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Description / Table of Contents: Earth sciences are becoming ever more concerned with how their disciplines, their research and teaching, need to become directly related to environmental and social concerns. The biology of the surface layers and at depth is increasingly important in the geosciences. A knowledge of biological and physical-chemical functions in terrestrial ecosystems (such as biomass production, filtering, buffering and transformation, water routing, and maintenance of biodiversity) that are studied in soil science provides a background for Earth sciences. The papers in this volume address issues of soil formation, soil management, soil protection and the role of biodiversity that must be considered for a sustainable soil use. The papers are aimed at geoscientists in the broadest sense, and others concerned with soil use who will also find chapters relevant to their interests. Soils knowledge used within other Earth sciences is essential for maintaining healthy ecosystems, for the solutions of problems in environmental quality and for sustainable use of soils by humans.

Description / Table of Contents: Abstract The Black Sea remains one of the largest underexplored rift basins in the world. Future success is dependent on a better understanding of a number of geological uncertainties. These include reservoir and source rock presence and quality, and the timing of migration of hydrocarbons relative to trap formation. An appreciation of the geological history of the Black Sea basins and the surrounding orogens is therefore key. The timing of basin formation, uplift of the margins, and of facies distribution remain issues for robust debate. This Special Publication presents the results of 15 studies that relate to the tectono-stratigraphy and petroleum geology of the Black Sea. The methodologies of these studies encompass crustal structure, geodynamic evolution, stratigraphy and its regional correlation, petroleum systems, source to sink, hydrocarbon habitat and play concepts, and reviews of past exploration. They provide insight into the many ongoing controversies concerning Black Sea regional geology and provide a better understanding of the geological risks that must be considered for future hydrocarbon exploration.

Description / Table of Contents: Abstract Reservoir quality is studied using a wide range of similar techniques in both sandstones and carbonates. Sandstone and carbonate reservoir quality both benefit from the study of modern analogues and experiments, but modelling approaches are currently quite different for these two types of reservoirs. There are many common controls on sandstone and carbonate reservoir quality, but also distinct differences due primarily to mineralogy. Numerous controversies remain including the question of oil inhibition, the key control on pressure solution and geochemical flux of material to or from reservoirs. This collection of papers contains case-study-based examples of sandstone and carbonate reservoir quality prediction as well as modern analogue, outcrop analogue, modelling and advanced analytical approaches.

Description / Table of Contents: Gullies on Mars resemble terrestrial gullies involved in the transport of abundant material down steep slopes by liquid water. However, liquid water should not be stable at the Martian surface. The articles in this volume present the two main opposing theories for Martian gully formation: climate-driven melting of surficial water-ice deposits and seasonal dry-ice sublimation. The evidence presented ranges from remote-sensing observations, to experimental simulations, to comparison with Earth analogues. The opposing hypotheses imply either that Mars has been unusually wet in the last few million years or that it has remained a cold dry desert – both with profound implications for understanding the water budget of Mars and its habitability. The debate questions the limits of remote-sensing data and how we interpret active processes on extra-terrestrial planetary surfaces, even beyond those on Mars, as summarized by the review paper at the beginning of the book.

Description / Table of Contents: This book complements the Geological Society's Special Publication 362: Military Aspects of Hydrogeology. Generated under the auspices of the Society's History of Geology and Engineering Groups, it contains papers from authors in the UK, USA, Germany and Austria. Substantial papers describe some innovative engineering activities, influenced by geology, undertaken by the armed forces of the opposing nations in World War I. These activities were reactivated and developed in World War II. Examples include trenching from World War I, tunnelling and quarrying from both wars, and the use of geologists to aid German coastal fortification and Allied aerial photographic interpretation in World War II. The extensive introduction and other chapters reveal that ‘military geology’ has a longer history. These chapters relate to pre-twentieth century coastal fortification in the UK and the USA; conflict in the American Civil War; long-term ‘going’ assessments for German forces; tunnel repair after wartime route denial in Hong Kong; and tunnel detection after recent insurgent improvisation in Iraq.

Description / Table of Contents: Abstract The Himalaya mountains contain not only one of the largest concentrations of ice outside the polar regions, but contribute to the hydrological requirements of large populations spread over seven nations. The exceptionally high elevations of this low-latitude cryosphere presents a natural laboratory and archives to study climate–tectonics interactions as well as regional v. global climate influences. The existing base-level data on the Himalayan cryosphere are highly variable. Several climate fluctuations occurred during the late Quaternary (MIS1–MIS5, especially the last c. 100 ka), which led to the evolution of the Himalayan landscape. Detailed studies of these archives, along with those of the present cryosphere and related hydrosphere, are essential for understanding the controls on present and future hydrology of the glacial-fed mountain rivers. This volume, a follow-up of the XII International Symposium on Antarctic Earth Science, Goa (A SCAR symposium), provides new data from locales spread over the entire Himalaya region and from Tibet. It provides a glimpse of the late Quaternary cryosphere, as well as a discussion in the last section on sustainability in the context of geohazard mitigations as well as the hydrological budget.

Description / Table of Contents: Fifty years ago, Tuzo Wilson published his paper asking ‘Did the Atlantic close and then re-open?’. This led to the ‘Wilson Cycle’ concept in which the repeated opening and closing of ocean basins along old orogenic belts is a key process in the assembly and breakup of supercontinents. The Wilson Cycle underlies much of what we know about the geological evolution of the Earth and its lithosphere, and will no doubt continue to be developed as we gain more understanding of the physical processes that control mantle convection, plate tectonics, and as more data become available from currently less accessible regions. This volume includes both thematic and review papers covering various aspects of the Wilson Cycle concept. Thematic sections include: (1) the Classic Wilson v. Supercontinent Cycles, (2) Mantle Dynamics in the Wilson Cycle, (3) Tectonic Inheritance in the Lithosphere, (4) Revisiting Tuzo's question on the Atlantic, (5) Opening and Closing of Oceans, and (6) Cratonic Basins and their place in the Wilson Cycle.

Description / Table of Contents: This volume brings together a number of papers from two workshops with the theme, ‘Rain, Rivers, Reservoirs’, which considered the dynamic changes to river systems as part of natural processes, particularly changing climatic conditions. Bringing researchers from two different locations to Brazil and the UK allowed scientists to contribute to and promote, ‘debate on current research…on how the planet works and how we can live sustainably on it’. This volume features a series of papers on the geoscience of modern and ancient rivers from across the world (Brazil, United States, Spain, Argentina, Canada, India and the UK), their evolution through time, their management, their deposits and their engineering, with both subsurface aquifers/hydrocarbon reservoirs (of Carboniferous, Triassic and Cretaceous age) and surface reservoirs considered.

Description / Table of Contents: This Special Publication is dedicated to heritage stone: those natural stones that have special significance in human culture. Some stones that have had important uses in the past are now neglected because theyare no longer extracted. Others are still commercially important, but their heritage uses have not beenwell documented in widely available sources. The Heritage Stone Task Group of the International Unionof Geological Sciences is working to establish a new formal designation of 'Global Heritage StoneResource' to recognize those stones that have had internationally significant architectural and ornamentaluses. The aim is to spread awareness of the cultural heritage aspects of these stones, to help to encouragecontinued supply for maintenance and repair of important monuments and to preserve historically importantquarries. The aim is neither to promote nor to limit these stones for new construction: in some cases continuingcommercial use might help to ensure future supplies for building conservation purposes.

Description / Table of Contents: Abstract The history of the European oil and gas industry reflects local as well as global political events, economic constraints and the personal endeavours of individual petroleum geoscientists as much as it does the development of technologies and the underlying geology of the region. The first commercial oil wells in Europe were drilled in Poland in 1853, Romania in 1857, Germany in 1859 and Italy in 1860. The 23 papers in this volume focus on the history and heritage of the oil and gas industry in the key European oil-producing countries from the earliest onshore drilling to its development into the modern industry that we know today. The contributors chronicle the main events and some of the major players that shaped the industry in Europe. The volume also marks several important anniversaries, including 150 years of oil exploration in Poland and Romania, the centenary of the drilling of the first oil well in the UK and 50 years of oil production from onshore Spain.

Description / Table of Contents: Abstract Karst landscapes and karst aquifers are composed of a variety of soluble rocks, such as salt, gypsum, anhydrite, limestone, dolomite and quartzite. They are fascinating areas of exploration, study and research. As karst rocks are abundant on the Earth's surface, the fast evolution of karst landscapes and the rapid flow of water through karst aquifers present many challenges from a number of different perspectives. This collection of 25 papers deals with different aspects of these challenges, including karst geology, geomorphology and speleogenesis, karst hydrogeology, karst modelling, and karst hazards and management. Together these papers provide a state-of-the-art review of the current challenges and solutions we face in describing karst from a scientific perspective, while at the same time providing useful data and information for managing karst territories to land planners, developers, and managers of show caves, natural parks and reserves in karst terrains.

Description / Table of Contents: Abstract The challenges facing submarine mass movement researchers and engineers are plentiful and exciting. This book follows several high-profile submarine landslide disasters that have reached the world's attention over the past few years. For decades, researchers have been mapping the world's mass movements. Their significant impacts on the Earth by distributing sediment on phenomenal scales is undeniable. Their importance in the origins of buried resources has long been understood. Their hazard potential ranges from damaging to apocalyptic, frequently damaging local infrastructure and sometimes devastating whole coastlines. Moving beyond mapping advances, the subaqueous mass movement scientists and practitioners are now also focussed on assessing the consequences of mass movements, and the measurement and modelling of events, hazard analysis and mitigation. Many state-of-the-art examples are provided in this book, which is produced under the auspices of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation Program S4SLIDE (Significance of Modern and Ancient Submarine Slope LandSLIDEs).

Description / Table of Contents: Abstract This volume comprises 17 contributions that address the architecture and geodynamic evolution of the Himalaya–Karakoram–Tibet (HKT) system, covering wide aspects, from the active seismicity of the present day to the remnants of the Proterozoic orogen. The articles investigate the HKT system at different scales, blending field research with laboratory studies. The role of various lithospheric components and their inheritance in the geodynamic and magmatic evolution of the HKT system through time, and their links to global geological events, are studied in the field. The laboratory research focuses on the (sub-)micrometre scale, detailing micro-structural geology, crystal chemistry, geochronology, and the study of circulating fluids, their preservation (trapped in fluid inclusions) and their evolution, distribution, migration and interaction with the solid host. An orogen over 2000 km long can be understood only if the processes at the nanometre and micrometre scales are taken into account. The contributions in this volume successfully combine these scales to enhance our understanding of the HKT system.

Description / Table of Contents: Abstract This Special Publication highlights the importance of clays and clayey material, and their multiple roles, in many national geological disposal facilities for higher activity radioactive wastes. Clays can be both the disposal facility host rock and part of its intrinsic engineered barriers, and may be present in the surrounding geological environment. Clays possess various characteristics that make them high-quality barriers to the migration of radionuclides and chemical contaminants, e.g. very little water movement, diffusive transport, retention capacity, self-sealing capacity, stability over millions of years, homogeneity and lateral continuity. The 20 papers presented in this Special Publication cover a range of topics related to clays in radioactive waste confinement. Aspects of clay characterization and behaviour at various temporal and spatial scales relevant to the confinement of radionuclides in clay are discussed, from phenomenological processes to the overall understanding of the performance and safety of geological disposal facilities.

Description / Table of Contents: Abstract Alluvial and fluvial fans are the most widespread depositional landform bordering the margins of highland regions and actively subsiding continental basins, across a broad spectrum of tectonic and climatic settings. They are significant to the local morphodynamics of mountain regions and also to the evolution of sediment-routing systems, affecting the propagation and preservation of stratigraphic signals of environmental change over vast areas. The volume presents case studies discussing the geology and geomorphology of alluvial and fluvial fans from both active systems and ancient ones preserved in the stratigraphic record. It brings together case studies from a range of continents, climatic and tectonic settings, some introducing innovative monitoring and analysis techniques, and it provides an overview of current debates in the field. This volume will be of particular interest to geologists, geomorphologists, sedimentologists and the general reader with an interest in Earth science.

Description / Table of Contents: Abstract The Palaeozoic Era ends with the c. 47-million-year-long Permian Period. This was a major juncture in Earth history when the vast Pangean supercontinent continued its assembly and the global biota suffered the most extensive biotic decimation of the Phanerozoic, the end-Permian mass extinction. It was also the time of accumulation of vast mineral and energy deposits, notably of salt and petroleum. The temporal ordering of geological and biotic events during Permian time is, therefore, critical to the interpretation of some unique and pivotal events in Earth history. This temporal ordering is based mostly on the Permian timescale, which has been developed and refined for nearly two centuries. This book reviews the history of the development of the Permian chronostratigraphic scale. It also includes comprehensive analyses of Permian radioisotopic ages, magnetostratigraphy, isotope-based correlations, and timescale-relevant marine and non-marine biostratigraphy and biochronology.

Description / Table of Contents: Abstract The Southern Permian Basin, as its name suggests, is a historical heartland for hydrocarbon production from the Palaeozoic Rotliegend interval. However, in this mature basin the Mesozoic presents further possibilities to offer resource security to NW Europe. Such opportunities include increasing efficiency in the production of discovered hydrocarbons, exploration for further hydrocarbons (both conventional and unconventional) and efficient exploration for, and production of, geothermal energy. All these potential resources require a grounding in technically sound geoscience, via traditional scientific observation and the application of new technologies, to unlock their value. The main aim of this volume is to bring together the work of academics and industry workers to consider cross-border geoscience including contributions on Poland, Germany, The Netherlands, the United Kingdom and adjacent areas. The work presented intends to contribute to the development and discovery of further Mesozoic energy resources across the basin.

Description / Table of Contents: Abstract High pressure (HP) and ultrahigh pressure (UHP) metamorphic rocks play a key role in understanding the tectonic evolution of orogenic belts. They have typically experienced complex changes during subduction and exhumation processes arising from recrystallization, deformation, fluid–rock interactions and even partial melting, and may therefore carry valuable records of evolving geodynamic systems in an orogenic belt. This special publication addresses the current work on HP–UHP metamorphism and its relation to the tectonic evolution of orogenic belts. This special publication contains fifteen papers covering the important orogenic belts of the Himalaya, Dabie–Sulu, Tian Shan, North Qaidam and others that have been grouped into three parts: (I) new developments in the determination of metamorphic pressure–temperature (PT) conditions and their timing, (II) overview papers of well-known HP–UHP metamorphic belts and (III) research papers for some newly discovered HP–UHP belts.

Description / Table of Contents: Abstract Understanding the sedimentary and geophysical archive of glaciated margins is a complex task that requires integration and analysis of disparate sedimentological and geophysical data. Their analysis is vital for understanding the dynamics of past ice sheets and how they interact with their neighbouring marine basins, on timescales that cannot be captured by observations of the cryosphere today. As resources, sediments deposited on the inner margins of glaciated shelves also exhibit resource potential where more sand-dominated systems occur, acting as reservoirs for both hydrocarbons and water. This book surveys the full gamut of glaciated margins, from deep time (Neoproterozoic, Ordovician and Carboniferous–Permian) to modern high-latitude margins in Canada and Antarctica. This collection of papers is the first attempt to deliberately do this, allowing not only the similarities and differences between modern and ancient glaciated margins to be explored, but also the wide spectrum of their mechanisms of investigation to be probed. Together, these papers offer a high-resolution, spatially and temporally diverse blueprint of the depositional processes, ice sheet dynamics, and basin architectures of the world's former glaciated margins; a vital resource in advancing understanding of our present and future marine-terminating ice sheet margins.

Description / Table of Contents: Abstract In Earth evolution, mountain belts are the loci of crustal growth, reworking and recycling. These crustal-scale processes are unravelled through microscale investigations of textures and mineral assemblages of metamorphic rocks. Multiple episodes of metamorphism, re-equilibration and deformation, however, generally produce a complex and tightly interwoven pattern of microstructures and assemblages. Over the last two decades, the combination of advanced computing and technological capabilities with new concepts has provided a vast array of novel petrological tools and high-resolution/high-sensitivity techniques for microanalysis and imaging. Such novel approaches are proving fundamental to untangling the enigma represented by metamorphism with an unprecedented level of detail and confidence. As a result, the first decade and a half of this century has already seen the tumultuous development of new research avenues in metamorphic petrology. This book aims to provide a timely overview of the state of the art of this field, of newly developed petrological techniques, future advancements and significant new case studies.

