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Elżbieta Dubińska
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Institute of Geochemistry, Mineralogy and Petrology
Room No. 263, phone: (0048-22) 8223051 ext. 143

E-mail: dubinska@geo.uw.edu.pl

Division: Petrology

Scientific interests and investigations

I. Phyllosilicates (clay minerals):

interstratified minerals - X-ray diffraction study (further details here), modeling one-dimensional diffraction patterns, HRTEM study as a tool of verification calculated models, unravelling of layer silicate growth on the basis of their structural model,

daughter and parent layer silicates as evidenced by inherited motif of parent mineral structure,

clay mineral and concomitant phase mineralogical record of weathering, hydrothermal processes and very low grade metamorphism.

Material:
altered ultramafic rocks from Sleza ophiolite (Lower Silesia),
metavolcanic rocks from Fore-Sudetic Monocline, generated by very low grade metamorphism.

II. Ultramafic and mafic rocks:

protolith of different metamorphic, hydrothermally altered, and weathered rocks recognised on the basis of their primary meso- and microtextures, characterisation of relic and newly formed phases, geochemical characteristics and its probable subsequent modification,
petrological, mineralogical and geochemical signature used for revealing the geodynamic position of mafic and ultramafic rocks.

Material:
serpentinites from Sleza ophiolite (Lower Silesia),
rodingites (by-products of serpentinisation of ultramafic rocks) Sleza ophiolite,
Rotliegendes basic volcanic rocks from Gorzow Wielkopolski region (Fore-Sudetic Monocline), underlying oil and gas deposits of Barnowko-Mostno-Buszewo,
ultrabasic rocks from Gory Sowie (Lower Silesia).

Most important publications
(period of last ten years)

Dubińska E., Bylina P., Bagiński B., Kaproń G., Kozlowski A. 2004 - Geochemistry and mineralogy of Rotliegend metavolcanic mafic rocks from Poland: pervasive low-grade metamorphism versus parent rock signature. [In:] Wilson M., Neumann E.-R., Davies G. R., Timmerman M. J. & Larsen B. T. (eds) - Permo-Carboniferous Magmatism and Rifting in Europe. Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 223, 393-413. London.

Sakharov B.A., Dubińska E., Bylina P., Kozubowski J.A., Kaproń G., Frontczak-Baniewicz M. 2004 - Serpentine-smectite interstratified minerals from Lower Silesia, Poland. Clays and Clay Minerals, v. 52, no. 1, 55-65.

Dubińska E., Bylina P., Kozlowski A., Dörr W., Nejbert K., Schastok J., Kulicki C. 2004 - U-Pb dating of serpentinization: hydrothermal zircon from metasomatic rodingite shell (Sudetic ophiolite, SW Poland). Chemical Geology, v. 203, nos. 3-4, 183-203.

Sakharov B.A., Dubińska E., Bylina P., Kaproń G. 2001 - Unusual X-ray characteristics of vermiculite from Wiry, Lower Silesia, Poland. Clays and Clay Minerals, v. 49, no. 3, 197-203.

Dubińska E., Bylina P. 1999 - Clay alteration of ultramafic rocks in Lower Silesia, Poland, Euroclay 1999, Excursion Guidebook, Pre-conference field trip, Wroclaw, ed. C. August, 5-35

Dubińska E., Bagiński B., Kaproń G., Bylina P. 1998 - Pumpellyite in altered basic volcanic rocks from the environs of Gorzow Wielkopolski (NW part of the Fore-Sudetic Monocline): signs of metamorphism of very low grade (VLGM), Przegląd Geologiczny, v. 46, no. 1, 71-79

Dubińska E. 1997 - Rodingites and amphibolites from the serpentinites surrounding Góry Sowie block (Lower Silesia, Poland): Record of supra-subduction zone magmatism and serpentinization, Neues Jahrbuch fur Mineralogie und Petrologie, Abhandlungen, 171, h. 3, 239-279

Dubińska E., Bylina P., Sakharov B. A. 1995 - Corrensite from Nasławice (Lower Silesia, Poland): Some problems of mineral identification and origin, Clays and Clay Minerals, v. 43, no. 5, 630-636

Dubińska E. 1995 - Rodingites of the eastern part of Jordanów-Gogołów serpentinite massif, Lower Silesia, Poland, Canadian Mineralogist, v. 33, p. 3, 585-608

Dubińska E., Jelitto J., Kozłowski A. 1995 - Origin and evolution of granite-serpentinite reaction zones at Wiry, Lower Silesia, Acta Geologica Polonica, v. 45, no. 1-2, 41-82

Extended list of publications

Teaching

Lectures

1. Crystallochemistry and X-ray diffraction - this course is offered for fourth course students of Geochemistry, Mineralogy and Petrology, 60 hours; lecture topics: fundamental of structural crystallography, X-ray diffraction, crystal chemistry of selected groups of rock forming minerals.

2. Layer silicates - this course is offered for fourth course students of Geochemistry, Mineralogy and Petrology, 30 hours; lecture topics: structures of layer silicates, their identification, occurrence and application as geological markers in different geological environments.

3. Petrology 2 (metamorphic rocks) - this course is offered for fourth course students of Geochemistry, Mineralogy and Petrology, 20 hours; lecture topics: basic types of metamorphism and metamorphic rocks.

4. Petrology of ophiolites - this course is offered when the demands requires it, 30 hours; lecture topics: geology and petrology of ophiolite sequences; using of mineralogical, petrological and geochemical data as tool for unraveling original type and evolution of the ophiolite structure and its mineral deposits.

5. Methods of mineral and rock analysis - this course is offered for fourth course students of Geochemistry, Mineralogy and Petrology, 6 hours; lecture topics: chemical geodynamics - using of geochemical data (trace elements, stable isotopes) as a tool for deciphering geotectonic position of different rocks.

Class hours

1. Petrology 2 (metamorphic rocks) - this course is offered for fourth course students of Geochemistry, Mineralogy and Petrology, 20 hours.

2. Petrology (fundamental petrology) - this course is offered for second course students.

3. Methods of mineral and rock analysis - this course is offered for fourth course students of Geochemistry, Mineralogy and Petrology, 24 hours.

Painting - I paint and draw, I have spare time; unfortunately I am still occupied.
Techniques: water colour, coloured pencil, crayon, pencil, pen.
Favourite motives: flowers, landscape, fantasy.

Please, feel invited to visit the sections: flowers - watercolours, flowers - crayons, imaginations, landscapes

Classic music - I like to work and listen to the music at the same time.
Favourite composers: Mozart, Bach, Vivaldi, Beethoven, Haydn, Sibelius, Liszt, Brahms.
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