L.Metodiev-Publications

Publications (including proceedings and abstracts):

1. Metodiev, L. 1997. Toarcian and Aalenian ammonites in a part of the Western Stara Planina Mts, Bulgaria (taxonomy, stratigraphy). Geologica Balcanica 27 (3–4), 3–31.
2. Metodiev, L., Sapunov, I. 1999. Representatives of the Toarcian ammonite genera Osperleioceras Krimholz, 1957 and Phlyseogrammoceras Buckman, 1901 in Bulgaria. Geologica Balcanica 29 (3–4), 41–50.
3. Metodiev, L. 2000. Etude de la limite Toarcien - Aal?nien et stratigraphie de l’Aal?nien dans quelques coupes du Mont Balkan occidental et central en Bulgarie. Strata 1 (10), 117–121.
4. Metodiev, L. 2001. First finding of Protogrammoceras (Harpoceratinae, Ammonitina) in the Pliensbachian (Ozirovo Formation), West Bulgaria. Geologica Balcanica 31 (3–4), p. 48.
5. Metodiev, L., Sapunov, I. 2001. Aalenian and Lowermost Bajocian ammonites (Hammatoceratinae and early Otoitidae) from the Western Balkan Mountains (Bulgaria). - Geologica Balcanica 31 (3–4), 59–70.
6. Koleva-Rekalova, E., Stoykova, K., Metodiev, L. 2002. Pressure dissolution fabrics of some Jurassic and Lower Cretaceous limestones of Western Bulgaria. Geologica Balcanica 32 (2–4), 131–134.
7. Metodiev, L. 2002. Grammoceras, Pseudogrammoceras et Podagrosites (Grammoceratinae, Ammonitina) du Toarcien sup?rieur dans la r?gion du Balkan (Bulgarie). Taxonomie et biostratigraphie. Geologica Balcanica 32 (2–4), 165–189.
8. Metodiev, L. 2003a. Les Dactylioceratidae (Ammonitina) - crit?res morphologiques taxinomiques. Implications sur les repr?sentants de la famille du Toarcien en Bulgarie. C. R. Acad. Bulg. Sci. 56 (10), 69–74.
9. Metodiev, L. 2003b. Notes on the status of the Upper Toarcian Haugia variabilis Ammonite Zone in Bulgaria. Geologica Balcanica 33 (1–2), p. 110.
10. Metodiev, L., Koleva-Rekalova, E. 2003a. Cathodoluminescence test of belemnite rostra – first condition for precise isotope and chemical analyses: an example from the Toarcian at the section near the village of Beledie Han (Western Balkan Mts), Bulgaria. C. R. Acad. Bulg. Sci. 56 (6), 61?66.
11. Metodiev, L., Koleva-Rekalova, E. 2003b. TOC-analysis of the Toarcian from the section at the village of Beledie Han (Western Balkan Mts, Bulgaria). C. R. Acad. Bulg. Sci. 56 (12), 79?84.
12. Metodiev, L., Ivanova, D., Koleva-Rekalova, E. 2005. Biostratigraphy of the Toarcian in the section at the village of Beledie Han (Western Balkan Mts, Bulgaria). C. R. Acad. Bulg. Sci. 58 (1), 39–46.
13. Metodiev, L., Koleva-Rekalova, E. 2005. Preservational features of the Upper Pliensbachian–Lower Bajocian belemnite rostra from two clayey-limestone successions of the West Balkan Mts (Bulgaria). Taphonomic and sedimentological evidence. C. R. Acad. Bulg. Sci. 58 (6), 705–710.
14. Koleva-Rekalova, E., Metodiev, L. 2005. Preservational features of the Upper Pliensbachian – Lower Bajocian belemnite rostra from two clayey-limestone successions of the West Balkan Mts (Bulgaria). Cathodoluminescence and geochemical tests. C. R. Acad. Bulg. Sci. 58 (6), 789–794.
