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Bogdan  Onac

Bogdan Onac

Bogdan Onac
Assistant Professor

Contact

Office: SCA 506
Lab: SCA 515
Phone: 813/974-1067
Email: bonac@cas.usf.edu

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Research

Cave mineralogy and crystallography.Quaternary palaeoclimate and palaeoenvironment reconstruction based on cave deposits. Sea-level changes based on cave deposits.

  Current Courses
RefCourseSecCourse TitleCRDayTimeLocation
81780GLY 3552C001Sed Rec 1 Proc and Petrol
4MW
M
3:05pm-4:20pm
4:35pm-7:25pm
CHE 313
CHE 313
82873GLY 7912005Directed Research
1-30  TBA TBA

Recent Publications

1.     Cinta Pinzaru, S., Onac, B. P. 2009: Raman study of natural berlinite from the Cioclovina Cave phosphate deposit. Vibrational Spectroscopy 49 97-100.

2.     Onac, B. P., Bernhardt, H.-J., Effenberger, H. 2009: Authigenic burbankite in the Cioclovina Cave sediments (Romania). European Journal of Mineralogy 21 507-514.

3.     Onac, B.P., Sumrall, J., Tamas, T., Povara, I., Kearns, J., Dârmiceanu, V., Veres, D., Lascu, C. 2009: The relationship between cave minerals and hypogene activity along the Cerna Valley (SW Romania) Acta Carsologica 38 (1): 67-791.

4.     Onac, B. P., Pace-Graczyk, K., Atudorei, V. 2008: Stable isotope study of precipitation and cave drip water in Florida (USA): implications for speleothem-based paleoclimate studies. Isotopes in Environmental and Health Studies 44 (2): 149-161.

5.     Onac, B. P., Constantin, S. 2008: Archives of Climate and Environmental Change in Karst. Quaternary International 187: 1-4.

6.     Zak, K., Onac, B. P., Persoiu, A. 2008: Cryogenic carbonates in cave environments: a review. Quaternary International 187: 84-96.