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

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

Description / Table of Contents: Despite agreement on first-order features and mechanisms, critical aspects of the origin and evolution of the Tibetan Plateau, such as the exact timing and nature of collision, the initiation of plateau uplift, and the evolution of its height and width, are disputed, untested or unknown. This book gathers papers dealing with the growth and collapse of the Tibetan Plateau. The timing, the underlying mechanisms, their interactions and the induced surface shaping, contributing to the Tibetan Plateau evolution are tightly linked via coupled and feedback processes. We present interdisciplinary contributions allowing insight into the complex interactions between lithospheric dynamics, topography building, erosion, hydrological processes and atmospheric coupling. The book is structured in four parts: early processes in the plateau formation; recent growth of the Tibetan Plateau; mechanisms of plateau growth; and plateau uplift, surface processes and the monsoon.

Description / Table of Contents: Frontiers in Geofluids is a collection of invited papers chosen to highlight recent developments in our understanding of geological fluids in different parts of the Earth, and published to mark the first ten years of publication of the journal Geofluids. The scope of the volume ranges from the fundamental properties of fluids and the phase relationships of fluids encountered in nature, to case studies of the role of fluids in natural processes. New developments in analytical and theoretical approaches to understanding fluid compositions, fluid properties, and geological fluid dynamics across a wide range of environments are included. A recurrent theme of research published in Geofluids is the way in which similar approaches can be applied to geological fluids in very different settings and this is reflected in the diverse range of applications of fluid studies that are included here. They include deep groundwater flow, hydrocarbons in faulted sedimentary basins, hydrothermal ores, and multiphase flow in mid-ocean ridge systems. Other topics covered are geothermal waters, crustal metamorphism, and fluids in magmatic systems. The book will be of great interest to researchers and students interested in crustal and mantle fluids of all sorts.

Description / Table of Contents: In this book geological the conditions of speleogenesis in the Miocene gypsum in the Western Ukraine are characterized, particularly the role of lithological and structural prerequisites in speleogenesis. The special attention is given to structural and textural unhomogeneities in the gypsum stratum and to their role in the formation of fractures. Fracture systems in the gypsum and the structure of the unique maze cave systems are examined in details. It is shown that speleo-initiating fractures in the gypsum strata belong to the lithogenetic type and form largely independent multi-storey networks, with each storey being confined within a certain vertical structural/textural zone (unit) of the stratum. This determines the multi-storey structure of the caves in the region. Two problems related to structural and textural characteristics of the gypsum stratum are discussed in details: the formation of giant dome structures by way of gypsum recrystallization during the synsedimentary and early diagenesis stages, and the genesis of fractures. Speleogenetic realization of the existing structural prerequisites occurred under conditions of a confined multi-storey artesian aquifer system due to an upward flow across the gypsum from the under-gypsum aquifer.

Description / Table of Contents: Collision between Australia and SE Asia began in the Early Miocene and reduced the former wide ocean between them to a complex passage which connects the Pacific and Indian Oceans. Today, the Indonesian Throughflow passes through this gateway and plays an important role in global thermohaline flow. The surrounding region contains the maximum global diversity for many marine and terrestrial organisms. Reconstruction of this geologically complex region is essential for understanding its role in oceanic and atmospheric circulation, climate impacts, and the origin of its biodiversity. The papers in this volume discuss the Palaeozoic to Cenozoic geological background to Australia and SE Asia collision. They provide the background for accounts of the modern Indonesian Throughflow and oceanographic changes since the Neogene, and consider aspects of the region's climate history.

Description / Table of Contents: The past decade has witnessed a major revival in attempts to separate biodiversity signals from biases imposed by sampling and the architecture of the rock record. How large a problem this poses to our understanding of biodiversity patterns remains debatable, and new approaches are being developed to investigate this question. Here palaeobiologists with widely differing approaches and interests explore the problems of extracting reliable information on biodiversity change from an imperfect geological record. Topics covered range from the application of information-theoretic approaches that identify directional causal relationships to an in-depth study of how geological biases could influence our understanding of dinosaur evolution. A wide range of new insights into the links between the land, shallow-marine and deep-sea rock and fossil records are presented, making this volume invaluable to anyone in the Earth or life sciences who wishes to remain abreast of this dynamic and rapidly evolving research area.

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 importance of seismic wave research lies not only in our ability to understand and predict earthquakes and tsunamis, it also reveals information on the Earth's composition and features in much the same way as it led to the discovery of Mohorovicic's discontinuity. As our theoretical understanding of the physics behind seismic waves has grown, physical and numerical modeling have greatly advanced and now augment applied seismology for better prediction and engineering practices. This has led to some novel applications such as using artificially-induced shocks for exploration of the Earth's subsurface and seismic stimulation for increasing the productivity of oil wells. This book demonstrates the latest techniques and advances in seismic wave analysis from theoretical approach, data acquisition and interpretation, to analyses and numerical simulations, as well as research applications. A review process was conducted in cooperation with sincere support by Drs. Hiroshi Takenaka, Yoshio Murai, Jun Matsushima, and Genti Toyokuni.

Description / Table of Contents: This book ranges from the geologic-petrologic description of world-wide major volcanic fields unfamiliar to international literature, to the discussion and interpretation of the results in light of geophysical techniques. It focuses on several situations that represent large-scale volcanism on Earth, related both with intra-plate or active margins. Many large volcanic complexes of Easter countries are presented, including Japan, Siberian Russia, and Mongolia. A detailed account of the European volcanic province of the Pannonia basin and Central-Southern Spain is given. Southern hemisphere areas of Antarctica and Polynesia are considered as well. The chapters are very informative for those who wish for a guide to visiting, or are curious about main characteristics of the above volcanic areas, some of which are remote and not easily accessible.

Description / Table of Contents: The Cretaceous submarine Ontong Java Plateau, in the western Pacific Ocean, is the most volumnous of the world's large igneous provinces(LIPs), and represents the largest known magmatic event on Earth. LIPs are the products of basaltic volcanism on a scale and at an effusion rate not seen on Earth at the present time, and their formation may have had significant effects on the Earth's climate and biosphere. The currently favoured explanation for LIP formation is the rapid decompression and melting of anomalously hot mantle in the heads of newly ascended mantle plumes. This volume summarizes the results of research aimed principally at testing the plume-head hypothesis for the formation of the Ontong Java Plateau, and presents the results of integrated studies following recent basement drilling on the plateau by the Ocean Drilling Program Nineteen papers cover topics as diverse as petrology, geochemistry, tectonics, volcanology, paleomagnatism and biostratigraphy.

Description / Table of Contents: Recent advancements in the understanding of mountain belts have focused on vertical coupling of the lithospheric layers. This volume describes the extent to which observed or inferred sub-horizontal coupling or attachment zones provide vertical kinematic linkage between rheologically distinct layers in the continental lithosphere. A common theme is whether the deformation, which partitioned differently in each layer, is linked kinematically across attachment zones and driven by flow in the deeper crust and mantle lithosphere. The papers are divided into six sections. The first analyses the extent to which mantle flow controls deformation of the overlying layers. The Vertical axis block rotations section uses geological and palaeomagnetic data to constrain the role and magnitude of basal shear across mid-crustal attachment zones. The Lower crustal flow and topography section addresses the time-dependent development of orogenic plateaux and their role in the orogenic cycle. Multiple examples of the spatial and temporal development of lithospheric coupling are given in both the Orogenic examples and Subduction examples sections. Finally, rheological constraints of vertical coupling in the lithosphere are investigated.

Description / Table of Contents: Geologists have long grappled with understanding the mechanical origins of rock deformation. Stress regimes control the nucleation, growth and reactivation of faults and fractures; induce seismic activity; affect the transport of magma; and modulate structural permeability, thereby influencing the redistribution of hydrothermal and hydrocarbon fluids. Experimentalists endeavour to recreate deformation structures observed in nature under controlled stress conditions. Earth scientists studying earthquakes will attempt to monitor or deduce stress changes in the Earth as it actively deforms. All are building upon the pioneering research and concepts of Ernest Masson Anderson, dating back to the start of the twentieth century. This volume celebrates Anderson's legacy, with 14 original research papers that examine faulting and seismic hazard; structural inheritance; the role of local and regional stress fields; low angle faults and the role of pore fluids; supplemented by reviews of Andersonian approaches and a reprint of his classic paper of 1905.

Description / Table of Contents: Research into the orogenic processes that shaped the continental crust of Europe has a long-standing tradition. Why the need to quantify and model? It is not just satisfactory to identify subduction zones, accretionary prisms, island arcs, extensional collapse and other standard items of the geodynamic menu. Such interpretations need to be quantified: extent and composition of subducted crust, angle and speed of subduction, amount and composition olmelts produced, heat sources for metamorphism. All such interpretations have to conform to first principles, and also to stand the test of quantitative balancing - a concept first developed for the conservation of length or volume in tectonic cross sections. Also in other fields, the correlation of causes and effects and the internal consistency of dynamic models requires a numerical approach. The present volume combines review articles with reports on recent progress in an attempt to address these aims. There is a foldout map of the region, which locates the main areas of outcrop and tectono-stratigraphic units, and a reassesment of the Palaeozoic time scale permits correlation of tectonic, metamorphic and magmatic events with the sedimentary record of the upper crust.

Description / Table of Contents: This volume is a collection of papers, with an introduction, concerning the consequences of organism-environment interactions for modern and ancient carbonate platform systems. They arise from the 1999 Lyell Meeting on ‘Organism-Environment Feedbacks in Carbonate Platforms and Reefs’. The papers presented here provide an integrated view of carbonate platforms, emphasizing dynamic interactions at all hierarchical levels and revealing the limitations of uniformitarian analogy in biotically influenced sedimentary systems. Selected case studies from around the world illustrate aspects ranging from the genesis of growth fabrics to changing patterns of carbonate platform development. The text will be of interest to sedimentologists, palaeontologists and marine ecologists alike.

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

Description / Table of Contents: Non-volcanic continental margins may form up to 300f all present-day passive margins, and remnants of them are preserved in mountain belts. The papers in this volume demonstrate the benefits of integrating offshore and onshore studies, and illustrate the range of information obtained at different scales when comparing evidence from land and sea. Data sets collected across a range of spatial scales are evaluated: thin sections, cores, outcrops, seismic reflection profiles, and other geophysical data. The outcrop scale is crucial because it enables the spatial gulf to be bridged between DSDP and ODP cores and marine seismic data. There is also the problem that basins on land and beneath the sea inevitably have had different post-rift histories resulting in their contrasting present-day elevation. In mountain belts, portions of continental margins and oceanic crust are superbly exposed, but dismembered by subsequent compressional tectonics. Off present-day passive margins, extensional features have only been slightly deformed, if at all, by compressional movements, but are buried beneath significant thicknesses of post-rift sediments and so can only be sampled by ocean drilling at a small number of points. The first paper reviews the synergies that have occurred between investigations of the eastern North Atlantic non-volcanic margins and remnants of similar Mesozoic margins preserved in the Alps, and some later papers return to this theme. However, papers describing margins from other parts of the world show that it may be premature to use models based on the Atlantic and the Alps as the paradigm for all non-volcanic margins. The following 25 papers in the book are grouped under the following headings: (1) Margin overviews; (2) Exhumed crust and mantle; (3) Tectonics and stratigraphy; (4)Numerical models of extension and magmatism.

