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Description / Table of Contents: The Palaeoproterozoic era (2500–1600 Ma) was a critical period of Earth history, with dynamic evolution from the deep planetary interior to its surface environment. Several lines of geological evidence suggest the existence of at least one pre-Rodinia supercontinent, named Nuna or Columbia, which formed near the end of Palaeoproterozoic time. Prior to this assembly, there may have been an older supercontinent (Kenorland) or perhaps only independently drifting supercratons. The tectonic records of amalgamation and dispersal of these ancient landmasses provide a framework that links processes of the deep Earth with those of its fluid envelope. The sixteen papers in this volume present reviews and new analytical data that span the geological record of Palaeoproterozoic Earth and provide a current picture of Palaeoproterozoic research. The volume provides a useful reference book for students and professional geoscientists interested in this important period of global evolution.

Description / Table of Contents: This special issue of Pure and Applied Geophysics is one of two volumes containing an augmented collection of papers originating from the Evison Symposium on Seismogenesis and Earthquake Forecasting held in Wellington, New Zealand, in February 2008. The volumes honor Frank Evison's interest in earthquake generation and forecasting. A biography of Frank Evison and a list of his publications is included, as well as review papers and new research papers in the field. The volume includes papers related to Frank's most abiding interest of precursory earthquake swarms. The research contributions cover a range of current forecasting methods such as the Epidemic-Type Aftershock model, the Every Earthquake a precursor According to Scale model, Pattern Informatics, Reverse Tracing of Precursors, stochastic models of elastic rebound, and methods for handling multiple precursors. The methods considered employ a variety of statistical approaches to using previous seismicity to forecast future earthquakes, including regional and global earthquake likelihood models and alarm-type forecasts. The forecast time-frames of interest range from the short time-frame associated with clustering of aftershocks to the long time-frame associated with recurrence of major earthquakes. A recurring theme is the assessment of forecasting performance, whether by likelihood scores, skill scores, error diagrams, or relative operating characteristic tests. The volume will be useful to students and professional researchers who are interested in the earthquake preparation process and in converting that understanding into forecasts of earthquake occurrence.

Description / Table of Contents: The Caledonides are a major orogenic belt that stretches from the Arctic, through Scandinavia, East Greenland, Britain and Ireland into the Atlantic coast of North America. Following the break-up of Rodinia, the Caledonides formed in the Palaeozoic by the drifting of various continents and their eventual aggregation in the Silurian and Devonian. The orogen subsequently fragmented during the opening of the Atlantic Ocean. This volume brings together 25 papers presenting the results of modern research that investigates the orogenic processes and the provenance of specific components of the belt. The contributions reflect different lines of research, linking traditional field studies with modern analytical techniques. In addition three overview papers summarize the main features of the belts in Scandinavia, Svalbard, East Greenland, Britain and Ireland, highlighting the advances made since the last major synthesis of the Scandinavian Caledonides 30 years ago, and discussing important open questions.

Description / Table of Contents: This special issue of Pure and Applied Geophysics is the second of two volumes containing an augmented collection of papers originating from the Evison Symposium on Seismogenesis and Earthquake Forecasting held in Wellington, New Zealand, in February 2008. The volumes honor Frank Evison's interest in earthquake generation and forecasting. This volume includes descriptions of earthquake forecasting test centers through the Collaboratory for the Study of Earthquake Predictability (CSEP) program and the first results from the Regional Earthquake Likelihood Model (RELM) experiment in California. Other papers discuss methods of testing predictions, in particular by the use of error diagrams. There is discussion of prediction methodologies using seismicity, including an application of the statistical technique of Hidden Markov Models to identify changes in seismicity and a new technique for identifying precursory quiescence. Several papers employ other data besides seismicity, such as geologically determined faults, calculations of stress changes via Coulomb stress modeling, tomographically determined velocity structure, groundwater, crustal deformation, and comparisons of real earthquakes to synthetic seismicity determined from hypothesized earthquake physics. One paper focuses on the prediction of human casualties in the event that a large earthquake occurs anywhere on the globe. The volume will be useful to students and professional researchers who are interested in the earthquake preparation process and in converting that understanding into forecasts of earthquake occurrence.