15. Koleva-Rekalova, E., Metodiev, L., Mladenova, V. 2006. Cyclic model of the Toarcian iron ooidal limestone succession at the Beledie Han section, Western Balkan Mts, Bulgaria. C. R. Acad. Bulg. Sci. 59 (1), 51–56.
16. Metodiev, L., Koleva-Rekalova, E. 2005. Stable isotope records (?18O and ?13C) of the Lower–Middle Jurassic belemnites from the Western Balkan Mts (Bulgaria): palaeoenvironmental application. In: 6th International Symposium on Applied Isotope Geochemistry, Abstract Volume, 159–160.
17. Metodiev, L., Sapunov, I. 2006. Revision of some Callovian-Upper Jurassic Lithostratigraphic units in a part of North-west Bulgaria. C. R. Acad. Bulg. Sci. 59 (5), 539–542.
18. Metodiev, L. 2006. New data about the ammonite genus Pseudolioceras Buckman, 1889 (Harpoceratinae, Ammonitina) from the Toarcian of the Balkan Mountains (Bulgaria). C. R. Acad. Bulg. Sci. 59 (7), 767–774.
19. Koleva-Rekalova, E, Metodiev, L. 2006. Transgressive-regressive (T-R) cyclic model: an example from the Upper Pliensbachian-Toarcian succession near the village of Beledie Han, Western Balkan Mountains, Bulgaria. In: Proceedings of the XVIII Congress of Carpathian-Balkan Geological Association, Abstract Volume, 266–269.
20. Metodiev, L., Koleva-Rekalova, E. 2006. Cathodoluminescence and geochemical studies of belemnite rostra from the Lower and Middle Jurassic in Bulgaria. In: Proceedings of the XVIII Congress of Carpathian-Balkan Geological Association, Abstract Volume, 369–372.
21. Metodiev, L. 2006. Towards an ammonite subzonation of the Toarcian in Bulgaria. In: 7th International Congress on the Jurassic System, Abstract Volume, Session 4: Integrated Stratigraphy. Volumina Jurassica, 186-188.
22. Metodiev, L., E. Koleva-Rekalova. 2006. Carbon and oxygen isotope record of Lower-Middle Jurassic belemnites and rocks from the Western Balkan Mts (Bulgaria). In: 7th International Congress on the Jurassic System, Abstract Volume, Session 4: Integrated Stratigraphy. Volumina Jurassica, 188–190.
23. Ivanova, D., Koleva-Rekalova, E., Ko?odziej, B., Metodiev, L., Roniewicz, E. 2006. Biostratigraphy and palaeoenvironmental development of the Callovian-Valanginian carbonate platform from the Lyubash unit (SW Bulgaria). In: 7th International Congress on the Jurassic System, Abstract Volume, Session 4: Integrated Stratigraphy Volumina Jurassica, 174–175.
24. Ivanova, D., Koleva-Rekalova, E., Lakova, I., Metodiev, L. 2006. Callovian to Berriasian pelagic carbonates in the Western Fore-Balkan, Bulgaria: microfacies, ammonite and microfossil zonations. In: 7th International Congress on the Jurassic System, Abstract Volume, Session 4: Integrated Stratigraphy Volumina Jurassica, 175–177.
25. Sapunov, I., Metodiev, L. 2007a. Main features of the Jurassic in Bulgaria. C. R. Acad. Bulg. Sci. 60 (2), 169–178.
26. Sapunov, I. G., Metodiev, L. 2007b. The Hettangian-Pliensbachian ammonite zones and subzones in Bulgaria – a retrospection and correlation with the standard zones and subzones in North-western Europe. C. R. Acad. Bulg. Sci. 60 (9), 991–1000.
27. Koleva-Rekalova, E., Metodiev, L. 2007. Diagenetic evolution of the Toarcian iron-ooidal limestones and the Upper Pliensbachian-Lower Bajocian hemipelagic sediments. Evidence from two sections of Western Balkan Mts (Bulgaria) on the base of isotope (?13C and ?18O) data. – C. R. Acad. Bulg. Sci. 60 (10), 1085–1092.