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

Description / Table of Contents: Many faults appears to form persistent zones of weakness that fundamentally influence the distribution, arichitecture and movement patterns of crustal-scale deformation and associated processes in both continental and oceanic regions. They act as conduits for the focused migration of economically important fluids and, as most seismicity is associated with active faults, they also constitute one of the most important global geological hazards. This book brings together papers by an international group of Earth Scientists to discuss a broad range of topics centred upon the controls of fault weakening and the role of such faults during lithosphere deformation. The book will be of interests to both academic and industrial Earth Scientists with an interest in geodynamics, structure at all scales, tectonics and the migration of petroleum and water.

Description / Table of Contents: The UK is a country with over 150 years of widespread exploitation of its principal aquifers for public water supply. Increasing demands, greater awareness of environmental pressures and more exacting legislation has heightened the need for quantitative models to predict the impacts of groundwater use. In the UK this has culminated in a unique national, regulator-led programme for England and Wales to develop conceptual and numerical models of the principal bedrock aquifers. The outcomes of this programme will be of interest to the international hydrogeological community, particularly as international legislation such as the European Water Framework Directive requires management of water issues across administrative boundaries with a varied cast of stakeholders. The collection of papers provides a contrast between practitioner- and research-based approaches to assess and predict the anthropogenic impacts and environmental pressures. Many insights are provided on how the regular use of groundwater models may address the environmental challenges of the future.

Description / Table of Contents: This volume describes the use of till geochemical and indicator mineral methods for mineral exploration in glaciated terrain of Canada. The principles and examples described in this volume wil have direct applications for exploration companies and prospectors exploring for diamonds, precious and base metals and uranium in glaciated parts of North America, northern Europe and Asia and mountainous regions of South America. The first two papers in this volume provide an introduction to glaciated terrain and the two styles of glaciation that have affected the world, continental glaciers in broad flat lying Shield areas and alpine glaciers in mountainous terrain. Sampling techniques are described next, followed by an introduction to the use of heavy minerals. Heavy mineral methodss have become an important exploration tool in glaciated terrain for gold and base metals and, in the last ten years, for diamonds. Lake sediments and biogeochemical methods are also included in this volume as a complement to geochemical and indicator mineral methods in glaciated terrain. A chapter on GIS has been included because data interpretation and display are important and essential parts of any regional or detailed geochemical survey. The remainder of the volume is case studies for the three main glaciated terrain tyes in Canada: Shield, Appalachia and Cordillera

Description / Table of Contents: As a result of its relative buoyancy, continental crust is rarely subducted, meaning that successive episodes of continental deformation impart a complex geological character that is not found in younger oceanic lithosphere. This character is largely the result of two related processes: (1) reactivation, involving rejuvenation of discrete structures; and (2) reworking, involving the repeated metamorphism, deformation and magmatism of a previously tectonized crustal or lithospheric volume. Characterizing the style, distribution and timing of reactivation and reworking in different continental settings should therefore provide a crucial data set with which to evaluate the spatial patterns, temporal evolution and dynamic controls of tectonic rejuvenation of the continents and continental lithosphere. This volume presents a combination of review and research papers, which highlight some of the issues and problems associated with the characterization and modelling of continental reactivation and reworking.

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

Description / Table of Contents: From the 1960s onwards, the Old Red Sandstone of both borders of the Atlantic Ocean has acted as a test-bed for the development of new ideas on the interpretation of fluvial, lacustrine and aeolian sedimentary rocks, and the investigation of tectonically-active basins. Much of the earlier reconnaissance work is now being reviewed in the light of further detailed field study, along with new developments in the understanding of the biostratigraphy, palaeobiology, geochronology, pedogenesis and tectonics. Three general papers review recent work on the stratigraphical and chronological analysis of the Late Silurian, Devonian and Early Carboniferous strata, and summarize present understanding of the tectonics of the basins. These are then followed by twenty-seven contributions covering new work in Eastern USA, Canada, Ireland, Britain, Norway, Greenland and Spitsbergen.

Description / Table of Contents: Vibration is a phenomenon that we can perceive in many systems. Their effects are as diverse as the personal discomfort that can produce the unevenness of a road or the collapse of a building or a bridge during an earthquake. This book is a compendium of research works on vibration analysis and control. It goes through new methodologies that help us understand and mitigate this phenomenon. This book is divided into two sections. The first one is devoted to new advances on vibration analysis while the second part is a series of case studies that illustrate novel techniques on vibration control. The applications are varied and include areas such as vehicle suspension systems, wind turbines and civil engineering structures.

Description / Table of Contents: This book is the third of a series highlighting this topic of major importance for recent developments in geodynamics. Temporal variation of deformation and gravity fields recorded by geodetic measuring techniques (either from ground surface or space) and reflecting isostatic, tectonic or volcanic processes in the earth's interior as well as hydrologic, oceanographic or climatic processes, have made a basic tool for research and monitoring. Part of the papers collected in this topical volume were presented at the 3rd Workshop on “Deformation and Gravity Change: Indicators of Isostasy, Tectonics, Volcanism and Climate Change” which took place at the Casa de los Volcanes on Lanzarote, Spain, during February 23-26, 2009. The book addresses researchers and graduate students in the Earth sciences, who are interested in surface and crustal processes, as well as geotechnical engineers.

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

Description / Table of Contents: This book brings together the knowledge from a variety of topics within the field of geochemistry. The audience for this book consists of a multitude of scientists such as physicists, geologists, technologists, petroleum engineers, volcanologists, geochemists and government agencies. The topics represented facilitate as establishing a starting point for new ideas and further contributions. An effective management of geological and environmental issues requires the understanding of recent research in minerals, soil, ores, rocks, water, sediments. The use of geostatistical and geochemical methods relies heavily on the extraction of this book. The research presented was carried out by experts and is therefore highly recommended to scientists, under- and post-graduate students who want to gain knowledge about the recent developments in geochemistry and benefit from an enhanced understanding of the dynamics of the earth's system processes.

Description / Table of Contents: This topical issue of the Journal of Pure and Applied Geophysics focuses on research related to dew and various types of fog occurring around the globe which was presented on July 25-30, 2010, at the 5th International Conference on Fog, Fog Collection, and Dew in Münster, Germany. The areas of knowledge in this field include surface in-situ and remote sensing observations of fog, dew, fog collection, applications of the various fog models (such as 1D, 2D, and 3D fog and forecasting models), microphysical parameterizations, and climatology. This volume gives a very good review of the existing knowledge and highlights the remaining difficulties in predicting and measuring fog at various scales of time and space. It also represents an important step in the direction of addressing new scientific challenges in fog and dew related research, teaching, and operational applications. Students as well as researchers, who are interested either in fog, in association with cloud physics, physical meteorology, aviation meteorology, climatology, weather forecasting and nowcasting, or in other adjacent disciplines like hydrometeorology, environment, and agriculture, will benefit from consulting and reading this topical issue. This publication was significantly supported by the Canadian National Search And Rescue (SAR) Secretariat by funding the Fog Remote Sensing and Modeling (FRAM) Project led by Dr. Ismail Gultepe since 2005.

Description / Table of Contents: This book includes several geomorphological studies up-to-date, incorporating different disciplines and methodologies, always focused on methods, tools and general issues of environmental and applied geomorphology. In designing the book the integration of multiple methodological fields (geomorphological mapping, remote sensing, meteorological and climate analysis, vegetation and biogeomorphological investigations, geographic information systems GIS, land management methods), study areas, countries and continents (Europe, America, Asia, Africa) are considered.

Description / Table of Contents: The Tsunami from the 1960 Chilean earthquake affected the entire Pacific Ocean and motivated the international coordination on tsunami research and warning systems around the Pacific. However, the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami affected the entire world, and reminded that tsunamis are not a local or regional problem but a global issue. This volume contains 18 papers, mostly presented at the 24th International Tsunami Symposium held in 14-16 July 2009. They reflect the current state of tsunami science, including case studies of earthquake-generated tsunamis, tsunami forecasting and hazard assessments, and theoretical and computational modeling of tsunami generation, propagation and coastal behavior.

Description / Table of Contents: The review chapters in this volume were the basis for a short course on molecular modeling theory jointly sponsored by the Geochemical Society (GS) and the Mineralogical Society of America (MSA) May 18-20, 2001 in Roanoke, Virginia which was held prior to the 2001 Goldschmidt Conference in nearby Hot Springs, Virginia. Dr. William C. Luth has had a long and distinguished career in research, education and in the government. He was a leader in experimental petrology and in training graduate students at Stanford University. His efforts at Sandia National Laboratory and at the Department of Energy's headquarters resulted in the initiation and long-term support of many of the cutting edge research projects whose results form the foundations of these short courses. Bill's broad interest in understanding fundamental geochemical processes and their applications to national problems is a continuous thread through both his university and government career. He retired in 1996, but his efforts to foster excellent basic research, and to promote the development of advanced analytical capabilities gave a unique focus to the basic research portfolio in Geosciences at the Department of Energy. He has been, and continues to be, a friend and mentor to many of us. It is appropriate to celebrate his career in education and government service with this series of courses in cutting-edge geochemistry that have particular focus on Department of Energy-related science, at a time when he can still enjoy the recognition of his contributions. Molecular modeling methods have become important tools in many areas of geochemical and mineralogical research. Theoretical methods describing atomistic and molecular-based processes are now commonplace in the geosciences literature and have helped in the interpretation of numerous experimental, spectroscopic, and field observations. Dramatic increases in computer power-involving personal computers, workstations, and massively parallel supercomputers-have helped to increase our knowledge of the fundamental processes in geochemistry and mineralogy. All researchers can now have access to the basic computer hardware and molecular modeling codes needed to evaluate these processes. The purpose of this volume of Reviews in Mineralogy and Geochemistry is to provide the student and professional with a general introduction to molecular modeling methods and a review of various applications of the theory to problems in the geosciences. Molecular mechanics methods that are reviewed include energy minimization, lattice dynamics, Monte Carlo methods, and molecular dynamics. Important concepts of quantum mechanics and electronic structure calculations, including both molecular orbital and density functional theories, are also presented. Applications cover a broad range of mineralogy and geochemistry topics-from atmospheric reactions to fluid-rock interactions to properties of mantle and core phases. Emphasis is placed on the comparison of molecular simulations with experimental data and the synergy that can be generated by using both approaches in tandem. We hope the content of this review volume will help the interested reader to quickly develop an appreciation for the fundamental theories behind the molecular modeling tools and to become aware of the limits in applying these state-of-the-art methods to solve geosciences problems.

