferous sediments of the Hajnáčka I maar (Slovakia) – type locality of the MN16a biostratigraphic subzone. In: Geological Magazine, 2012, 989-1000
2011Vratislav Hurai, Monika Huraiová, Peter Koděra, Walter Prochaska, Anna Vozárová, Ivan Dianiška: Fluid inclusion and stable C-O isotope constraints on the origin of metasomatic magnesite deposits of the Western Carpathians, Slovakia. In: Russian Geology and Geophysics, 2011, 1474-1490
2011Vratislav Hurai, Monika Huraiová: Origin of ferroan alabandite and manganoan sphalerite from the Tisovec skarn, Slovakia. In: Neues Jahrbuch fuer Mineralogie Abhandlungen, 2011, 119-134
2010Vratislav Hurai: Fluid inclusion geobarometry: Pressure corrections for immiscible H2O-CH4 and H2O-CO2 fluids. In: Chemical Geology, 2010, 201-211
2010Vratislav Hurai, Marian Janák, Rainer Thomas: Fluid-assisted retrogression of garnet and P-T history of metapelites from HP/UHP metamorphic terrane (Pohorje Mountains, Eastern Alps). In: Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 2010, 203-218
2010Vratislav Hurai, Jean-Louis Paquette, Monika Huraiová, Patrik Konecný: U-Th-Pb geochronology of zircon and monazite from syenite and pincinite xenoliths in Pliocene alkali basalts of the intra-Carpathian back-arc basin. In: Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, 2010, 275-287
2009Marián Janák, David Cornell, Nikolaus Froitzheim, Jan C.M. de Hoog, Igor Broska, Mirijam Vrabec, Vratislav Hurai: Eclogite-hosting metapelites from the Pohorje Mountains (Eastern Alps): P-T evolution, zircon geochronology and tectonic implications. In: European Journal of Mineralogy, 2009, 1191-1212
2008Vratislav Hurai, Jörg Göttlicher, Juraj Majzlan, Monika Huraiová: Contrasting ferric iron contents in conjugate Fe oxide and silicate melts from southern Slovakia determined using micro-XANES spectroscopy. In: Canadian Mineralogist, 2008, 1173-1181
2008Vratislav Hurai, Walter Prochaska, Ondrej Lexa, Karel Schulmann, Rainer Thomas, Peter Ivan: High-density nitrogen inclusions in barite from a giant siderite vein: implications for Alpine evolution of the Variscan basement of Western Carpathians, Slovakia. In: Journal of Metamorphic Geology, 2008, 487-498
2008Vratislav Hurai, Ondrej Lexa, Karel Schulmann, Raymond Montigny, Walter Prochaska, Wolfgang Frank, Patrik Konečný, Ján Kráľ, Rainer Thomas, Martin Chovan: Mobilization of ore fluids during Alpine metamorphism: evidence from hydrothermal veins in the Variscan basement of Western Carpathians, Slovakia. In: Geofluids, 2008, 181-207
2007Vratislav Hurai, Monika Huraiová, Patrik Konečný, Rainer Thomas: Mineral-melt-fluid composition of carbonate-bearing cumulate xenoliths in Tertiary alkali basalts of southern Slovakia. In: Mineralogical Magazine, 2007, 63-79
2006Vratislav Hurai, Marian Urban, Patrik Konecny, Rainer Thomas, Ondrej Lexa, Karel Schulmann, Martin Chovan: Cretaceous age of quartz-stibnite veins near Cucma (Spissko-gemerske rudohorie Mts.). In: Mineralia Slovaca, 2006, 131-140
2006Vratislav Hurai, Frantisek Marko, Antoni K. Tokarski, Anna Swierczewska, Julia Kotulova, Adrian Biron: Fluid inclusion evidence for deep burial of the Tertiary accretionary wedge of the Carpathians. In: Terra Nova, 2006, 440-446
2006Marian Urban, Rainer Thomas, Vratislav Hurai, Patrik Konecny, Martin Chovan: Superdense CO2 inclusions in Cretaceous quartz-stibnite veins hosted in low-grade Variscan basement of the Western Carpathians, Slovakia. In: Mineralium Deposita, 2006, 867-873
2006Frantisek Marko, Vratislav Hurai, Marian Dyda, Gervalino Almeida, Walter Prochaska, Rainer Thomas: Tectonic and fluid inclusion constraints on the origin of quartz veins with giant crystals in the Tocantins structural province (Cristalandia, central Brasil). In: Journal of South American Earth Sciences, 2006, 239-251
2005Vratislav Hurai: 'Siderite mineralization of the Gemericum superunit (Western Carpathians, Slovakia): review and a revised genetic model' [Ore Geology Reviews 24, 267-298] - a discussion. In: Ore Geology Reviews, 2005, 167-172
2004Monika Orvosova, Vratislav Hurai, Klaus Simon, Viera Wiegerova: Fluid inclusion and stable isotopic evidence for early hydrothermal karstification in vadose caves of the Nízke Tatry Mountains (Western Carpathians). In: Geologica Carpathica, 2004, 421-429
2003Frantisek Marko, Daniel Pivko, Vratislav Hurai: Ruin marble: a record of fracture-controlled fluid flow and precipitation. In: Geological Quarterly, 2003, 241-252
