''Földtani Közlöny'', otherwise known in English as the Bulletin of the Hungarian Geological Society, is a

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scholarly journal publishing research articles on or related to the geology and stratigraphy of the Carpathian-Pannonian region. It is the official journal of the Hungarian Geological Society (Magyarhoni Földtani Társulat), made available online with the help of the Library of the

Hungarian Academy of Sciences The Hungarian Academy of Sciences ( , MTA) is Hungary’s foremost and most prestigious learned society. Its headquarters are located along the banks of the Danube in Budapest, between Széchenyi rakpart and Akadémia utca. The Academy's primar ...

(MTAK). Published articles are written in English or Hungarian. It converted to an

journal in 2017. The current editor-in-chief is Dr Orsolya Sztanó.

Notable scientists who have published in this journal

* Austro-Hungarian-born

geologist A geologist is a scientist who studies the structure, composition, and History of Earth, history of Earth. Geologists incorporate techniques from physics, chemistry, biology, mathematics, and geography to perform research in the Field research, ...

and

paleontologist Paleontology, also spelled as palaeontology or palæontology, is the scientific study of the life of the past, mainly but not exclusively through the study of fossils. Paleontologists use fossils as a means to classify organisms, measure geolo ...

Franz Nopcsa von Felső-Szilvás * Hungarian

Péter Hédervári Péter Hédervári (1931-1984) was a geophysicist, scientific popularizer, amateur astronomer, and member of several national and international scientific societies. Career After receiving his doctorate at Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest ...

* Hungarian

paleoanthropologist Paleoanthropology or paleo-anthropology is a branch of paleontology and biological anthropology, anthropology which seeks to understand the early development of anatomically modern humans, a process known as wikt:hominization, hominization, throug ...

and

Széchenyi Prize The Széchenyi Prize (), named after István Széchenyi, is a prize given in Hungary by the state, replacing the former State Prize in 1990 in recognition of those who have made an outstanding contribution to academic life in Hungary. Recipients ...

winner,

Miklós Kretzoi Miklós Kretzoi (9 February 1907 – 15 March 2005) was a Hungarian people, Hungarian geologist, paleontologist and paleoanthropologist and Széchenyi Prize winner. Exhibition in the Hungarian National Museum, 9 February - 24 May 2004 Kr ...

Biological taxa first described in this journal

* An extinct bear genus '' Agriarctos'' was first described in this journal in 1942. * A fossil barnacle species '' Megabalanus giganteum'' was first described in this journal in 1949. * A fossil barnacle species '' Balanus vadaszi'' was first described in this journal in 1949. * A fossil barnacle species '' Balanus borsodensis'' was first described in this journal in 1952.

Abstracting and indexing

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