Description / Table of Contents: Advances in carbonate exploration and reservoir analysis / J. Garland, J. Neilson, S. E. Laubach and K. J. Whidden / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 370, 1-15, 30 October 2012, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP370.15 --- Carbonate rocks and petroleum reservoirs: a geological perspective from the industry / Trevor P. Burchette / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 370, 17-37, 19 October 2012, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP370.14 --- Lacustrine carbonates in rift settings: the interaction of volcanic and microbial processes on carbonate deposition / V. Paul Wright / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 370, 39-47, 26 June 2012, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP370.2 --- The Grosmont: the world's largest unconventional oil reservoir hosted in carbonate rocks / Hans G. Machel, Mary Luz Borrero, Eugene Dembicki, Harald Huebscher, Luo Ping and Yi Zhao / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 370, 49-81, 21 September 2012, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP370.11 --- Reservoir characteristics of fault-controlled hydrothermal dolomite bodies: Ramales Platform case study / J. Dewit, M. Huysmans, Ph. Muchez, D. W. Hunt, J. B. Thurmond, J. Verges, E. Saura, N. Fernandez, I. Romaire, P. Esestime and R. Swennen / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 370, 83-109, 26 June 2012, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP370.1 --- Reservoir properties and petrophysical modelling of carbonate sand bodies: outcrop analogue study in an epicontinental basin (Triassic, Germany) / Denis Palermo, Thomas Aigner, Bjoern Seyfang and Sergio Nardon / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 370, 111-138, 26 June 2012, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP370.6 --- Reservoir characterization of an intra-orogenic Carbonates platform: Pila Spi Formation, Taq Taq oil field, Kurdistan, Iraq / Basim Al-Qayim and Divan Othman / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 370, 139-168, 26 June 2012, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP370.7 --- Mechanical stratigraphy and (palaeo-) karstification of the Murge area (Apulia, southern Italy) / Carl Jacquemyn, Rudy Swennen and Paola Ronchi / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 370, 169-186, 26 June 2012, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP370.4 --- Effects of diagenesis (cement precipitation) during fracture opening on fracture aperture-size scaling in carbonate rocks / J. N. Hooker, L. A. Gomez, S. E. Laubach, J. F. W. Gale and R. Marrett / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 370, 187-206, 26 June 2012, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP370.9 --- Interplay between fracturing and hydrothermal fluid flow in the Asón Valley hydrothermal dolomites (Basque–Cantabrian Basin, Spain) / E. Iriarte, M. A. López-Horgue, S. Schroeder and B. Caline / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 370, 207-227, 5 September 2012, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP370.10 --- Geomodelling of carbonate mounds using two-point and multipoint statistics / Xavier Janson and Darrin D. Madriz / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 370, 229-246, 26 June 2012, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP370.5 --- Characterization of karstic networks by automatic extraction of geometrical and topological parameters: comparison between observations and stochastic simulations / A. Fournillon, S. Abelard, S. Viseur, B. Arfib and J. Borgomano / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 370, 247-264, 26 June 2012, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP370.8 --- Relevance of the stochastic stratigraphic well correlation approach for the study of complex carbonate settings: application to the Malampaya buildup (Offshore Palawan, Philippines) / Florent Lallier, Guillaume Caumon, Jean Borgomano, Sophie Viseur, Francois Fournier, Christophe Antoine and Théophile Gentilhomme / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 370, 265-275, 5 September 2012, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP370.12 --- A new workflow for carbonate reservoir modelling based on MPS: shoal bodies in outcrop analogues (Triassic, SW Germany) / Andre Jung, Thomas Aigner, Denis Palermo, Sergio Nardon and Marco Pontiggia / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 370, 277-293, 17 September 2012, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP370.13 --- An algorithm for 3D simulation of branchwork karst networks using Horton parameters and A★ Application to a synthetic case / Pauline Collon-Drouaillet, Vincent Henrion and Jeanne Pellerin / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 370, 295-306, 26 June 2012, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP370.3

Description / Table of Contents: Glaciogenic reservoirs and hydrocarbon systems occur intermittently throughout the stratigraphic record, with particular prominence in Neoproterozoic, Late Ordovician, Permo-Carboniferous and Late Cenozoic strata. Recent interest in glaciogenic successions has been fuelled by hydrocarbon discoveries in ancient glaciogenic reservoirs in North Africa, the Middle East, Australia and South America. Glaciogenic deposits of Pleistocene age are noteworthy for their content of groundwater onshore and potentially prospective and/or hazardous gas accumulations offshore. The abundant imprints of Pleistocene glaciations in both hemispheres can be used to reconstruct complex histories of repeated ice cover and retreat, and glacier-bed interactions, thus informing our view on the dynamics of older ice caps and predictions of future glaciations. This volume aims to provide a better understanding of glaciogenic processes, their stratigraphic record and reservoir characteristics of glaciogenic deposits. The book comprises 3 overview papers and 16 original case studies of Neoproterozoic to Pleistocene successions on 6 continents and will be of interest to sedimentologists, glaciologists, geophysicists, hydrologists and petroleum geologists alike.

Description / Table of Contents: This book, the third in the InTech Tsunami series, has been published in order to deepen efforts towards the understanding of tsunami dynamics that seems to be never enough. As the previous books in this series, "The Tsunami Threat - Research and Technology" (January 2011) and "Tsunami - A Growing Disaster" (December 2011), this multi-disciplinary volume compiles a collection of scientific papers showing the state-of-the-art of tsunami research at different levels. The various contributions cover an array of themes that span from geological evidence to post-trauma human care, encompassing pre-tsunami analyses and modeling to post-tsunami management and preparedness techniques. As its counterparts, "Tsunami - Analysis of a Hazard: from physical interpretation to human impact" continues to present evidence and case studies from different regions of the World: from the isolated Hawaiian Islands and Northern Indian Ocean, to the edges of the Atlantic and Eastern Mediterranean.

Description / Table of Contents: Remagnetization is a common phenomenon in rocks, and developing a greater understanding of its mechanisms has several benefits. Acquisition of a secondary magnetization is usually tangible evidence of a diagenetic or thermal event, which can be dated using palaeomagnetic techniques. This is important because the timing of diagenetic and thermal events is commonly difficult to determine. Remagnetization can also obscure primary magnetizations and a better understanding of remagnetization could improve our ability to uncover primary magnetizations. Many chemical remagnetization mechanisms have been proposed, including those associated with chemical alteration by a number of different fluids (e.g. orogenic, weathering, mineralizing, hydrocarbons) and burial diagenetic processes (e.g. clay diagenesis, maturation of organic matter). This book contains case studies and review articles that focus on remagnetization, chemical remagnetization mechanisms, and magnetic changes associated with chemical alteration by hydrocarbons.

Description / Table of Contents: The book gives a general overview of recent approaches to debris flows. Problems of both occurrences and dynamics of debris flow are treated, taking into account new results from theoretical and experimental research and field observations. Finally, the functioning of the main control devices are reconsidered in the light of the state of the art. Contents: Observation and Measurement for Debris Flow - Introduction, Prediction of Debris Flow for Warning and Evacuation, Large and Small Debris Flows - Occurence and Behaviour, Field Survey for Debris Flow in Volcanic Area.- Dynamics of Debris Flow - Introduction, A Comparison Between Gravity Flows of Dry Sand and Sand-Water Mixtures, Review Dynamic Modeling of Debris Flows, Dynamics of the Inertial and Viscous Debris Flows, Selected Notes on Debris Flow Dynamicss.- Control Measures for Debris Flow - Introduction, Development of New Methods for Countermeasures against Debris Flows, Torrent Check Dams as a Control Measure for Debris Flows, On the Dynamic Impact of Debris Flows.

Description / Table of Contents: PREFACE Phase transformations occur in most types of materials, including ceramics, metals, polymers, diverse organic and inorganic compounds, minerals, and even crystalline viruses. They have been studied in almost all branches of science, but particularly in physics, chemistry, engineering, materials science and earth sciences. In some cases the objective has been to produce materials in which phase transformations are suppressed, to preserve the structural integrity of some engineering product, for example, while in other cases the objective is to maximise the effects of a transformation, so as to enhance properties such as superconductivity, for example. A long tradition of studying transformation processes in minerals has evolved from the need to understand the physical and thermodynamic properties of minerals in the bulk earth and in the natural environment at its surface. The processes of interest have included magnetism, ferroelasticity, ferroelectricity, atomic ordering, radiation damage, polymorphism, amorphisation and many others—in fact there are very few minerals which show no influence of transformation processes in the critical range of pressures and temperatures relevant to the earth. As in all other areas of science, an intense effort has been made to turn qualitative under-standing into quantitative description and prediction via the simultaneous development of theory, experiments and simulations. In the last few years rather fast progress has been made in this context, largely through an inter-disciplinary effort, and it seemed to us to be timely to produce a review volume for the benefit of the wider scientific community which summarises the current state of the art. The selection of transformation processes covered here is by no means comprehensive, but represents a coherent view of some of the most important processes which occur specifically in minerals. A number of the contributors have been involved in a European Union funded research network with the same theme, under the Training and Mobility of Researchers programme, which has stimulated much of the most recent progress in some of the areas covered. This support is gratefully acknowledged.