Description / Table of Contents: Abstract Economically viable concentrations of mineral resources are uncommon in Earth's crust. Most ore deposits that were mined in the past or are currently being extracted were found at or near Earth's surface, often serendipitously. To meet the future demand for mineral resources, exploration success hinges on identifying targets at depth. Achieving this requires accurate and informed models of the Earth's crust that are consistent with all available geological, geochemical and geophysical information, paired with an understanding of how ore-forming systems relate to Earth's evolving structure. Contributions to this volume address the future resources challenge by (i) applying advanced microscale geochemical detection and characterization methods, (ii) introducing more rigorous 3D Earth models, (iii) exploring critical behaviour and coupled processes, (iv) evaluating the role of geodynamic and tectonic setting and (v) applying 3D structural models to characterize specific ore-forming systems.

Description / Table of Contents: The Himalaya–Karakoram–Tibet mountain belt resulted from Cenozoic collision of India and Asia and is frequently used as the type example of a continental collision orogenic belt. The last quarter of a century has seen the publication of a remarkably detailed dataset relevant to the evolution of this belt. Detailed fieldwork backed up by state-of-the-art structural analysis, geochemistry, mineral chemistry, igneous and metamorphic petrology, isotope chemistry, sedimentology and geophysics produced a wide-ranging archive of data-rich scientific papers. The rationale for this book is to provide a coherent overview of these datasets in addressing the evolution of the mountain ranges we see today. This volume comprises 21 specially invited review papers on the Himalaya, Kohistan arc, Tibet, the Karakoram and Pamir ranges. These papers span the history of Himalayan research, chronology of the collision, stratigraphy, magmatic and metamorphic processes, structural geology and tectonics, seismicity, geophysics, and the evolution of the Indian monsoon. This landmark set of papers should underpin the next 25 years of Himalayan research.

Description / Table of Contents: Geodynamics of collision and collapse at the Africa–Arabia–Eurasia subduction zone – an introduction / Douwe J. J. van Hinsbergen, Michael A. Edwards and Rob Govers / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 311, 1-7, 29 April 2009, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP311.1 --- Melange genesis and ophiolite emplacement related to subduction of the northern margin of the Tauride–Anatolide continent, central and western Turkey / Alastair H. F. Robertson, Osman Parlak and Tı̇mur Ustaömer / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 311, 9-66, 29 April 2009, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP311.2 --- Tectono-stratigraphy of the Çankırı Basin: Late Cretaceous to early Miocene evolution of the Neotethyan Suture Zone in Turkey / Nuretdin Kaymakci, Yakup Özçelik, Stanley H. White and Paul M. Van Dijk / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 311, 67-106, 29 April 2009, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP311.3 --- Oligocene–Miocene basin evolution in SE Anatolia, Turkey: constraints on the closure of the eastern Tethys gateway / Silja K. Hüsing, Willem-Jan Zachariasse, Douwe J. J. van Hinsbergen, Wout Krijgsman, Murat Inceöz, Mathias Harzhauser, Oleg Mandic and Andreas Kroh / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 311, 107-132, 29 April 2009, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP311.4 --- Long-term evolution of the North Anatolian Fault: new constraints from its eastern termination / Aurélia Hubert-Ferrari, Geoffrey King, Jérome van der Woerd, Igor Villa, Erhan Altunel and Rolando Armijo / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 311, 133-154, 29 April 2009, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP311.5 --- Mediterranean snapshots of accelerated slab retreat: subduction instability in stalled continental collision / M. A. Edwards and B. Grasemann / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 311, 155-192, 29 April 2009, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP311.6 --- Evolution of the southern Tyrrhenian slab tear and active tectonics along the western edge of the Tyrrhenian subducted slab / Andrea Argnani / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 311, 193-212, 29 April 2009, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP311.7 --- Geochemical and temporal evolution of Cenozoic magmatism in western Turkey: mantle response to collision, slab break-off, and lithospheric tearing in an orogenic belt / Yildirim Dilek and Şafak Altunkaynak / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 311, 213-233, 29 April 2009, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP311.8 --- Insights from the Apennines metamorphic complexes and their bearing on the kinematics evolution of the orogen / Gianluca Vignaroli, Claudio Faccenna, Federico Rossetti and Laurent Jolivet / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 311, 235-256, 29 April 2009, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP311.9 --- Sequential development of interfering metamorphic core complexes: numerical experiments and comparison with the Cyclades, Greece / C. Tirel, P. Gautier, D. J. J. van Hinsbergen and M. J. R. Wortel / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 311, 257-292, 29 April 2009, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP311.10 --- The Itea–Amfissa detachment: a pre-Corinth rift Miocene extensional structure in central Greece / Dimitrios Papanikolaou, Leonidas Gouliotis and Maria Triantaphyllou / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 311, 293-310, 29 April 2009, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP311.11 --- Neogene brittle detachment faulting on Kos (E Greece): implications for a southern break-away fault of the Menderes metamorphic core complex (western Turkey) / Douwe J. J. van Hinsbergen and Flora Boekhout / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 311, 311-320, 29 April 2009, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP311.12 --- Magnetostratigraphy of early–middle Miocene deposits from east–west trending Alaşehir and Büyük Menderes grabens in western Turkey, and its tectonic implications / Sevket Sen and Gürol Seyitoğlu / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 311, 321-342, 29 April 2009, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP311.13 --- The structure of the Kythira–Antikythira strait, offshore SW Greece (35.7°–36.6°N) / Eleni Kokinou and Evangelos Kamberis / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 311, 343-360, 29 April 2009, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP311.14 --- Erratum --- Melange genesis and ophiolite emplacement related to subduction of the northern margin of the Tauride–Anatolide continent, central and western Turkey / Alastair H. F. Robertson, Osman Parlak and Tı̇mur Ustaömer / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 311, 1, 29 July 2009, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP311.Erratum

Description / Table of Contents: The Devonian was a critical period with respect to the diversification of early terrestrial ecosystems. The geotectonic setting was characterized by the switch from the post-Caledonian to the pre-Variscan situation. Plant life on land evolved from tiny tracheophytes to trees of considerable size in combination with a global increase in terrestrial biomass, and vertebrates started to conquer the land. Extensive shallow-marine areas and continental lowlands with a wide range of different habitats existed. These are preserved in a large number of basins all around the world. Climate change finally led from greenhouse to icehouse conditions towards the end of the Devonian. Rapid evolution of terrestrial ecosystems and climate change had a pronounced influence on sedimentation and biodiversity, not only in the terrestrial, but also in the marine realm. This volume contains case studies from Australia, China, Europe, South America and North America, and individual palaeoecosystems and their components have been investigated in different palaeogeographic settings that contribute to a much better understanding of the Devonian Period. This is a contribution to the IGCP 499 project on "Devonian land-sea interaction: evolution of ecosystems and climate".

Description / Table of Contents: Geological correlations of East Antarctica with adjoining continents have been puzzling geologists ever since the concept of a Gondwana supercontinent surfaced. Despite the paucity of outcrops because of ice cover, difficulty of access and extreme weather, the past 50 years of Japanese Antarctic Research Expeditions (JARE) has successfully revealed vital elements of the geology of East Antarctica. This volume presents reviews and new research from localities across East Antarctica, especially from Dronning Maud Land to Enderby Land, where the geological record preserves a history that spans the Archaean and Proterozoic. The reviews include extensive bibliographies of results obtained by geologists who participated in the JARE. Comprehensive geological, petrological and geochemical studies, form a platform for future research on the formation and dispersion of Rodinia in the Mesoproterozoic and subsequent assembly of Gondwana in the Neoproterozoic to Early Palaeozoic.

Description / Table of Contents: For thousands of years, religious ideas have shaped the thoughts and actions of human beings. Many of the early geological concepts were initially developed within this context. The long-standing relationship between geology and religious thought, which has been sometimes indifferent, sometimes fruitful and sometimes full of conflict, is discussed from a historical point of view. This relationship continues into the present. Although Christian fundamentalists attack evolution and related palaeontological findings as well as the geological evidence for the age of the Earth, mainstream theologians strive for a fruitful dialogue between science and religion. Much of what is written and discussed today can only be understood within the historical perspective. This book considers the development of geology from mythological approaches towards the European Enlightenment, biblical or geological Flood and the age of the Earth, geology within ‘religious’ organizations, biographical case studies of geological clerics and religious geologists, religion and evolution, and historical aspects of creationism and its motives.

Description / Table of Contents: Volcanoes become active when fluids are in motion, and erupt when these fluids escape into the atmosphere. Volcanic fluids are a mixture of solid, liquid and gas. These mixtures result in a complex range of flow behaviour, especially during interaction with conduit geometry. These processes are not directly observable and must be inferred from interpretations of field observation and measurement. One of the outcomes of this complexity is the generation of pressure and force transients as high-density phases accelerate and decelerate during unsteady flow. These transients are one means of flexing the conduit wall, a process that manifests itself as ground motion and is detectable as volcano seismic signals. On eruption, volcanic fluids interact with the atmosphere and generate acoustic and thermal signals. In this Special Publication we present a series of papers based on field, numerical and experimental approaches that seek to establish links between geophysical signals and fluid motion in volcanic conduits.

Description / Table of Contents: Increasingly, researchers have reported that passive margins do not show a simple uninterrupted thermal sag pattern of post-rift subsidence following continental separation. Rather, the structural and stratigraphic development of such margins may record evidence of complex phases of differential subsidence, exhumation and fold development. Some of the fold structures observed on passive continental margins appear to be related to regional stresses transmitted through basement rocks, whereas others are related to gravitational sliding and toe-thrusting. This special publication concentrates on the first of these categories. The morphology and distribution of such folds, together with potential mechanisms for generation of regional stress, are described in a series of papers by authorities in the field. As well as being an enigmatic feature of passive margin geology, the compressive folds have significance in the exploration for petroleum.

Description / Table of Contents: This collection of papers addresses the issues surrounding communication of environmental geoscience. Geologists whose research deals with environmental problems such as landslides, floods, earthquakes and other natural hazards that affect people's health and safety, must communicate their results effectively to the public, policy makers and politicians. There are many examples of geological studies being ignored in policy and public action; this is in due in part to geoscientists being poor communicators. These papers document issues in communicating environmental geoscience, outline successes and failures through case studies, describe ways in which geoscientists can improve communication skills and show how new methods can make communication more effective.

Description / Table of Contents: During the past decade, work on cool water carbonates has expanded to become a mainstream research area. Studies on modern and Quaternary deposits will continue to be important; however, there is increasing momentum towards unravelling sediment processes, biota-sediment interactions and diagenetic products in Cenozoic and older cool-water carbonates. Many contributions in this book document Cenozoic and Quaternary carbonates from landlocked (microtidal) water-bodies. These carbonates display important differences in biota and fabric distributions when compared with world ocean examples. Consequently, the scientific community is now better placed to reinterpret pre-Tertiary carbonates where there is a suspicion that they have developed under microtidal conditions. Some papers in the book provide new approaches to interpreting environmental change within macrotidal regimes and others lay firm foundations for future cool-water carbonate diagenetic research. The aim of the book is to illustrate recent international contributions to cool-water carbonates research, with an emphasis on Neogene and Recent case studies. Contributions are divided into three sections: microtidal carbonates from the Mediterranean realm; macrotidal examples from New Zealand, Australia and Mexico; and early diagenetic fabrics.

Description / Table of Contents: Twenty-four years have elapsed since the publication of Halbouty’s AAPG Memoir of 1982, The Deliberate Search for the Subtle Trap. Since then, the technologies employed in hydrocarbon exploration have become extraordinarily sophisticated, yet current exploration for stratigraphic traps is to some extent restricted to areas where seismic data simplifies exploration by allowing direct inference of fluid fill and reservoir development. This Special Publication draws upon contributions that examine current industry perceptions of stratigraphic trap exploration and the technologies, tools and philosophies employed in such exploration, given the changing industry environment. This book contains a collection of papers examining a number of themes related to exploration for stratigraphic traps, ranging from play and risk assessment, through regional assessments of stratigraphic trapping potential, specific exploration programmes targeted at stratigraphic traps to specific working traps and plays where stratigraphic trapping is prevalent.

Description / Table of Contents: The Neuquén Basin of northern Patagonia provides an excellent case study in basin analysis and sequence stratigraphy. The basin is one of the largest petroleum provinces in South America and includes a dramatic record of relative sea-level changes as well as a unique and globally important palaeontological record. Understanding this region is also central to unravelling the history of the Andes. The latest developments in the study of the area have been combined in this volume to give an integrated series of case studies that document the structural, igneous, sedimentological and palaeontological history of the region from the Triassic to the Recent. This publication provides an introduction into this fascinating region as well as a resource that includes the most complete and up-to-date studies of the area.

Description / Table of Contents: Alluvial fans: geomorphology, sedimentology, dynamics — introduction. A review of alluvial-fan research / Adrian M. Harvey, Anne E. Mather and Martin Stokes / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 251, 1-7, 1 January 2005, https://doi.org/10.1144/GSL.SP.2005.251.01.01 --- Flow events on a hyper-arid alluvial fan: Quebrada Tambores, Salar de Atacama, northern Chile / Anne E. Mather and Adrian Hartley / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 251, 9-24, 1 January 2005, https://doi.org/10.1144/GSL.SP.2005.251.01.02 --- Fans with forests: contemporary hydrogeomorphic processes on fans with forests in west central British Columbia, Canada / D. J. Wilford, M. E. Sakals, J. L. Innes and R. C. Sidle / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 251, 25-40, 1 January 2005, https://doi.org/10.1144/GSL.SP.2005.251.01.03 --- The fluvial megafan of Abarkoh Basin (Central Iran): an example of flash-flood sedimentation in arid lands / Nasser Arzani / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 251, 41-59, 1 January 2005, https://doi.org/10.1144/GSL.SP.2005.251.01.04 --- Climate and tectonically controlled river style changes on the Sajó-Hernád alluvial fan (Hungary) / Gyula Gábris and Balázs Nagy / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 251, 61-67, 1 January 2005, https://doi.org/10.1144/GSL.SP.2005.251.01.05 --- Quaternary telescopic-like alluvial fans, Andean Ranges, Argentina / F. Colombo / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 251, 69-84, 1 January 2005, https://doi.org/10.1144/GSL.SP.2005.251.01.06 --- Morphometry and depositional style of Late Pleistocene alluvial fans: Wadi Al-Bih, northern UAE and Oman / Asma Al-Farraj and Adrian M. Harvey / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 251, 85-94, 1 January 2005, https://doi.org/10.1144/GSL.SP.2005.251.01.07 --- Climatic controls on alluvial-fan activity, Coastal Cordillera, northern Chile / Adrian J. Hartley, Anne E. Mather, Elizabeth Jolley and Peter Turner / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 251, 95-116, 1 January 2005, https://doi.org/10.1144/GSL.SP.2005.251.01.08 --- Differential effects of base-level, tectonic setting and climatic change on Quaternary alluvial fans in the northern Great Basin, Nevada, USA / Adrian M. Harvey / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 251, 117-131, 1 January 2005, https://doi.org/10.1144/GSL.SP.2005.251.01.09 --- Reconciling the roles of climate and tectonics in Late Quaternary fan development on the Spartan piedmont, Greece / Richard J.J. Pope and Keith N. Wilkinson / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 251, 133-152, 1 January 2005, https://doi.org/10.1144/GSL.SP.2005.251.01.10 --- Luminescence dating of alluvial fans in intramontane basins of NW Argentina / R. A. J. Robinson, J. Q. G. Spencer, M. R. Strecker, A. Richter and R. N. Alonso / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 251, 153-168, 1 January 2005, https://doi.org/10.1144/GSL.SP.2005.251.01.11 --- Factors controlling sequence development on Quaternary fluvial fans, San Joaquin Basin, California, USA / G. S. Weissmann, G. L. Bennett and A. L. Lansdale / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 251, 169-186, 1 January 2005, https://doi.org/10.1144/GSL.SP.2005.251.01.12 --- Tertiary alluvial fans at the northern margin of the Ebro Basin: a review / Gary Nichols / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 251, 187-206, 1 January 2005, https://doi.org/10.1144/GSL.SP.2005.251.01.13 --- Source area and tectonic control on alluvial-fan development in the Miocene Fohnsdorf intramontane basin, Austria / Michael Wagreich and Philipp E. Strauss / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 251, 207-216, 1 January 2005, https://doi.org/10.1144/GSL.SP.2005.251.01.14 --- Upper Cretaceous-Palaeocene basin-margin alluvial fans documenting interaction between tectonic and environmental processes (Provence, SE France) / S. Leleu, J.-F. Ghienne and G. Manatschal / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 251, 217-239, 1 January 2005, https://doi.org/10.1144/GSL.SP.2005.251.01.15