Description / Table of Contents: Introduction --- Subaqueous mass movements in the context of observations of contemporary slope failure / Joshu J. Mountjoy, Aggeliki Georgiopoulou, Jason Chaytor, Michael A. Clare, Davide Gamboa and Jasper Moernaut / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 500, 1-12, 26 May 2020, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP500-2019-237 --- Section A: consequences and implications --- Revisiting the tsunamigenic volcanic flank collapse of Fogo Island in the Cape Verdes, offshore West Africa / Rachel Barrett, Elodie Lebas, Ricardo Ramalho, Ingo Klaucke, Steffen Kutterolf, Andreas Klügel, Katja Lindhorst, Felix Gross and Sebastian Krastel / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 500, 13-26, 13 March 2020, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP500-2019-187 --- The sedimentology and tsunamigenic potential of the Byron submarine landslide off New South Wales, Australia / Kendall C. Mollison, Hannah E. Power, Samantha L. Clarke, Alan T. Baxter, Emily M. Lane and Thomas C. T. Hubble / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 500, 27-40, 7 April 2020, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP500-2019-160 --- Effects of rotational submarine slump dynamics on tsunami genesis: new insight from idealized models and the 1929 Grand Banks event / T. Zengaffinen, F. Løvholt, G. K. Pedersen and C. B. Harbitz / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 500, 41-61, 11 May 2020, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP500-2019-201 --- A scenario-based assessment of the tsunami hazard in Palermo, northern Sicily, and the southern Tyrrhenian Sea / Jack Dignan, Aaron Micallef, Christof Mueller, Attilio Sulli, Elisabetta Zizzo and Daniele Spatola / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 500, 63-80, 31 March 2020, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP500-2019-181 --- A workflow for the rapid assessment of the landslide-tsunami hazard in peri-alpine lakes / Michael Strupler, Flavio S. Anselmetti, Michael Hilbe, Katrina Kremer and Stefan Wiemer / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 500, 81-95, 18 March 2020, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP500-2019-166 --- Towards a national-scale assessment of the subaqueous mass movement hazard in Canada / D. Gwyn Lintern, Jessica Rutherford, Philip R. Hill, Calvin Campbell and Alexandre Normandeau / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 500, 97-113, 11 May 2020, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP500-2019-206 --- Structural constraints on the subduction of mass-transport deposits in convergent margins / Jacob Geersen, Andrea Festa and Francesca Remitti / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 500, 115-128, 13 March 2020, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP500-2019-174 --- Evaluating the sealing potential of young and thin mass-transport deposits: Lake Villarrica, Chile / Jasper Moernaut, Gauvain Wiemer, Achim Kopf and Michael Strasser / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 500, 129-146, 13 March 2020, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP500-2019-155 --- Influence of mass transport deposit (MTD) surface topography on deep-water deposition: an example from a predominantly fine-grained continental margin, New Zealand / Suzanne Bull, Greg H. Browne, Malcolm J. Arnot and Lorna J. Strachan / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 500, 147-171, 28 April 2020, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP500-2019-192 --- Section B: initiation, triggers and preconditioning --- A multi-disciplinary investigation of the AFEN Slide: the relationship between contourites and submarine landslides / Ricarda Gatter, Michael A. Clare, James E. Hunt, Millie Watts, B. N. Madhusudhan, Peter J. Talling and Katrin Huhn / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 500, 173-193, 28 April 2020, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP500-2019-184 --- Indonesian Throughflow as a preconditioning mechanism for submarine landslides in the Makassar Strait / Rachel E. Brackenridge, Uisdean Nicholson, Benyamin Sapiie, Dorrik Stow and Dave R. Tappin / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 500, 195-217, 1 April 2020, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP500-2019-171 --- Morphological signature of gully development by rapid slide retrogression in a layered coarse-grained delta foreslope / Jacques Locat, Ali Azizian, Jim Stronach, Aurélien Hospital, Chris Young, Dominique Turmel and Andrew Bevan / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 500, 219-234, 13 March 2020, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP500-2019-159 --- Morphology and spatio-temporal distribution of lacustrine mass-transport deposits in Wörthersee, Eastern Alps, Austria / Christoph Daxer, Maddalena Sammartini, Ariana Molenaar, Thomas Piechl, Michael Strasser and Jasper Moernaut / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 500, 235-254, 19 March 2020, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP500-2019-179 --- A numerical investigation of excess pore pressures and continental slope stability in response to ice-sheet dynamics / Morelia Urlaub, Isabel Kratzke and Berit Oline Hjelstuen / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 500, 255-266, 13 March 2020, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP500-2019-185 --- Impact of sea-level fluctuations on the sedimentation patterns of the SE African margin: implications for slope instability / Aaron Micallef, Aggeliki Georgiopoulou, Andrew Green and Vittorio Maselli / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 500, 267-276, 13 March 2020, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP500-2019-172 --- Geomechanical behaviour of gassy soils and implications for submarine slope stability: a literature analysis / P. Kaminski, M. Urlaub, J. Grabe and C. Berndt / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 500, 277-288, 13 March 2020, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP500-2019-149 --- From gravity cores to overpressure history: the importance of measured sediment physical properties in hydrogeological models / Davide Mencaroni, Jaume Llopart, Roger Urgeles, Sara Lafuerza, Eulàlia Gràcia, Anne Le Friant and Morelia Urlaub / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 500, 289-300, 22 May 2020, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP500-2019-176 --- The influence of clay content on submarine slope failure: insights from laboratory experiments and numerical models / M. M. W. Silver and B. Dugan / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 500, 301-309, 26 March 2020, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP500-2019-186 --- Subduction of an extinct rift and its role in the formation of submarine landslides in NW South America / Carlos A. Vargas, Gustavo A. Gutiérrez and Gustavo A. Sarmiento / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 500, 311-322, 12 May 2020, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP500-2019-189 --- Section C: characterization and regional controls --- Mass wasting on Alpha Ridge in the Arctic Ocean: new insights from multibeam bathymetry and sub-bottom profiler data / Kai Boggild, David C. Mosher, Paola Travaglini, Catalina Gebhardt and Larry Mayer / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 500, 323-340, 13 May 2020, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP500-2019-196 --- The Last Glacial Maximum Balearic Abyssal Plain megabed revisited / Antonio Cattaneo, Shray Badhani, Cristina Caradonna, Massimo Bellucci, Estelle Leroux, Nathalie Babonneau, Sébastien Garziglia, Jeffrey Poort, Grigorii G. Akhmanov, Germain Bayon, Bernard Dennielou, Gwenäel Jouet, Sébastien Migeon, Marina Rabineau, Laurence Droz and Michael Clare / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 500, 341-357, 14 May 2020, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP500-2019-188 --- Integrated geophysical, sedimentological and geotechnical investigation of submarine landslides in the Gulf of Lions (Western Mediterranean) / Shray Badhani, Antonio Cattaneo, Stefano Collico, Roger Urgeles, Bernard Dennielou, Estelle Leroux, Florent Colin, Sebastien Garziglia, Marina Rabineau and Laurence Droz / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 500, 359-376, 14 May 2020, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP500-2019-175 --- Characterization of recent deep-sea debrites in the eastern Mediterranean based on foraminiferal taphonomy / Oded Katz, Leeron Ashkenazi, Shani Sultan-Levi, Sigal Abramovich, Ahuva Almogi-Labin and Orit Hyams-Kaphzan / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 500, 377-391, 11 May 2020, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP500-2019-170 --- Widespread mass-wasting processes off NE Sicily (Italy): insights from morpho-bathymetric analysis / Daniele Casalbore, Romano Clementucci, Alessandro Bosman, Francesco Latino Chiocci, Eleonora Martorelli and Domenico Ridente / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 500, 393-403, 15 May 2020, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP500-2019-195 --- Geomorphology and event-stratigraphy of recent mass-movement processes in Lake Hallstatt (UNESCO World Heritage Cultural Landscape, Austria) / Michael Strasser, T. Berberich, S. Fabbri, M. Hilbe, J-J. S. Huang, S. Lauterbach, M. Ortler, H. Rechschreiter, A. Brauer, F. Anselmetti and K. Kowarik / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 500, 405-426, 31 March 2020, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP500-2019-178 --- Slope stability hazard in a fjord environment: Douglas Channel, Canada / Cooper D. Stacey, D. Gwyn Lintern, John Shaw and Kim W. Conway / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 500, 427-451, 20 May 2020, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP500-2019-191 --- Submarine canyons, slope failures and mass transport processes in southern Cascadia / Jenna C. Hill, Janet T. Watt, Daniel S. Brothers and Jared W. Kluesner / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 500, 453-475, 20 May 2020, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP500-2019-169 --- Tectonic and geomorphic controls on the distribution of submarine landslides across active and passive margins, eastern New Zealand / S. J. Watson, J. J. Mountjoy and G. J. Crutchley / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 500, 477-494, 13 March 2020, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP500-2019-165 --- Geological and tectonic controls on morphometrics of submarine landslides of the Spanish margins / Ricardo León, Roger Urgeles, Raul Pérez-López, Emilio Payo, Amanda Vázquez-Izquierdo, Carmen Julia Giménez-Moreno and David Casas / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 500, 495-513, 20 May 2020, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP500-2019-153 --- Section D: mobility and kinematics --- Megaclasts within mass-transport deposits: their origin, characteristics and effect on substrates and succeeding flows / Jefferson Nwoko, Ian Kane and Mads Huuse / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 500, 515-530, 31 March 2020, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP500-2019-146 --- Line length balancing to evaluate multi-phase submarine landslide development: an example from the Storegga Slide, Norway / Suzanne Bull and Joseph A. Cartwright / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 500, 531-549, 23 March 2020, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP500-2019-168 --- A new depositional model for the Tuaheni Landslide Complex, Hikurangi Margin, New Zealand / Benjamin Couvin, Aggeliki Georgiopoulou, Joshu J. Mountjoy, Lawrence Amy, Gareth J. Crutchley, Morgane Brunet, Sebastian Cardona, Felix Gross, Christoph Böttner, Sebastian Krastel and Ingo Pecher / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 500, 551-566, 19 May 2020, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP500-2019-180 --- Mass transport deposits in the Donegal Barra Fan and their association with British–Irish Ice Sheet dynamics / Srikumar Roy, Aggeliki Georgiopoulou, Sara Benetti and Fabio Sacchetti / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 500, 567-586, 18 March 2020, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP500-2019-177 --- Short- and long-term movement of mudflows of the Mississippi River Delta Front and their known and potential impacts on oil and gas infrastructure / Jason D. Chaytor, Wayne E. Baldwin, Samuel J. Bentley, Melanie Damour, Douglas Jones, Jillian Maloney, Michael D. Miner, Jeff Obelcz and Kehui Xu / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 500, 587-604, 26 March 2020, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP500-2019-183 --- Lessons learned from the monitoring of turbidity currents and guidance for future platform designs / Michael Clare, D. Gwyn Lintern, Kurt Rosenberger, John E. Hughes Clarke, Charles Paull, Roberto Gwiazda, Matthieu J. B. Cartigny, Peter J. Talling, Daniel Perara, Jingping Xu, Daniel Parsons, Ricardo Silva Jacinto and Ronan Apprioual / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 500, 605-634, 22 May 2020, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP500-2019-173