Description / Table of Contents: PREFACE Sulfate is an abundant and ubiquitous component of Earth’s lithosphere and hydrosphere. Sulfate minerals represent an important component of our mineral economy, the pollution problems in our air and water, the technology for alleviating pollution, and the natural processes that affect the land we utilize. Vast quantities of gypsum are consumed in the manufacture of wallboard, and calcium sulfates are also used in sculpture in the forms of alabaster (gypsum) and papier-mâché (bassanite). For centuries, Al-sulfate minerals, or “alums,” have been used in the tanning and dyeing industries, and these sulfate minerals have also been a minor source of aluminum metal. Barite is used extensively in the petroleum industry as a weighting agent during drilling, and celestine (also known as “celestite”) is a primary source of strontium for the ceramics, metallurgical, glass, and television face-plate industries. Jarosite is a major waste product of the hydrometallurgical processing of zinc ores and is used in agriculture to reduce alkalinity in soils. At many mining sites, the extraction and processing of coal or metal-sulfide ores (largely for gold, silver, copper, lead, and zinc) produce waste materials that generate acid-sulfate waters rich in heavy metals, commonly leading to contamination of water and sediment. Concentrated waters associated with mine wastes may precipitate a variety of metal-sulfate minerals upon evaporation, oxidation, or neutralization. Some of these sulfate minerals are soluble and store metals and acidity only temporarily, whereas others are insoluble and improve water quality by removing metals from the water column. There is considerable scientific interest in the mineralogy and geochemistry of sulfate minerals in both high-temperature (igneous and hydrothermal) and low-temperature (weathering and evaporite) environments. The physical scale of processes affected by aqueous sulfate and associated minerals spans from submicroscopic reactions at mineral-water interfaces to global issues of oceanic cycling and mass balance, and even to extraterrestrial applications in the exploration of other planets and their satellites. In mineral exploration, minerals of the alunite-jarosite supergroup are recognized as key components of the advanced argillic (acid-sulfate) hydrothermal alteration assemblage, and supergene sulfate minerals can be useful guides to primary sulfide deposits. The role of soluble sulfate minerals formed from acid mine drainage (and its natural equivalent, acid rock drainage) in the storage and release of potentially toxic metals associated with wet-dry climatic cycles (on annual or other time scales) is increasingly appreciated in environmental studies of mineral deposits and of waste materials from mining and mineral processing. This volume compiles and synthesizes current information on sulfate minerals from a variety of perspectives, including crystallography, geochemical properties, geological environments of formation, thermodynamic stability relations, kinetics of formation and dissolution, and environmental aspects. The first two chapters cover crystallography (Chapter 1) and spectroscopy (Chapter 2). Environments with alkali and alkaline earth sulfates are described in the next three chapters, on evaporites (Chapter 3). barite-celestine deposits (Chapter 4), and the kinetics of precipitation and dissolution of gypsum, barite, and celestine (Chapter 5). Acidic environments are the theme for the next four chapters, which cover soluble metal salts from sulfide oxidation (Chapter 6), iron and aluminum hydroxysulfates (Chapter 7), jarosites in hydrometallugy (Chapter 8), and alunite-jarosite crystallography, thermodynamics, and geochronology (Chapter 9). The next two chapters discuss thermodynamic modeling of sulfate systems from the perspectives of predicting sulfate-mineral solubilities in waters covering a wide range in composition and concentration (Chapter 10) and predicting interactions between sulfate solid solutions and aqueous solutions (Chapter 11). The concluding chapter on stable-isotope systematics (Chapter 12) discusses the utility of sulfate minerals in understanding the geological and geochemical processes in both high-and low-temperature environments, and in unraveling the past evolution of natural systems through paleoclimate studies. We thank the authors for their comprehensive and timely efforts, and for their cooperation with our various requests regarding consistency of format and nomenclature. Special thanks are due to the numerous scientists who provided peer reviews, which substantially improved the content of the chapters. This volume would not have been possible without the usual magic touch and extreme patience of Paul H. Ribbe, Series Editor for Reviews in Mineralogy and Geochemistry. Finally, we thank our families for their support and understanding during the past several months.

Description / Table of Contents: Over the past 20 years there has been a major growth in efforts to quantify the geometry and dimensions of sediment bodies from analogues to provide quantitative input to geological models. The aim of this volume is to examine the current state of the art, from both an industry and an academic perspective. Contributions discuss the challenges of extracting relevant data from different types of sedimentary analogue (outcrop, process models, seismic) and the application and significance of such information for improving predictions from subsurface static and dynamic models. Special attention is given to modelling reservoir properties and gridding issues for predicting subsurface fluid flow. As such, the volume is expected to be of interest to both the geoscience community concerned with the fundamentals of sedimentary architecture as well as geological modellers and engineers interested in how these characteristics are modelled and influence subsurface predictions.

Description / Table of Contents: In the two decades since J. Alexander Speer's Zircon chapter in Orthosilicates (Reviews in Mineralogy, Vol. 5), much has been learned about the internal textures, trace-element and isotope geochemistry (both radiogenic and stable) and chemical and mechanical stability of zircon. The application of this knowledge and the use of zircon in geologic studies have become widespread. Today, the study of zircon exists as the pseudo-discipline of "zirconology" that involves materials scientists and geoscientists from across a range of sub-disciplines including stable and radiogenic isotopes, sedimentology, petrology, trace elements and experimental mineralogy. Zirconology has become an important field of research, so much so that coverage of the mineral zircon in a review volume that included zircon as one of many accessory minerals would not meet the needs or interests of the zirconology community in terms of depth or breadth of coverage. The sixteen chapters in this volume cover the most important aspects of zircon-related research over the past twenty-years and highlight possible future research avenues. Finch and Hanchar (Chapter 1) review the structure of zircon and other mineral (and synthetic) phases with the zircon structure. In most rock types where zircon occurs it is a significant host of the rare-earth elements, Th and U. The abundances of these elements and the form of chondrite-normalized rare-earth element patterns may provide significant information on the processes that generate igneous and metamorphic rocks. The minor and trace element compositions of igneous, metamorphic and hydrothermal zircons are reviewed by Hoskin and Schaltegger in Chapter 2. The investigation of melt inclusions in zircon is an exciting line of new research. Trapped melt inclusions can provide direct information of the trace element and isotopic composition of the melt from which the crystal formed as a function of time throughout the growth of the crystal. Thomas et a!. (Chapter 3) review the study of melt inclusions in zircon. Hanchar and Watson (Chapter 4) review experimental and natural studies of zircon saturation and the use of zircon saturation thermometry for natural rocks. Cation diffusion and oxygen diffusion in zircon is discussed by Cherniak and Watson (Chapter 5). Diffusion studies are essential for providing constraints on the quality of trace element and isotope data and for providing estimates of temperature exposure in geological environments. Zircon remains the most widely utilized accessory mineral for U- Th-Pb isotope geochronology. Significant instrumental and analytical developments over the past thirty years mean that zircon has an essential role in early Achaean studies, magma genesis, and astrobiology. Four chapters are devoted to different aspects of zircon geochronology. The first of these four, Chapter 6 by Davis et a!., reviews the historical development of zircon geochronology from the mid-1950s to the present; the following three chapters focus on particular techniques for zircon geochronology, namely ID-TIMS (Parrish and Noble, Chapter 7), SIMS (Ireland and Williams, Chapter 8) and ICP-MS (Kosier and Sylvester, Chapter 9). The application of zircon chronology in constraining sediment provenance.and the calibration ofthe geologic time-scale are reviewed by Fedo et al. (Chapter 10) and Bowring and Schmitz (Chapter 11), respectively. Other isotopic systematics are reviewed for zircon by Kinny and Maas (Chapter 12), who discuss the application of Nd-Sm and Lu-Hf isotopes in zircon to petrogenetic studies, and by Valley (Chapter 13), who discusses the importance of oxygen isotopic studies in traditional and emerging fields of geologic study. As a host of U and Th, zircon is subject to radiation damage. Radiation damage is likely responsible for isotopic disturbance and promotes mechanical instability. There is increasing interest in both the effect of radiation damage on the zircon crystal structure and mechanisms of damage and recrystallization, as well as the structure of the damaged phase. These studies contribute to an overall understanding of how zircon may behave as a waste-form for safe disposal of radioactive waste and are discussed by Ewing et a!. (Chapter 14). The spectroscopy of zircon, both crystalline and metamict is reviewed by Nadsala et a!. (Chapter 15). The final chapter, by Corfu et al. (Chapter 16), is an atlas of internal textures of zircon. The imaging of internal textures in zircon is essential for directing the acquisition of geochemical data and to the integrity of conclusions reached once data has been collected and interpreted. This chapter, for the first time, brings into one place textural images that represent common and not so common textures reported in the literature, along with brief interpretations of their significance. There is presently no comparable atlas. It is intended that this chapter will become a reference point for future workers to compare and contrast their own images against. The chapters in this volume of Reviews in Mineralogy and Geochemistry were prepared for presentation at a Short Course, sponsored by the Mineralogical Society of America (MSA) in Freiburg, Germany, April 3-4, 2003. This preceded a joint meeting of the European Union of Geology, the American Geophysical Union and the European Geophysical Society held in Nice, France, April 6-11, 2003.

Description / Table of Contents: Until only a few years ago, I would never have imagined that a volume on the stable isotope geochemistry of elements like Mg, Fe or Cu would be written. In fact, a comic book of blank pages entitled The Stable Isotope Geochemistry of Fluorine would have been a more likely prospect. In volume 16 of this series, published in 1986, I wrote: Isotopic variations have been looked for but not found for heavy elements like Cu, Sn, and Fe .... Natural variations in isotopic ratios of terrestrial materials have been reported for other light elements like Mg and K, but such variations usually turn out to be laboratory artifacts. I am about ready to eat those words. We have known for many years that large isotopic fractionations of heavy elements like Pb develop in the source regions of TIMS machines. Nonetheless, most of us held fast to the conventional wisdom that no significant mass-dependent isotopic fractionations were likely to occur in natural or laboratory systems for elements that are either heavy or engaged in bonds with a dominant ionic character. With the relatively recent appearance of new instrumentation like MC-ICP-MS and heroic methods development in TIMS analyses, it became possible to make very precise measurements of the isotopic ratios of some of these non-traditional elements, particularly if they comprise three or more isotopes. It was eminently reasonable to reexamine these systems in this new light. Perhaps atomic weights could be refined, or maybe there were some unexpected isotopic variations to discover. There were around the turn of the present century, reports began appearing of biological fractionations of about 2-3 per mil for heavy elements like Fe and Cr and attempts were made to determine the magnitude of equilibrium isotope effects in these systems, both by experiment and semi-empirical calculations. Interest emerged in applying these effects to the study of environmental problems. Even the most recalcitrant skeptic now accepts the fact that measurable and meaningful variations in the isotopic ratios of heavy elements occur as a result of chemical, biological and physical processes. Most of the work discussed in this volume was published after the year 2000 and thus the chapters are more like progress reports rather than reviews. Skepticism now focuses on whether isotopic variations as small as 0.1 per mil are indeed as meaningful as some think, and the fact that measured isotopic fractionations of these non-traditional elements are frequently much smaller than predicted from theoretical considerations. In fact the large fractionations suggested by the calculations provide much of the stimulus for working in this discipline. Clearly some carefully designed experiments could shed light on some of the ambiguity. My optimism for the future of this burgeoning new field remains high because it is in very good hands indeed.