Description / Table of Contents: Analogue and Numerical Sandbox Models --- Analogue benchmarks of shortening and extension experiments / Guido Schreurs, Susanne J. H. Buiter, David Boutelier, Giacomo Corti, Elisabetta Costa, Alexander R. Cruden, Jean-Marc Daniel, Silvan Hoth, Hemin A. Koyi, Nina Kukowski, Jo Lohrmann, Antonio Ravaglia, Roy W. Schlische, Martha Oliver Withjack, Yasuhiro Yamada, Cristian Cavozzi, Chiara Del Ventisette, Jennifer A. Elder Brady, Arne Hoffmann-Rothe, Jean-Marie Mengus, Domenico Montanari and Faramarz Nilforoushan / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 253, 1-27, 1 January 2006, https://doi.org/10.1144/GSL.SP.2006.253.01.01 --- The numerical sandbox: comparison of model results for a shortening and an extension experiment / Susanne J. H. Buiter, Andrey Yu. Babeyko, Susan Ellis, Taras V. Gerya, Boris J. P. Kaus, Antje Kellner, Guido Schreurs and Yasuhiro Yamada / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 253, 29-64, 1 January 2006, https://doi.org/10.1144/GSL.SP.2006.253.01.02 --- Models of Orogenic Processes --- Interaction between normal faults and pre-existing thrust systems in analogue models / Giacomo Corti, Serena Lucia, Marco Bonini, Federico Sani and Francesco Mazzarini / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 253, 65-78, 1 January 2006, https://doi.org/10.1144/GSL.SP.2006.253.01.03 --- Surface topography and internal strain variation in wide hot orogens from three-dimensional analogue and two-dimensional numerical vice models / Alexander R. Cruden, Mohammad H. B. Nasseri and Russell Pysklywec / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 253, 79-104, 1 January 2006, https://doi.org/10.1144/GSL.SP.2006.253.01.04 --- Relative importance of trenchward upper plate motion and friction along the plate interface for the topographic evolution of subduction-related mountain belts / Andrea Hampel and Adrian Pfiffner / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 253, 105-115, 1 January 2006, https://doi.org/10.1144/GSL.SP.2006.253.01.05 --- Deformation transfer in viscous detachments: comparison of sandbox models to the South Pyrenean Triangle Zone / Hemin A. Koyi and Maura Sans / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 253, 117-134, 1 January 2006, https://doi.org/10.1144/GSL.SP.2006.253.01.06 --- Analogue modelling of a reactivated, basement controlled strike-slip zone, Sierra de Albarracín, Spain: application of sandbox modelling to polyphase deformation / S. Merten, W. G. Smit, D. A. Nieuwland and H. E. Rondeel / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 253, 135-152, 1 January 2006, https://doi.org/10.1144/GSL.SP.2006.253.01.07 --- Lithospheric scale gravitational flow: the impact of body forces on orogenic processes from Archaean to Phanerozoic / Patrice F. Rey and Gregory Houseman / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 253, 153-167, 1 January 2006, https://doi.org/10.1144/GSL.SP.2006.253.01.08 --- Analogue and numerical modelling of accretionary prisms with a décollement in sediments / Yasuhiro Yamada, Kei Baba and Toshifumi Matsuoka / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 253, 169-183, 1 January 2006, https://doi.org/10.1144/GSL.SP.2006.253.01.09 --- Models of Sedimentary Basins --- Integrated four-dimensional modelling of sedimentary basin architecture and hydrocarbon migration / S. M. Clarke, S. D. Burley, G. D. Williams, A. J. Richards, D. J. Meredith and S. S. Egan / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 253, 185-211, 1 January 2006, https://doi.org/10.1144/GSL.SP.2006.253.01.10 --- Rifting through a heterogeneous crust: insights from analogue models and application to the Gulf of Corinth / L. Mattioni, L. Le Pourhiet and I. Moretti / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 253, 213-231, 1 January 2006, https://doi.org/10.1144/GSL.SP.2006.253.01.11 --- 3D modelling of rifting through a pre-existing stack of nappes in the Gulf of Corinth (Greece): a mixed analogue/numerical approach / L. Le Pourhiet, L. Mattioni and I. Moretti / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 253, 233-252, 1 January 2006, https://doi.org/10.1144/GSL.SP.2006.253.01.12 --- Inversion of a symmetric basin: insights from a comparison between analogue and numerical experiments / M. Panien, S. J. H. Buiter, G. Schreurs and O. A. Pfiffner / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 253, 253-270, 1 January 2006, https://doi.org/10.1144/GSL.SP.2006.253.01.13 --- Lower crustal rheological expression in inverted basins / Mike Sandiford, David L. Hansen and Sandra N. McLaren / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 253, 271-283, 1 January 2006, https://doi.org/10.1144/GSL.SP.2006.253.01.14 --- Geometric and experimental models of extensional fault-bend folds / Martha O. Withjack and Roy W. Schlische / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 253, 285-305, 1 January 2006, https://doi.org/10.1144/GSL.SP.2006.253.01.15 --- Models of Surface Processes and Deformation --- Recent advances and current problems in modelling surface processes and their interaction with crustal deformation / Jean Braun / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 253, 307-325, 1 January 2006, https://doi.org/10.1144/GSL.SP.2006.253.01.16 --- Macroscale dynamics of experimental landscapes / Stephane Bonnet and Alain Crave / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 253, 327-339, 1 January 2006, https://doi.org/10.1144/GSL.SP.2006.253.01.17 --- Numerical modelling of erosion processes in the Himalayas of Nepal: effects of spatial variations of rock strength and precipitation / V. Godard, J. Lavé and R. Cattin / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 253, 341-358, 1 January 2006, https://doi.org/10.1144/GSL.SP.2006.253.01.18 --- Models of Faults and Fluid Flow --- Effects of compaction processes on stresses, faults, and fluid flow in sedimentary basins: examples from the Norwegian margin / Knut Bjørlykke / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 253, 359-379, 1 January 2006, https://doi.org/10.1144/GSL.SP.2006.253.01.19 --- Multiple faults in ductile simple shear: analogue models of flanking structure systems / Ulrike Exner, Bernhard Grasemann and Neil S. Mancktelow / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 253, 381-395, 1 January 2006, https://doi.org/10.1144/GSL.SP.2006.253.01.20 --- Using an elastic dislocation model to investigate static Coulomb stress change scenarios for earthquake ruptures in the eastern Marmara Sea region, Turkey / Jordan R. Muller, Atilla Aydin and Tim J. Wright / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 253, 397-414, 1 January 2006, https://doi.org/10.1144/GSL.SP.2006.253.01.21 --- Oil reservoirs in foreland basins charged by thrustbelt source rocks: insights from numerical stress modelling and geometric balancing in the West Carpathians / Michal Nemčok and Andreas Henk / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 253, 415-428, 1 January 2006, https://doi.org/10.1144/GSL.SP.2006.253.01.22 --- Relation between effective friction and fault slip rate across the Northern San Andreas fault system / Ann-Sophie Provost and Jean Chéry / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 253, 429-436, 1 January 2006, https://doi.org/10.1144/GSL.SP.2006.253.01.23

Description / Table of Contents: The Australide orogen, the southern hemisphere Neoproterozoic to Mesozoic terrane accretionary orogen that forms the palaeo-Pacific margin of Gondwana, is one of the largest and longest-lived orogens on Earth. This book brings together a series of reviews and multidisciplinary research papers that comprehensively cover the Australides from the Tasman orogen of eastern Australia to the Neoproterozoic and Palaeozoic orogens of South America, taking in New Zealand and Antarctica along the way. It deals with the evolution of the southern Gondwana margin, as it grew during a series of terrane accretion episodes from the late Proterozoic through to final fragmentation in mid-Cretaceous times. global perspectives are given by comparison with the Palaeozoic northern Gondwana margin and documentation of world-wide terrane accretion episodes in the Late Triassic-Early Jurassic and mid-Cretaceous. The Tasmanides of eastern Australia, and the terrane histories of New Zealand and souther South America are given comprehensive up-to-date reviews.

Description / Table of Contents: The introduction of the term periglacial by Łoziński in 1909 to describe the cold-climate conditions in the zone adjacent to, but beyond, the Pleistocene glaciers encouraged the separate development of geocryological and glaciological research. Geological and geomorphological processes at the interface between glaciers and permafrost have, as a result, been given less attention than they warrant, and the influence of one on the other has in many respects been neglected. This book includes a collection of papers that emphasize glacier-permafrost interactions. Papers consider permafrost and its influence on glacitectonic processes, glacial meltwater systems and ground-ice development in proglacial and ice-marginal environments. In addition, recent research findings are reported on paraglacial processes, permafrost evolution, rock glaciers, the formation of ice-wedge casts and periglacial slope evolution. It is hoped that this book will stimulate interest in the interface between glacial and periglacial systems, and encourage further collaborative research involving glaciologists and glacial geologists on the one hand, and geocryologists and permafrost scientists on the other.

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.

Description / Table of Contents: The continental crust is our archive of Earth history, and the store of many natural resources; however, many key questions about its formation and evolution remain debated and unresolved: - What processes are involved in the formation, differentiation and evolution of continental crust, and how have these changed throughout Earth history? - How are plate tectonics, the supercontinent cycle and mantle cooling linked with crustal evolution? - What are the rates of generation and destruction of the continental crust through time? - How representative is the preserved geological record? A range of approaches are used to address these questions, including field-based studies, petrology and geochemistry, geophysical methods, palaeomagnetism, whole-rock and accessory-phase isotope chemistry and geochronology. Case studies range from the Eoarchaean to Phanerozoic, and cover many different cratons and orogenic belts from across the continents.

Description / Table of Contents: Volcanism and tectonism are the dominant endogenic means by which planetary surfaces change. This book aims to encompass the broad range in character of volcanism, tectonism, faulting and associated interactions observed on planetary bodies across the inner solar system - a region that includes Mercury, Venus, Earth, the Moon, Mars and asteroids. The diversity and breadth of landforms produced by volcanic and tectonic processes is enormous, and varies across the inner solar system bodies. As a result, the selection of prevailing landforms and their underlying formational processes that are described and highlighted in this volume are but a primer to the expansive field of planetary volcanism and tectonism. This Special Publication features 22 research articles about volcanic and tectonic processes manifest across the inner solar system.

Description / Table of Contents: Ore deposits form by a variety of natural processes that concentrate elements into a volume that can be economically mined. Their type, character and abundance reflect the environment in which they formed and thus they preserve key evidence for the evolution of magmatic and tectonic processes, the state of the atmosphere and hydrosphere, and the evolution of life over geological time. This volume presents 13 papers on topical subjects in ore deposit research viewed in the context of Earth evolution. These diverse, yet interlinked, papers cover topics including: controls on the temporal and spatial distribution of ore deposits; the sources of fluid, gold and other components of orogenic gold deposits; the degree of oxygenation in the Neoproterozoic ocean; bacterial immobilization of gold in the semi-arid near-surface environment; and mineral resources for the future, including issues of resource estimation, sustainability of supply and the criticality of certain elements to society.

Description / Table of Contents: The superposition of stratified rocks is an unmistakable manifestation of the history of sedimentary processes through deep time. However, the relationship between the preserved strata of the rock record and the passage of geological time, indisputable in principle, is unknowable in detail; incompleteness is an essential property of the record. That gaps exist at all scales in sedimentary successions is easily demonstrated from consideration of sediment accumulation rates, and expectations of continuity and completeness at any scale are correspondingly inadvisable. Locating and quantifying the gaps in the record is, however, very much less straightforward. Predictive modelling of strata – essential for their practical exploitation – requires such geohistorical understanding, yet over-simplified assumptions about how time is represented in rock can still lead to inadequate or even false conclusions. The contributions to this volume describe a range of practical studies, theoretical investigations, and numerical experiments in which the nature of the strata–time relationship is explored.

Description / Table of Contents: This volume highlights key challenges for fluid-flow prediction in carbonate reservoirs, the approaches currently employed to address these challenges and developments in fundamental science and technology. The papers span methods and case studies that highlight workflows and emerging technologies in the fields of geology, geophysics, petrophysics, reservoir modelling and computer science. Topics include: detailed pore-scale studies that explore fundamental processes and applications of imaging and flow modelling at the pore scale; case studies of diagenetic processes with complementary perspectives from reactive transport modelling; novel methods for rock typing; petrophysical studies that investigate the impact of diagenesis and fault-rock properties on acoustic signatures; mechanical modelling and seismic imaging of faults in carbonate rocks; modelling geological influences on seismic anisotropy; novel approaches to geological modelling; methods to represent key geological details in reservoir simulations and advances in computer visualization, analytics and interactions for geoscience and engineering.

Description / Table of Contents: The discipline of Integrated Environmental Modelling (IEM) has developed in order to solve complex environmental problems, for example understanding the impacts of climate change on the physical environment. IEM provides methods to fuse or link models together, this in turn requires facilities to make models discoverable and also to make the outputs of modelling easily visualized. The vision and challenges for IEM going forward are summarized by leading proponents. Several case studies describe the application of model fusion to a range of real-world problems including integrating groundwater and recharge models within the UK Environment Agency, and the development of ‘catastrophe’ models to predict better the impact of natural hazards. Communicating modelling results to end users who are often not specialist modellers is also an emerging area of research addressed within the volume. Also included are papers that highlight current developments of the technology platforms underpinning model fusion.

Description / Table of Contents: Palaeomagnetism is a technique used to understand complex deformation patterns in fold-and-thrust belts; it can be used to characterize the distribution, magnitude and timing of vertical axis rotations, an elusive variable using other methods. A combination of palaeomagnetic and structural geology analyses has helped to unravel the geometry and kinematics of fold-and-thrust belts around the world and of different geological ages for more than 50 years. This volume comprises three sections: the first shows thorough overviews of western Mediterranean arcs and the western Carpathians; the second depicts several examples from the Andes, the Alps, Anatolia, Pyrenees, Iberian Ranges and the Atlas; and the third shows the latest research on the use of palaeomagnetism to understand fold-and-thrust belts in 3D and 4D in a more quantitative way and it also includes some methodological proposals to avoid common errors. In the papers of the first two sections, the combination of palaeomagnetic analyses with structural data, AMS or magnetostratigraphic analyses demonstrate the usefulness of palaeomagnetism in deciphering complex deformation patterns in fold-and-thrust belts.

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

Description / Table of Contents: Geomaterials derived from the Earth's crust and used in construction after appropriate processing are among the earliest raw materials exploited, processed and used by humans. Their numerous functional properties include accessibility, workability and serviceability, and these are explored within this volume. In modern society, sustainable use of raw materials, specifically those exploited in large volumes such as geomaterials for construction, raises questions of reducing extraction of primary resources and thus minimizing impacts on natural systems, and also employment of materials and technologies to lower emissions of deleterious substances into the atmosphere. This will be possible only if we fully understand the properties, processing and mode of use of traditional geomaterials. Although most of the papers within this volume were written by geologists, the contributions will also be of interest to those working in cultural heritage, monument conservation, civil engineering and architecture.

