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Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: Ireland is virtually encircled by sedimentary basins which developed in response to periods of rifting and thermal subsidence. These offshore basins have been the focus of intermittent phases of exploration since drilling of the first well in 1970 and, to date, 136 wells have been drilled. Most of the drilling so far has concentrated on structural traps, but recent exploration has begun to focus on a variety of stratigraphic traps, with greater emphasis on results obtained from studies of the Atlantic margin basins. The Petroleum Exploration of Ireland's Offshore Basins contains a set of 27 papers on a wide range of topics relating to recent exploration of the Irish offshore sedimentary basins. These papers address aspects of the structural and stratigraphic evolution, thermal history, petroleum systems, reservoir geology and sea-bed processes in the Irish offshore area. Although the main focus is on petroleum systems and those issues bearing on exploration risk, the exploration effort has yielded fundamental new insight into the wider development of starved passive continental margins. The volume will be of interest to oil industry explorationists and researchers focusing on NW European sedimentary basins and the evolution of the Irish Atlantic margin.

Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: Over long periods of time the tectonic evolution of the solid Earth has been recognized as the major control on the development of the global climate system. Tectonic activity acts in one of two different ways to influence regional and global climate: (i) through the opening and closing of oceanic gateways and its effect on the circulation patterns in the global ocean; (ii) through the growth and erosion of orogenic belts, resulting in changes in oceanic chemistry and disruption of atmospheric circulation. The Arabian Sea region has several features that make it the best area for studies of climate and palaeoceanographic responses to tectonic activity, most notably in the context of the South Asian monsoon and its relationship to the growth of high topography in the adjacent Himalayas and Tibet. The Tectonic and Climatic Evolution of the Arabian Sea Region brings together a collection of recent studies on the area from a wide group of international contributors. The paper range from high resolution, Holocene palaeoceanographic studies of the Pakistan margin to regional tectonic reconstructions of the ocean basin and surrounding margins throughout the Cenozoic. Marine geophysics, stratigraphy, isotope chemistry and neotectonics come together in a multidisciplinary approach to the study of interactions of land and sea. while much work remains to be done to understand fully the tectonic and climatic evolution of the Arabian Sea, a great deal has been achieved since the last major review, as detailed in the 26 contributions. This volume is essential reading for palaeoceanographers, sedimentologists and geophysicists. It will also be interest to structural geologists and those working in the petroleum industry.

Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: This book covers a diverse range of hydrogeological environments that occur in the Celtic regions of Britain and Ireland. These include hard rock aquifers of Lower Palaeozoic and Precambrian age, generally dominated by fracture flow within a shallow zone of weathering; Carboniferous Limestone aquifers, often characterized by conduit flows in karstic systems; dual-porosity Permo-Triassic sandstone aquifers; and Quaternary deposits, many of which form shallow granular aquifers. The papers presented here address a number of current issues common to the Celtic regions, including: groundwater protection policies, groundwater management in karst aquifers, groundwater development in Quaternary aquifers, groundwater evaluation in data-scarce aquifers and groundwater supplies to small island communities.

Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: Isotope geochemistry has produced many technical developments in the past decade or so that have revolutionized the potential information available on the tectonics of metamorphic belts from geochronology. These include the ability to date minerals and rocks on small spatial scales, scales that at last approach those from which other types of information — structural and petrological — are obtained. However, interpreting the new data, and their integration with the other datasets available, is not straightforward and requires careful chemical and textural observations that go hand-inhand with the geochronology. The increasing realization of the importance of this approach has led to a number of symposia at international conferences devoted to this topic in recent years. The set of papers in this book emanates from one such symposium and describes recent progress in integrating this new information with other datasets from metamorphic petrology on a mineral and sub-mineral scale.

Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: Preface / John Mather / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 225, vi, 1 January 2004, https://doi.org/10.1144/GSL.SP.2004.225.01.01 --- 200 years of British hydrogeology — an introduction and overview / J. D. Mather / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 225, 1-13, 1 January 2004, https://doi.org/10.1144/GSL.SP.2004.225.01.02 --- The water-related work of William Smith (1769–1839) / H. S. Torrens / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 225, 15-30, 1 January 2004, https://doi.org/10.1144/GSL.SP.2004.225.01.03 --- Dr John Snow and an early investigation of groundwater contamination / Michael Price / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 225, 31-49, 1 January 2004, https://doi.org/10.1144/GSL.SP.2004.225.01.04 --- William Whitaker (1836–1925) — geologist, bibliographer and a pioneer of British hydrogeology / William H. George / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 225, 51-65, 1 January 2004, https://doi.org/10.1144/GSL.SP.2004.225.01.05 --- Joseph Lucas (1846–1926) — Victorian polymath and a key figure in the development of British hydrogeology / J. D. Mather, H. S. Torrens and K. J. Lucas / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 225, 67-88, 1 January 2004, https://doi.org/10.1144/GSL.SP.2004.225.01.06 --- 19th century studies of the hydrogeology of the Permo-Triassic Sandstones of the northern Cheshire Basin, England / John H. Tellam / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 225, 89-105, 1 January 2004, https://doi.org/10.1144/GSL.SP.2004.225.01.07 --- Robert Stephenson (1803–1859) — the first groundwater engineer / M. Preene / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 225, 107-119, 1 January 2004, https://doi.org/10.1144/GSL.SP.2004.225.01.08 --- ‘Making water’: the hydrogeological adventures of Britain’s early mining engineers / Paul L. Younger / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 225, 121-157, 1 January 2004, https://doi.org/10.1144/GSL.SP.2004.225.01.09 --- The contribution of geologists to the development of emergency groundwater supplies by the British army / Edward P. F. Rose / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 225, 159-182, 1 January 2004, https://doi.org/10.1144/GSL.SP.2004.225.01.10 --- Groundwater versus surface water in Scotland and Ireland — the formative years / N. S. Robins, J. R. P. Bennett and K. T. Cullen / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 225, 183-191, 1 January 2004, https://doi.org/10.1144/GSL.SP.2004.225.01.11 --- Bath thermal waters: 400 years in the history of geochemistry and hydrogeology / W. Mike Edmunds / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 225, 193-199, 1 January 2004, https://doi.org/10.1144/GSL.SP.2004.225.01.12 --- Chalybeate springs at Tunbridge Wells: site of a 17th-century new town / J. G. C. M. Fuller / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 225, 201-212, 1 January 2004, https://doi.org/10.1144/GSL.SP.2004.225.01.13 --- The Scottish hydropathic establishments and their use of groundwater / Iain Spence and Nick Robins / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 225, 213-217, 1 January 2004, https://doi.org/10.1144/GSL.SP.2004.225.01.14 --- British hydrogeologists in North Africa and the Middle East: an historical perspective / J. W. Lloyd / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 225, 219-227, 1 January 2004, https://doi.org/10.1144/GSL.SP.2004.225.01.15 --- British hydrogeologists in West Africa — an historical evaluation of their role and contribution / Robin Hazell / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 225, 229-237, 1 January 2004, https://doi.org/10.1144/GSL.SP.2004.225.01.16 --- British attempts to develop groundwater and water supply on Gibraltar 1800–1985 / Edward P.F. Rose, John D. Mather and Manuel Perez / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 225, 239-262, 1 January 2004, https://doi.org/10.1144/GSL.SP.2004.225.01.17 --- The first use of geophysics in borehole siting in hardrock areas of Africa / Ron Barker / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 225, 263-269, 1 January 2004, https://doi.org/10.1144/GSL.SP.2004.225.01.18 --- The development of groundwater in the UK between 1935 and 1965 — the role of the Geological Survey of Great Britain / R. A. Downing / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 225, 271-282, 1 January 2004, https://doi.org/10.1144/GSL.SP.2004.225.01.19 --- Jack Ineson (1917–1970) The instigator of quantitative hydrogeology in Britain / R. A. Downing and D. A. Gray / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 225, 283-286, 1 January 2004, https://doi.org/10.1144/GSL.SP.2004.225.01.20 --- Stevenson Buchan (1907–1996): field geologist, hydrogeologist and administrator / D. A. Gray and J. D. Mather / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 225, 287-293, 1 January 2004, https://doi.org/10.1144/GSL.SP.2004.225.01.21 --- Groundwater studies in the Institute of Geological Sciences between 1965 and 1977 / D. A. Gray / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 225, 295-318, 1 January 2004, https://doi.org/10.1144/GSL.SP.2004.225.01.22 --- Norman Savage Boulton (1899–1984): civil engineer and groundwater hydrologist / R. A. Downing, W. Eastwood and K. R. Rushton / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 225, 319-322, 1 January 2004, https://doi.org/10.1144/GSL.SP.2004.225.01.23 --- Groundwater in a national water strategy, 1964–1979 / R. A. Downing / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 225, 323-338, 1 January 2004, https://doi.org/10.1144/GSL.SP.2004.225.01.24 --- Recollections of a golden age: the groundwater schemes of Southern Water 1970–1990 / H. G. Headworth / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 225, 339-362, 1 January 2004, https://doi.org/10.1144/GSL.SP.2004.225.01.25 --- Developments in UK hydrogeology since 1974 / F. C. Brassington / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 225, 363-385, 1 January 2004, https://doi.org/10.1144/GSL.SP.2004.225.01.26

Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: Preface / Iain Stewart / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 171, vii-ix, 1 January 2000, https://doi.org/10.1144/GSL.SP.2000.171.01.01 --- Creation and destruction of travertine monumental stone by earthquake faulting at Hierapolis, Turkey / P. L. Hancock, R. M. L. Chalmers, E. Altunel, Z. Çakir and A. Becher-Hancock / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 171, 1-14, 1 January 2000, https://doi.org/10.1144/GSL.SP.2000.171.01.02 --- Uses of volcanic products in antiquity / D. R. Griffiths / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 171, 15-23, 1 January 2000, https://doi.org/10.1144/GSL.SP.2000.171.01.03 --- The advent of archaeoseismology in the Mediterranean / R. E. Jones and S. C. Stiros / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 171, 25-32, 1 January 2000, https://doi.org/10.1144/GSL.SP.2000.171.01.04 --- A critical reappraisal of the classical texts and archaeological evidence for earthquakes in the Atalanti region, central mainland Greece / Victoria Buck and Iain Stewart / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 171, 33-44, 1 January 2000, https://doi.org/10.1144/GSL.SP.2000.171.01.05 --- Aims and methods in territorial archaeology: possible clues to a strong fourth-century AD earthquake in the Straits of Messina (southern Italy) / Emanuela Guidoboni, Anna Muggia and Gianluca Valensise / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 171, 45-70, 1 January 2000, https://doi.org/10.1144/GSL.SP.2000.171.01.06 --- Santorini (Greece) before the Minoan eruption: a reconstruction of the ring-island, natural resources and clay deposits from the Akrotiri excavation / Walter L. Friedrich, Marit-Solveig Seidenkrantz and Ole Bjørslev Nielsen / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 171, 71-80, 1 January 2000, https://doi.org/10.1144/GSL.SP.2000.171.01.07 --- The eruption of the Santorini volcano and its effects on Minoan Crete / Jan Driessen and Colin F. MacDonald / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 171, 81-93, 1 January 2000, https://doi.org/10.1144/GSL.SP.2000.171.01.08 --- Late Minoan IB marine ware, the marine environment of the Aegean, and the Bronze Age eruption of the Thera volcano / Peter Bicknell / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 171, 95-103, 1 January 2000, https://doi.org/10.1144/GSL.SP.2000.171.01.09 --- Ground-penetrating radar mapping of Minoan volcanic deposits and the Late Bronze Age palaeotopography, Thera, Greece / James K. Russell and Mark V. Stasiuk / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 171, 105-121, 1 January 2000, https://doi.org/10.1144/GSL.SP.2000.171.01.10 --- Precursory phenomena and destructive events related to the Late Bronze Age Minoan (Thera, Greece) and AD 79 (Vesuvius, Italy) Plinian eruptions; inferences from the stratigraphy in the archaeological areas / Raffaello Cioni, Lucia Gurioli, Alessandro Sbrana and Georges Vougioukalakis / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 171, 123-141, 1 January 2000, https://doi.org/10.1144/GSL.SP.2000.171.01.11 --- A geographical information system for the archaeological area of Pompeii / M. T. Pareschi, G. Stefani, A. Varone, L. Cavarra, F. Giannini and A. Meriggi / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 171, 143-158, 1 January 2000, https://doi.org/10.1144/GSL.SP.2000.171.01.12 --- Apulian Bronze Age pottery as a long-distance indicator of the Avellino Pumice eruption (Vesuvius, Italy) / Raffaello Cioni, Sara Levi and Roberto Sulpizio / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 171, 159-177, 1 January 2000, https://doi.org/10.1144/GSL.SP.2000.171.01.13 --- Human response to Etna volcano during the classical period / D. K. Chester, A. M. Duncan, J. E. Guest, P. A. Johnston and J. J. L. Smolenaars / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 171, 179-188, 1 January 2000, https://doi.org/10.1144/GSL.SP.2000.171.01.14 --- The Johnston-Lavis collection: a unique record of Italian volcanism / W. L. Kirk, R. Siddall and S. Stead / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 