Research interests:

• Lithospheric fluids
• Mineralogy
• Petrology
• Isotope geology
• Genesis of ore deposits

 

Selected publications:

Monographs, chapters, university scripts:

Hurai V – Huraiová M – Slobodník M – Thomas R  (2015) Geofluids. Developments in Microthermometry, Spectroscopy, Thermodynamics and Stable Isotopes. Elsevier, Amsterdam, New York, 487 s. ISBN 9780128032411

Hurai V – Huraiová M (2015) Izotopová geológia časť I: Stabilné izotopy. Vyd. PFUK, Bratislava, 84 s.

Lexa J – Bačo P – Hurai V – Chovan M – Koděra P – Petro M – Rojkovič I – Tréger M (2007) Vysvetlivky k Metalogenetickej Mape Slovenskej republiky 1:500 000. Vydavateľstvo ŠGÚDŠ, Bratislava, 153 s.

Huraiová M – Hurai V – Slobodník M (2002) Základy štúdia fluidných inklúzií v mineráloch. Masarykova Univerzita, Brno, 121 s.

Janák M – Hovorka D – Hurai V – Lupták B – Méres Š – Pitoňák P – Spišiak J (1997) High pressure relics in the metabasites of the Western Carpathians pre-Alpine basement. In: Grecula P, Hovorka D, Putiš M (eds) Geological Evolution of the Western Carpathians. Mineralia Slovaca – Monograph, Bratislava, 301-308

Hurai V (1994) Fluid inclusions. In: Chovan M – Háber M – Rojkovič I – Jeleň S (eds) Ore Textures in the Western Carpathians. Slovak Academic Press, Bratislava, 16-25

Ďurišová J – Hurai V (1991) Fluidní inkluze v minerálech. Academia, Praha, 105 s.

Koděra M – Andrusovová-Vlčeková G – Belešová O – Briatková D – Dávidová Š – Fejdiová V – Hurai V – Chovan M – Nelišerová E – Ženiš P  (1986) Topografická mineralógia Slovenska I., Veda, Bratislava, 1-584

Koděra M – Andrusovová-Vlčeková G – Belešová O – Briatková D – Dávidová Š – Fejdiová V – Hurai V – Chovan M – Nelišerová E – Ženiš P  (1990) Topografická mineralógia Slovenska II., Veda, Bratislava, 585-1098

Koděra M – Andrusovová-Vlčeková G – Belešová O – Briatková D – Dávidová Š – Fejdiová V – Hurai V – Chovan M – Nelišerová E – Ženiš P  (1990) Topografická mineralógia Slovenska III., Veda, Bratislava, 1099-1590

 

Publications in journals with IF:

HURAIOVÁ, Monika – PAQUETTE, Jean-Louis – KONEČNÝ, Patrik – GANNOUN, Abdel-Mouhcine – HURAI, Vratislav. Geochemistry, mineralogy, and zircon U-Pb-Hf isotopes in peraluminous A-type granite xenoliths in Pliocene-Pleistocene basalts of northern Pannonian Basin (Slovakia). In Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 2017, vol. 172, no. 8, 20 p.

HURAIOVÁ, Monika – KONEČNÝ, Patrik – HOLICKÝ, Ivan – MILOVSKÁ, Stanislava – NEMEC, Ondrej – HURAI, Vratislav. Mineralogy and origin of peralkaline granite-syenite nodules ejected in Pleistocene basalt from Bulhary, souther Slovakia. In Periodico di Mineralogia, 2017, vol. 86, p. 1-17.

HURAI, Vratislav – PAQUETTE, Jean-Louis – HURAIOVÁ, Monika – SLOBODNÍK, Marek – HVOŽĎARA, Pavel – SIEGFRIED, Peter – GAJDOŠOVÁ, Michaela – MILOVSKÁ, Stanislava. New insights into the origin of the Evate apatite-iron oxide-carbonate deposit, Northeastern Mozambique, constrained by mineralogy, textures, thermochronometry, and fluid inclusions. In Ore Geology Reviews, 2017, vol. 80, p. 1072-1091.

