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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: The supercontinent-cycle hypothesis attributes planetary-scale episodic tectonic events to an intrinsic self-organizing mode of mantle convection, governed by the buoyancy of continental lithosphere that resists subduction during the closure of old ocean basins, and the consequent reorganization of mantle convection cells leading to the opening of new ocean basins. Characteristic timescales of the cycle are typically 500 to 700 million years. Proposed spatial patterns of cyclicity range from hemispheric (introversion) to antipodal (extroversion), to precisely between those end members (orthoversion). Advances in our understanding can arise from theoretical or numerical modelling, primary data acquisition relevant to continental reconstructions, and spatiotemporal correlations between plate kinematics, geodynamic events and palaeoenvironmental history. The palaeogeographic record of supercontinental tectonics on Earth is still under development. The contributions in this Special Publication provide snapshots in time of these investigations and indicate that Earth's palaeogeographic record incorporates elements of all three end-member spatial patterns.

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: D. Evans, M. S. Stoker, and A. Cramp: Geological processes on continental margins: sedimentation, mass-wasting and stability: an introduction / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 129:1-4, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1998.129.01.01 --- Tjeerd C. E. Van Weering, Tøve Nielsen, Neil H. Kenyon, Katja Akentieva, and Antoon. H. Kuijpers: Large submarine slides on the NE Faeroe continental margin / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 129:5-17, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1998.129.01.02 --- Mike Reeder, Guy Rothwell, Dorrik A. V. Stow, Gisela Kahler, and Neil H. Kenyon: Turbidite flux, architecture and chemostratigraphy of the Herodotus Basin, Levantine Sea, SE Mediterranean / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 129:19-41, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1998.129.01.03 --- M. R. Dobson, D. O’Leary, and M. Veart: Sediment delivery to the Gulf of Alaska: source mechanisms along a glaciated transform margin / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 129:43-66, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1998.129.01.04 --- R. Holmes, D. Long, and L. R. Dodd: Large-scale debrites and submarine landslides on the Barra Fan, west of Britain / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 129:67-79, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1998.129.01.05 --- Julie E. Armishaw, Richard W. Holmes, and Dorrik A. V. Stow: Morphology and sedimentation on the Hebrides Slope and Barra Fan, NW UK continental margin / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 129:81-104, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1998.129.01.06 --- A. Baltzer, R. Holmes, and D. Evans: Debris flows on the Sula Sgeir Fan, NW of Scotland / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 129:105-115, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1998.129.01.07 --- Michael A. Paul, Lisa A. Talbot, and Martyn S. Stoker: Shallow geotechnical profiles, acoustic character and depositional history in glacially influenced sediments from the Hebrides and West Shetland Slopes / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 129:117-131, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1998.129.01.08 --- D. Marc Audet: Mechanical properties of terrigenous muds from levee systems on the Amazon Fan / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 129:133-144, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1998.129.01.09 --- Thierry Mulder, Bruno Savoye, David J. W. Piper, and James P. M. Syvitski: The Var submarine sedimentary system: understanding Holocene sediment delivery processes and their importance to the geological record / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 129:145-166, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1998.129.01.10 --- T. Nielsen, TJ. C. E. Van Weering, and M. S. Andersen: Cenozoic changes in the sedimentary regime on the northeastern Faeroes margin / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 129:167-171, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1998.129.01.11 --- Lene Clausen: The Southeast Greenland glaciated margin: 3D stratal architecture of shelf and deep sea / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 129:173-203, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1998.129.01.12 --- G. Ercilla, J. Baraza, B. Alonso, and M. Canals: Recent geological processes in the Central Bransfield Basin (Western Antarctic Peninsula) / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 129:205-216, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1998.129.01.13 --- Paul D. Egerton: Seismic characterization of Palaeogene depositional sequences: northeastern Rockall Trough / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 129:217-228, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1998.129.01.14 --- M. S. Stoker: Sediment-drift development on the continental margin off NW Britain / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 129:229-254, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1998.129.01.15 --- Tine L. Rasmussen, Erik Thomsen, and Tjeerd C. E. Van Weering: Cyclic sedimentation on the Faeroe Drift 53-10 ka BP related to climatic variations / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 129:255-267, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1998.129.01.16 --- J. A. Howe, R. Harland, N. M. Hine, and W. E. N. Austin: Late Quaternary stratigraphy and palaeoceanographic change in the northern Rockall Trough, North Atlantic Ocean / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 129:269-286, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1998.129.01.17 --- A. R. Viana and J.-C. Faugères: Upper slope sand deposits: the example of Campos Basin, a latest Pleistocene-Holocene record of the interaction between alongslope and downslope currents / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 129:287-316, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1998.129.01.18 --- Dorrik A. V. Stow and Ali R. Tabrez: Hemipelagites: processes, facies and model / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 129:317-337, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1998.129.01.19 --- I. R. Hall and I. N. McCave: Late Glacial to Recent accumulation fluxes of sediments at the shelf edge and slope of NW Europe, 48–50°N / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 129:339-350, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1998.129.01.20 --- Erratum --- Geological Processes on Continental Margins: Sedimentation, Mass-Wasting and Stability Geological Society Special Publication No. 129 / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 129:1-2, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1998.129.01.22