28. Koleva-Rekalova, E., Metodiev, L., D. Ivanova. 2007. Documentation and correlation of transgressive-regressive cycles from three Lower-Middle Jurassic successions of the Western Balkan Mts, Bulgaria. Geologica Balcanica 36 (3–4), 91–96.
29. Petrussenko, S., Dimitrov, I., Glushkov, K, Metodiev, L. 2008. A wonderful world of minerals (minerals, mineral deposits and localities from the area of the town of Chepelare, central Rhodopes, Bulgaria). In: Proceedings of the IV International Symposium “Mineral Diversity, Research and Preservation”, 229–233.
30. Metodiev, L., Koleva-Rekalova, E. 2008. Stable isotope records (?18O and ?13C) of Lower-Middle Jurassic belemnites from the Western Balkan Mountains (Bulgaria): palaeoenvironmental application. Applied Geochemistry 23 (10), 2845–2856.
31. Metodiev, L., I. Sapunov. 2008. Diachronous Upper Jurassic Gintsi Formation in the Gubesh and Izdremets Synclines (Western Balkan Mts, Bulgaria). In: Jubilee Scientific Session „60 Years Geology in Sofia University”, Abstract Volume, 57–61.
32. Metodiev, L. 2008. The ammonite zones of the Toarcian in Bulgaria - new evidence, subzonation and correlation with the standard zones and subzones in North-western Europe. C. R. Acad. Bulg. Sci. (Mini Review written upon invitation of the Editorial Board) 61 (1), 87–132.
33. Motchurova-Dekova, N., Radulovi?, V., Metodiev, L. 2009. Shell microstructure used to unveil homoeomorphy in Rhynchonellidae brachiopods. Pseudocapillirhynchia platoni – new Early–Middle Jurassic genus and species from Bulgaria. C. R. Acad. Bulg. Sci. 62 (10), 1299–1310.
34. Sapunov, I., Metodiev, L. 2009. Chapter 5.3. Jurassic geology. In: “Geology of Bulgaria, Tome II, Part 5, Mesozoic Geology” (Zagorchev, I., Dabovski, Ch., Nikolov, T., Eds.). Prof. Marin Drinov Publishing House, Sofia, pp. 132–222, figs. 5.3-1–5.3-32, tabls. 5.3.5, 616–622 (summary), 654–662 (bibliography), 741–747 (subject index), 747–748 (geographic index) (in Bulgarian).
35. Antonov, M., Gerdjikov, S., Metodiev, L., Kiselinov, H., Sirakov, V., Valev, V. 2010. Explanatory note and Geological map of the Republic of Bulgaria in scale 1:50 000, Klisura map sheet (Antonov, M. Ed.). Ministry of Environment and Water, Bulgarian Geological Survey, Sofia (in Bulgarian).
36. Antonov, M., Gerdjikov, S., Metodiev, L., Kiselinov, H., Sirakov, V., Valev, V. 2010. Explanatory note and Geological map of the Republic of Bulgaria in scale 1:50 000, Pirdop map sheet (Antonov, M., Khrischev, Kh., Eds.). Ministry of Environment and Water, Bulgarian Geological Survey, Sofia (in Bulgarian).
37. Angelov, V., Marinova, R., Grozdev, V., Antonov, M., Sinnyovsky, D., Ivanova, D., Petrov, I., Metodiev, L., Aidanlijsky, G., Milovanov, P., Popov, A., Valev, V. 2010. Explanatory note and Geological map of the Republic of Bulgaria in scale 1:50 000, Dragoman map sheet (Angelov, V., Marinova, R., Eds.). Ministry of Environment and Water, Bulgarian Geological Survey, Sofia (in Bulgarian).