Description / Table of Contents: Introduction and bibliography / Mike Smith, Zerina Johanson, Paul M. Barrett and M. Richter / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 430, 1-29, 25 November 2015, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP430.19 --- Smith Woodward's life and work: historical background --- ‘A Splendid Position’: The life, achievements and contradictions of Sir Arthur Smith Woodward 1864–1944 / Karolyn Shindler and Mike Smith / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 430, 31-62, 20 October 2015, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP430.10 --- The Natural History Museum Fossil Fish Collection: Smith Woodward’s role in the development and use of this priceless resource / Mike Smith / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 430, 63-85, 27 October 2015, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP430.17 --- Arthur Smith Woodward's fossil fish type specimens / Emma Louise Bernard and Mike Smith / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 430, 87-88, 21 October 2015, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP430.14 --- Lady Smith Woodward's tablecloth / Angela C. Milner / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 430, 89-111, 22 October 2015, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP430.5 --- Lady Smith Woodward's memories: introduction / Mike Smith and Karolyn Shindler / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 430, 113-114, 20 October 2015, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP430.11 --- Smith Woodward's scientific legacy --- Smith Woodward's ideas on fish classification / Peter L. Forey / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 430, 115-127, 19 October 2015, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP430.1 --- Sclerorhynchus atavus and the convergent evolution of rostrum-bearing chondrichthyans / Charlie Underwood, Moya Meredith Smith and Zerina Johanson / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 430, 129-136, 14 October 2015, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP430.7 --- Cochliodonts and chimaeroids: Arthur Smith Woodward and the holocephalians / Christopher J. Duffin / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 430, 137-154, 14 October 2015, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP430.9 --- Development of understanding of the Mesozoic and Cenozoic chondrichthyan fossil record / Charlie Underwood, David Ward and Guillaume Guinot / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 430, 155-164, 14 October 2015, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP430.4 --- The English Chalk and London Clay: two remarkable British bony fish Lagerstätten / Matt Friedman, Hermione T. Beckett, Roger A. Close and Zerina Johanson / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 430, 165-200, 23 November 2015, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP430.18 --- The contribution of Sir Arthur Smith Woodward to the palaeoichthyology of Brazil – Smith Woodward's types from Brazil / Paulo M. Brito and Martha Richter / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 430, 201-217, 14 October 2015, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP430.12 --- Mr Mawson's fossils / John G. Maisey / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 430, 219-233, 15 October 2015, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP430.2 --- Leedsichthys problematicus: Arthur Smith Woodward's ‘most embarrassing enigma' / J. J. Liston / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 430, 235-259, 15 October 2015, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP430.8 --- The Woodward factor: Arthur Smith Woodward's legacy to geology in Australia and Antarctica / Susan Turner and John Long / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 430, 261-288, 28 October 2015, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP430.15 --- Smith Woodward's contributions on fossil tetrapods / Angela C. Milner and Paul M. Barrett / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 430, 289-309, 27 October 2015, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP430.13 --- Arthur Smith Woodward, Florentino Ameghino and the first Jurassic ‘Sea Crocodile’ from South America / Lorna Steel and Eric Buffetaut / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 430, 311-319, 20 October 2015, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP430.6 --- Arthur Smith Woodward and his involvement in the study of human evolution / Christopher Dean, Isabelle De Groote and Chris Stringer / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 430, 321-335, 20 October 2015, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP430.3 --- The one that got away from Smith Woodward: cranial anatomy of Micrornatus (Acanthomorpha: Scombridae) revealed using computed microtomography / Hermione T. Beckett and Matt Friedman / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 430, 337-353, 5 November 2015, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP430.16

Description / Table of Contents: The mountains of the Mediterranean world are now largely ice free, but many were repeatedly glaciated during the Quaternary ice age. This created spectacular glaciated landscapes with a rich array of glacial deposits and landforms. The glacial and glacio-fluvial records are often very well preserved and our understanding of the timing of Quaternary glaciation has very recently been transformed through the application of dating methods utilizing uranium-series and cosmogenic isotopes. Glacial records from the Mediterranean now boast some of the most robust chronologies for mountain glaciation anywhere in the world – they represent a unique archive of Quaternary environmental change of global significance. The southerly latitude and relatively small size of Mediterranean glaciers rendered them especially sensitive to Pleistocene and Holocene climate changes. This volume brings together the leading researchers and the latest research on Mediterranean glaciation. Several papers also explore glacier behaviour in the Holocene – including those glaciers of southernmost Europe at risk of disappearing this century.

Description / Table of Contents: Active tectonics, earthquakes and palaeoseismicity in slowly deforming continents / Angela Landgraf, Simon Kübler, Esther Hintersberger and Seth Stein / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 432, 1-12, 20 September 2016, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP432.13 --- Seismology and Hazard --- Challenges in assessing seismic hazard in intraplate Europe / Seth Stein, Mian Liu, Thierry Camelbeeck, Miguel Merino, Angela Landgraf, Esther Hintersberger and Simon Kübler / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 432, 13-28, 4 November 2015, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP432.7 --- The largest expected earthquake magnitudes in Central Asia: statistical inference from an earthquake catalogue with uncertain magnitudes / Gert Zöller, Shahid Ullah, Dino Bindi, Stefano Parolai and Natalya Mikhailova / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 432, 29-40, 4 November 2015, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP432.3 --- Instrumental magnitude constraints for the 11 July 1889, Chilik earthquake / Frank Krüger, Galina Kulikova and Angela Landgraf / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 432, 41-72, 20 November 2015, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP432.8 --- Intraplate seismicity in mid-plate South America: correlations with geophysical lithospheric parameters / Hans Agurto-Detzel, Marcelo Assumpção, Marcelo Bianchi and Marlon Pirchiner / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 432, 73-90, 2 November 2015, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP432.5 --- Groundwater recharge as the trigger of naturally occurring intraplate earthquakes / John K. Costain / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 432, 91-118, 12 April 2016, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP432.9 --- Earthquake Geology --- Views on the dialectics between seismology and palaeoseismology with examples from southern Scandinavia / Nils-Axel Mörner / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 432, 119-126, 29 October 2015, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP432.1 --- Active faulting in a populated low-strain setting (Lower Rhine Graben, Central Europe) identified by geomorphic, geophysical and geological analysis / S. Kübler, R. Streich, E. Lück, M. Hoffmann, A. M. Friedrich and M. R. Strecker / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 432, 127-146, 4 August 2016, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP432.11 --- Seismic slip on the west flank of the Upper Rhine Graben (France–Germany): evidence from tectonic morphology and cataclastic deformation bands / Zoe K. Shipton, Mustapha Meghraoui and Louise Monro / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 432, 147-161, 16 September 2016, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP432.12 --- The Cadell Fault, southeastern Australia: a record of temporally clustered morphogenic seismicity in a low-strain intraplate region / D. Clark, A. McPherson, M. Cupper, C. D. N. Collins and G. Nelson / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 432, 163-185, 18 November 2015, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP432.2 --- The Egiin Davaa prehistoric rupture, central Mongolia: a large magnitude normal faulting earthquake on a reactivated fault with little cumulative slip located in a slowly deforming intraplate setting / R. T. Walker, K. W. Wegmann, A. Bayasgalan, R. J. Carson, J. Elliott, M. Fox, E. Nissen, R. A. Sloan, J. M. Williams and E. Wright / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 432, 187-212, 18 November 2015, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP432.4 --- Seismites as indicators for Holocene seismicity in the northeastern Ejina Basin, Inner Mongolia / Andreas Rudersdorf, Kai Hartmann, Kaifeng Yu, Georg Stauch and Klaus Reicherter / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 432, 213-231, 29 October 2015, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP432.6 --- Surface rupture of the 1911 Kebin (Chon–Kemin) earthquake, Northern Tien Shan, Kyrgyzstan / J. Ramón Arrowsmith, Christopher J. Crosby, Andrey M. Korzhenkov, Ernest Mamyrov, Irina Povolotskaya, Benny Guralnik and Angela Landgraf / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 432, 233-253, 20 July 2016, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP432.10

Description / Table of Contents: Corentin Caudron, Takeshi Ohba, and Bruno Capaccioni: Geochemistry and geophysics of active volcanic lakes: an introduction / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 437:1-8, first published on April 20, 2017, doi:10.1144/SP437.18 --- Acidic lakes --- Vincent van Hinsberg, Nathalie Vigouroux, Stephanie Palmer, Kim Berlo, Guillaume Mauri, Anthony Williams-Jones, Jeffrey Mckenzie, Glyn Williams-Jones, and Tobias Fischer: Element flux to the environment of the passively degassing crater lake-hosting Kawah Ijen volcano, Indonesia, and implications for estimates of the global volcanic flux / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 437:9-34, first published on December 17, 2015, doi:10.1144/SP437.2 --- Hendra Gunawan, Corentin Caudron, John Pallister, Sofyan Primulyana, Bruce Christenson, Wendy Mccausland, Vincent van Hinsberg, Jennifer Lewicki, Dmitri Rouwet, Peter Kelly, Christoph Kern, Cynthia Werner, Jeffrey B. Johnson, Sri Budi Utami, Devy Kamil Syahbana, Ugan Saing, Suparjan, Bambang Heri Purwanto, Christine Sealing, Maria Martinez Cruz, Sukir Maryanto, Philipson Bani, Antoine Laurin, Agathe Schmid, Kyle Bradley, I Gusti Made Agung Nandaka, and Mochammad Hendrasto: New insights into Kawah Ijen's volcanic system from the wet volcano workshop experiment / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 437:35-56, first published on February 25, 2016, doi:10.1144/SP437.7 --- Corentin Caudron, Guillaume Mauri, Glyn Williams-Jones, Thomas Lecocq, Devy Kamil Syahbana, Raphael De Plaen, Loic Peiffer, Alain Bernard, and Ginette Saracco: New insights into the Kawah Ijen hydrothermal system from geophysical data / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 437:57-72, first published on January 22, 2016, doi:10.1144/SP437.4 --- Dmitri Rouwet, Raúl Mora-Amador, Carlos J. Ramírez-Umaña, Gino González, and Salvatore Inguaggiato: Dynamic fluid recycling at Laguna Caliente (Poás, Costa Rica) before and during the 2006–ongoing phreatic eruption cycle (2005–10) / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 437:73-96, first published on March 24, 2016, doi:10.1144/SP437.11 --- B. Capaccioni, D. Rouwet, and F. Tassi: HCl degassing from extremely acidic crater lakes: preliminary results from experimental determinations and implications for geochemical monitoring / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 437:97-106, first published on March 24, 2016, doi:10.1144/SP437.12 --- Mariano R. Agusto, Alberto Caselli, Romina Daga, Johan Varekamp, Alcira Trinelli, María Dos Santos Afonso, María Laura Velez, Pablo Euillades, and Sergio Ribeiro Guevara: The crater lake of Copahue volcano (Argentina): geochemical and thermal changes between 1995 and 2015 / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 437:107-130, first published on December 23, 2016, doi:10.1144/SP437.16 --- Pedro A. Hernández, Gladys V. Melián, Luis Somoza, Mª Carmencita Arpa, Nemesio M. Pérez, Ericson Bariso, Hirochicka Sumino, Eleazar Padrón, Johan C. Varekamp, José Albert-Beltran, and Renato Solidum: The acid crater lake of Taal Volcano, Philippines: hydrogeochemical and hydroacoustic data related to the 2010–11 volcanic unrest / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 437:131-152, first published on February 2, 2017, doi:10.1144/SP437.17 --- D. Rouwet and M. Iorio: The sedimentation of Suminagashi-like floating clay patterns at El Chichón crater lake (Chiapas, Mexico) / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 437:153-161, first published on February 4, 2016, doi:10.1144/SP437.9 --- Neutral lakes --- Tomofumi Kozono, Minoru Kusakabe, Yutaka Yoshida, Romaric Ntchantcho, Takeshi Ohba, Gregory Tanyileke, and Joseph V. Hell: Numerical assessment of the potential for future limnic eruptions at lakes Nyos and Monoun, Cameroon, based on regular monitoring data / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 437:163-175, first published on January 19, 2016, doi:10.1144/SP437.8 --- T. Ohba, S. Ooki, Y. Oginuma, M. Kusakabe, Y. Yoshida, A. Ueda, K. Anazawa, K. Saiki, K. Kaneko, Y. Miyabuchi, Issa, F. Aka, W. Fantong, A. Ako, G. Tanyileke, and J.V. Hell: Decreasing removal rate of the dissolved CO2 in Lake Nyos, Cameroon, after the installation of additional degassing pipes / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 437:177-184, first published on December 23, 2015, doi:10.1144/SP437.6 --- Kazuto Saiki, Katsuya Kaneko, Takeshi Ohba, Mitsuhisa Sanemasa, Minoru Kusakabe, Romaric Ntchantcho, Alain Fouepe, Gregory Tanyileke, and Joseph V. Hell: Vertical distribution of dissolved CO2 in lakes Nyos and Monoun (Cameroon) as estimated by sound speed in water / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 437:185-192, first published on February 18, 2016, doi:10.1144/SP437.10 --- Mitsuhisa Sanemasa, Kazuto Saiki, Katsuya Kaneko, Takeshi Ohba, Minoru Kusakabe, Romaric Ntchantcho, Alain Fouepe, Gregory Tanyileke, and Joseph V. Hell: A new method to determine dissolved CO2 concentration of lakes Nyos and Monoun using the sound speed and electrical conductivity of lake water / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 437:193-203, first published on December 23, 2015, doi:10.1144/SP437.5 --- Yutaka Yoshida, Minoru Kusakabe, Issa, Takeshi Ohba, Gregory Tanyileke, and Joseph Victor Hell: Decreasing capability of the degassing systems at lakes Nyos and Monoun (Cameroon): a new gas removal system applied to Lake Monoun to prevent a future limnic eruption / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 437:205-212, first published on December 17, 2015, doi:10.1144/SP437.3 --- Akiko Ozawa, Akira Ueda, Wilson Y. Fantong, Katsuro Anazawa, Yutaka Yoshida, Minoru Kusakabe, Takeshi Ohba, Greg Tanyileke, and Joseph V. Hell: Rate of siderite precipitation in Lake Nyos, Cameroon / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 437:213-222, first published on June 22, 2016, doi:10.1144/SP437.13 --- Martin Zimmer, Franco Tassi, Orlando Vaselli, Christian Kujawa, Jacopo Cabassi, and Joerg Erzinger: The gas membrane sensor (GMS) method: a new analytical approach for real-time gas concentration measurements in volcanic lakes / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 437:223-232, first published on December 17, 2015, doi:10.1144/SP437.1 --- Gladys Melián, Luís Somoza, Eleazar Padrón, Nemesio M. Pérez, Pedro A. Hernández, Hirochika Sumino, Victor H. Forjaz, and Zilda França: Surface CO2 emission and rising bubble plumes from degassing of crater lakes in São Miguel Island, Azores / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 437:233-252, first published on August 12, 2016, doi:10.1144/SP437.14 --- J. N. Lefkowitz, J. C. Varekamp, R. W. Reynolds, and E. Thomas: A tale of two lakes: the Newberry Volcano twin crater lakes, Oregon, USA / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 437:253-288, first published on November 25, 2016, doi:10.1144/SP437.15