Randive K – Hurai V (2015) Fluid inclusion study of quartz xenocrysts in mafic dykes from Kawant area, Chhota Udaipur District, Gujarat, India. Open Geosciences 7, DOI: 10.1515/geo-2015- 0019

Hurai V – Paquette J-L – Lexa O – Konečný P – Dianiška I (2015) LA-ICP-MS U-Pb-Th geochronology of albitite associated with siderite veins of the Rožňava-Nadabula ore field: implications for age and origin of hydrothermal polymetallic veins of the Gemeric unit (Western Carpathians, Slovakia). Mineralogy and Petrology 109, 5, 519-530

Hurai V – Danišík M – Huraiová M – Paquette J.-L. – Ádám A. (2013) 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. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology 166, 4, 1235-1251

Hurai V – Huraiová M – Milovský R – Luptáková J – Konečný P (2013) High-pressure aragonite phenocrysts in carbonatite and carbonated syenite xenoliths within an alkali basalt. American Mineralogist 98, 1074–1077

Borojević Šoštarić S – Palinkaš AL – Neubauer F – Hurai V – Cvetković V – Roller-Lutz Z – Mandić M – Genser J (2013) 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. Ore Geology Reviews 50, 97-117

Hurai V – Paquette, J.-L. – Huraiová M – Sabol M (2012) U-Pb geochronology of zircons from fossiliferous sediments of the Hajnáčka I maar (Slovakia) – type locality of the MN16a biostratigraphic subzone. Geological Magazine 149, 6, 989-1000

Slobodník M – Melichar R – Hurai V – Bakker R (2012) Litho-stratigraphic effect on Variscan fluid flow within the Prague Synform, Barrandian: evidence based on C, O, Sr isotopes and fluid inclusions. Marine and Petroleum Geology 35, 1, 128-138

Milovský R – van den Kerkhof A – Hoefs J – Hurai V – Prochaska W (2012) Cathodoluminescence, fluid inclusion and stable C-O isotope study of tectonic breccias from thrusting plane of a thin-skinned calcareous nappe. International Journal of Earth Sciences 101, 535-554

Hurai V – Huraiová M – Koděra P – Prochaska W – Vozárová A – Dianiška I (2011) Fluid inclusion and stable C-O isotope constraints on the origin of metasomatic magnesite deposits of the Western Carpathians, Slovakia. Russian Geology and Geophysics 52, 11, 1283-1299

Hurai V – Huraiová M (2011) Origin of ferroan alabandite and manganoan sphalerite from the Tisovec skarn, Slovakia. Neues Jahrbuch für Mineralogie Abhandlungen 188, 2, 119-134

Hurai V – Paquette JL – Huraiová M – Konečný P (2010) U-Th-Pb geochronology of zircon and monazite from syenite and pincinite xenoliths in Pliocene alkali basalts of intra-Carpathian back-arc basin. Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research 198, 275-287

Hurai V (2010) Fluid inclusion geobarometry: Pressure corrections for immiscible H₂O-CH₄ and H₂O-CO₂ fluids. Chemical Geology 278, 201-211

Hurai V – Janák M – Thomas R (2010) Fluid-assisted retrogression of garnet and P-T history of metapelites from HP/UHP metamorphic terrane (Pohorje Mountains, Eastern Alps). Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology 160, 203-218

Janák M – Cornell D – Froitzheim N – de Hoog JCM – Broska I – Vrabec M – Hurai V (2009) Eclogite-hosting metapelites from the Pohorje Mountains (Eastern Alps): P-T evolution, zircon geochronology and tectonic implications. European Journal of Mineralogy, 21, 6, 1191-1212

Hurai V – Lexa O – Schulmann K – Montigny R – Prochaska W – Frank W – Konečný P – Kráľ J – Thomas R  – Chovan M (2008) Mobilization of ore fluids during Alpine metamorphism: evidence from hydrothermal veins in the Variscan basement of Western Carpathians, Slovakia Geofluids 8, 3, 181-207

Hurai V – Göttlicher J – Majzlan J – Huraiová M (2008) Contrasting ferric iron contents in natural conjugate Fe-oxide and silicate melts from southern Slovakia determined using micro-XANES spectroscopy. Canadian Mineralogist, 46, 1173-1181

Hurai V – Prochaska W – Lexa O – Schulmann K – Thomas R – Ivan P (2008) High-density nitrogen inclusions in barite from a giant siderite vein: implications for Alpine evolution of  the Variscan basement of Western Carpathians, Slovakia. Journal of Metamorphic Geology, 26, 487-498

Hurai V – Huraiová M – Konečný P – Thomas R (2007) Mineral-fluid-melt composition of carbonate-bearing cumulate xenoliths in Tertiary alkali basalts of southern Slovakia. Mineralogical Magazine 71, 1, 17-33

Urban M – Konečný P – Thomas R – Hurai V – Chovan M (2006) Superdense CO₂ inclusions in Cretaceous quartz-stibnite veins hosted in low-grade Variscan basement of the Western Carpathians, Slovakia. Mineralium Deposita 40, 867-873

Hurai V – Marko F – Swierczewska A – Tokarski A – Kotulová J – Biroň A (2006) Fluid inclusion evidence for deep burial of the Tertiary accretionary wedge of the Carpathians. Terra Nova 18, 6, 440-446