171, 189-194, 1 January 2000, https://doi.org/10.1144/GSL.SP.2000.171.01.15 --- The archaeology of a Plinian eruption of the Popocatépetl volcano / Patricia Plunket and Gabriela Uruñuela / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 171, 195-203, 1 January 2000, https://doi.org/10.1144/GSL.SP.2000.171.01.16 --- Timing of the prehistoric eruption of Xitle Volcano and the abandonment of Cuicuilco Pyramid, Southern Basin of Mexico / Silvia Gonzalez, Alejandro Pastrana, Claus Siebe and Geoff Duller / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 171, 205-224, 1 January 2000, https://doi.org/10.1144/GSL.SP.2000.171.01.17 --- Volcanic disasters and cultural discontinuities in Holocene time, in West New Britain, Papua New Guinea / Robin Torrence, Christina Pavlides, Peter Jackson and John Webb / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 171, 225-244, 1 January 2000, https://doi.org/10.1144/GSL.SP.2000.171.01.18 --- Tephrochronology of the Brooks River Archaeological District, Katmai National Park and Preserve, Alaska: what can and cannot be done with tephra deposits / James R. Riehle, Don. E. Dumond, Charles E. Meyer and Jeanne M. Schaaf / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 171, 245-266, 1 January 2000, https://doi.org/10.1144/GSL.SP.2000.171.01.19 --- Endemic stress, farming communities and the influence of Icelandic volcanic eruptions in the Scottish Highlands / R. A. Dodgshon, D. D. Gilbertson and J. P. Grattan / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 171, 267-280, 1 January 2000, https://doi.org/10.1144/GSL.SP.2000.171.01.20 --- Comparison and cross-checking of historical, archaeological and geological evidence for the location and type of historical and sub-historical eruptions of multiple-vent oceanic island volcanoes / S. J. Day, J. C. Carracedo, H. Guillou, F. J. Pais Pais, E. Rodriguez Badiola, J. F. B. D. Fonseca and S. I. N. Heleno / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 171, 281-306, 1 January 2000, https://doi.org/10.1144/GSL.SP.2000.171.01.21 --- ‘A fire spitting volcano in our dear Germany’: documentary evidence for a low-intensity volcanic eruption of the Gleichberg in 1783? / J. P. Grattan, D. D. Gilbertson and A. Dill / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 171, 307-315, 1 January 2000, https://doi.org/10.1144/GSL.SP.2000.171.01.22 --- Volcanic soils: their nature and significance for archaeology / Peter James, David Chester and Angus Duncan / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 171, 317-338, 1 January 2000, https://doi.org/10.1144/GSL.SP.2000.171.01.23 --- The use of volcaniclastic material in Roman hydraulic concretes: a brief review / Ruth Siddall / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 171, 339-344, 1 January 2000, https://doi.org/10.1144/GSL.SP.2000.171.01.24 --- Olmec stone sculpture: selection criteria for basalt / Patrick Hunt / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 171, 345-353, 1 January 2000, https://doi.org/10.1144/GSL.SP.2000.171.01.25 --- Seismic and volcanic hazards affecting the vulnerability of the Sana’a area of Yemen / Richard Hughes and Adrian Collings / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 171, 355-372, 1 January 2000, https://doi.org/10.1144/GSL.SP.2000.171.01.26 --- Archaeological, geomorphological and geological evidence for a major earthquake at Sagalassos (SW Turkey) around the middle of the seventh century AD / Marc Waelkens, Manuel Sintubin, Philippe Muchez and Etienne Paulissen / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 171, 373-383, 1 January 2000, https://doi.org/10.1144/GSL.SP.2000.171.01.27 --- Fault pattern of Nisyros Island volcano (Aegean Sea, Greece): structural, coastal and archaeological evidence / Stathis C. Stiros / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 171, 385-397, 1 January 2000, https://doi.org/10.1144/GSL.SP.2000.171.01.28 --- The geological origins of the oracle at Delphi, Greece / J. Z. De Boer and J. R. Hale / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 171, 399-412, 1 January 2000, https://doi.org/10.1144/GSL.SP.2000.171.01.29

Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: The North Atlantic Igneous Province has been the subject of extensive scientific investigation over the past thirty years, with a wide field of knowledge being accumulated. Recently, recognition of the potential role of Large Igneous Provinces in affecting ocean and atmosphere systems and biotic evolutionary pathways has lead to increased interest in this province. This has been further stimulated by the expansion in the search for oil and gas in Mesozoic and Tertiary sediments along the NE Atlantic Margin. An improved understanding of the interaction between igneous and sedimentary processes is vital for the identification of potential hydrocarbon resources. The regions covered include continental margin Norway, east and west Greenland, the Faroe-Shetland Basin and the Faroe Islands themselves. The papers in this book contain new data and interpretations of North Atlantic Igneous Province magmatic processes, rift evolution, tectonics, stratigraphy (chemostratigraphy, biostratigraphy, seismic and isotope stratigraphy) and sediment dispersal. Many of the papers adopt a multidisciplinary approach to tha analysis and interpretation of complex volcanic and sedimentary sequences. These new data, and the reviews and compilations of existing data provide the reader with access to current research directions in North Atlantic Igneous Province geology.

Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: Palaeogene and Cretaceous palaeoceanography has been the focus of intense international interest in the last few years, spurred by deep ocean drilling at Blake Nose in the North Atlantic as well as the need to use past climate change as input for modelling future climate change. This book brings together a number of review papers that describe ancient oceans and unique events in the Earth’s climatic history and evolution of biota. The papers show evidence of periods characterized by exceptional global warmth such as the Late Palaeocene Thermal Maximum and Cretaceous anoxic events. Geochemical records and modelling will make the reader aware that these periods were forced by greenhouse gases. This information is essential for understanding the response of the ocean-climate system to the current input of fossil fuels. In this sense, the book contributes to the understanding of fundamental aspects of Earth’s climate, the carbon cycle, and marine ecosystems. A number of papers describe massive mass wasting deposits resulting from the energy released by the bolide impact at the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary as well as the geochemistry of the boundary itself. Additional papers cover aspects of cyclostratigraphy and biostratigraphy of Palaeogene and Cretaceous records. This book will be of interest to a broad audience of Earth Scientists interested in Palaeogene-Cretaceous palaeoceanography, extreme climate modelling, Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary, Late Palaeocene Thermal Maximum, Cretaceous anoxic events, as well as those specifically interested in radiolarian, dinoflagellate and coccolithophorid stratigraphy.

Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: Humans have long marvelled at (and feared) the odorous and colourful manifestations of volcanic emissions, and, in some cases, have harnessed them for their economic value. The degassing process responsible for these phenomena is now understood to be one of the key factors influencing the timing and nature of volcanic eruptions. Moreover the surface emissions of these volatiles can have profound effects on the atmospheric and terrestrial environment, and climate. Even more fundamental are the relationships between the history of planetary outgassing, differentiation of the Earth’s interior, chemistry of the atmosphere and hydrosphere, and the origin and evolution of life. This book provides a compilation of 23 papers that investigate the behaviour of volatiles in magma, the feedbacks between degassing and magma dynamics, and the composition, flux, and environmental, atmospheric and climatic impacts of volcanic gas emissions.

Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: This title has arisen from the Geological Society of London conference of the same name. Since the publication of the predecessor of this book (‘Modern insights into structural interpretation, validation and modelling’, SP99, 1996, edited by Buchanan & Nieuwland) much progress has been made. This has been primarily thanks to the continuously increasing computing speed and computer memory capacity, which has positively affected all fields in structural interpretation, seismics and modelling, directly or indirectly. ‘New insights in structural interpretation and modelling’, presents a balanced overview of what the title promises. It is intended as a book that will serve the experienced professional as well as more advanced students in earth sciences, with a broad selection of topics ranging from classical field based studies to state of the art analogue and numerical modeling. The leaders of their fields have written some of the chapters, whereas younger authors with a fresh outlook and new ideas have written other chapters.