Description / Table of Contents: Geology and geomorphology of alluvial and fluvial fans: current progress and research perspectives / Dario Ventra and Lucy E. Clarke / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 440, 1-21, 27 April 2018, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP440.16 --- Alluvial fans --- Interactions between alluvial fans and axial rivers in Yukon, Canada and Alaska, USA / Philip T. Giles, Bryce M. Whitehouse and Efthimios Karymbalis / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 440, 23-43, 10 February 2016, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP440.3 --- Use of morphometric variables and self-organizing maps to identify clusters of alluvial fans and catchments in the north Peloponnese, Greece / Efthimios Karymbalis, Maria Ferentinou and Philip T. Giles / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 440, 45-64, 25 February 2016, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP440.7 --- Spatial characteristics of the Pliocene to modern alluvial fan successions in the uplifted sedimentary basins of Almería, SE Spain: review and regional synthesis / Adrian M. Harvey, Martin Stokes, Anne Mather and Elizabeth Whitfield (née Maher) / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 440, 65-77, 5 February 2016, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP440.5 --- Constraints on synrift intrabasinal horst development from alluvial fan and aeolian deposits (Triassic, Fundy Basin, Nova Scotia) / Sophie Leleu and Adrian J. Hartley / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 440, 79-101, 29 April 2016, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP440.8 --- Bedrock structural control on catchment-scale connectivity and alluvial fan processes, High Atlas Mountains, Morocco / Anne E. Mather and Martin Stokes / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 440, 103-128, 9 October 2017, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP440.15 --- Orbital-climate control of mass-flow sedimentation in a Miocene alluvial-fan succession (Teruel Basin, Spain) / Dario Ventra, Hemmo A. Abels, Frederik J. Hilgen and Poppe L. de Boer / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 440, 129-157, 18 September 2017, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP440.14 --- High-resolution estimates of rates of depositional processes from an alluvial fan succession in the Miocene of the Ebro Basin, northern Spain / Gary Nichols / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 440, 159-173, 10 March 2017, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP440.12 --- Morphodynamics and facies architecture of streamflow-dominated, sand-rich alluvial fans, Pleistocene Upper Valdarno Basin, Italy / Massimiliano Ghinassi and Alessandro Ielpi / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 440, 175-200, 10 February 2016, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP440.1 --- Comparative numerical modelling of a debris-flow fan in the Eastern Italian Alps / Andrea M. Deganutti, Pia R. Tecca and Giuseppe Nigro / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 440, 201-213, 13 June 2017, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP440.13 --- Fluvial fans --- Alluvial fans and fluvial fans at the margins of continental sedimentary basins: geomorphic and sedimentological distinction for geo-energy exploration and development / A. Moscariello / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 440, 215-243, 26 April 2017, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP440.11 --- Upstream controls on evolution of dryland alluvial megafans: Quaternary examples from the Kohrud Mountain Range, central Iran / Nasser Arzani and Stuart J. Jones / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 440, 245-264, 11 July 2016, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP440.2 --- Linking mid-scale distributive fluvial systems to drainage basin area: geomorphological and sedimentological evidence from the endorheic Gastre Basin, Argentina / Andres Bilmes and Gonzalo D. Veiga / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 440, 265-279, 25 February 2016, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP440.4 --- Alluvial and fluvial fans on Saturn's moon Titan reveal processes, materials and regional geology / Jani Radebaugh, Dario Ventra, Ralph D. Lorenz, Tom Farr, Randy Kirk, Alex Hayes, Michael J. Malaska, Sam Birch, Zac Yung-Chun Liu, Jonathan Lunine, Jason Barnes, Alice Le Gall, Rosaly Lopes, Ellen Stofan, Steve Wall and Philippe Paillou / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 440, 281-305, 10 February 2016, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP440.6 --- Characteristics of the drainage network of the Kosi Megafan, India and its interaction with the August 2008 flood flow / D. Majumder and P. Ghosh / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 440, 307-326, 8 February 2017, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP440.9 --- Study of connectivity of open framework gravel facies in the Canterbury Plains aquifer using smoke as a tracer / Lee F. Burbery, Catherine R. Moore, Merren A. Jones, Phillip M. Abraham, Bronwyn L. Humphries and Murray E. Close / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 440, 327-344, 25 January 2017, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP440.10

Description / Table of Contents: I. E. M. Smith and K. Németh: Source to surface model of monogenetic volcanism: a critical review / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 446:1-28, first published on March 31, 2017, doi:10.1144/SP446.14 --- Volker Lorenz, Peter Suhr, and Stefan Suhr: Phreatomagmatic maar-diatreme volcanoes and their incremental growth: a model / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 446:29-59, first published on September 27, 2016, doi:10.1144/SP446.4 --- Karen G. Bemis and Margot Ferencz: Morphometric analysis of scoria cones: the potential for inferring process from shape / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 446:61-100, first published on January 17, 2017, doi:10.1144/SP446.9 --- Stephan Kurszlaukis and Volker Lorenz: Differences and similarities between emplacement models of kimberlite and basaltic maar-diatreme volcanoes / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 446:101-122, first published on October 5, 2016, doi:10.1144/SP446.5 --- R. A. F. Cas, J. van Otterloo, T. N. Blaikie, and J. van den Hove: The dynamics of a very large intra-plate continental basaltic volcanic province, the Newer Volcanics Province, SE Australia, and implications for other provinces / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 446:123-172, first published on November 7, 2016, doi:10.1144/SP446.8 --- H. Murcia, J. M. Lindsay, K. Németh, I. E. M. Smith, S. J. Cronin, M. R. H. Moufti, N. N. El-Masry, and S. Niedermann: Geology and geochemistry of Late Quaternary volcanism in northern Harrat Rahat, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia: implications for eruption dynamics, regional stratigraphy and magma evolution / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 446:173-204, first published on September 30, 2016, doi:10.1144/SP446.2 --- Alexandrina Fulop and Stephan Kurszlaukis: Monogenetic v. polygenetic kimberlite volcanism: in-depth examination of the Tango Extension Super Structure, Attawapiskat kimberlite field, Ontario, Canada / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 446:205-224, first published on September 23, 2016, doi:10.1144/SP446.7 --- José Jorge Aranda-Gómez, Mariano Cerca, Luis Rocha-Treviño, Jaime Jesús Carrera-Hernández, Gilles Levresse, Jesús Pacheco, Vsevolod Yutsis, Jorge Arturo Arzate-Flores, Elizabeth Chacón, and Hugo Beraldi-Campesi: Structural evidence of enhanced active subsidence at the bottom of a maar: Rincón de Parangueo, México / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 446:225-254, first published on September 29, 2016, doi:10.1144/SP446.1 --- R. Saucedo, J. L. Macías, Y. Z. E. Ocampo-Díaz, W. Gómez-Villa, E. Rivera-Olguín, R. Castro-Govea, J. M. Sánchez-Núñez, P. W. Layer, J. R. Torres Hernández, and G. Carrasco-Núñez: Mixed magmatic–phreatomagmatic explosions during the formation of the Joya Honda maar, San Luis Potosí, Mexico / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 446:255-279, first published on February 28, 2017, doi:10.1144/SP446.11 --- Román Alvarez, Fernando Corbo Camargo, Vsevolod V. Yutsis, and Jorge A. Arzate: A volcanic centre in Mexico's Pacific continental shelf / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 446:281-293, first published on March 3, 2017, doi:10.1144/SP446.12 --- Román Alvarez, Fernando Corbo Camargo, and Vsevolod V. Yutsis: Geophysical modelling of Isla Isabel: a volcanic island on the Mexican continental margin / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 446:295-310, first published on March 3, 2017, doi:10.1144/SP446.13 --- Walter Báez, Gerardo Carrasco Nuñez, Guido Giordano, José G. Viramonte, and Agostina Chiodi: Polycyclic scoria cones of the Antofagasta de la Sierra basin, Southern Puna plateau, Argentina / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 446:311-336, first published on September 26, 2016, doi:10.1144/SP446.3 --- Guadalupe Maro and Pablo J. Caffe: Neogene monogenetic volcanism from the Northern Puna region: products and eruptive styles / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 446:337-359, first published on September 26, 2016, doi:10.1144/SP446.6 --- C. Borrero, H. Murcia, J. Agustin-Flores, M. T. Arboleda, and A. M. Giraldo: Pyroclastic deposits of San Diego maar, central Colombia: an example of a silicic magma-related monogenetic eruption in a hard substrate / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 446:361-374, first published on December 15, 2016, doi:10.1144/SP446.10

Description / Table of Contents: Radon, Health and Natural Hazards: a signpost for assessment and protection in the 21st century / G. K. Gillmore, F. E. Perrier and R. G. M. Crockett / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 451, 1-5, 31 January 2018, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP451.11 --- Radon as a carcinogenic built-environmental pollutant / Gavin K. Gillmore, Robin G. M. Crockett and Paul S. Phillips / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 451, 7-34, 6 January 2017, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP451.5 --- Significant annual and sub-annual cycles in indoor radon concentrations: seasonal variation and correction / Robin G. M. Crockett, Christopher J. Groves-Kirkby, Antony R. Denman and Paul S. Phillips / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 451, 35-47, 1 December 2016, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP451.2 --- Radon as an anthropogenic indoor air pollutant as exemplified by radium-dial watches and other uranium- and radium-containing artefacts / Robin G. M. Crockett and Gavin K. Gillmore / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 451, 49-61, 9 December 2016, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP451.4 --- Radon dynamics in a dwelling with high radon levels in a karst area / J. Vaupotič, A. Brodar, A. Gregorič and I. Kobal / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 451, 63-82, 11 January 2017, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP451.9 --- Radionuclides in groundwater, rocks and stream sediments in Austria – results from a recent survey / Gerhard Schubert, Rudolf Berka, Christian Katzlberger, Klaus Motschka, Monika Denner, Johannes Grath and Rudolf Philippitsch / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 451, 83-112, 23 May 2017, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP451.10 --- Effective radium-226 concentration in rocks, soils, plants and bones / Frédéric Perrier, Frédéric Girault and Hélène Bouquerel / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 451, 113-129, 21 November 2016, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP451.8 --- Radon-222 and radium-226 occurrence in water: a review / Frédéric Girault, Frédéric Perrier and Tadeusz A. Przylibski / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 451, 131-154, 2 December 2016, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP451.3 --- Radon and carbon dioxide around remote Himalayan thermal springs / Frédéric Girault, Bharat Prasad Koirala, Mukunda Bhattarai and Frédéric Perrier / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 451, 155-181, 2 December 2016, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP451.6 --- Radon surveys and monitoring at active volcanoes: learning from Vesuvius, Stromboli, La Soufrière and Villarrica / C. Cigolini, M. Laiolo, D. Coppola, C. Trovato and G. Borgogno / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 451, 183-208, 1 December 2016, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP451.1 --- Radon: a radioactive therapeutic element / Tadeusz Andrzej Przylibski / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 451, 209-236, 2 December 2016, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP451.7

Description / Table of Contents: Introduction --- Wolf Mayer: Introduction: enquiries into the history of geology / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 442:1-8, first published on February 28, 2017, doi:10.1144/SP442.41 --- Tracing the history of INHIGEO (International Commission on the History of Geological Sciences) --- Irena Malakhova: The founding of INHIGEO: documents and letters, with comments / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 442:9-19, first published on February 16, 2017, doi:10.1144/SP442.38 --- Algimantas Grigelis and Stanisław Czarniecki: International Commission on the History of Geological Sciences: the earliest events / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 442:21-27, first published on November 9, 2016, doi:10.1144/SP442.30 --- Kennard B. Bork and Barry J. Cooper: INHIGEO in recent times / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 442:29-39, first published on July 15, 2016, doi:10.1144/SP442.15 --- Mike R. Johnston and Kenneth L. Taylor: Historians of geology in the field: a half-century of INHIGEO excursions / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 442:41-54, first published on July 22, 2016, doi:10.1144/SP442.17 --- Martin Rudwick: Insiders and outsiders: INHIGEO seen from the sidelines / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 442:55-62, first published on November 9, 2016, doi:10.1144/SP442.25 --- Why study the history of geology --- Barry J. Cooper: Changing reflections on the history of geology / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 442:63-67, first published on November 9, 2016, doi:10.1144/SP442.23 --- On theories, ideas and concepts in geology --- Martina Kölbl-Ebert: Thinking about the geosciences in their religious/philosophical context / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 442:69-79, first published on May 23, 2016, doi:10.1144/SP442.5 --- Grzegorz Racki: Methodological uniformitarianism of Hugo Kołłątaj: an unknown Polish precursor of the Lyellian geological paradigm / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 442:81-91, first published on December 2, 2016, doi:10.1144/SP442.29 --- Stefan Cwojdzinski: History of a discussion: selected aspects of the Earth expansion v. plate tectonics theories / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 442:93-104, first published on November 11, 2016, doi:10.1144/SP442.24 --- D. Letsch: Swiss contributions to mid-nineteenth century tectonic research: a step backwards or the prologue to the nappe tectonics revolution? / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 442:105-116, first published on May 26, 2016, doi:10.1144/SP442.1 --- Kenneth L. Taylor: Before volcanoes became ordinary / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 442:117-126, first published on December 2, 2016, doi:10.1144/SP442.27 --- Guillermo E. Alvarado and Lina C. Patino: The history of volcanology in Costa Rica: from the Amerindian legends to the beginning of the twenty-first century / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 442:127-140, first published on November 9, 2016, doi:10.1144/SP442.35 --- Antony R. Orme: Dynamic geomorphology: historical convergence towards modern practice / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 442:141-154, first published on December 23, 2016, doi:10.1144/SP442.34 --- Spencer G. Lucas and Guillermo E. Alvarado: Vertebrate palaeontology in Central America: a narrative and analytical history / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 442:155-169, first published on May 23, 2016, doi:10.1144/SP442.9 --- Sally Newcomb: Progression of instrument use and practice in mineralogy and petrology, 1750–1950 / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 442:171-180, first published on November 11, 2016, doi:10.1144/SP442.22 --- Teaching the history of geoscience --- Silvia F. de M. Figueirôa: Innovation and critical thinking: contributions of the history and philosophy of geological sciences to teaching, especially undergraduate teaching / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 442:181-188, first published on June 13, 2016, doi:10.1144/SP442.7 --- Renee M. Clary: Controversies in the history of geology and their educational importance for facilitating understanding of the nature of science / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 442:189-198, first published on November 15, 2016, doi:10.1144/SP442.36 --- Yufeng Zhou: Review of the history of higher education in geology during the past 100 years in China / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 442:199-203, first published on July 15, 2016, doi:10.1144/SP442.14 --- On the contribution of women to the geosciences --- M. Kölbl-Ebert and S. Turner: Towards a history of women in the geosciences / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 442:205-216, first published on August 15, 2016, doi:10.1144/SP442.16 --- Biographical studies --- Zoya A. Bessudnova: The first Russian monograph on the History of Geology by Grigory E. Shchurovsky, professor of Moscow University: on the 150th anniversary of the publication / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 442:217-227, first published on November 17, 2016, doi:10.1144/SP442.31 --- K. R. Aalto: Clarence Dutton's geology / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 442:229-238, first published on July 15, 2016, doi:10.1144/SP442.18 --- Alberto C. Riccardi: Life and geological studies of Joaquín Frenguelli / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 442:239-251, first published on June 29, 2016, doi:10.1144/SP442.6 --- T. Sato, T. Yamada, and M. Yajima: Teiichi Kobayashi: his life and works, with an emphasis on his contribution to the history of the geosciences in Japan / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 442:253-262, first published on November 11, 2016, doi:10.1144/SP442.19 --- Government agencies, institutions and societies --- Marianne Klemun: Spaces and places: an historical overview of the development of geology in Austria (Habsburg Monarchy) in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 442:263-270, first published on November 11, 2016, doi:10.1144/SP442.20 --- Isabel Rábano: Early history of the Spanish Geological Survey: the Commission for the Geological Map of Spain (1849–1910) / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 442:271-278, first published on May 25, 2016, doi:10.1144/SP442.3 --- Teresa Salomé Mota and Ana Carneiro: The ups and downs of geology in Portugal: the Geological Survey, a historical perspective / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 442:279-287, first published on May 25, 2016, doi:10.1144/SP442.2 --- Luz Fernanda Azuela: Towards a nationwide geological survey in nineteenth century Mexico / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 442:289-301, first published on June 30, 2016, doi:10.1144/SP442.11 --- Lucero Morelos-Rodríguez: Brief history of geological and mining exploration in nineteenth century Mexico / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 442:303-313, first published on May 25, 2016, doi:10.1144/SP442.8 --- Alberto C. Riccardi: Geographical and geological explorations of the La Plata Museum 1884–1905 / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 442:315-326, first published on July 15, 2016, doi:10.1144/SP442.13 --- Philippe Taquet: A look into the history of geology in France / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 442:327-332, first published on November 11, 2016, doi:10.1144/SP442.21 --- Jiuchen Zhang: Social functions of historical studies of Chinese geology / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 442:333-339, first published on June 29, 2016, doi:10.1144/SP442.4 --- Regional geological studies --- Björn Sundquist: Early geological studies and mapping in Sweden / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 442:341-352, first published on June 29, 2016, doi:10.1144/SP442.10 --- John Diemer: Murchison in Sweden: consolidating Lower Silurian stratigraphy in the summer of 1844 / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 442:353-366, first published on November 9, 2016, doi:10.1144/SP442.26 --- A. Grigelis: The earliest geological observations in Lithuania: a historical viewpoint / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 442:367-376, first published on February 28, 2017, doi:10.1144/SP442.40 --- Marek Graniczny, Krystyna Wołkowicz, Halina Urban, and Stanisław Wołkowicz: Contribution of Polish geologists to geology in Siberia and the Far East / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 442:377-386, first published on February 23, 2017, doi:10.1144/SP442.39 --- Renee M. Clary and Tom Sharpe: The furthest end of the Earth: the role of geological research in Antarctic exploration, 1895–1922 / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 442:387-399, first published on December 2, 2016, doi:10.1144/SP442.28 --- Reviews on the history of petroleum exploration and production --- StanisŁaw WoŁkowicz, Marek Graniczny, Krystyna WoŁkowicz, and Halina Urban: History of the oil industry in Poland until 1939 / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 442:401-411, first published on December 2, 2016, doi:10.1144/SP442.32 --- Francesco Gerali and Paolo Riguzzi: Gushers, science and luck: Everette Lee DeGolyer and the Mexican oil upsurge, 1909–19 / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 442:413-424, first published on December 2, 2016, doi:10.1144/SP442.37 --- Francesco Gerali and Jenny Gregory: Harsh oil: finding petroleum in early twentieth century Western Australia / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 442:425-436, first published on December 2, 2016, doi:10.1144/SP442.33 ---

