Buda Hills

The Buda Hills (Hungarian: Budai-hegység) are a low mountain range of numerous hills which dot the Buda side of Budapest, capital of Hungary. The most famous ones located within city limits are Gellért Hill, Castle Hill, Rózsadomb, Sváb Hill [hu], János Hill, Széchenyi Hill [ hu] and Eagle Hill. These hills consist of both nature and residential areas.

Location of the Buda Hills proper (Budai-hegyek) within physical subdivisions of Hungary. The Buda Hills in broader sense (Budai-hegység) include also southerly situated Budaörs and Budakeszi Basin (Budaörsi- és Budakeszi-medence) and Tétény Plateau (Tétényi-fennsík).

Geology

The Budaörs dolomite of Anisian-Carnian age (Triassic period) is the oldest formation which crops out in the Buda Hills.^[1] Younger Triassic succession is composed of cherty dolomite and limestone (basin facies), and dolomite combined with limestone (platform facies).^[2][3] The Triassic surface is composed of karstified carbonates,^[4] which are overlain by an Upper Eocene succession made of conglomerate beds.^[5]

During the period from the terminal Cretaceous to Priabonian, the area was a karstic terrestrial environment displaying distinct relief differences. It was also the time when Triassic formations were eroded. The continental period (ended by the transgression in Late Eocene) was characterized by the formation of small fans at the slope foot. The fans contained substantial quantities of andesite clasts thanks to the fans' close location to the andesite source rocks. The clasts could have been then transported by periodic streams along the valleys. The Late Eocene transgression reworked accumulated terrestrial sediments.^[6]

Important hills

Map of the Buda Hills

The most important hills of the region are:

• Budaörsi Hill  [hu]
• Ferenc Hill
• János Hill
• Kutya Hill  [hu]
• Nagy-Kopasz  [hu]
• Nagy-Szénás  [hu]
• Remete Hill  [hu]
• Szabadság Hill  [hu]
• Széchenyi Hill  [hu]
• Zsíros Hill  [hu]

Gallery

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  A view of the hills
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  Another view
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  Hunyad-orom
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  A slope from the hills
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  A view from Gellért Hill

Further reading

• Budai-hegység [Buda Hills Atlas]. Budapest. 2007. ISBN 9789633525739. {{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help)CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
• Bedő István (1999). Nyugat Pest megye útikönyv (Budai-hegység). Nagykovácsi. ISBN 963-550-956-1.
• Hegytörténet. Hegytörténeti Konferencia Budapest-Hegyvidék 2000. Szerk.: Noéh Ferenc. XII. kerületi Önkormányzat és Tarsoly Kiadó. Budapest. 2001.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
• Juhász Árpád [in Hungarian] (1988). dr. Gál Éva: A budai hegyvidék. Képzőművészeti Kiadó. Képzőművészeti Kiadó. ISBN 963-336-436-1.
• Magyarország kistájainak katasztere. Szerk.: Dövényi Zoltán. MTA Földrajztudományi Kutatóintézet. Budapest. 2010. ISBN 978-963-9545-29-8.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
• Dr. Pápa Miklós [in Hungarian] (1956). Budai hegyek útikalauz, Sport Lap- és Könyvkiadó. Budapest. Archived from the original on 2020-10-22. Retrieved 2020-06-10.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
• Dr. Pápa Miklós [in Hungarian] (1966). Budai-hegység útikalauz, Sport. Budapest.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)

References

1. Haas, János; Budai, Tamás; Dunkl, István; Farics, Éva; Józsa, Sándor; Kövér, Szilvia; Götz, Annette; Piros, Olga; Szeitz, Péter (2017-09-13). "The Budaörs-1 well revisited: Contributions to the Triassic stratigraphy, sedimentology, and magmatism of the southwestern part of the Buda Hills". Central European Geology. 60 (2): 201–229. Bibcode:2017CEJGl..60..201H. doi:10.1556/24.60.2017.008. hdl:10831/67494. ISSN 1788-2281.
2. Balogh, K. (1981). "Correlation of the Hungarian Triassic". Acta Geologica Hungarica. 24 (1): 3–48.
3. Kozur, Heinz; Mock, Rudolf (October 1991). "New Middle Carnian and Rhaetian conodonts from Hungary and the Alps. Stratigraphic importance and tectonic implications for the Buda Mountains and adjacent areas" (PDF). Jahrbuch Geologischen Bundesanstalt. 134: 271–297. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2021-06-09. Retrieved 2018-03-07.
4. Kósa, Gábor; Mindszenty, Andrea; Mohai, Rita (2003). "Eocene alluvial fan prograding over a highly dissected palaeokarst surface built up by Upper Triassic dolomites. New details on the early Palaeogene evolution of the Buda-Hills" (PDF). Bulletin of the Hungarian Geological Society. 133 (2): 271–285.
5. Magyari, Árpád (1994). "Late Eocene Transpression in the Budaörs Hills". Bulletin of the Hungarian Geological Society. 124 (2): 155–173.
6. Farics, Éva; Farics, Dávid; Kovács, József; Haas, János (2017-10-28). "Interpretation of sedimentological processes of coarse-grained deposits applying a novel combined cluster and discriminant analysis". Open Geosciences. 9 (1): 525–538. Bibcode:2017OGeo....9...40F. doi:10.1515/geo-2017-0040. hdl:10831/66854. ISSN 2391-5447.