Publications

Books

Onac, B.P., Sumrall, J., Mylroie, J.E., Kearns, J. 2008: Cave minerals of the San Salvador Island, Bahamas. USF Library Press, 70 pp.
Onac, B.P., Persoiu, A., Racovita, G., Tamas, T., Viehmann, I. 2007: Scarisoara. Editura Studia Cluj, 88 pp. (Romanian/English)
Onac, B. P. 2004: Clepsidrele geologiei. Introducere in geocronologia izotopica. Ed. Presa Universitara Clujeana, Cluj, 176 pp. (in Romanian).
Onac, B. P. 2001: Principles of Crystallography. Ed. Presa Universitaro Clujeana, Cluj, 340 pp. (in Romanian with a short English abstract).
Onac, B. P. 2000: Geology of karst terrains. Ed. Didactica si Pedagogica, Bucuresti, 400 pp. (in Romanian with extended English abstracts after each chapter).
Onac, B. P. 1998: Speleothems from caves in Padurea Craiului Mountains. A mineralogical, crystallographical and palaeoclimatic study. Ed. Academiei Romane, Bucuresti, 176 pp. (in Romanian with a short English abstract).
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Racovita, G., Onac, B. P. 2002: Pestera Ghetarul de la Scarisoara. Studiu monographic. Ed. Presa Universitara Clujeana, Cluj-Napoca, 156 pp. (an updated Romanian version)
Racovita, G., Moldovan, O, Onac, B. P. 2002: The karst of the Padurea Craiului Mountains. Ed. Presa Universitara Clujeana, Cluj-Napoca, 264 pp. (in Romanian with extended English abstracts after each chapter).
Racovita, G., Onac, B. P. 2000: Scarisoara Glacier Cave. Monographic study. Ed. Carpatica, 140 pp.

Cave mineralogy and crystallography

(other papers)

Onac, B.P., Fornos, J.J., Gines, A. & gines, J. 2005: Mineralogical reconnaissance of caves from Mallorca. Endins 27: 131-140.

Onac, B. P. 2005: Minerals. In: Encyclopedia of Caves (Culver, D. & White, W.B., eds.), Academic Press, New York, p. 371-377.

Onac, B. P., Kearns, J. 2000: Crystallography and mineralogy of multi-aggregate speleothems from Peretele Darninii Cave (Bihor Mountains, Romania). Proc. Int. Conf. Karst Studies and Problems (Onac, B. P. & Tamas, T., eds.). Ed. Presa Universitara Clujeana, 87-91. (Abstract)

Onac, B. P., Kearns, J., Damm, P., White, W. B., Matyasi, S. 2000: The first reported occurrence of metatyuyamunite in Romania. Rom. J. Mineralogy 80: 3-9.

Manolache, E., Onac, B. P. 2000: Geomicrobiology of black sediments in Vantului Cave (Romania): preliminary results. Cave and Karst Science 27 (3): 109-112.

Onac, B. P. 2000: Mineralogical studies and Uranium-series dating of speleothems from Scarisoara Glacier Cave Bihor Mountains, Romania). Theoretical and Applied Karstology 13: 33-38.

Onac, B. P., Lauritzen, S.E. 1995: On some cave minerals from northern Norway. Int. J. Speleol. (Phys.), 1-4:67-75. (Abstract)

Onac, B. P., Ghergari, L., Gal, A. 1995: Crystallographical studies on gypsum crystals in Ponoras Cave (Padurea Craiului Mountains, Romania). Theoretical and Applied Karstology, 8: 63-67.

Onac, B. P., Bengeanu, M., Botez, M., Zih, J. 1995: Preliminary report on the mineralogy of Pestera din Valea Rea (Bihor Mountains, Romania). Theoretical and Applied Karstology, 8: 75-79. (Abstract)

Onac, B. P. 1995: Mineralogical data concerning moonmilk speleothems in few caves from northern Norway. Acta Karstologica, XXIV: 429-437.

Ghergari, L., Onac, B. P. 1995: The crystallogenesis of gypsum flowers. Cave and Karst Science. 22 (3): 119-122.

Onac, B. P. 1997: Crystallography of speleothems In Cave minerals of the world, 2nd ed., Hill, C.A., Forti, P., Eds.). NSS, Huntsville, Alabama, 230-236.

Onac, B. P., Tysseland, M., Bengeanu, M., Hofenpradli, A. 1997: Deposition of black manganese and iron-rich sediments in Vantului Cave (Romania). Proc. of the 12th Intern. Congr. Speleol. La Chaux-de-Fonds, I: 235-238.

Viehmann, I., Ghergari, L., Onac, B. P. 1997: Crystallography observations on calcite rafts from three Romanian caves. Proc. of the 12th Intern. Congr. Speleol. La Chaux-de-Fonds, I: 227-230.

Ghergari, L., Onac, B. P., Fratila, G. 1997: Mineralogy of crusts and efflorescences from Humpleu cave system. Proc. of the 12th Intern. Congr. Speleol. La Chaux-de-Fonds, I: 231-234.

Onac, B. P., Pedersen,R. B., Tysseland, M. 1997: Presence of rare-earth elements in black ferromanganese coatings from Vantului Cave (Romania). Journal of Caves and Karst Studies. 59 (3): 128-131. (Abstract)

Ghergari, L., Onac, B. P., Vremir, M., Strusievicz, R. 1998: La crystallogenese des speleothemes de la grotte Lithophagus. Karstologia 31 (1): 19-26. (Abstract)

Paleoclimate 

Dorale, J.A., Edwards, R.L., Onac, B.P. 2002: Stable isotopes as environmental indicators in speleothems. In: Karst Processes and the Carbon Cycle. Final Report of IGCP379 (Yuan, S., ed.), Geological mPublishing House, Beijing, 107-120.

Lauritzen, S.E., Onac, B.P. 1995: Uranium-series dating of speleothems from Romanian caves. Theoretical and Applied Karstology 8: 25-36. 

Onac, B.P., Lauritzen, S.E. 1996: The climate of the last 150,000 years recorded in speleothems: preliminary results from north-western Romania. Theoretical and Applied Karstology 9: 9-21. 

Onac, B.P. 1996: Mineralogy of speleothems from Padurea Craiului Mountains (Romania), and their palaeoclimatic significance. Cave and Karst Science 23 (3): 109-124.

Viehmann, I., Lauritzen, S.E., Onac, B.P. 1996: The Vartop Cave Man and his radiometric age. Karst Waters Institute Special Publication 2: 170-172.

Lauritzen, S.E., Onac, B.P. 1999: Isotopic stratigraphy of a Last Interglacial stalagmite from north-western Romania: correlation with deep-sea record and northern-latitude speleothem. Journal of Caves and Karst Studies. 61 (1): 22-30.

last updated: November 5, 2009