38. Angelov, V., Marinova, R., Grozdev, V., Antonov, M., Sinnyovsky, D., Ivanova, D., Petrov, I., Metodiev, L., Aidanlijsky, G., Milovanov, P., Popov, A., Valev, V. 2010. Explanatory note and Geological map of the Republic of Bulgaria in scale 1:50 000, Slivnitsa map sheet (Angelov, V., Marinova, R., Eds.). Ministry of Environment and Water, Bulgarian Geological Survey, Sofia (in Bulgarian).
39. Antonov, M., Gerdjikov, S., Metodiev, L., Ivanova, D., Sirakov, V., Valev, V. 2010. Explanatory note and Geological map of the Republic of Bulgaria in scale 1:50 000, Glozhene map sheet (Antonov, M. Ed.). Ministry of Environment and Water, Bulgarian Geological Survey, Sofia (in Bulgarian).
40. Antonov, M., Gerdjikov, S., Metodiev, L., Ivanova, D., Sirakov, V., Valev, V. 2010. Explanatory note and Geological map of the Republic of Bulgaria in scale 1:50 000, Teteven map sheet (Antonov, M. Ed.). Ministry of Environment and Water, Bulgarian Geological Survey, Sofia (in Bulgarian).
41. Ivanova, D., Koleva-Rekalova, E., Lakova, I., Stoykova, K., Ivanov, M., Metodiev, L., Petrova, S., Tchoumatchenco, P., Rabrenovi?, D., Radulovi?, V., Male?evi?, N. 2010. Upper Jurassic–Lower Cretaceous platform-to-basin integrated stratigraphy across the Bulgarian-Serbian border. In: XIX Congress of Carpathian-Balkan Geological Association, Abstract Volume, Geologica Balcanica 39 (1–2), 168–169.
42. Ivanova D., Metodiev, L., Koleva-Rekalova, E. 2011. Stratigraphy of the Lower Jurassic sediments of the Central Fore Balkan, Bulgaria. In: 8th Romanian Symposium on Palaeontology, Abstract Book, 70–71.
43. Va?i?ek, Z., Motchurova-Dekova, N., Ilcheva, A., Metodiev, L. 2012. Taxonomy of Late Jurassic–Early Cretaceous aptychi from Bulgaria. Neues Jahrbuch f?r Geologie und Pal?ontologie, Abhandlungen 265 (3), 249–274.
44. Rabrenovi?, D., Metodiev, L., Ivanova, D., Koleva-Rekalova, E., Radulovi?, V., Mojsi?, I. 2012. The Lower and the Middle Jurassic facies and biostratigraphy (ammonites and foraminifers) of the Lim river area (Internal Dinarides), Montenegro. C. R. Acad. Bulg. Sci. 65 (12), 1705?1716.
45. Petrova, S., Metodiev, L. 2012. Berriasian and Valanginian calpionellids from the Ticha Formation of the East Fore-Balkan (Bulgaria). Bulgarian Geological Society, National Conference with International Participation “Geosciences 2012”, 89?90.
46. Metodiev L., Savov, I., Koleva-Rekalova, E. 2012. 87Sr/86Sr isotope systematics on belemnites from the Pliensbachian of West Bulgaria. Bulgarian Geological Society, National Conference with International Participation “Geosciences 2012”, Abstracts, 91?92.
47. Metodiev, L., Dimitrov, D., Gramenova, L., Koleva-Rekalova, E., Dochev, D. 2012. The ammonites of the Bathonian and the Callovian (Middle Jurassic) in the Western Bulgaria – a contribution to the permanent exhibition and the fossil collections of the National Museum of Natural History at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. Bulgarian Geological Society, National Conference with International Participation “Geosciences 2012”, Abstracts, 147?148 (in Bulgarian).
48. Petrova, S., Rabrenovi?, D., Lakova, I., Koleva-Rekalova, E., Ivanova, D., Metodiev, L., Male?evi?, N. 2012. Biostratigraphy and microfacies of the pelagic carbonates across the Jurassic/Cretaceous boundary in eastern Serbia (Stara Planina-Pore? Zone). Geologica Balcanica, 41 (1–3), 53–76.
