Gina Lukoczki

Research Interests:
carbonate diagenesis
dolomitization
critical minerals
Education

Ph.D., Geology, Oklahoma State University, 2019

M.Sc., Geography & Geology, University of Szeged, 2009

Research

My research is focused on the formation of critical mineral occurrences integrating a variety of analytical tools and methodologies. My particular focus is on:

  • Mississippi Valley-type deposits, and
  • rare earth elements in alkaline igneous systems.

My favorite analytical approaches include:

  • Raman microscopy,
  • conventional and cathodoluminescence petrography,
  • fluid inclusion microthermometry,
  • elemental analysis,
  • isotope geochemistry (stable carbon and oxygen isotopes, carbonate clumped isotopes, strontium isotopes), and
  • Rietveld refinement of X-ray diffraction data.
GEMS Lab

Check out the Geochemical Exploration of Mineral Systems Lab here: https://www.georginalukoczki.com/gems

Selected Publications:

Foster, W.J., Lukoczki, G., Sebe, K., Price, G.D., 2021: Middle Triassic carbon isotope fluctuations in the Mecsek Mountains, Hungary. Newsletters on Stratigraphy. 10.1127/nos/2021/0627

Lukoczki, G., Haas, J., Gregg, J.M., Machel, H.G., Kele, S., John, C.M. 2020: Early dolomitization and partial burial recrystallization: A case study of Middle Triassic peritidal dolomites in the Villány Hills (SW Hungary) using petrography, carbon, oxygen, strontium and clumped isotope data. International Journal of Earth Sciences, 109, pp. 1051–1070. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00531-020-01851-7

Győri, G., János Haas, J., Hips, K., Lukoczki, G., Budai T, Demény, A., Szőcs, E. 2020: Dolomitization of shallow-water, mixed silicilastic-carbonate sequences: Lower Triassic ramp succession of the Transdanubian Range, Hungary. Sedimentary Geology, 395, 105549. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sedgeo.2019.105549

Lukoczki, G., Haas, J., Gregg, J.M., Machel, H.G., Kele, S., John, C.M. 2019: Multi-phase dolomitization and recrystallization of Middle Triassic shallow marine–peritidal carbonates from the Mecsek Mts. (SW Hungary), as inferred from petrography, carbon, oxygen, strontium and clumped isotope data. Marine and Petroleum Geology, 101, pp. 440–458. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2018.12.004

Haas, J., Hips, K., Budai, T., Győri, O., Lukoczki, G., Kele, S., Demény, A., Poros, Z. 2017: Processes and controlling factors of polygenetic dolomite formation in the Transdanubian Range, Hungary ‒ a synopsis. International Journal of Earth Sciences, 106, pp. 991–1021. DOI 10.1007/s00531-016-1347-7

Lukoczki, G., Budai, T., Németh, T. 2015: Sideritic-kaolinitic and Green Clay Layers in the Mecsek Mountains (SW Hungary): Indicators of Middle Triassic Volcanism – Myth or Reality? Central European Geology, 58/4, pp. 334–355. DOI 10.1556/24.58.2015.4.4

Haas, J., Lukoczki, G., Budai, T., Demény, A. 2015: Genesis of Late Triassic peritidal dolomites in the Transdanubian Range, Hungary. Facies, 61:8, pp. 1–28. DOI 10.1007/s10347-015-0435-7