2002Vratislav Hurai, Jan Kihle, Julia Kotulova, Fero Marko, Anna Swierczewska : Origin of methane in quartz crystals from the Tertiary accretionary wedge and forearc basin of the Western Carpathians. In: Applied Geochemistry, 2002, 1259-1271
2002Vratislav Hurai, Emilia Harcova, Monika Huraiova, Daniel Ozdin, Walter Prochaska, Viera Wiegerova: Origin of siderite veins in the Western Carpathians: I. P-T-X-d13C-d18O relations in ore-forming brines of the Rudnany deposits. In: Ore Geology Reviews, 2002, 67-101
2001Juraj Majzlan, Vratislav Hurai, Martin Chovan: Fluid inclusion study on hydrothermal As-Au-Sb-Cu-Pb-Zn veins in the Mlynná dolina Valley (Western Carpathians, Slovakia). . In: Geologica Carpathica, 2001, 277-286
2000Anna Swierczewska, Antek Tokarski, Vratislav Hurai: Joints and mineral veins during structural evolution: case study from the Outer Carpathians (Poland). In: Geological Quaterly, 2000, 333-339
2000Vratislav Hurai, Marian Janák, Lívia Ludhová, Elfrun-Erika Horn, Rainer Thomas, Juraj Majzlan : Nitrogen-bearing fluids, brines and carbonate liquids in Variscan migmatites of the Tatra Mountains, Western Carpathians - heritage of high-pressure metamorphism. In: European Journal of Mineralogy, 2000, 1283-1300
1999Marian Janák, Vratislav Hurai, Lívia Ludhová, Patrick O´Brien, Elfrun-Erika Horn Dehydration-melting and devolatilization during exhumation of the high-grade metapelites: the Tatra Mountains, Western Carpathians. In: Journal of Metamorphic Geology, 1999, 379-395
1999Marian Janák, Vratislav Hurai, Lívia Ludhová, Rainer Thomas : Partial melting and retrogression during exhumation of high-grade metapelites, the Tatra Mountains, Western Carpathians. In: Physics and Chemistry of the Earth (A), 1999, 289-294
1999Anna Swierczewska, Vratislav Hurai, Antek Tokarski, Robert Kopciowski: Quartz mineralization of the Magura nappe (Poland) ¿ a combined microstructural and microthermometry approach. In: Geologica Carpathica, 1999, 174-177
1998Vratislav Hurai, Klaus Simon, Uwe Wiechert, Jochen Hoefs, Patrik Konecny, Monika Huraiová, Jacques Pironon, Ján Lipka Immiscible separation of metalliferous Fe/Ti-oxide melts from fractionating alkali basalt: P-T-fO2 conditions and two-liquid elemental partitioning. In: Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 1998, 12-29
1997Vratislav Hurai, Klaus Simon, Vladimir Bezák: Contrasting chemistry and H,O,C isotope composition of greenschist-facies, Hercynian and Alpine metamorphic fluids. In: Chemical Geology, 1997, 281-293
1997Marian Janák, Du¿an Hovorka, Vratislav Hurai, Branislav Lupták, ¿tefan Méres, Pavel Pitonák, Ján Spi¿iak : High pressure relics in the metabasites of the Western Carpathians pre-Alpine basement. In: Pavel Grecula, Du¿an Hovorka, Marian Puti¿, Geological Evolution of the Western Carpathians. Geocomplex, 1997. 301-308
1996Monika Huraiova, Patrik Konecny, Vlastimil Konecny, Klaus Simon, Vratislav Hurai: Mafic and salic igneous xenoliths in late Tertiary alkaline basalts: Fluid inclusion and mineralogical evidence for a deep crustal magmatic reservoir in the Western Carpathians. In: European Journal of Mineralogy, 1996, 901-916
1996Marian Janák, Patrick O´BRIEN, Vratislav Hurai, Christian Reutel: Metamorphic evolution and fluid composition of garnet-clinopyroxene amphibolites from the Tatra Mts., Western Carpathians. In: Lithos, 1996, 57-79
1996Ján ¿efara, Miroslav Bielik, Patrik Konecný, Vladimír Bezák, Vratislav Hurai: The latest stage of development of the lithosphere and its interaction with the asthenosphere (Western Carpathians). In: Geologica Carpathica, 1996, 339-347
1995Martin Chovan, Vratislav Hurai, Himanshu Kumar Sachan, Jan Kantor: Origin of the fluids associated with granodiorite-hosted, Sb-As-Au-W mineralisation at Dúbrava (Nízke Tatry Mts, Western Carpathians). In: Mineralium Deposita, 1995, 48-54
1994Vratislav Hurai: Fluid inclusions. In: Martin Chovan, Milan Háber, Igor Rojkovic, Stanislav Jelen , Ore textures in the Western Carpathians. Slovac Academic Press, 1994. 16-25
1992Vratislav Hurai, Elfrun-Erika Horn: A boundary layer-induced immiscibility in naturally re-equilibrated H2O-CO2-NaCl inclusions from metamorphic quartz (Western Carpathians, Czechoslovakia). In: Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 1992, 414-427
1992Vratislav Hurai: Immiscibility in the system H2O-CO2-NaCl: Applications to fluid inclusion thermobarometry. In: Neues Jahrbuch für Mineralogie, Abhandlungen , 1992, 5-17
1991Jana Durisova, Vratislav Hurai: Fluid inclusions in minerals. Academia, 1991