Buda Hills

Location of the Buda Hills proper (Budai-hegyek) within physical subdivisions of Hungary. The Buda Hills in broader sense (Budai-hegység) include also southerly situated Budaörs and Budakeszi Basin (Budaörsi- és Budakeszi-medence) and Tétény Plateau (Tétényi-fennsík).
Map of the Buda Hills

The Buda Hills (Hungarian: Budai-hegység) are a low mountain range of numerous hills which dot the Buda side of Budapest, capital of Hungary. They include Gellérthegy, Várhegy (Castle Hill), Svábhegy, Jánoshegy, Széchenyihegy, Martonhegy and Sashegy. Most of these hills consist of nature or residential areas.

The Budaörs Dolomite of Anisian-Carnian age (Triassic period) is the oldest formation which crops out in the Buda Hills.[1] Younger Triassic succession is composed of cherty dolomite and limestone (basin facies), and dolomites and limestones (platform facies).[2][3] The Trassic surface is composed of karstified carbonates,[4] which are overlain by an Upper Eocene succession made of conglomerate beds.[5]

During the period from the terminal Cretaceous to Priabonian, the Buda Hills area was a kartstic terrestrial environment displaying distinct relief differences. It was also the time when Triassic formations were eroded. The continental period (ended by the transgression in Late Eocene) was characterized by the formation of small fans at the slope foots. The fans contained substantial quantities of andesite clasts thanks to the fans' close location to the andesite source rocks. The clasts could have been then transported by periodic streams along the valleys. The Late Eocene transgression reworked accumulated terrestrial sediments.[6]

References

  1. ↑ Haas, János; Budai, Tamás; Dunkl, István; Farics, Éva; Józsa, Sándor; Kövér, Szilvia; Götz, Annette; Piros, Olga; Szeitz, Péter (2017-09-13). "The Budaörs-1 well revisited: Contributions to the Triassic stratigraphy, sedimentology, and magmatism of the southwestern part of the Buda Hills". Central European Geology. Acta Geologica Hungarica. 60 (2): 201–229. doi:10.1556/24.60.2017.008. ISSN 1788-2281.
  2. ↑ Balogh, K. (1981). "Correlation of the Hungarian Triassic". Acta Geologica Hungarica. 24 (1): 3–48.
  3. ↑ Kozur, Heinz; Mock, Rudolf (October 1991). "New Middle Carnian and Rhaetian conodonts from Hungary and the Alps. Stratigraphic importance and tectonic implications for the Buda Mountains and adjacent areas" (PDF). Jahrbuch Geologischen Bundesanstalt. 134: 271–297.
  4. ↑ Kósa, Gábor; Mindszenty, Andrea; Mohai, Rita (2003). "Eocene alluvial fan prograding over a highly dissected palaeokarst surface built up by Upper Triassic dolomites. New details on the early Palaeogene evolution of the Buda-Hills" (PDF). Bulletin of the Hungarian Geological Society. 133 (2): 271–285.
  5. ↑ Magyari, Árpád (1994). "Late Eocene Transpression in the Budaörs Hills". Bulletin of the Hungarian Geological Society. 124 (2): 155–173.
  6. ↑ Farics, Éva; Farics, Dávid; Kovács, József; Haas, János (2017-10-28). "Interpretation of sedimentological processes of coarse-grained deposits applying a novel combined cluster and discriminant analysis". Open Geosciences. 9 (1): 525–538. doi:10.1515/geo-2017-0040. ISSN 2391-5447.
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