Description / Table of Contents: The publication of this volume occurs at the one-hundredth anniversary of 1905, which has been called the annus mirabilus because it was the year of a number of enormous scientific advances. Among them are four papers by Albert Einstein explaining (among other things) Brownian motion, the photoelectric effect, the special theory of relativity, and the equation E = mc2. Also of significance in 1905 was the first application of another major advance in physics, which dramatically changed the fields of Earth and planetary science. In March of 1905 (and published the following year), Ernest Rutherford presented the following in the Silliman Lectures at Yale: "The helium observed in the radioactive minerals is almost certainly due to its production from the radium and other radioactive substances contained therein. If the rate of production of helium from known weights of the different radioelements were experimentally known, it should thus be possible to determine the interval required for the production of the amount of helium observed in radioactive minerals, or, in other words, to determine the age of the mineral." Rutherford E (1906) Radioactive Transformations. Charles Scriber's Sons, NY Thus radioisotopic geochronology was born, almost immediately shattering centuries of speculative conjectures and estimates and laying the foundation for establishment of the geologic timescale, the age of the Earth and meteorites, and a quantitative understanding of the rates of processes ranging from nebular condensation to Quaternary glaciations. There is an important subplot to the historical development of radioisotopic dating over the last hundred years, which, ironically, arises directly from the subsequent history of the U-He dating method Rutherford described in 1905. Almost as soon as radioisotopic dating was invented, it was recognized that the U-He [or later the (U-Th)/He method], provided ages that were often far younger than those allowed by stratigraphic correlations or other techniques such as U/Pb dating. Clearly, as R.J. Strutt noted in 1910, He ages only provided "minimum values, because helium leaks out from the mineral, to what extent it is impossible to say" (Strutt, 1910, Proc Roy Soc Lond, Ser A 84:379-388). For several decades most attention was diverted to U/Pb and other techniques better suited to measurement of crystallization ages and establishment of the geologic timescale. Gradually it became clear that other radioisotopic systems such as K/Ar and later fission-track also provided ages that were clearly younger than formation ages. In 1910 it may have been impossible to say the extent to which He (or most other elements) leaked out of minerals, but eventually a growing understanding of thermally-activated diffusion and annealing began to shed light on the significance of such ages. The recognition that some systems can provide cooling, rather than formation, ages, was gradual and diachronous across radioisotopic systems. Most of the heavy lifting in this regard was accomplished by researchers working on the interpretation of K/Ar and fission-track ages. Ironically, Rutherford¹s He-based radioisotopic system was one of the last to be quantitatively interpreted as a thermochronometer, and has been added to K/Ar (including 40Ar/39Ar) and fission-track methods as important for constraining the medium- to low-temperature thermal histories of rocks and minerals. Thermochronology has had a slow and sometimes fitful maturation from what were once troubling age discrepancies and poorly-understood open-system behaviors, into a powerful branch of geochronology applied by Earth scientists from diverse fields. Cooling ages, coupled with quantitative understanding of crystal-scale kinetic phenomena and crustal- or landscape-scale interpretational models now provide an enormous range of insights into tectonics, geomorphology, and subjects of other fields. At the same time, blossoming of lower temperature thermochronometric approaches has inspired new perspectives into the detailed behavior of higher temperature systems that previously may have been primarily used for establishing formation ages. Increased recognition of the importance of thermal histories, combined with improved analytical precision, has motivated progress in understanding the thermochronologic behavior of U/Pb, Sm/Nd, Lu/Hf, and other systems in a wide range of minerals, filling out the temperature range accessible by thermochronologic approaches. Thus the maturation of low- and medium-temperature thermochronology has led to a fuller understanding of the significance of radioisotopic ages in general, and to one degree or another has permeated most of geochronology. Except in rare cases, the goal of thermochronology is not thermal histories themselves, but rather the geologic processes responsible for them. Thermochronometers are now routinely used for quantifying exhumation histories (tectonic or erosional), magmatism, or landscape evolution. As thermochronology has matured, so have model and interpretational approaches used to convert thermal histories into these more useful geologic histories. Low-temperature thermochronology has been especially important in this regard, as knowledge of thermal processes in the uppermost few kilometers of the crust require consideration of coupled interactions of tectonic, geodynamic, and surface processes. Exciting new developments in these fields in turn drive improved thermochronologic methods and innovative sampling approaches.

Description / Table of Contents: In Materials Science, investigations aiming to prepare new types of molecular sieves (porous materials) have opened a productive field of research inspired by the crystal structures of minerals. These new molecular sieves are distinct from zeolites in that they have different kinds of polyhedra that build up their structures. Of particular interest are the new molecular sieves characterized by a mixed "octahedral"-tetrahedral framework (heteropolyhedral frameworks), instead of a purely tetrahedral framework as in zeolites. Heteropolyhedral compounds have been extensively studied since the early 1990's, with particular attention having been focused on titanosilicates, such as ETS-4 (synthetic analog of the mineral zorite) and ETS-10. However, titanosilicates are not the only representatives of novel microporous mineral phases. The search for "octahedral"-tetrahedral silicates was extended to metals other than titanium, for instance, the zirconosilicates with the preparation of synthetic counterparts of the minerals gaidonnayite, petarasite and umbite. Many microporous heteropolyhedral compounds containing metals such as Nb, V, Sn, Ca and lanthanides, have been reported and a wide number of distinct structural types (e.g., rhodesite-delhayelite and tobermorite) have been synthesized and structurally characterized. Moreover, the potential applications of these novel materials have been evaluated, particularly in the areas of catalysis, separation of molecular species, ion exchange and optical and magnetic properties. A comprehensive review of the mineralogical, structural, chemical and crystal-chemical studies carried on natural phases may be extremely useful to inspire and favor investigations on analogs or related synthetic materials. A similar synergy between mineralogists and materials scientists already occurred in the "classical" case of zeolites, in which the wide and deep structural and crystal-chemical knowledge accumulated in the study of the natural phases was extraordinarily useful to the chemists who are active in the field of molecular sieves. In particular, the structural investigation of the natural phases may be extremely rewarding and helpful in orienting the work of synthesis and in understanding the nature of the synthetic products, for the following reasons: Whereas rarely the crystalline synthetic products are suitable for single-crystal structural investigations, the natural counterparts are often well crystallized. Crystallization in nature occurs from chemical systems characterized by a wide compositional range, thus producing compounds with a very rich and variable crystal chemistry, which may provide precious information, suggesting possible substituting elements and addressing the synthetic work in a very productive way. The present volume follows a meeting on "Micro- and mesoporous mineral phases" (Rome, December 6-7, 2004) that was jointly organized by the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei (ANL) and the International Union of Crystallography (IUCr) via its Commission on Inorganic and Mineral Structures (CIMS). The meeting was convened by Fausto Calderazzo, Giovanni Ferraris, Stefano Merlino and Annibale Mottana and financially supported by several other organizations representing both Mineralogy (e.g., the International Mineralogical Association and the European Mineralogical Union) and Crystallography (e.g., the European Crystallographic Association and the Italian Association of Crystallography). To participants, ANL staff, organizations, and, in general, all involved persons, our sincere acknowledgments; in particular, we are grateful to Annibale Mottana who was able to convince the ANL Academicians to schedule and support the meeting. This volume of the RiMG series highlights the present knowledge on micro- and mesoporous mineral phases, with focus on their crystal-chemical aspects, occurrence and porous activity in nature and experiments. As zeolites are the matter of numerous ad hoc meetings and books - including two volumes in this series - they do not specifically appear in the present volume. The phases of the sodalite and cancrinite-davyne groups, which mineralogists consider distinct from zeolites, are instead considered (in the order, chapter 7 by W. Depmeier and part of chapter 8 by E. Bonaccorsi and S. Merlino, respectively). The first two chapters of the volume cover general aspects of porous materials. This includes the application of the IUPAC nomenclature developed for ordered porous materials to non-zeolite mineral phases (L.B. McCusker, chapter 1) and the extension to heteropolyhedral structures of a topological description by using nodes representing the coordination polyhedra (S.V. Krivovichev, chapter 2). Chapters from 3 to 7 are dedicated to various groups of heteropolyhedral porous structures for which the authors emphasize some of the more general aspects according to their research specialization. G. Ferraris and A. Gula (chapter 3) put the emphasis on the modular aspects of well-known porous phases (such as sepiolite, palygorskite and rhodesite-related structures) as well as on heterophyllosilicates that may be not strictly porous phases (according to the definition given in chapter 1) but could be the starting basis for pillared materials. The porous mineral phases typical of hyperalkaline rocks (such as eudialytes and labuntsovites) are discussed by N.V. Chukanov and I.V. Pekov under their crystal-chemical (chapter 4) and minerogenetic (chapter 5) aspects showing the role of ion exchange during the geological evolution from primary to later phases, with experimental cation exchange data also being reported. J. Rocha and Z. Lin (chapter 6) emphasize how research on the synthesis of octahedral-pentahedral-tetrahedral framework silicates has been inspired and motivated by the many examples of such materials provided by nature; synthesis, structure and possible technological applications of a wide number of these materials are also described. Following chapters 7 and 8 - which besides the cancrinite-davyne group, presents the crystallographic features of the minerals in the tobermorite and gyrolite groups - M. Pasero (chapter 9) illustrates the topological and polysomatic aspects of the "tunnel oxides," a historical name applied to porous oxides related to MnO2, and reviews their main technological applications. The next two chapters (10 and 11) draw attention to "unexpected" porous materials like apatite and sulfides. T.J. White and his team (chapter 10) convincingly show that the apatite structure type displays porous properties, some of which are already exploited. Chapter 10 also contains two appendices that report crystal and synthesis data for hundreds of synthetic apatites, a number that demonstrates how wide the interest is for this class of compounds. E. Makovicky (chapter 11) analyzes the structures of natural and synthetic sulfides and selenides showing that, even if experimental work proving porous activity is practically still missing, several structure types display promising channels. Chapter 12, by M. Mellini, is the only one dedicated to mesoporous mineral phases - which are crystalline compounds with pores wider than 2 nm. Examples discussed are carbon nanotubes, fullerenes - which occur also in nature - chrysotile, opal and, moving from channels to cages, clathrates.

