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Dr. Dávid Molnár

Dávid Molnár (Twitter: @paleo_dave27) graduated from the University of Szeged, Hungary, in 2009 with a master degree in geography - geology. The topic of his thesis was the malacological analysis of terrestrial and freshwater mollusc shells in loess-paleosol sections. He continued this research at the Department of Geology and Palaeontology of the University of Szeged as a PhD student and from 2012 as a professor’s assistant. Since 2016, he has been teaching and researching as an assistant professor at the Department of Geology and Palaeontology, his main research area being the complex paleoecological, paleoclimatological analysis of loess-palaeosol sections in the Southern Transdanubian region, Hungary.

Land snails in the service of paleoecological studies

June 10, 2022
Land snails in the service of paleoecological studies

Paleoecological use of land snail shells is no longer a new field of science. They are studied by malacologists and palaeontologists who specialise in the study of molluscs. During the last glaciation, loess, a light yellow, fine-grained sediment, was deposited over large areas, mainly in the periglacial regions of Eurasia and North America. In addition to its many advantages, it has also provided ...[Read More]