Description / Table of Contents: Alexander T. Brasier, Duncan McIlroy, and Nicola McLoughlin: Contributions of Professor Martin Brasier to the study of early life, stratigraphy and biogeochemistry / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 448:1-17, first published on March 30, 2017, doi:10.1144/SP448.23 --- Deciphering the earliest evidence for life --- Jonathan B. Antcliffe, Alexander G. Liu, Latha R. Menon, Duncan McIlroy, Nicola McLoughlin, and David Wacey: Understanding ancient life: how Martin Brasier changed the way we think about the fossil record / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 448:19-31, first published on November 28, 2016, doi:10.1144/SP448.16 --- Keyron Hickman-Lewis, Russell J. Garwood, Philip J. Withers, and David Wacey: X-ray microtomography as a tool for investigating the petrological context of Precambrian cellular remains / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 448:33-56, first published on November 2, 2016, doi:10.1144/SP448.11 --- Eugene G. Grosch, Manuel Muñoz, Olivier Mathon, and Nicola McLoughlin: Earliest microbial trace fossils in Archaean pillow lavas under scrutiny: new micro-X-ray absorption near-edge spectroscopy, metamorphic and morphological constraints / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 448:57-70, first published on October 12, 2016, doi:10.1144/SP448.8 --- The preservation, origins and interactions of early multicellular organisms – the Torridonian Supergroup, NW Scotland --- D. K. Muirhead, J. Parnell, S. Spinks, and S. A. Bowden: Characterization of organic matter in the Torridonian using Raman spectroscopy / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 448:71-80, first published on September 15, 2016, doi:10.1144/SP448.2 --- David Wacey, Leila Battison, Russell J. Garwood, Keyron Hickman-Lewis, and Martin D. Brasier: Advanced analytical techniques for studying the morphology and chemistry of Proterozoic microfossils / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 448:81-104, first published on September 15, 2016, doi:10.1144/SP448.4 --- David Wacey, Martin Brasier, John Parnell, Timothy Culwick, Stephen Bowden, Sam Spinks, Adrian J. Boyce, Brett Davidheiser-Kroll, Heejin Jeon, Martin Saunders, and Matt R. Kilburn: Contrasting microfossil preservation and lake chemistries within the 1200–1000 Ma Torridonian Supergroup of NW Scotland / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 448:105-119, first published on September 15, 2016, doi:10.1144/SP448.6 --- A. T. Brasier, T. Culwick, L. Battison, R. H. T. Callow, and M. D. Brasier: Evaluating evidence from the Torridonian Supergroup (Scotland, UK) for eukaryotic life on land in the Proterozoic / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 448:121-144, first published on October 27, 2016, doi:10.1144/SP448.13 --- Progress on understanding the evolution of animal life and the biosphere during the Precambrian–Cambrian transition --- Tianchen He, Ying Zhou, Pieter Vermeesch, Martin Rittner, Lanyun Miao, Maoyan Zhu, Andrew Carter, Philip A. E. Pogge von Strandmann, and Graham A. Shields: Measuring the ‘Great Unconformity’ on the North China Craton using new detrital zircon age data / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 448:145-159, first published on November 8, 2016, doi:10.1144/SP448.14 --- Graham A. Shields: Earth system transition during the Tonian–Cambrian interval of biological innovation: nutrients, climate, oxygen and the marine organic carbon capacitor / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 448:161-177, first published on December 14, 2016, doi:10.1144/SP448.17 --- Alexander G. Liu, Latha R. Menon, Graham A. Shields, Richard H. T. Callow, and Duncan McIlroy: Martin Brasier's contribution to the palaeobiology of the Ediacaran–Cambrian transition / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 448:179-193, first published on November 2, 2016, doi:10.1144/SP448.9 --- Rachel Wood: Palaeoecology of Ediacaran metazoan reefs / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 448:195-210, first published on September 15, 2016, doi:10.1144/SP448.1 --- Suzanne C. Dufour and Duncan McIlroy: Ediacaran pre-placozoan diploblasts in the Avalonian biota: the role of chemosynthesis in the evolution of early animal life / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 448:211-219, first published on September 15, 2016, doi:10.1144/SP448.5 --- Charlotte G. Kenchington and Philip R. Wilby: Rangeomorph classification schemes and intra-specific variation: are all characters created equal? / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 448:221-250, first published on March 30, 2017, doi:10.1144/SP448.19 --- Jack J. Matthews, Alexander G. Liu, and Duncan McIlroy: Post-fossilization processes and their implications for understanding Ediacaran macrofossil assemblages / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 448:251-269, first published on March 17, 2017, doi:10.1144/SP448.20 --- Latha R. Menon, Duncan McIlroy, and Martin D. Brasier: ‘Intrites’ from the Ediacaran Longmyndian Supergroup, UK: a new form of microbially-induced sedimentary structure (MISS) / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 448:271-283, first published on November 2, 2016, doi:10.1144/SP448.12 --- Sean McMahon, Ashleigh van Smeerdijk Hood, and Duncan McIlroy: The origin and occurrence of subaqueous sedimentary cracks / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 448:285-309, first published on November 30, 2016, doi:10.1144/SP448.15 --- Gerd Geyer and Ed Landing: The Precambrian–Phanerozoic and Ediacaran–Cambrian boundaries: a historical approach to a dilemma / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 448:311-349, first published on November 2, 2016, doi:10.1144/SP448.10 --- Duncan McIlroy and Martin D. Brasier: Ichnological evidence for the Cambrian explosion in the Ediacaran to Cambrian succession of Tanafjord, Finnmark, northern Norway / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 448:351-368, first published on October 27, 2016, doi:10.1144/SP448.7 --- Liam G. Herringshaw, Richard H. T. Callow, and Duncan McIlroy: Engineering the Cambrian explosion: the earliest bioturbators as ecosystem engineers / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 448:369-382, first published on January 23, 2017, doi:10.1144/SP448.18 --- Studies of exceptional preservation --- Martin D. Brasier, David B. Norman, Alexander G. Liu, Laura J. Cotton, Jamie E. H. Hiscocks, Russell J. Garwood, Jonathan B. Antcliffe, and David Wacey: Remarkable preservation of brain tissues in an Early Cretaceous iguanodontian dinosaur / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 448:383-398, first published on October 27, 2016, doi:10.1144/SP448.3 --- A. T. Brasier, L. J. Cotton, R. J. Garwood, J. Baker-Brian, E. Howlett, and M. D. Brasier: Earliest Cretaceous cocoons or plant seed structures from the Wealden Group, Hastings, UK / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 448:399-411, first published on March 22, 2017, doi:10.1144/SP448.21 --- L. J. Cotton, F. Vollrath, M. D. Brasier, and C. Dicko: Chemical relationships of ambers using attenuated total reflectance Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 448:413-424, first published on March 17, 2017, doi:10.1144/SP448.22

Description / Table of Contents: Article --- Men, methods and materials: exploring the historical connections between geology and medicine / Christopher J. Duffin / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 452, 1-8, 26 April 2017, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP452.19 --- Men and methods --- Earth science as a philosophical background to medicine: an essay based on the autobiography of Dr Otto Sperling (1602–81) / Ella Hoch / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 452, 9-33, 10 April 2017, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP452.18 --- Nathaniel Hodges and the purging wells of Shooter's Hill / John D. Mather and Christopher J. Duffin / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 452, 35-45, 19 December 2016, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP452.4 --- Water and the city of Milan at the end of the nineteenth century / Alessandro Porro, Antonia Francesca Franchini, Bruno Falconi, Paolo Maria Galimberti and Lorenzo Lorusso / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 452, 47-54, 22 December 2016, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP452.9 --- Italian physicians’ contribution to geosciences / Marco Pantaloni, Fabiana Console, Lorenzo Lorusso, Fabio Massimo Petti, Antonia Francesca Franchini, Alessandro Porro and Marco Romano / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 452, 55-75, 22 March 2017, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP452.17 --- The obstetrician, the surgeon and the premature birth of the world's first dinosaur: William Hunter and James Parkinson / J. J. Liston and L. Alcalá / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 452, 77-101, 18 January 2017, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP452.7 --- Pau Estorch Siqués (1805–71) and his ‘magnes venenorum’ / F. Sabaté Casellas and B. Torres Gallardo / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 452, 103-106, 2 February 2017, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP452.12 --- Duncan and Son: changing professional boundaries in the geological and medical sciences in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries / Tim Carter and Anne Spurgeon / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 452, 107-113, 19 December 2016, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP452.8 --- From giant birds to X-rays: Victor Lemoine (1837–97), physician and palaeontologist / Eric Buffetaut / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 452, 115-131, 19 December 2016, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP452.3 --- Materials --- Geotherapeutics: the medicinal use of earths, minerals and metals from antiquity to the twenty-first century / Spyros Retsas / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 452, 133-139, 20 December 2016, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP452.5 --- Archaeological medicinal earths as antibacterial agents: the case of the Basel Lemnian sphragides / E. Photos-Jones, C. Edwards, F. Häner, L. Lawton, C. Keane, A. Leanord and V. Perdikatsis / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 452, 141-153, 2 February 2017, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP452.6 --- Alectorius: a parasympathomimetic stone? / Joaquin Carrasco and Christopher J. Duffin / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 452, 155-162, 21 February 2017, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP452.15 --- ‘Serpent stones’: myth and medical application / Rachael Pymm / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 452, 163-180, 19 December 2016, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP452.1 --- ‘A charm to impose on the vulgar’: the medicinal and magical applications of the snakestone bead within the British Isles / Rachael Pymm / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 452, 181-194, 2 February 2017, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP452.13 --- The name is the message: eagle-stones and materia medica in South America / Irina Podgorny / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 452, 195-210, 27 February 2017, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP452.14 --- ‘Fish’, fossil and fake: medicinal unicorn horn / Christopher J. Duffin / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 452, 211-259, 1 March 2017, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP452.16 --- ‘Not used to be worn as a Jewel’: The wearing of precious stones in early modern England – ornaments or medicine? / Tom Blaen / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 452, 261-265, 22 December 2016, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP452.10 --- Coral in Petrus Hispanus’ ‘Treasury of the Poor’ / Maria Do Sameiro Barroso / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 452, 267-282, 22 December 2016, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP452.11 --- Lead, isotopes and ice: a deadly legacy revealed / Beverly P. Bergman / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 452, 283-291, 19 December 2016, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP452.2

Description / Table of Contents: The Himalayan cryosphere: past and present variability of the ‘third pole’ / N. C. Pant, Rasik Ravindra, Deepak Srivastava and Lonnie Thompson / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 462, 1-6, 27 April 2018, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP462.13 --- The Past --- Global-scale abrupt climate events and black swans: an ice-core-derived palaeoclimate perspective from Earth's highest mountains / Lonnie G. Thompson, Ellen Mosley-Thompson, Mary E. Davis, Stacy E. Porter, Donald V. Kenny and Ping-Nan Lin / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 462, 7-22, 29 September 2017, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP462.6 --- Formation and breaching of two palaeolakes around Leh, Indus valley, during the late Quaternary / S. A. I. Mujtaba, Ravish Lal, H. S. Saini, Pawan Kumar and N. C. Pant / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 462, 23-34, 29 September 2017, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP462.3 --- Depth profiling and recessional history of the Hamtah and Parang glaciers in Lahaul and Spiti, Himachal Pradesh, Indian Himalaya / A. K. Swain, M. A. Mukhtar, Z. Majeed and S. P. Shukla / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 462, 35-49, 1 November 2017, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP462.11 --- Geomorphic evolution of glacier-fed Baspa Valley, NW Himalaya: record of Late Quaternary climate change, monsoon dynamics and glacial fluctuations / S. Dutta, S. A. I. Mujtaba, H. S. Saini, R. Chunchekar and P. Kumar / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 462, 51-72, 29 September 2017, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP462.5 --- The Present --- A precipitation perspective of the Hydrosphere-cryosphere interaction in the Himalaya / Abul Amir Khan, N. C. Pant, Rasik Ravindra, Apurva Alok, Manika Gupta and Shikha Gupta / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 462, 73-87, 9 October 2017, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP462.2 --- Development of an operational algorithm for estimating snow-cover fraction / K. V. Mitkari, M. K. Arora, V. D. Mishra, H. S. Gusain and N. K. Gupta / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 462, 89-98, 29 September 2017, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP462.7 --- Mass-balance modelling of Gangotri glacier / A. Agrawal, R. J. Thayyen and A. P. Dimri / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 462, 99-117, 29 September 2017, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP462.1 --- Annual cycle of temperature and snowmelt runoff in Satluj River Basin using in situ data / Sarita Tiwari, Sarat C. Kar, R. Bhatla and R. Bansal / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 462, 119-138, 29 September 2017, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP462.4 --- Temporal variations in snow albedo at glaciated upper elevation zone of an Eastern Himalayan river basin / N. Chiphang, P. Mishra, A. Bandyopadhyay and A. Bhadra / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 462, 139-154, 28 September 2017, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP462.8 --- Wintertime surface energy balance of a high-altitude seasonal snow surface in Chhota Shigri glacier basin, Western Himalaya / Mohd Soheb, Alagappan Ramanathan, Arindan Mandal, Thupstan Angchuk, Naveen Pandey and Som Dutta Mishra / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 462, 155-168, 29 September 2017, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP462.10 --- Sustainability --- Earth surface processes and landscape evolution in the Himalaya: a framework for sustainable development and geohazard mitigation / Lewis A. Owen / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 462, 169-188, 28 September 2017, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP462.9 --- The sustainability of water resources in High Mountain Asia in the context of recent and future glacier change / Ann V. Rowan, Duncan J. Quincey, Morgan J. Gibson, Neil F. Glasser, Matthew J. Westoby, Tristram D. L. Irvine-Fynn, Phillip R. Porter and Michael J. Hambrey / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 462, 189-204, 1 November 2017, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP462.12

