Szentbékkálla

Kál was a prince and landlord here in the ages of the Árpád's peoples arrival to Hungary.

Genetic and textural characteristics of the host basalt and some of its inclusions are analog from Szentbékkálla, North-Balaton Mountains, Hungary, to the range of the Martian meteorites, the shergottites.

Later, about 40 years ago it was shown, that these olivine-bombs are xenoliths originating in the upper mantle.

During the upheaval process the basaltic liquid carries up the fragments of the upper mantle.

That is the short explanation of the sequence of various upper mantle xenoliths inside the basalts of Szentbékkálla.

Aerial photography: Szentbékkálla, monastery ruins