Dr. Tudor Tămaș

Tudor Tămaș, PhD
Lecturer

No. 1 Kogălniceanu Street, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Mineralogy, X-ray diffraction, Cave deposits, Cave
topography
+40 264 405300
tudor.tamas@ubbcluj.ro

Education:
PhD: Babes-Bolyai University, Geology, 2003
M.S.: Babes-Bolyai University, Geology (Petrometallogeny), 1996
B.S.: Babes-Bolyai University, Engineering Geology, 1995

Research:
Current research focuses on structural characterisation of minerals and inorganic materials
through XRD and electron microscopy, as well as facies and composition of cave deposits,
natural and in relation to anthropic activities.

Selected Publications:
1. Marat, A.R., Tămaş, T., Samşudean C, Gheorghiu, R. 2022. Physico-mechanical and
mineralogical investigations of red bed slopes (Cluj-Napoca, Romania). Bulletin of
Engineering Geology and the Environment, 81, art. 78.
2. Bărbat, I.A., Tămaş, T., Cîntă Pînzaru, S. 2021. Greenstone beads in the Early Neolithic of
Transylvania? An interdisciplinary approach to study a small prehistoric adornment
discovered in Lunca Târnavei, Romania. Banatica, 31 (1), 15-47.
3. Tămaş, T., Kristály, F., Barbu-Tudoran, L. 2011. Mineralogy of Iza Cave (Rodnei Mountains,
N. Romania). International Journal of Speleology, 40 (2), 171-179.
4. Tămaş, T., Onac, B.P., Bojar, A.V. 2005. Lateglacial-Middle Holocene stable isotope records
in two coeval stalagmites from the Bihor Mountains, NW Romania. Geological Quarterly, 49
(2), 185-194.

Full Publication List

Teaching:
Undergraduate:
1. Basic of crystallography
2. Analytical methods in mineralogy
3. Karstology