Description / Table of Contents: This volume highlights some of the frontiers in the study of plastic deformation of minerals and rocks. The research into the plastic properties of minerals and rocks had a major peak in late 1960s to early 1970s, largely stimulated by research in the laboratory of D. T. Griggs and his students and associates. It is the same time when the theory of plate tectonics was established and provided a first quantitative theoretical framework for understanding geological processes. The theory of plate tectonics stimulated the study of deformation properties of Earth materials, both in the brittle and the ductile regimes. Many of the foundations of plastic deformation of minerals and rocks were established during this period. Also, new experimental techniques were developed, including deformation apparatus for high-pressure and high-temperature conditions, electron micros-copy study of defects in minerals, and the X-ray technique of deformation fabric analysis. The field benefited greatly from materials science concepts of deformation that were introduced, including the models of point defects and their interaction with dislocations. A summary of progress is given by the volume Flow and Fracture of Rocks: The Griggs Volume, published in 1972 by the American Geophysical Union. Since then, the scope of Earth sciences has greatly expanded. Geodynamics became concerned with the Earth's deep interior where seismologists discovered heterogeneities and anisotropy at all scales that were previously thought to be typical of the crust and the upper mantle. Investigations of the solar system documented new mineral phases and rocks far beyond the Earth. Both domains have received a lot of attention from mineralogists (e.g., summarized in MSA's Reviews in Mineralogy, Volume 36, Planetary Materials and Volume 37, Ultra-High Pressure Mineralogy). Most attention was directed towards crystal chemistry and phase relations, yet an understanding of the deformation behavior is essential for interpreting the dynamic geological processes from geological and geophysical observations. This was largely the reason for a rebirth of the study of rock plasticity, leading to new approaches that include experiments at extreme conditions and modeling of deformation behavior based on physical principles. A wide spectrum of communities emerged that need to use information about mineral plasticity, including mineralogy, petrology, structural geology, seismology, geodynamics and engineering. This was the motivation to organize a workshop, in December 2002 in Emeryville, California, to bridge the very diverse disciplines and facilitate communication. This volume written for this workshop should help one to become familiar with a notoriously difficult subject, and the various contributions represent some of the important progress that has been achieved. The spectrum is broad. High-resolution tomographic images of Earth's interior obtained from seismology need to be interpreted on the bases of materials properties to understand their geodynamic significance. Key issues include the influence of deformation on seismic signatures, such as attenuation and anisotropy, and a new generation of experimental and theoretical studies on rock plasticity has contributed to a better understanding. Extensive space exploration has revealed a variety of tectonic styles on planets and their satellites, underlining the uniqueness of the Earth. To understand why plate tectonics is unique to Earth, one needs to understand the physical mechanisms of localization of deformation at various scales and under different physical conditions. Also here important theoretical and experimental studies have been conducted. In both fields, studies on anisotropy and shear localization, large-strain deformation experiments and quantitative modeling are critical, and these have become available only recently. Complicated interplay among chemical reactions (including partial melting) is a key to understand the evolution of Earth. This book contains two chapters on the developments of new techniques of experimental studies: one is large-strain shear deformation (Chapter 1 by Mackwell and Paterson) and another is deformation experiments under ultrahigh pressures (Chapter 2 by Durham et al.). Both technical developments are the results of years of efforts that are opening up new avenues of research along which rich new results are expected to be obtained. Details of physical and chemical processes of deformation in the crust and the upper mantle are much better understood through the combination of well controlled laboratory experiments with observations on "real" rocks deformed in Earth. Chapter 3 by Tullis and Chapter 4 by Hirth address the issues of deformation of crustal rocks and the upper mantle, respectively. In Chapter 5 Kohlstedt reviews the interplay of partial melting and deformation, an important subject in understanding the chemical evolution of Earth. Cordier presents in Chapter 6 an overview of the new results of ultrahigh pressure deformation of deep mantle minerals and discusses microscopic mechanisms controlling the variation of deformation mechanisms with minerals in the deep mantle. Green and Marone review in Chapter 7 the stability of deformation under deep mantle conditions with special reference to phase transformations and their relationship to the origin of intermediate depth and deep-focus earthquakes. In Chapter 8 Schulson provides a detailed description of fracture mechanisms of ice, including the critical brittle-ductile transition that is relevant not only for glaciology, planetology and engineering, but for structural geology as well. In Chapter 9 Cooper provides a review of experimental and theoretical studies on seismic wave attenuation, which is a critical element in interpreting distribution of seismic wave velocities and attenuation. Chapter 10 by Wenk reviews the relationship between crystal preferred orientation and macroscopic anisotropy, illustrating it with case studies. In Chapter 11 Dawson presents recent progress in poly-crystal plasticity to model the development of anisotropic fabrics both at the microscopic and macroscopic scale. Such studies form the basis for geodynamic interpretation of seismic anisotropy. Finally, in Chapter 12 Montagner and Guillot present a thorough review of seismic anisotropy of the upper mantle covering the vast regions of geodynamic interests, using a global surface wave data set. In Chapter 13 Bercovici and Karato summarize the theoretical aspects of shear localization. All chapters contain extensive reference lists to guide readers to the more specialized literature. Obviously this book does not cover all the areas related to plastic deformation of minerals and rocks. Important topics that are not fully covered in this book include mechanisms of semi-brittle deformation and the interplay between microstructure evolution and deformation at different levels, such as dislocation substructures and grain-size evolution ("self-organization"). However, we hope that this volume provides a good introduction for graduate students in Earth science or materials science as well as the researchers in these areas to enter this multidisciplinary field.

Description / Table of Contents: Few subjects have caught the attention of the entire world as much as those dealing with natural hazards. The first decade of this new millennium provides a litany of tragic examples of various hazards that turned into disasters affecting millions of individuals around the globe. The human losses (some 225,000 people) associated with the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami, the economic costs (approximately 200 billion USD) of the 2011 Tohoku Japan earthquake, tsunami and reactor event, and the collective social impacts of human tragedies experienced during Hurricane Katrina in 2005 all provide repetitive reminders that we humans are temporary guests occupying a very active and angry planet. Any examples may have been cited here to stress the point that natural events on Earth may, and often do, lead to disasters and catastrophes when humans place themselves into situations of high risk. Few subjects share the true interdisciplinary dependency that characterizes the field of natural hazards. From geology and geophysics to engineering and emergency response to social psychology and economics, the study of natural hazards draws input from an impressive suite of unique and previously independent specializations. Natural hazards provide a common platform to reduce disciplinary boundaries and facilitate a beneficial synergy in the provision of timely and useful information and action on this critical subject matter. As social norms change regarding the concept of acceptable risk and human migration leads to an explosion in the number of megacities, coastal over-crowding and unmanaged habitation in precarious environments such as mountainous slopes, the vulnerability of people and their susceptibility to natural hazards increases dramatically. Coupled with the concerns of changing climates, escalating recovery costs, a growing divergence between more developed and less developed countries, the subject of natural hazards remains on the forefront of issues that affect all people, nations, and environments all the time. This treatise provides a compendium of critical, timely and very detailed information and essential facts regarding the basic attributes of natural hazards and concomitant disasters. The Encyclopedia of Natural Hazards effectively captures and integrates contributions from an international portfolio of almost 300 specialists whose range of expertise addresses over 330 topics pertinent to the field of natural hazards. Disciplinary barriers are overcome in this comprehensive treatment of the subject matter. Clear illustrations and numerous color images enhance the primary aim to communicate and educate. The inclusion of a series of unique “classic case study” events interspersed throughout the volume provides tangible examples linking concepts, issues, outcomes and solutions. These case studies illustrate different but notable recent, historic and prehistoric events that have shaped the world as we now know it. They provide excellent focal points linking the remaining terms in the volume to the primary field of study. This Encyclopedia of Natural Hazards will remain a standard reference of choice for many years.

Description / Table of Contents: Our understanding of rock forming geological processes and thereby of geodynamic processes depends largely on a sound basis of knowledge of minerals. Due to the application of new analytical techniques, the number of newly discovered minerals increases steadily, and what used to be a simple mineral may have turned into a complex group. A continuous update is necessary, and the Reviews in Mineralogy and Geochemistry series excellently fulfills this requirement. The epidote minerals have not yet been covered and we felt that this gap should be filled. The epidote mineral group consists of important rock-forming minerals such as clinozoisite and epidote, geochemical important accessory minerals such as allanite, and minerals typical for rare bulk compositions such as hancockite. Zoisite, the orthorhombic polymorph of clinozoisite, is included here because of its strong structural and paragenetic similarity to the epidote minerals. Epidote minerals occur in a wide variety of rocks, from near-surface conditions up to high- and ultrahigh-pressure metamorphic rocks and as liquidus phases in magmatic systems. They can be regarded as the low-temperature and high-pressure equivalent of Ca-rich plagioclase, and thus are equally important as this feldspar for petrogenetic purposes. In addition, they belong to the most important Fe3+ bearing minerals, and give important information about the oxygen fugacity and the oxidation state of a rock. Last but not least, they can incorporate geochemically relevant minor and trace elements such as Sr, Pb, REE, V, and Mn. The epidote minerals are undoubtedly very important from a petrogenetic and geochemical point of view, and have received a lot of attention in the last years from several working groups in the field of experimental studies and spectroscopic work. As a result, the thermodynamic database of epidote minerals has been significantly enlarged during the last decade. Recent studies have revealed the importance of zoisite in subduction zone processes as a carrier of H2O and suggested zoisite to be the main H2O source in the pressure interval between about 2.0 and 3.0 GPa. Many studies have shown that an understanding of trace element geochemical processes in high-pressure rocks is impossible without understanding the geochemical influence of the epidote minerals. Recent advances in microanalytical techniques have also shown that epidote minerals record detailed information on their geological environment. W. A. Deer, R. A. Howie and J. Zussmann edited the last comprehensive review on this mineral group almost 20 years ago in 1986. In 1990, on the occasion of the 125th anniversary of the discovery of the famous Knappenwand locality in the Tauern/Austria, an epidote conference was held in Neukirchen/Austria organized by the Austrian Mineralogical Society by V. Höck and F. Koller. In 1999, there was a special symposium at the EUG 10 in Strasbourg, convened by R. Gieré and F. Oberli, entitled Recent advances in studies of the epidote group that highlighted the relevance of the epidote minerals for Earth science. However, there are many open questions in the community regarding the epidote minerals and there is a need for a new overview that brings together the recent knowledge on this interesting group of minerals. The present volume of the Reviews in Mineralogy and Geochemistry reviews the current state of knowledge on the epidote minerals with special emphasis on the advances that were made since the comprehensive review of Deer et al. (1986). We hope that it will serve to outline the open questions and direction of future research. In the Introduction, we review the structure, optical data and crystal chemistry of this mineral group, all of which form the basis for understanding much of the following material in the volume. In addition, we provide some information on special topics, such as morphology and growth, deformation behavior, and gemology. Thermodynamic properties (Chapter 2, Gottschalk), the spectroscopy of the epidote minerals (Chapter 3, Liebscher) and a review of the experimental studies (Chapter 4, Poli and Schmidt) constitute the first section of chapters. These fields are closely related, and all three chapters show the significant progress over the last years, but that some of the critical questions such as the problem of miscibility and miscibility gaps are still not completely solved. This section concludes with a review of fluid inclusion studies (Chapter 5, Klemd), a topic that turned out to be of large interest for petrogenetic interpretation, and leads to the description of natural epidote occurrences in the second section of the book. These following chapters review the geological environments of the epdiote minerals, from low temperature in geothermal fields (Chapter 6, Bird and Spieler), to common metamorphic rocks (Chapter 7, Grapes and Hoskin) and to high- and ultrahigh pressure (Chapter 8, Enami, Liou and Mattinson) and the magmatic regime (Chapter 9, Schmidt and Poli). Allanite (Chapter 10, Gieré and Sorensen) and piemontite (Chapter 11, Bonazzi and Menchetti), on which a large amount of information is now available, are reviewed in separate chapters. Finally trace element (Chapter 12, Frei, Liebscher, Franz and Dulski) and isotopic studies, both stable and radiogenic isotopes (Chapter 13, Morrison) are considered. We found it unavoidable that there is some overlap between individual chapters. This is an inherited problem in a mineral group such as the epidote minerals, which forms intensive solid solutions between the major components of rock forming minerals as well as with trace elements.

