Marko Ercegovac

Marko Ercegovac (born April 12, 1937 in Niš , Yugoslavia ; † February 15, 2012 ) was a Yugoslav or Serbian geoscientist. His specialty was micropalaeontology .

He received his doctorate in geosciences from the University of Belgrade in 1967 and then completed post- graduate studies in Germany . Since 1981 he has been a full professor of micropalaeontology at the University of Belgrade.

He has been a corresponding member since 2000 and a full member since 2006 of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts .

The focus of his research was the formation of crude oil and lignite from prehistoric algae and plants. To this end, he published a number of articles in Yugoslav and international journals.

Works

• Micropaleontology. Micropaleobotanics (micropaleontology. Micro paleobotany ), 1980
• (with Monika Wolf , Hans-Werner Hagemann and Wilhelm Püttmann ): Organic, petrological and geochemical investigations on coal of the Ibar basin, Yugoslavia , in: International Journal of Coal Geology , Jg. 19.1991, pp. 145–162
• (with Andreas Lückge, Harald Strauss and Ralf Littke ): Early diagenetic alteration of organic matter by sulfate reduction in quaternary sediments from the northeastern Arabian Sea , in: Marine geology , vol. 158.1999, pp. 1-13
• Geologija nafte (petroleum geology), 2002, ISBN 86-7352-095-9
• (with Aleksandar Kostić, Harald Karg, Dietrich H. Welte and Ralf Littke): Temperature and burial history modeling of the Drmno and Markovac Depressions, SE Pannonian Basin , Serbia , in: Journal of petroleum geology , vol. 26.2003, p. 5– 27
• (with Dragana Životić and Aleksandar Kostić): Genetic – industrial classification of brown coals in Serbia , in: International Journal of Coal Geology , vol. 68.2006,

Web links

• biographical information on the SANU homepage (Serbian, Cyrillic)
• short obituary from b92 (Serbian, Latin script)