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Description / Table of Contents: Europe provides an outstanding field laboratory for studying lithospheric processes through time, for tracing the tectonic evolution of crust and mantle from the present far back into the early Precambrian. Two things are particularly striking: the importance of plate tectonics during the Phanerozoic and through the Proterozic into the Archeaen, and the significance of tectonic inheritance, older structures and rheologies guiding the younger evolution. 'European Lithosphere Dynamics' grew out of a major European Science Foundation programme, EUROPROBE, with participation of many hundreds of Earth scientists from all over Europe. The main research activities focused on specific target areas and involved integration of geological, geophysical and geochemical methods. Defining surface-depth relationships was a prerequisite for interpretation of the processes, present and past, responsible for the formation of the lithosphere. This Memoir addresses the major features of the European lithosphere and is aimed at giving the reader an overview of their development and growth during three billion years of Earth history.

Description / Table of Contents: The sustainable development of minerals, whick are non-renewable resources, is a major challenge in today's world. In this regard the true definition of sustainability' is a debating point itself: can such a concept exist with respect to non-renewable resources? Perhaps the ideal sustainability model is one that minimizes negative environmental impact and maximizes benefits to society, the economy and regional/national development. Developed and near-developed economies rely for commodity supplies on developing countries where major mining operations are often a mainstay of the domestic economy. Limited environmental regulation and low wages lead to charges of exploitation. also, large numbers of people have no alternative to living ny informal, often dangerous, 'artisanal' mining. This Special Publication gives examples from developing countries at all scales of mineral extraction. The volume reviews environmental, economic, health and social problems and highlights the need to solve these before sustainability can be achieved. The better solutions require mutual understanding, through full involvement of all stakeholders, education, training and investment so that small-scale ansd artisinal mines can grow into well-managed operations. At larger scales, most major interantional mining companies have now inoproved their practices and are monitoring their [rogress, although there is no room for complacency in this rapidly changing are.

Description / Table of Contents: Tectonic Evolution of the Eastern Black Sea and Caucasus: an introduction / Marc Sosson, Randell Stephenson and Shota Adamia / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 428, 1-9, 9 June 2017, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP428.16 --- The ‘Caucasus’ domain --- Tectonic setting of Georgia–Eastern Black Sea: a review / S. A. Adamia, T. G. Chkhotua, T. T. Gavtadze, Z. A. Lebanidze, N. D. Lursmanashvili, N. G. Sadradze, D. P. Zakaraia and G. S. Zakariadze / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 428, 11-40, 4 November 2015, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP428.6 --- From seafloor spreading to obduction: Jurassic–Cretaceous evolution of the northern branch of the Neotethys in the Northeastern Anatolian and Lesser Caucasus regions / M. Hässig, Y. Rolland and M. Sosson / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 428, 41-60, 23 December 2015, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP428.10 --- Radiolarian evidence for the age of chert blocks from the Upper Cretaceous ophiolitic mélange unit of the Erakh area, Armenia / T. Danelian, G. Asatryan, L. Sahakyan, A. Avagyan and G. Galoyan / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 428, 61-72, 14 December 2015, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP428.7 --- Geochemistry of the Eocene magmatic rocks from the Lesser Caucasus area (Armenia): evidence of a subduction geodynamic environment / L. Sahakyan, D. Bosch, M. Sosson, A. Avagyan, Gh. Galoyan, Y. Rolland, O. Bruguier, Zh. Stepanyan, B. Galland and S. Vardanyan / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 428, 73-98, 3 February 2016, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP428.12 --- New data on the tectonic evolution of the Khoy region, NW Iran / Ara Avagyan, Alireza Shahidi, Marc Sosson, Lilit Sahakyan, Ghazar Galoyan, Carla Muller, Sargis Vardanyan, Khalil Bahar Firouzi, Delphine Bosch, Taniel Danelian, Gayane Asatryan, Mushegh Mkrtchyan and Mohammad Ali Shokri / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 428, 99-116, 7 April 2016, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP428.13 --- Progressive orocline formation in the Eastern Pontides–Lesser Caucasus / Maud J. M. Meijers, Brigitte Smith, Daniel Pastor-Galán, Renzo Degenaar, Nino Sadradze, Shota Adamia, Lilit Sahakyan, Ara Avagyan, Marc Sosson, Yann Rolland, Cor G. Langereis and Carla Müller / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 428, 117-143, 27 October 2015, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP428.8 --- Onset of Maikop sedimentation and cessation of Eocene arc volcanism in the Talysh Mountains, Azerbaijan / A. van der Boon, K. F. Kuiper, G. Villa, W. Renema, M. J. M. Meijers, C. G. Langereis, E. Aliyeva and W. Krijgsman / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 428, 145-169, 29 October 2015, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP428.3 --- Growth structures, piggy-back basins and growth strata of the Georgian part of the Kura foreland fold–thrust belt: implications for Late Alpine kinematic evolution / V. M. Alania, A. O. Chabukiani, R. L. Chagelishvili, O. V. Enukidze, K. O. Gogrichiani, A. N. Razmadze and N. S. Tsereteli / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 428, 171-185, 27 October 2015, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP428.5 --- Thermochronometric evidence for Miocene tectonic reactivation of the Sevan–Akera suture zone (Lesser Caucasus): a far-field tectonic effect of the Arabia–Eurasia collision? / W. Cavazza, I. Albino, M. Zattin, G. Galoyan, N. Imamverdiyev and R. Melkonyan / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 428, 187-198, 27 October 2015, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP428.4 --- The ‘Black Sea’ domain --- DOBRE-2 WARR profile: the Earth's upper crust across Crimea between the Azov Massif and the northeastern Black Sea / V. Starostenko, T. Janik, R. Stephenson, D. Gryn, O. Rusakov, W. Czuba, P. Środa, M. Grad, A. Guterch, E. Flüh, H. Thybo, I. Artemieva, A. Tolkunov, G. Sydorenko, D. Lysynchuk, V. Omelchenko, K. Kolomiyets, O. Legostaeva, A. Dannowski and A. Shulgin / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 428, 199-220, 3 February 2016, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP428.11 --- Local tomography model of the northeastern Black Sea: intra-plate crustal underthrusting / Valentina Gobarenko, Tamara Yegorova and Randell Stephenson / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 428, 221-239, 27 October 2015, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP428.2 --- Mesozoic to recent geological history of southern Crimea and the Eastern Black Sea region / A. M. Nikishin, M. Wannier, A. S. Alekseev, O. A. Almendinger, P. A. Fokin, R. R. Gabdullin, A. K. Khudoley, L. F. Kopaevich, A. V. Mityukov, E. I. Petrov and E. V. Rubtsova / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 428, 241-264, 27 October 2015, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP428.1 --- Key problems of stratigraphy in the Eastern Crimea Peninsula: some insights from new dating and structural data / Yevgeniya Sheremet, Marc Sosson, Carla Muller, Oleg Gintov, Anna Murovskaya and Tamara Yegorova / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 428, 265-306, 7 April 2016, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP428.14 --- Geological structure of the northern part of the Eastern Black Sea from regional seismic reflection data including the DOBRE-2 CDP profile / G. Sydorenko, R. Stephenson, T. Yegorova, V. Starostenko, A. Tolkunov, T. Janik, M. Majdanski, Z. Voitsitskiy, O. Rusakov and V. Omelchenko / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 428, 307-321, 23 May 2016, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP428.15 --- Stratigraphic comparisons along the Pontides (Turkey) based on new nannoplankton age determinations in the Eastern Pontides: geodynamic implications / J.-C. Hippolyte, C. Müller, E. Sangu and N. Kaymakci / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 428, 323-358, 27 October 2015, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP428.9