Description / Table of Contents: The very successful orbital missions of the 1990's, Clementine and Lunar Prospector, provided key mineralogical, geochemical, and geophysical data sets that extended our view of the Moon beyond what we knew from Apollo and Luna exploration to a truly global perspective. These new data sets have been integrated with information gained from three preceding decades of study of lunar samples and older, less complete remotely sensed data sets. Although there have been no new lunar sample-return missions since Apollo and Luna, new samples are available in the form of meteorites, recognized to be pieces of the Moon. These, too, play a role in improved knowledge of the Moon and in helping to couple information obtained by remote sensing with information obtained from rock and soil samples. As we stand on the edge of a new era of lunar and planetary exploration, including new missions to the Moon, Mars, and other planets and moons, we find it essential to examine in depth how the wide variety of data sets obtained during the course of lunar exploration can be used together to better understand the formation of the Moon and how it evolved to its present state. Such an understanding holds important lessons for the new era of lunar exploration as well as the exploration of other planets in the Solar System. This will ultimately lead to better knowledge of how our own planet Earth - with its unique environment suitable for the origin and evolution of life - originated and changed with time. This book assesses the current state of knowledge of lunar geoscience, given the data sets provided by missions of the 1990's, and lists remaining key questions as well as new ones for future exploration to address. It documents how a planet or moon other than the world on which we live can be studied and understood in light of integrated suites of specific kinds of information. The Moon is the only body other than Earth for which we have material samples of known geologic context for study. This book seeks to show how the different kinds of information gained about the Moon relate to each other and also to learn from this experience, thus allowing more efficient planning for the exploration of other worlds.

Description / Table of Contents: This Special Publication arises from the UNESCO-sponsored IGCP 586-Y project ‘The tectonics and geomorphology of the Andes (32°–34°S): interplay between short-term and long-term processes’. It includes state-of-the-art reviews and original articles from a multidisciplinary perspective that investigate the complex interactions of tectonics and surface processes in the subduction-related orogen of the Andes of central Chile and Argentina (c. 27°–39°S). It aims to improve our understanding of tectonic and landscape evolution of the Andean range at different time scales, as well as the mutual relationship between internal and external mechanisms in Cenozoic deformation, mountain building, topographic evolution, basin development and mega-landslides occurrence across the flat slab to normal subduction segments. The geodynamic processes of the Andes of central Chile and Argentina are analysed from a number of subdisciplines of the Earth sciences, including tectonics, petrology, geophysics, geochemistry, structural geology, geomorphology, engineering geology, stratigraphy and sedimentology.

Description / Table of Contents: This volume presents a selection of papers showing the current focus of studies of deformation structures and processes within the continental crust. The selected contributions use a large range of analytical techniques suited to the full range of structure sizes and fine-tuned to the physical process that controls the deformation, from the grain boundary at the micro-scale, the lithological contact at the meso-scale to the plate boundary at the global scale. The papers in the volume are grouped into three sections relating to specific lines of research within the analysis of rock deformation structures and processes, in particular in respect to the continental crust: structures within shear zones and faults; magmatic structures, and microstructures and rheology. These sections include papers describing field studies, experimental rock deformation and numerical modelling of deformation processes.

Description / Table of Contents: This volume summarizes the state of the art of Variscan geology from Iberia to the Bohemian Massif. The European Variscan belt consists of two orogens: the older, northern and the younger, southern. The northern Variscan realm was dominated by Late Devonian–Carboniferous rifting, subduction and collisional events as defined by sedimentary records, crustal growth, recycling of continental crust and large-scale deformations. In contrast, the southern European crust was reworked by major Late Carboniferous collision followed by Permian wrenching. The Late Carboniferous–Permian orogeny overprinted the previously accreted system in the north, but with much lower intensity, resulting in magmatic recycling and extensional tectonics. These two main orogenic cycles do not reflect episodic evolution of a single orogenic system but a complete change in orientation of stress field, thermal regime, degree of reworking and recycling of European crust, reflecting a major switch in plate configurations at the Early–Late Carboniferous boundary.

Description / Table of Contents: Fundamentally concerned with place and our ability to understand human relationships with environment over time, Historical Geographic Information Systems (HGIS) as a tool and a subject has direct bearing on the study of contemporary social and environmental issues and realities. To date, HGIS projects in Canada are few and publications that discuss these projects directly even fewer. This book brings together case studies of HGIS projects in historical geography, social and cultural history, and environmental history from Canada’s diverse regions. Topics explored include religion and ethnicity, migration, indigenous land practices, rebuilding a nineteenth-century neighborhood, and working with Google Earth.

Description / Table of Contents: This book is an overview of the complex and multifaceted topic of natural disasters impact. Several possible approaches can be undertaken to assess economic, psychological, societal or environmental damage caused by natural disasters, aiming to reduce the effects of future events on the whole of these sectors. This book proposes a range of studies realized in different continents, showing various aspects from which natural disasters can be view, thus giving a measure of the complexity and multidisciplinary of the topic. It starts with a paper presenting a possible strategy to either avoid or reduce the vulnerability of concrete buildings during floods. Then, it continues with an insight into the communication during post-disaster emergency phase and with two chapters concerning the assessment of two different kinds of impact on people everyday life. The book ends with an analysis of the role of stakeholder participation in post-disaster reconstruction.

Description / Table of Contents: Oceanography is the par excellence interdisciplinary science thanks to its peculiar setting within a fluid environment that makes connections extremely efficient. The oceans connections are well mirrored in the chapters of this book that share a quite explicit multidisciplinary and multi-environmental character. The book provides chapters on very different topics under very different settings, some with a focused angle, others with a broader approach, yet all sharing the idea that we need to understand the small pieces in order to put together the big picture for a much larger mechanism, the functioning of the ocean as a whole.

Description / Table of Contents: We live in a world where the loss of sea ice and thawing of coastal grounds in the north, and renewed marine transgression and an increase in the frequency of extreme weather events globally, are becoming commonplace. This volume presents a timely examination of coasts, the geological environment at particular risk as global warming brings on this new reality. In 23 papers, low lying, mainly siliciclastic coasts are reviewed, described and analysed under a variety of climates in quasi-stable tectonic settings along passive, trailing-continental edges from Polar Regions to the Tropics. Examples include coasts of the Arctic seas, temperate to tropical eastern shores of the Americas, western Portugal, Mediterranean, Persian Gulf, South Africa and Australia. The entire coastal zone is considered, ranging from geophysical processes and products to biological entities including the adaption of inhabitants of various climatic zones. Knowledge of the state of the coasts now, and how the coastal plain has evolved since the Late Pleistocene, is crucial for any realistic planning for the future.

Description / Table of Contents: Micas are among the most common minerals in the Earth crust: 4.5% by volume. They are widespread in most if not all metamorphic rocks (abundance: 11%), and common also in sediment and sedimentary and igneous rocks. Characteristically, micas form in the uppermost greenschist facies and remain stable to the lower crust, including anatectic rocks (the only exception: granulite facies racks). Moreover, some micas are stable in sediments and diagenetic rocks and crystallize in many types of lavas. In contrast, they are also present in association with minerals originating from the very deepest parts of the mantle—they are the most common minerals accompanying diamond in kimberlites. The number of research papers dedicated to micas is enormous, but knowledge of them is limited and not as extensive as that of other rock-forming minerals, for reasons mostly relating to their complex layer texture that makes obtaining crystals suitable for careful studies with the modern methods time-consuming, painstaking work. Micas were reviewed extensively in 1984 (Reviews in Mineralogy 13, S.W. Bailey, editor). At that time, “Micas” volume …

Description / Table of Contents: Since the dawn of life on earth, organisms have played roles in mineral formation in processes broadly known as biomineralization. This biologically-mediated organization of aqueous ions into amorphous and crystalline materials results in materials that are as simple as adventitious precipitates or as complex as exquisitely fabricated structures that meet specialized functionalities. The purpose of this volume of Reviews in Mineralogy and Geochemistry is to provide students and professionals in the earth sciences with a review that focuses upon the various processes by which organisms direct the formation of minerals. Our framework of examining biominerals from the viewpoints of major mineralization strategies distinguishes this volume from most previous reviews. The review begins by introducing the reader to over-arching principles that are needed to investigate biomineralization phenomena and shows the current state of knowledge regarding the major approaches to mineralization that organisms have developed over the course of Earth history. By exploring the complexities that underlie the "synthesis" of biogenic materials, and therefore the basis for how compositions and structures of biominerals are mediated (or not), we believe this volume will be instrumental in propelling studies of biomineralization to a new level of research questions that are grounded in an understanding of the underlying biological phenomena.