Description / Table of Contents: Recent advances in karst research: from theory to fieldwork and applications / Mario Parise, Franci Gabrovsek, Georg Kaufmann and Natasa Ravbar / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 466, 1-24, 3 May 2018, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP466.26 --- Karst geology, geomorphology, and speleogenesis --- Orogeny and the collapse of the Devonian Prairie Evaporite karst in Western Canada: impact on the overlying Cretaceous Athabasca Oil Sands / Paul L. Broughton / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 466, 25-78, 8 November 2017, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP466.7 --- Tafoni and honeycomb structures as indicators of ascending fluid flow and hypogene karstification / Alexander Klimchouk / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 466, 79-105, 28 November 2017, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP466.11 --- Relations between surface and underground karst forms inferred from terrestrial laser scanning / Aleksandar S. Petrović, Jelena Ćalić, Aleksandra Spalević and Marko Pantić / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 466, 107-120, 31 January 2018, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP466.23 --- A genetic classification of caves and its application in eastern Austria / P. Oberender and L. Plan / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 466, 121-136, 29 January 2018, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP466.21 --- Surface landforms and speleological investigation for a better understanding of karst hydrogeological processes: a history of research in southeastern Italy / M. Parise and L. Benedetto / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 466, 137-153, 25 January 2018, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP466.25 --- The Puerto Princesa Underground River (Palawan, Philippines): some peculiar features of a tropical, high-energy coastal karst system / Giovanni Badino, Antonio De Vivo, Paolo Forti and Leonardo Piccini / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 466, 155-170, 24 January 2018, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP466.22 --- Role of karst denudation on the accurate assessment of glacio-eustasy and tectonic uplift on carbonate coasts / John E. Mylroie and Joan R. Mylroie / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 466, 171-185, 6 November 2017, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP466.2 --- Arid hypogene karst in a multi-aquifer system: hydrogeology and speleogenesis of Ashalim Cave, Negev Desert, Israel / Amos Frumkin and Boaz Langford / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 466, 187-200, 6 November 2017, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP466.3 --- Pliocene–Pleistocene palaeoclimate reconstruction from Ashalim Cave speleothems, Negev Desert, Israel / Anton Vaks, Miryam Bar-Matthews, Avner Ayalon, Alan Matthews and Amos Frumkin / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 466, 201-216, 15 December 2017, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP466.10 --- Karst hydrogeology --- Global distribution and use of water from karst aquifers / Zoran Stevanović / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 466, 217-236, 4 January 2018, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP466.17 --- Characterization and hydraulic behaviour of the complex karst of the Kaibab Plateau and Grand Canyon National Park, USA / Casey J. R. Jones, Abraham E. Springer, Benjamin W. Tobin, Sarah J. Zappitello and Natalie A. Jones / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 466, 237-260, 6 November 2017, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP466.5 --- Vulnerability assessment and its validation: the Gömör-Torna Karst, Hungary and Slovakia / Veronika Iván and Judit Mádl-Szőnyi / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 466, 261-273, 29 November 2017, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP466.15 --- Hydrochemical and isotopic characterization of carbonate aquifers under natural flow conditions, Sierra Grazalema Natural Park, southern Spain / Damián Sánchez, Juan Antonio Barberá, Matías Mudarra, Bartolomé Andreo and José Francisco Martín / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 466, 275-293, 28 November 2017, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP466.16 --- Climatological trends and anticipated karst spring quantity and quality: case study of the Slovene Istria / Nataša Ravbar, Gregor Kovačič, Metka Petrič, Janja Kogovšek, Clarissa Brun and Alenka Koželj / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 466, 295-305, 6 December 2017, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP466.19 --- Preliminary analysis of the decrease in water level of Vrana Lake on the small carbonate island of Cres (Dinaric karst, Croatia) / Ognjen Bonacci / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 466, 307-317, 6 November 2017, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP466.6 --- Karst modelling --- Numerical groundwater modelling in karst / Neven Kresic and Sorab Panday / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 466, 319-330, 14 December 2017, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP466.12 --- Experiences in calibrating and evaluating lumped karst hydrological models / Andreas Hartmann / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 466, 331-340, 6 December 2017, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP466.18 --- Geophysical observations and structural models of two shallow caves in gypsum/anhydrite-bearing rocks in Germany / Georg Kaufmann and Douchko Romanov / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 466, 341-357, 6 December 2017, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP466.13 --- Models of temperature, entropy production and convective airflow in caves / Giovanni Badino / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 466, 359-379, 31 January 2018, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP466.24 --- Karst hazards and management --- Evaluating the susceptibility to anthropogenic sinkholes in Apulian calcarenites, southern Italy / A. Fiore, N. L. Fazio, P. Lollino, M. Luisi, M. N. Miccoli, R. Pagliarulo, M. Perrotti, L. Pisano, L. Spalluto, C. Vennari, G. Vessia and M. Parise / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 466, 381-396, 4 January 2018, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP466.20 --- Groundwater flood hazards and mechanisms in lowland karst terrains / Owen Naughton, Ted McCormack, Laurence Gill and Paul Johnston / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 466, 397-410, 11 December 2017, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP466.9 --- Škocjan Caves, Slovenia: an integrative approach to the management of a World Heritage Site / Vanja Debevec, Borut Peric, Samo Šturm, Tomaž Zorman and Peter Jovanovič / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 466, 411-429, 18 December 2017, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP466.14 --- Karst-specific composite model for informed resource management decisions on the Biosfera de la Reserva Selva el Ocote, Chiapas, Mexico / Johanna L. Kovarik and Philip E. van Beynen / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 466, 431-442, 6 November 2017, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP466.1 --- A review and statistical assessment of the criteria for determining cave significance / Augusto S. Auler, Tatiana A. R. Souza, Daniela C. Sé and Gustavo A. Soares / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 466, 443-459, 28 November 2017, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP466.8 --- What will be the future of the giant gypsum crystals of Naica mine? / Paolo Forti / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 466, 461-475, 6 November 2017, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP466.4

Description / Table of Contents: An introduction to glaciated margins: the sedimentary and geophysical archive / D. P. Le Heron, K. A. Hogan, E. R. Phillips, M. Huuse, M. E. Busfield and A. G. C. Graham / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 475, 1-8, 30 January 2019, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP475.12 --- Glacio-marine iron formation deposition in a c. 700 Ma glaciated margin: insights from the Chuos Formation, Namibia / Maxwell A. Lechte, Malcolm W. Wallace and Karl-Heinz Hoffmann / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 475, 9-34, 16 March 2018, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP475.2 --- A tale of two rift shoulders, and two ice masses: the Cryogenian glaciated margin of Death Valley, California / D. P. Le Heron, M. E. Busfield, D. O. Ali, T. Vandyk and S. Tofaif / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 475, 35-52, 27 July 2018, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP475.11 --- Zarqa megafacies: widespread subglacial deformation in the Sarah Formation of Saudi Arabia and implications for the sequence stratigraphy of the Hirnantian glaciation / John Melvin / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 475, 53-80, 7 March 2018, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP475.6 --- Development of a palaeovalley complex on a Late Ordovician glaciated margin in NW Saudi Arabia / S. Tofaif, D. P. Le Heron and J. Melvin / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 475, 81-107, 6 June 2018, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP475.8 --- Depositional model for the distal Ordovician glaciated margin of Jordan; implications for the reservoir potential of the Risha Formation / J. Philip P. Hirst and Maher Khatatneh / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 475, 109-129, 1 March 2018, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP475.4 --- Sedimentary record of Early Permian deglaciation in southern Gondwana from the Falkland Islands / Kate Horan, Philip Stone and Simon J. Crowhurst / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 475, 131-147, 19 March 2018, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP475.1 --- Deglacial sequences and glacio-isostatic adjustment: Quaternary compared with Ordovician glaciations / Pierre Dietrich, Jean-François Ghienne, Patrick Lajeunesse, Alexandre Normandeau, Rémy Deschamps and Philippe Razin / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 475, 149-179, 14 May 2018, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP475.9 --- Sedimentary processes and facies on a high-latitude passive continental margin, Wilkes Land, East Antarctica / Sandra Passchier, Daniel J. Ciarletta, Victor Henao and Vicky Sekkas / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 475, 181-201, 16 March 2018, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP475.3 --- Processes influencing differences in Arctic and Antarctic trough mouth fan sedimentology / Jenny Gales, Claus-Dieter Hillenbrand, Rob Larter, Jan Sverre Laberg, Martin Melles, Sara Benetti and Sandra Passchier / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 475, 203-221, 23 March 2018, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP475.7 --- Seismic and geomorphic records of Antarctic Ice Sheet evolution in the Ross Sea and controlling factors in its behaviour / John B. Anderson, Lauren M. Simkins, Phillip J. Bart, Laura De Santis, Anna Ruth W. Halberstadt, Elisabetta Olivo and Sarah L. Greenwood / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 475, 223-240, 17 April 2018, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP475.5 --- Late Wisconsinan grounding zones of the Laurentide Ice Sheet margin off the Québec North Shore (NW Gulf of St Lawrence) / P. Lajeunesse, P. Dietrich and J.-F. Ghienne / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 475, 241-259, 25 June 2018, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP475.10 --- The glacier-influenced marine record on high-latitude continental margins: synergies between modern, Quaternary and ancient evidence / J. A. Dowdeswell, K. A. Hogan and D. P. Le Heron / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 475, 261-279, 29 January 2019, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP475.13

Description / Table of Contents: Military use of geologists and geology: a historical overview and introduction / Edward P. F. Rose, Judy Ehlen and Ursula L. Lawrence / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 473, 1-29, 8 November 2018, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP473.15 --- Coastal fortification --- The landslip-damaged Roman fort at Lympne in SE England / Edward Nicholas Bromhead / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 473, 31-45, 6 March 2018, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP473.9 --- Groundwater supplies to maritime and coastal defences in southern England: a story of risk and innovation / John D. Mather / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 473, 47-60, 6 March 2018, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP473.8 --- American coastal defence Third System forts: how geomorphology and geology dictated placement and influenced history / Stephen W. Henderson / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 473, 61-82, 10 May 2018, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP473.10 --- The northern Atlantic Wall: German engineering geology work in Norway during World War II / Hermann Häusler / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 473, 83-108, 6 March 2018, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP473.4 --- Excavation --- Trench construction and engineering geology on the Western Front, 1914–18 / Peter Doyle / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 473, 109-130, 6 March 2018, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP473.6 --- German military geology and military mining on the Eastern Front in World War I / Dierk Willig / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 473, 131-150, 1 November 2018, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP473.14 --- Quarrying Companies Royal Engineers in World War I: a geologically constrained innovation to support British armies on the Western Front / Edward P. F. Rose / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 473, 151-171, 6 March 2018, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP473.1 --- Quarrying Companies Royal Engineers in World War II: contributions to military infrastructure within the UK and to Allied forces during the North African, Italian and NW Europe campaigns / Edward P. F. Rose / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 473, 173-200, 6 March 2018, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP473.2 --- Tunnelling Companies Royal Engineers in World War II: excavation of bomb-proof facilities in France, Gibraltar, Malta and the UK / Edward P. F. Rose / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 473, 201-232, 6 March 2018, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP473.3 --- Engineering geological considerations for the ‘Old’ Beacon Hill Railway Tunnel, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region / Alexander D. Mackay / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 473, 233-239, 9 October 2018, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP473.12 --- Geological considerations of contemporary military tunnelling near Mosul, northern Iraq / Mark H. Bulmer / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 473, 241-265, 22 June 2018, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP473.11 --- Terrain evaluation --- Geological influence of the Great Red River Raft on the Red River Campaign of the American Civil War / Danny W. Harrelson, Nalini Torres, Amber Tillotson and Mansour Zakikhani / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 473, 267-273, 6 March 2018, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP473.5 --- Aerial photographic intelligence during World War II: contributions by some distinguished British geologists / Edward P. F. Rose / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 473, 275-296, 10 July 2018, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP473.13 --- One hundred years of cross-country mobility prediction in Germany / Florian Malm / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 473, 297-306, 6 March 2018, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP473.7

Description / Table of Contents: The history of the European oil and gas industry (1600s–2000s) / Jonathan Craig, Francesco Gerali, Fiona MacAulay and Rasoul Sorkhabi / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 465, 1-24, 21 June 2018, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP465.23 --- History of the UK oil and gas industry --- UK petrol retailing: competitive rivalry and the decline of the oil majors in the twentieth century / Neil H. Ritson, Ian Byrne and David A. Cohen / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 465, 25-38, 11 April 2018, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP465.5 --- The first oil exploration campaign in the UK, 1918–22 / Stephen M. Corfield / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 465, 39-52, 14 May 2018, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP465.11 --- The Scottish oil-shale industry from the viewpoint of the modern-day shale-gas industry / Graham Dean / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 465, 53-69, 8 May 2018, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP465.13 --- Derbyshire's oil and refining history: the James ‘Paraffin’ Young connection / Cliff Lea / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 465, 71-76, 11 April 2018, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP465.4 --- Argyll Field: the first oil field to be developed on the UK Continental Shelf / Jon Gluyas, Longxun Tang and Stuart Jones / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 465, 77-93, 11 April 2018, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP465.3 --- The history of exploration and development of the Liverpool Bay fields and the East Irish Sea Basin / J. Bunce / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 465, 95-118, 11 April 2018, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP465.6 --- The history of hydrocarbon exploration and development in North Yorkshire / M. Q. Haarhoff, F. Hughes, M. Heath-Clarke, D. Harrison, C. Taylor, D. L. Ware, G. G. Emms and A. Mortimer / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 465, 119-136, 8 May 2018, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP465.12 --- The development of the manufactured gas industry in Europe / Russell Thomas / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 465, 137-164, 14 May 2018, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP465.14 --- History of the oil and gas industry in Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union --- The birth and development of the oil and gas industry in the Northern Carpathians (up until 1939) / Piotr Krzywiec / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 465, 165-189, 18 May 2018, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP465.24 --- History of the oil and gas industry in Romania / Alina Dana Tulucan, Lucia-Elena Soveja-Iacob and Csaba Krezsek / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 465, 191-200, 18 May 2018, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP465.15 --- Second Galicia? Poland's shale gas rush through historical lenses / Roberto Cantoni / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 465, 201-217, 14 May 2018, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP465.16 --- History of the oil and gas industry in Western Europe --- A history of exploration offshore Norway: the Barents Sea / K. H. Jakobsson / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 465, 219-241, 6 June 2018, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP465.18 --- The history of the upstream oil and gas industry in Italy / Ferdinando Franco Cazzini / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 465, 243-274, 11 April 2018, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP465.2 --- Maiella, an oil massif in the Central Apennines ridge of Italy: exploration, production and innovation in the oil fields of Abruzzo across the nineteenth and twentieth centuries / Francesco Gerali and Lorenzo Lipparini / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 465, 275-303, 25 May 2018, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP465.20 --- Historical study of geosciences and engineering in the oilfields of the Emilia-Romagna region in the socio-economic context of post-Unitarian Italy (1861–1914) / Francesco Gerali, Paolo Macini and Ezio Mesini / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 465, 305-332, 30 May 2018, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP465.21 --- Ayoluengo's history – Spain's only onshore oil field / Jorge Navarro Comet / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 465, 333-344, 8 May 2018, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP465.9 --- A century of hydrocarbon exploration and production in Spain (1860–1960) / Jorge Navarro Comet and Octavio Puche Riart / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 465, 345-360, 8 May 2018, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP465.10 --- History of the petroleum industry and petroleum geologists --- Entangled between worlds: Swiss petroleum geologists, c. 1900–50 / Monika Gisler / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 465, 361-374, 14 May 2018, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP465.17 --- Myron Kinley and the ‘Torch of Moreni’ / Jeff Spencer and Marius Furcuta / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 465, 375-380, 8 May 2018, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP465.8 --- ‘Uniformity in Geological Reports’ (1917) by Josef Theodor Erb, petroleum geologist and manager (1874–1934) / Mario M. A. Wannier / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 465, 381-390, 8 May 2018, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP465.7 --- German petroleum geologists and World War II / Martina Kölbl-Ebert / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 465, 391-407, 11 April 2018, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP465.1 --- Simon Papp, a prominent Hungarian petroleum geologist: how to run exploration projects from a prison cell / Gábor Tari and István Bérczi / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 465, 409-422, 18 May 2018, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP465.19 --- Sir Thomas Boverton Redwood (1846–1919): a watershed in the British oil industry / Rasoul Sorkhabi / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 465, 423-451, 25 May 2018, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP465.22 --- Bibliography of additional selected key publications on the history of the European oil and gas industry / Francesco Gerali, Jonathan Craig, Fiona MacAulay and Rasoul Sorkhabi / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 465, 453-462, 19 July 2018, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP465.25 --- Gazetteer of oil and gas museums in Europe / Francesco Gerali, Jonathan Craig, Fiona MacAulay and Rasoul Sorkhabi / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 465, 463-465, 19 July 2018, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP4

Description / Table of Contents: Magmas are subject to a series of processes that lead to their differentiation during transfer through, and storage within, the Earth's crust. The depths and mechanisms of differentiation, the crustal contribution to magma generation through wall-rock assimilation, the rates and timescales of magma generation, transfer and storage, and how these link to the thermal state of the crust are subject to vivid debate and controversy. This volume presents a collection of research articles that provide a balanced overview of the diverse approaches available to elucidate these topics, and includes both theoretical models and case studies. By integrating petrological, geochemical and geophysical approaches, it offers new insights to the subject of magmatic processes operating within the Earth's crust, and reveals important links between subsurface processes and volcanism.