Description / Table of Contents: This volume contains a collection of stratigraphic and diagenetic case studies of Mesozoic and Cenozoic carbonate sequences from the Tethyan realm. High levels of industry and academic interest in the region have generated numerous multi-disciplinary studies of these sequences, a selection of which are presented in this volume. The studies presented are based on both comprehensive subsurface datasets from important hydrocarbon-bearing strata of the Middle East and the excellent surface exposures in the region of interest. The studies presented in this volume may serve as suitable starting points in the development of age and architecture specific carbonate reference models. Such models can form the basis of internally consistent models for carbonate deposition, sequence development and reservoir performance. Ideally such models, suitably scaled, will be equally applicable to academic studies, the exploration and development phases of the field life cycle and in the prediction of future reservoir performance.

Description / Table of Contents: Underground gas storage: An introduction and UK perspective / D. J. Evans and R. A. Chadwick / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 313, 1-11, 26 May 2009, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP313.1 --- The importance of gas storage to the UK: The DECC perspective / J. Havard and R. French / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 313, 13-15, 26 May 2009, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP313.2 --- Gas storage: An onshore operator's perspective / A. Fernando and A. Raman / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 313, 17-24, 26 May 2009, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP313.3 --- Underground gas storage: Why and how / Hans Plaat / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 313, 25-37, 26 May 2009, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP313.4 --- A review of onshore UK salt deposits and their potential for underground gas storage / D. J. Evans and S. Holloway / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 313, 39-80, 26 May 2009, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP313.5 --- Environmental and safety monitoring of the natural gas underground storage at Stenlille, Denmark / T. Laier and H. Øbro / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 313, 81-92, 26 May 2009, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP313.6 --- Design of salt caverns for the storage of natural gas, crude oil and compressed air: Geomechanical aspects of construction, operation and abandonment / K.-H. Lux / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 313, 93-128, 26 May 2009, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP313.7 --- New procedure for tightness tests (MIT) of salt cavern storage wells: Continuous high accuracy determination of relevant parameters, without the need to use radioactive tools / Hartmut Von Tryller, Andreas Reitze and Fritz Crotogino / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 313, 129-137, 26 May 2009, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP313.8 --- Environmental issues in permitting gas storage: The Wild Goose case history / Laurie McClenahan Hietter / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 313, 139-148, 26 May 2009, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP313.9 --- Underground gas storage project at Welton oilfield, Lincolnshire: Local perspectives and responses to planning, environmental and community safety issues / Meg Davidson / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 313, 149-161, 26 May 2009, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP313.10 --- Well integrity: An overlooked source of risk and liability for underground natural gas storage. Lessons learned from incidents in the USA / Brent Miyazaki / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 313, 163-172, 26 May 2009, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP313.11 --- A review of underground fuel storage events and putting risk into perspective with other areas of the energy supply chain / D. J. Evans / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 313, 173-216, 26 May 2009, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP313.12 --- Underground hydrogen storage in the UK / Howard B. J. Stone, Ivo Veldhuis and R. Neil Richardson / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 313, 217-226, 26 May 2009, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP313.13 --- Subsurface characterization and geological monitoring of the CO2 injection operation at Weyburn, Saskatchewan, Canada / James B. Riding and Christopher A. Rochelle / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 313, 227-256, 26 May 2009, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP313.14 --- Review of monitoring issues and technologies associated with the long-term underground storage of carbon dioxide / R. A. Chadwick, R. Arts, M. Bentham, O. Eiken, S. Holloway, G. A. Kirby, J. M. Pearce, J. P. Williamson and P. Zweigel / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 313, 257-275, 26 May 2009, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP313.15