49. Metodiev L., Rabrenovi?, D., Mojsi?, I., Ivanova, D., Koleva-Rekalova, E., Radulovi?, V. 2013. The ammonites of the Bifrons Zone (Toarcian, Lower Jurassic) from Mihailovi?i (Montenegro). C. R. Acad. Bulg. Sci. 66 (1), 67–76.
50. Metodiev L., Koleva-Rekalova, E., Dochev, D., Sirakov, V. 2013. New data on the age of the Polaten Formation in Central Balkan Mountains. Bulgarian Geological Society, National Conference with International Participation “Geosciences – 2013”, Abstracts, 73–74.
51. Metodiev L., Sapunov, I. 2013. Jurassic ammonites from UK – a reference collection of specimens from type-localities, stored at the Geological Institute of Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. Bulgarian Geological Society, National Conference with International Participation “Geosciences – 2013”, Abstracts, 141–142.
52. Andreeva, P., Metodiev, L., Kiselinov, H., Dochev, D., Petrova, S. 2013. Depositional facies, diagenesis and porosity development of the Campanian-Paleogene carbonates from Boykin dol section (Eastern Fore-Balkan, Bulgaria) – preliminary results. In: Proceedings of the IV International scientific and technical conference “Geology and hydrocarbon potential of the Balkan-Black Sea region”, 73–80.
53. Andreeva, P., Stefanov, Y., Metodiev, L., Kiselinov, H., Dochev, D., Petrova, S. 2013. Campanian-Maastrichtian carbonate microfacies from the Eastern Fore-Balkan (Bulgaria). In: 9th International Symposium on the Cretaceous System, Abstracts book, p. 98.
54. Ivanova, D., L. Metodiev, D. Rabrenovi?, I. Mojsi?, E. Koleva-Rekalova. 2013. Lower and Middle Jurassic foraminifera from the Mihailovi?i sequence, Lim River area, NE Montenegro. In: Proceedings of the 9th Romanian Symposium on Paleontology, Abstracts Book, 58–59.
55. Metodiev, L. S., Savov, I. P., Gr?cke, D. R., Wignall, P. B., Newton, R. J., Andreeva, P. V., Koleva-Rekalova, E. K. 2014. Paleoenvironmental conditions recorded by 87Sr/86Sr, ?13C and ?18O in late Pliensbachian–Toarcian (Jurassic) belemnites from Bulgaria. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 409, 98–113.
56. Metodiev, L., Tsvetkova, N. 2014. Lower Bajocian ammonites from the stratotype section of the Etropole Formation kept in the Historical Museum in Etropole (Bulgaria). Geologica Balcanica 43 (1–3), 27–49.
57. Metodiev L., Koleva-Rekalova, E., Ivanova, D., Dochev, D., Velev, S., Dimitrov, I. 2014. Middle Jurassic fossil and depositional record from the area of the Zimevitsa Plateau (West Balkan Mountains), West Bulgaria. In: Proceedings of the XX Congress of the Carpathian-Balkan Geological Association, Bul. Shk. Gjeol. 2/2014 - Special Issue, 65–68.
58. Metodiev L., Koleva-Rekalova, E., Dochev, D., Sirakov, V. 2014. Middle Jurassic fossil and depositional record from the area of the Zimevitsa Plateau (West Bulgaria). Bulgarian Geological Society, National Conference with International Participation “Geosciences – 2014”, Abstracts, 65–66.
59. Metodiev L. 2015. William Smith Meeting in honor of J. H. Callomon – Sherborne Castle (Dorset), England. Review of the Bulgarian Geological Society 76 (2–3), 68–71 (in Bulgarian).
60. Metodiev L. 2015. Professor John Hannes Callomon (1928–2010). Review of the Bulgarian Geological Society 76 (2–3), 79–82 (in Bulgarian).