Description / Table of Contents: There are continual rounds of annual conferences, special sessions and other symposia that provide ample opportunity for researchers to convene and discuss igneous processes. However, the origins of laccoliths and sills continue to inspire and confound geologists. In one sense, this is surprising. After all, don't we know all we need to know about these rocks by now? As testified by the diverse range of topics covered in this volume, the answer is clearly ‘no’. This book contains contributions on physical geology, igneous petrology, volcanology, structural geology, crustal mechanics and geophysics that cover the entire gambit of geological processes associated with the shallow emplacement of magma. High-level intrusions in sedimentary basins can also act as hydrocarbon reservoirs and as sources for thermal maturation. In drawing together a diversity of perspectives on the emplacement of sills, laccoliths and dykes we hope to advance further our understanding of their behaviour.

Description / Table of Contents: This book deals with various interesting aspects of the histories of geomorphology and Quaternary geology in different parts of the world. The papers cover a range of topics: the origin of the term ‘Quaternary’, histories of ideas and debates relating to aspects of fluvial geomorphology (USA and Australia), glacial geomorphology and glaciation (Northern Europe, the Baltic countries, Russia, Iceland, and New Zealand), desert dunes and the geology of Australia, peneplains in China, a palaeo-Tokyo Bay in Japan, together with biographies of Charles Cotton (New Zealand), Valerija Cepulyte (Lithuania) and Ceslovas Pakuckas (Lithuania and Poland) that highlight their respective contributions to the disciplines of geomorphology and Quaternary geology. There is an autobiographical contribution from E. E. Milanovsky (Russia) on his work in Siberia, the Caucasus and Iceland, illustrated by his sketches made in the field.

Description / Table of Contents: Biogeochemical controls on palaeoceanographic environmental proxies: an introduction / William E. N. Austin and Rachael H. James / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 303, 1-2, 1 January 2008, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP303.1 --- Biogeochemical controls on palaeoceanographic environmental proxies: a review / Rachael H. James and William E. N. Austin / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 303, 3-32, 1 January 2008, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP303.2 --- Some fundamental features of biomineralization / R. J. P. Williams / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 303, 33-44, 1 January 2008, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP303.3 --- Vital effects and beyond: a modelling perspective on developing palaeoceanographical proxy relationships in foraminifera / Richard E. Zeebe, Jelle Bijma, Bärbel Hönisch, Abhijit Sanyal, Howard J. Spero and Dieter A. Wolf-Gladrow / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 303, 45-58, 1 January 2008, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP303.4 --- Foraminifer test preservation and diagenesis: comparison of high latitude Eocene sites / Paul N. Pearson and Catherine E. Burgess / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 303, 59-72, 1 January 2008, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP303.5 --- The influences of growth rates on planktic foraminifers as proxies for palaeostudies – a review / D. N. Schmidt, T. Elliott and S. A. Kasemann / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 303, 73-85, 1 January 2008, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP303.6 --- Fine-scale growth patterns in coral skeletons: biochemical control over crystallization of aragonite fibres and assessment of early diagenesis / J. P. Cuif, Y. Dauphin, A. Meibom, C. Rollion-Bard, M. Salomé, J. Susini and C. T. Williams / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 303, 87-96, 1 January 2008, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP303.7 --- Modern deep-sea benthic foraminifera: a brief review of their morphology-based biodiversity and trophic diversity / A. J. Gooday, H. Nomaki and H. Kitazato / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 303, 97-119, 1 January 2008, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP303.8 --- On the use of benthic foraminiferal δ13C in palaeoceanography: constraints from primary proxy relationships / Andreas Mackensen / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 303, 121-133, 1 January 2008, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP303.9 --- The carbon and oxygen stable isotopic composition of cultured benthic foraminifera / Daniel C. McCorkle, Joan M. Bernhard, Christopher J. Hintz, Jessica K. Blanks, G. Thomas Chandler and Timothy J. Shaw / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 303, 135-154, 1 January 2008, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP303.10 --- Seasonal dynamics of coastal water masses in a Scottish fjord and their potential influence on benthic foraminiferal shell geochemistry / Alix G. Cage and William E. N. Austin / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 303, 155-172, 1 January 2008, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP303.11 --- Isotopic variability in the intertidal acorn barnacle Semibalanus balanoides: a potentially novel sea-level proxy indicator / K. F. Craven, M. I. Bird, W. E. N. Austin and J. Wynn / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 303, 173-185, 1 January 2008, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP303.12

Description / Table of Contents: This book is the first to describe the history of geoconservation. It draws on experience from the UK, Europe and further afield, to explore topics including: what is geoconservation; where, when and how did it start; who was responsible; and how has it differed across the world? Geological and geomorphological features, processes, sites and specimens, provide a resource of immense scientific and educational importance. They also form the foundation for the varied and spectacular landscapes that help define national and local identity as well as many of the great tourism destinations. Mankind's activities, including contributing to enhanced climate change, pose many threats to this resource: the importance of safeguarding and managing it for future generations is now widely accepted as part of sustainable development. Geoconservation is an established and growing activity across the world, with more participants and a greater profile than ever before. This volume highlights a history of challenges, set-backs, successes and visionary individuals and provides a sound basis for taking geoconservation into the future.

Description / Table of Contents: Faults are primary focuses of both fluid migration and deformation in the upper crust. The recognition that faults are typically heterogeneous zones of deformed material, not simple discrete fractures, has fundamental implications for the way geoscientists predict fluid migration in fault zones, as well as leading to new concepts in understanding seismic/aseismic strain accommodation. This book captures current research into understanding the complexities of fault-zone internal structure, and their control on mechanical and fluid-flow properties of the upper crust. A wide variety of approaches are presented, from geological field studies and laboratory analyses of fault-zone and fault-rock properties to numerical fluid-flow modelling, and from seismological data analyses to coupled hydraulic and rheological modelling. The publication aims to illustrate the importance of understanding fault-zone complexity by integrating such diverse approaches, and its impact on the rheological and fluid-flow behaviour of fault zones in different contexts.

Description / Table of Contents: The boundaries of rigid cratons can be affected by subsequent orogenic events, leading to ‘metacratonic’ characteristics not often properly recognized and still poorly understood. Major lithospheric thickening is absent and early events such as ophiolites are preserved; however, metacratonic boundaries are affected by major shear zones, abundant magmatism and mineralizations, and local high-pressure metamorphism. West Africa, marked by the large Eburnian (c. 2 Ga) West African craton, the absence of Mesoproterozoic events, the major Pan-African (0.9–0.55 Ga) mobile belts that generated the Peri-Gondawanan terranes, and the weaker but enlightening Variscan and Alpine orogenies, is an excellent place for tackling this promising concept of metacratonization. The papers in this book consider most of the West African craton boundaries, from the reworking of the Palaeoproterozoic terranes, through the Pan-African encircling terranes, the late Neoproterozoic-early Palaeozoic extension period and the Peri-Gondwanan terranes, the Variscan imprint to the current situation.

Description / Table of Contents: Faults are primary focuses of both fluid migration and deformation in the upper crust. The recognition that faults are typically heterogeneous zones of deformed material, not simple discrete fractures, has fundamental implications for the way geoscientists predict fluid migration in fault zones, as well as leading to new concepts in understanding seismic/aseismic strain accommodation. This book captures current research into understanding the complexities of fault-zone internal structure, and their control on mechanical and fluid-flow properties of the upper crust. A wide variety of approaches are presented, from geological field studies and laboratory analyses of fault-zone and fault-rock properties to numerical fluid-flow modelling, and from seismological data analyses to coupled hydraulic and rheological modelling. The publication aims to illustrate the importance of understanding fault-zone complexity by integrating such diverse approaches, and its impact on the rheological and fluid-flow behaviour of fault zones in different contexts.

Description / Table of Contents: The morphology of Earth's surface reflects the interaction of climate, tectonics and denudational processes operating over a wide range of spatial and temporal scales. These processes can be considered catastrophic or continuous; depending on the timescale of observation or interest. Recent research had required integration of historically distinct subjects such as geomorphology, sedimentology, climatology and tectonics. Together, these have provided new insights into absolute and relative rates of denudation, and the factors that control the many dynamic processes involved. Specific subject areas covered are sediment transport processes and the timescales of competing processes, the role of the geological record and landscapes in constraining different processes, the nature of landscape evolution at different spatial scales and in contrasting geological environments.

Description / Table of Contents: This volume, in honour of Peter L. Forey, is about fishes as palaeobiogeographic indicators in the Mesozoic and Cenozoic. The last 250 million years in the history of Earth have witnessed the break-up of Pangaea, affecting the biogeography of organisms. Fishes occupy almost all freshwater and marine environments, making them a good tool to assess palaeogeographic models. The volume begins with studies of Triassic chondrichthyans and lungfishes, with reflections on Triassic palaeogeography. Phylogeny and distribution of Late Jurassic neoselachians and basal teleosts are broached, and are followed by five papers about the Cretaceous, dealing with SE Asian sharks, South American ray-finned fishes and coelacanths, European characiforms, and global fish palaeogeography. Then six papers cover Tertiary subjects, such as bony tongues, eels, cypriniforms and coelacanths. There is generally a good fit between fish phylogenies and the evolution of the palaeogeographical pattern, although a few discrepancies question details of current palaeogeographic models and/or some aspects of fish phylogeny.

Description / Table of Contents: Twenty years have passed since Menzies & Hawkesworth extended the concept of metasomatism to mantle processes. The aim of this book is to gather together progress made on this topic since then. Most of the 14 papers reported in the volume rely on in situ major and trace element analyses of minerals and glasses in mantle xenoliths, and deal with different kinds of metasomatic agents at variable fluid/rock ratios in tectonic settings as different as intra-plate, mid-ocean ridge (ophiolites) and supra-subduction. The book contributes to the wide debate on the nature of the fluids migrating into the mantle wedge, as well as on the different residential times of the subduction signature. In addition papers on intra-plate settings deal with the problem of relating various metasomatic signatures to one single metasomatic event through an infiltration-reaction process.

Description / Table of Contents: The 3D geological model is still regarded as one of the newest and most innovative tools for reservoir management purposes. The computer modelling of structures, rock properties and fluid flow in hydrocarbon reservoirs has evolved from a specialist activity to part of the standard desktop toolkit. The application of these techniques has allowed all disciplines of the subsurface team to collaborate in a common workspace. In today's asset teams, the role of the geological model in hydrocarbon development planning is key and will be for some time ahead. The challenges that face the geologists and engineers will be to provide more seamless interaction between static and dynamic models. This interaction requires the development of conventional and unconventional modelling algorithms and methodologies in order to provide more risk-assessed scenarios, thus enabling geologists and engineers to better understand and capture inherent uncertainties at each aspect of the geological model's life.

Description / Table of Contents: Some 75 years after the visionary work of Wegener and du Toit, Neoproterozoic to Mesozoic geological correlations between South America and Africa are re-examined in the light of plate tectonics and modern geological investigation (structural and metamorphic studies, stratigraphic logging, geochemistry, geochronology and palaeomagnetism). The book presents both reviews and new research relating to the shared Gondwana origins of countries facing each other across the South Atlantic Ocean, especially Brazil, Argentina, Cameroon, Nigeria, Angola, Namibia and South Africa. This is the first comprehensive treatment to be readily available in book form. It covers the common elements of cratonic areas pre-dating Gondwana, and how they came together in late Precambrian and Cambrian times with the formation of the Pan-African/Brasiliano orogenic belts (Dom Feliciano, Brasília, Ribeira, Damara, Gariep, Kaoko, etc.). The subsequent shared Palaeozoic and Mesozoic sedimentary record (Karoo system) prior to Gondwana break-up is also reviewed.

Description / Table of Contents: The complexity of plate interactions and associated crustal deformation in the Eastern Mediterranean region is reflected by the numerous destructive earthquakes that have occurred throughout its history. Many of these have been well documented and studied. In addition, the Aegean region provides examples of core-complex formation, synchronous basin evolution and subsequent graben formation and continental extensional deformation following orogenic contraction. It is therefore considered to be a perfect natural laboratory for the study of these mechanisms. The region has been the subject of intensive research for several decades. This book contains current results and ideas regarding the geodynamics of the Aegean and Anatolia. It will be essential reading for all geoscientists with an interest in the structural evolution of the Eastern Mediterranean.

Description / Table of Contents: Structurally complex reservoirs form a distinct class of reservoir in which fault arrays and fracture networks, in particular, exert an overriding control on petroleum trapping and production behaviour. With modern exploration and production portfolios now commonly held in geologically complex settings, there is an increasing technical challenge to find new prospects and to extract remaining hydrocarbons from these reservoirs. This volume reviews our current understanding and ability to model the complex distribution and behaviour of fault and fracture networks, highlighting their fluid compartmentalizing effects and storage-transmissivity characteristics, and outlining approaches for predicting the dynamic fluid flow and geomechanical behaviour of these reservoirs. This collection of 25 papers provides an overview of recent progress and outstanding issues in the areas of (i) structural complexity and fault geometry, (ii) detection and prediction of faults and fractures, (iii) compartmentalizing effects of fault systems and complex siliciclastic reservoirs and (iv) critical controls affecting fractured reservoirs.

Description / Table of Contents: Restraining and releasing bends are common, but enigmatic features of strike-slip fault systems occurring in all crustal environments and at regional to microscopic scales of observation. Regional-scale restraining bends are sites of mountain building, transpressional deformation and basement exhumation, whereas releasing bends are sites of topographic subsidence, transtensional deformation, basin sedimentation and possible volcanism and economic mineralization. Because restraining and releasing bends often occur as singular self-contained domains of complex deformation, they are appealing natural laboratories for Earth scientists to study fault processes, earthquake seismology, active faulting and sedimentation, fault and fluid-flow relationships, links between tectonics and topography, tectonic and erosional controls on exhumation, and tectonic geomorphology. This volume addresses the tectonic complexity and diversity of strike-slip restraining and releasing bends with 18 contributions divided into four thematic sections: (1) a topical review of fault bends and their global distribution; (2) bends, sedimentary basins and earthquake hazards; (3) restraining bends, transpressional deformation and basement controls on development; (4) releasing bends, transtensional deformation and fluid flow.

Description / Table of Contents: There is a general consensus that for the next few decades at least, the Earth will continue its warming. This will inevitably bring about serious environmental problems. For human society, the most severe will be those related to alterations of the hydrological cycle, which is already heavily influenced by human activities. Climate change will directly affect groundwater recharge, groundwater quality and the freshwater-seawater interface. The variations of groundwater storage inevitably entail a variety of geomorphological and engineering effects. In the areas where water resources are likely to diminish, groundwater will be one of the main solutions to prevent drought. In spite of its paramount importance, the issue of ‘Climate Change and Groundwater’ has been neglected. This volume presents some of the current understanding of the topic.

Description / Table of Contents: The many kinds of porous geomaterials (rocks, soils, concrete, etc.) exhibit a range of responses when undergoing inelastic deformation. In doing so they commonly develop well-ordered fabric elements, forming fractures, shear bands and compaction bands, so creating the planar fabrics that are regarded as localization. Because these induced localization fabrics alter the bulk material properties (such as permeability, acoustic characteristics and strength), it is important to understand how and why localization occurs, and how it relates to its setting. The concept of damage (in several uses) describes both the precursor to localization and the context within which it occurs. A key theme is that geomaterials display a strong material evolution during deformation, revealing a close linkage between the damage and localization processes. This volume assembles perspectives from a number of disciplines, including soil mechanics, rock mechanics, structural geology, seismic anisotropy and reservoir engineering. The papers range from theoretical to observational, and include contributions showing how the deformed geomaterials emergent bulk characteristics, like permeability and seismic anisotropy, can be predicted. This book will be of interest to a wide range of geoscientists and engineers who deal with characterization of deformed materials.