Description / Table of Contents: There is much interest in gas hydrates in relation to their potential role as an important driver for climate change and as a major new energy source; however, many questions remain, not least the size of the global hydrate budget. Much of the current uncertainty centres on how hydrates are physically stored in sediments at a range of scales. This volume details advances in our understanding of sediment-hosted hydrates, and contains papers covering a range of studies of real and artificial sediments containing both methane hydrates and CO2 hydrates. The papers include an examination of the techniques used to locate, sample and characterize hydrates from natural, methane-rich systems, so as to understand them better. Other contributions consider the nature and stability of synthetic hydrates formed in the laboratory, which in turn improve our ability to make accurate predictive models.

Description / Table of Contents: Mineral deposits are not only primary sources of wealth generation, but also act as windows through which to view the evolution and interrelationships of the Earth system. Deposits formed throughout the last 3.8 billion years of the Earth’s history preserve key evidence with which to test fundamental questions about the evolution of the Earth. These include: the nature of early magmatic and tectonic processes, supercontinent reconstructions, the state of the atmosphere and hydrosphere with time, and the emergence and development of life. The interlinking processes that form mineral deposits have always sat at the heart of the Earth system and the potential for using deposits as tools to understand that evolving system over geological time is increasingly recognized. This volume contains research aimed both at understanding the origins of mineral deposits and at using mineral deposits as tools to explore different long-term Earth processes.

Description / Table of Contents: This collection of research and review papers addresses the question of structural evolution during deformation to high strains and the physical properties of rocks that have been affected by high-strain zones. The discussions range from natural examples at outcrop to microscopic studies. They include experiments and numerical models based on the active processes in high-strain zones as well as studies on the physical properties of highly strained rocks in the field and laboratory. Specific questions addressed include magnetotelturic imaging of faults, magnetic fabrics, fabric development, seismic properties of highly strained rocks, change of theology with strain, influence of melt on the localization of deformation, the relationship between deformation and metamorphism as well as new methods in the analysis of deformation. The book is aimed at an interdisciplinary group of readers interested in the effects of high strain in rocks.