61. Gerdjikov, Y., Radulov, A., Metodiev, L. 2015. Cretaceous–Tertiary deformations along a part of the Maritsa fault system between Pazardzhik and Sofia. In: Proceedings of the Jubilee National Conference “90 years Bulgarian Geological Society, Geosciences – 2015”, 89–90.
62. Radulov, A., Yaneva, M., Metodiev, L., Nikolov, G., Kiselinov, H., Nikolov, N. 2015. Paleoseismicity of the South Ihtiman fault from a trench at Polyantsi village – seismic hazard assessment. In: Proceedings of the Jubilee National Conference “90 years Bulgarian Geological Society, Geosciences – 2015”, 97–98.
63. Dochev, D., Metodiev, L. 2015. New inoceramid bivalves of the genera Endocostea Whitfield, 1877 and Trochoceramus Heinz, 1923 from the Western Fore-Balkan (Bulgaria). In: Proceedings of the Jubilee National Conference “90 years Bulgarian Geological Society, Geosciences – 2015”, 107–108.
64. Metodiev L. 2015. New examples of the genus Wagnericeras from the Bathonian in Bulgaria. In: Proceedings of the Jubilee National Conference “90 years Bulgarian Geological Society, Geosciences – 2015”, 113–114.
65. Metodiev, L. 2015. The Callovian Pseudoperisphinctinae from North-west Bulgaria. In: William Smith Meeting in honor of J. H. Callomon. Abstract booklet for delegates, Sherborne Castle (England), 9–11.
66. Andreeva, P., Metodiev, L., Vangelov, D., Kiselinov, H., Dochev, D., Petrova, S., Vangelova, V. 2016. Santonian–Paleocene carbonate microfacies from Yankovo section (Eastern Fore-Balkan, NE Bulgaria) – preliminary results. C. R. Acad. Bulg. Sci. 69 (6), 769–774.
67. Dochev, D., Metodiev, L. 2016. New record of Dyplomoceras cylindraceum (Defrance, 1816) from the Maastrichtian of the Western Fore-Balkan (Bulgaria). Geologica Balcanica 45, 33–45.
68. Metodiev, L. 2016. Phylloceratina ammonites from the Callovian in Western Bulgaria. Bulgarian Geological Society National Conference “Geosciences – 2016”, Abstracts, 121–122.
69. Petrova, S., Andreeva, P., Metodiev, L., Reh?kov?, D., Michal?k, J., Lakova, L. 2017. Calpionellid biostratigraphy and microfacies analysis of a Tithonian–Berriasian carbonate succession in the Western Srednogorie (Bulgaria). Geologica Balcanica 46 (1), 65–92.
70. Lakova, I., Petrova, S., Andreeva, P., Metodiev, L., Reh?kov?, D., Michal?k, J. 2017. Notes on the stratigraphy and microfacies of Tithonian and Berriasian sequence around Dragovishtitsa Village (Western Srednogorie, Bulgaria). C. R. Acad. Bulg. Sci. 70 (10), 1429–1436.
71. Metodiev, L., Sapunov, I. 2017. The ammonite zones of the Bathonian in Bulgaria. Geologica Balcanica 46 (2), 57–63.
72. Metodiev, L. 2017. Ammonites of the family Sphaeroceratidae from the Bajocian in Bulgaria. Bulgarian Geological Society National Conference “Geosciences – 2017”, Abstracts, 93–94.
73. Gallem?, J., Dochev, D., Metodiev, L. 2017. The echinoids of the K/T boundary Moravitsa section (Western Fore-Balkan, Bulgaria). In: 11th Romanian Symposium on Palaeontology, Abstract Book, 39–40.
74. Metodiev, L. 2017. Djerdap National Park (Serbia) – annual geological field trip of the Bulgarian Geological Society (2017). Review of the Bulgarian Geological Society 78 (1–3), 59–67 (in Bulgarian).

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