Marko F – Hurai V – Dyda M – Almeida G Jr – Prochaska W –Thomas R (2006) Fluid inclusion and tectonic constraints on the origin of quartz veins with giant crystals in the Tocantins Structural Province (Cristalândia, central Brazil). Journal of South American Earth Sciences 21, 3, 241-253

Huraiová M – Dubessy J – Konečný P – Simon K – Kráľ J – Zielinski G – Lipka J – Hurai V (2005) Glassy orthopyroxene granodiorites of the Pannonian Basin – tracers of ultra-high-temperature deep-crustal anatexis triggered by Tertiary basaltic volcanism. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology 148, 615-633

Hurai V (2005) Siderite mineralization of the Gemericum Superunit (Western Carpathians, Slovakia): review and a revised genetic model [Ore Geology Reviews 24, 267-298] – a discussion. Ore Geology Reviews 26, 167-172

Marko F – Pivko D – Hurai V (2003) Ruin marble: a record of fracture-controlled fluid flow and precipitation. Geological Quarterly 47, 241-252

Milovský R – Hurai V – Plašienka D – Biroň A (2003) Hydrotectonic regime at soles of overthrust sheets: textural and fluid inclusion evidence from basal cataclasites of the Muráň nappe (Western Carpathians, Slovakia). Geodinamica Acta 16, 1-20

Hurai V – Kihle J – Kotulová J – Marko F – Swierczewska A (2002) Origin of methane in quartz crystals from the Tertiary accretionary wedge and forearc basin of the Western Carpathians. Applied Geochemistry 17, 1259-1271

Hurai V – Harčová E – Huraiová M – Ozdín D – Prochaska W – Wiegerová V (2002) Origin of siderite veins in the Western Carpathians: I. P-T-X-d¹³C-d¹⁸O relations in ore-forming brines of the Rudňany deposits. Ore Geology Reviews 21,  67-101
Hurai V – Janák M – Ludhová L – Horn EE – Thomas R – Majzlan J (2000) Nitrogen-bearing fluids, brines and carbonate liquids in Variscan migmatites of the Tatra Mountains, Western Carpathians – heritage of high-pressure metamorphism. European Journal of Mineralogy 12, 1283-1300

Janák M – Hurai V – Ludhová L – O´Brien PJ – Horn EE (1999) Dehydration-melting and devolatilization during exhumation of the high-grade metapelites: the Tatra Mountains, Western Carpathians. Journal of Metamorphic Geology 17, 379-395

Janák M – Hurai V – Ludhová L – Thomas R (1999) Partial melting and retrogression during exhumation of high-grade metapelites, the Tatra Mountains, Western Carpathians. Physics and Chemistry of the Earth (A) 24, 289-294

Hurai V – Simon K – Wiechert U – Hoefs J – Konečný P – Huraiová M – Pironon J – Lipka J (1998) Immiscible separation of metalliferous Fe/Ti-oxide melts from fractionating alkali basalt: P-T–fO₂ conditions and two-liquid elemental partitioning. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology 133, 12-29
Hurai V – Simon K – Bezák V (1997) Contrasting chemistry and H,O,C isotope composition of greenschist-facies, Hercynian and Alpine metamorphic fluids. Chemical Geology 136, 281-293

Huraiová M – Konečný P – Konečný V – Simon K – Hurai V (1996) 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. European Journal of Mineralogy 8, 901-916
Janák M – O´Brien P – Hurai V – Reutel Ch (1996) Metamorphic evolution and fluid composition of garnet-clinopyroxene amphibolites from the Tatra Mts., Western Carpathians. Lithos 39, 57-79

Chovan M – Hurai V – Sachan HK – Kantor J (1995) Origin of the fluids associated with granodiorite-hosted, Sb-As-Au-W mineralisation at Dúbrava (Nízke Tatry Mts, Western Carpathians). Mineralium Deposita 30, 48-54
Hurai V (1992) Immiscibility in the system H2O-CO2-NaCl: Applications to fluid inclusion thermobarometry. Neues Jahrbuch  für Mineralogie – Abhandlungen 165, 5-17
Hurai V – Horn E.E. (1992) A boundary layer-induced immiscibility in naturally re-equilibrated H2O-CO2-NaCl inclusions from metamorphic quartz (Western Carpathians, Czechoslovakia). Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology 112, 414-427

Hurai V (1989) BASIC program for interpretation of microthermometric data from H2O and H2O-NaCl fluid inclusions. Computers and Geosciences 15, 135-142

Hurai V – Streško V (1987) Correlation between quartz crystal morphology and composition of fluid inclusions as inferred from fissures in Central Slovakia (Czechoslovakia). Chemical Geology 61, 225-239