Description / Table of Contents: The scientific discoveries that have been made with noble gas geochemistry are of such a profound and fundamental nature that earth science textbooks should be full of examples. Surprisingly, this really is not so. The "first discoveries" include presolar components in our _ solar system, extinct radionuclides, primordial volatiles in the Earth, the degassing history of Mars, secular changes in the solar wind, reliable present day mantle degassing fluxes, the fluxes of extraterrestrial material to Earth, groundwater paleotemperatures and the ages of the oldest landscapes on Earth. Noble gas geochemistry has scored so many such "firsts" or "home runs" that it should permeate a lot of earth science thinking and teaching. Yet rather surprisingly it does not. Noble gas geochemistry also is a broader and more versatile field than almost any other area of geochemistry. It pervades cosmochemistry, Earth sciences, ocean sciences, climate studies and environmental sciences. Yet most modern Earth, planetary and environmental science departments do not consider noble gas geochemistry to be at the top of their list in terms of hiring priorities these days. Furthermore, with the exception of Ar geochronologists, noble gas geochemists are a surprisingly rare breed. Why is the above the case? Perhaps the reasons lie in the nature of the field itself. First, although noble gas geochemists work on big problems, the context of their data is often woefully under-constrained so that it becomes hard to make progress beyond the first order fundamental discoveries. Noble gas data are often difficult to interpret. Although some concepts are straightforward and striking in their immediate implications (e.g. mantle 3He in the oceans), others are to this day shrouded in lack of clarity. The simple reason for this is that in many situations it is only the noble gases that offer any real insights at all and the context of other constraints simply does not exist. Some examples of the big issues being addressed by noble gases are as follows and I have deliberately posed these as major unresolved questions that only exist because noble gas geochemistry has opened windows through which to view large-scale issues and processes that otherwise would be obscure. (1) Is the presolar noble gas component present in a tiny fraction of submicroscopic meteoritic C or is it ubiquitously distributed? (2) How did solar noble gases get incorporated into the Earth? (3) How did solar noble gases survive the protracted accretion of the Earth via giant impacts? (4) What is the origin of the noble gas pattern in the Earth's atmosphere? (5) Why are the Earth and Mars almost opposites in terms of the relative isotopic differences between atmosphere and mantle? (6) What is the Eresent source of Earth's primordial helium? Can we ignore the core? (7) What is the 2~e/ 2Ne of the mantle, how was it acquired and why is it different from the atmosphere? (8) How does one reconcile the stronlJ fractionation in terrestrial Xe with data for other noble gases? (9) How much radiogenic Ar should the Earth have? How well do we know KIU? (10) Are the light isotopes of Xe the same in the mantle and the atmosphere? If not, why not? (11) How are noble gases transported through the creeping solid earth? (12) How does one explain the heat - helium paradox? (13) How incompatible are the noble gases during melting? (14) How are atmospheric components incorporated into volcanic samples? (15) How are the excess air components incorporated into groundwater? (16) Why are continental noble gas paleotemperature records offset from oceanic temperature records? Noble gas data tell us that the Earth and solar system represent very complex environments. When we make our simple first order conclusions and models we are only at the tip of the iceberg of discoveries that are needed to arrive at a thorough understanding of the behavior of volatiles in the solar system. Who wants to hear that things are complicated? Who wants to hire in a field that will involve decades of data acquisition and analysis in order to sort out the solar system? Sadly, too few these days. This is the stuff of deep scientific giants and bold, technically difficult long-term research programs. It is not for those who prefer superficiality and quick, glamorous, slick answers. Noble gas geochemists work in many areas where progress is slow and difficult even though the issues are huge. This probably plays a part in the limited marketability of noble gas geochemistry to the nonspecialist. Second, noble gases is a technically difficult subject. That is, noble gas geochemists need to be adept 11t technique development and this has to include skills acquired through innovation in the lab. Nobody can learn this stuff merely with a book or practical guide. Reading Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (by Robert Pirsig) would give you a clearer picture. This magnificent MSA-GS volume is going to be enormously useful but on its own it won't make anybody into a noble gas geochemist. Although the mass spectrometry principles are not complex, the tricks involved in getting better data are often self taught or passed on by working with individuals who themselves are pushing the boundaries further. Furthermore, much of the exciting new science is linked with technical developments that allow us to move beyond the current measurement capabilities. Be they better crushing devices, laser resonance time of flight, multiple collection or compressor sources - the technical issues are central to progress. Lastly, noble gas geochemists need a broad range of other skills in order to make progress. They have to be good at mass spectrometry as already stated. However, nowadays they also need to be able to understand fields as different as mantle geochemistry, stellar evolution, cosmochemistry, crustal fluids, oceanography and glaciology. They are kind of "Renaissance" individuals. Therefore, if you are thinking broadly about hiring scientists who love science and stand a good chance of making a major difference to our understanding of the solar system, earth and its environment - I would recommend you hire a really good noble gas geochemist. However, the results may take a while. If you want somebody who will crank out papers at high speed and quickly increase the publication numbers of your department then you may need to think about somebody else. The two are not mutually exclusive but think hard about what is really important. There was no short course associated with this volume, although an attempt was undertaken to get the volume printed in time for the V. M. Goldschmidt conference in Davos, Switzerland (mid-August 2002) at which there was a major symposium on noble gases.

Description / Table of Contents: As geomicrobiologists, we seek to understand how some of nature's most complex systems work, yet the very complexity we seek to understand has placed many of the insights out of reach. Recent advances in cultivation methodologies, the development of ultrahigh throughput DNA sequencing capabilities, and new methods to assay gene expression and protein function open the way for rapid progress. In the eight years since the first Geomicrobiology volume (Geomicrobiology: Interactions between microbes and minerals; volume 35 in this series) we have transformed into scientists working hand in hand with biochemists, molecular biologists, genome scientists, analytical chemists, and even physicists to reveal the most fundamental molecular-scale underpinnings of biogeochemical systems. Through synthesis achieved by integration of diverse perspectives, skills, and interests, we have begun to learn how organisms mediate chemical transformations, the ways in which the environment determines the architecture of microbial communities, and the interplay between evolution and selection that shapes the biodiversity of the planet. This volume presents chapters written by leaders in the rapidly maturing field we refer to as molecular geomicrobiology. Most of them are relatively young researchers who share their approaches and insights and provide pointers to exciting areas ripe for new advances. This volume ties together themes common to environmental microbiology, earth science, and astrobiology. The resesarch presented here, the associated short course, and the volume production were supported by funding from many sources, notably the Mineralogical Society of America, the Geochemical Society, the US Department of Energy Chemical Sciences Program and the NASA Astrobiology Institute.

Description / Table of Contents: Medical Mineralogy and Geochemistry is an emergent, highly interdisciplinary field of study. The disciplines of mineralogy and geochemistry are integral components of cross-disciplinary investigations that aim to understand the interactions between geomaterials and humans as well as the normal and pathological formation of inorganic solid precipitates in vivo. Research strategies and methods include but are not limited to: stability and solubility studies of earth materials and biomaterials in biofluids or their proxies (i.e., equilibrium thermodynamic studies), kinetic studies of pertinent reactions under conditions relevant to the human body, molecular modeling studies, and geospatial and statistical studies aimed at evaluating environmental factors as causes for activating certain chronic diseases in genetically predisposed individuals or populations. Despite its importance, the area of Medical Mineralogy and Geochemistry has received limited attention by scientists, administrators, and the public. The objectives of this volume are to highlight some of the existing research opportunities and challenges, and to invigorate exchange of ideas between mineralogists and geochemists working on medical problems and medical scientists working on problems involving geomaterials and biominerals. Examples presented in this volume (Table of contents below) include the effects of inhaled dust particles in the lung (Huang et al. 2006; Schoonen et al. 2006), biomineralization of bones and teeth (Glimcher et al. 2006), the formation of kidney-stones, the calcification of arteries, the speciation exposure pathways and pathological effects of heavy metal contaminants (Reeder et al. 2006; Plumlee et al. 2006), the transport and fate of prions and pathological viruses in the environment (Schramm et al. 2006), the possible environmental-genetic link in the occurrence of neurodegenerative diseases (Perl and Moalem 2006), the design of biocompatible, bioactive ceramics for use as orthopaedic and dental implants and related tissue engineering applications (Cerruti and Sahai 2006) and the use of oxide-encapsulated living cells for the development of biosensors (Livage and Coradin 2006).

Description / Table of Contents: Fluids rich in water, carbon and sulfur species and a variety of dissolved salts are a ubiquitous transport medium for heat and matter in the Earth’s interior. Fluid transport through the upper mantle and crust controls the origin of magmatism above subduction zones and results in natural risks of explosive volcanism. Fluids passing through rocks affect the chemical and heat budget of the global oceans, and can be utilized as a source of geothermal energy on land. Fluid transport is a key to the formation and the practical utilization of natural resources, from the origin of hydrothermal mineral deposits, through the exploitation of gaseous and liquid hydrocarbons as sources of energy and essential raw materials, to the subsurface storage of waste materials such as CO2. Different sources of fluids and variable paths of recycling volatile components from the hydrosphere and atmosphere through the solid interior of the Earth lead to a broad range of fluid compositions, from aqueous liquids and gases through water-rich silicate or salt melts to carbon-rich endmember compositions. Different rock regimes in the crust and mantle generate characteristic ranges of fluid composition, which depending on pressure, temperature and composition are miscible to greatly variable degrees. For example, aqueous liquids and vapors are increasingly miscible at elevated pressure and temperature. The degree of this miscibility is, however, greatly influenced by the presence of additional carbonic or salt components. A wide range of fluid–fluid interactions results from this partial miscibility of crustal fluids. Vastly different chemical and physical properties of variably miscible fluids, combined with fluid flow from one pressure – temperature regime to another, therefore have major consequences for the chemical and physical evolution of the crust and mantle. Several recent textbooks and review articles have addressed the role and diverse aspects of fluids in crustal processes. However, immiscibility of fluids and the associated phenomena of m ultiphase fluid flow are generally dealt with only in subsections with respect to specific environments and aspects of fluid mediated processes. This volume of Reviews in Mineralogy and Geochemistry attempts to fill this gap and to explicitly focus on the role that co-existing fluids play in the diverse geologic environments. It brings together the previously somewhat detached literature on fluid–fluid interactions in continental, volcanic, submarine and subduction zone environments. It emphasizes that fluid mixing and unmixing are widespread processes that may occur in all geologic environments of the entire crust and upper mantle. Despite different P-T conditions, the fundamental processes are analogous in the different settings.

Description / Table of Contents: The idea for this book was conceived in early June, 2005 at a paleoaltimetry workshop held at Lehigh University, Lehigh, Pennsyalvania and organized by Dork Sahagian. The workshop was funded by the tectonics program at NSF, and was designed to bring together researchers in paleoaltimetry to discuss different techniques and focus the community on ways of improving paleoelevation estimates and consequent interpretations of geodynamics and tectonics. At this meeting, some commented that a comprehensive volume describing the different methods could help advance the field. I offered to contact the Mineralogical Society of America and the Geochemical Society about publishing a RiMG volume on paleoaltimetry. Because many of the techniques used to infer paleoelevations are geochemically-based or deal with thermodynamic principles, the GS and MSA agreed to the project. Two years and roughly 1000 e-mails later, our book has arrived. The book is organized into 4 sections: (1) Geodynamic and geomorphologic rationale (Clark). This chapter provides the broad rationale behind paleoaltimetry, i.e., why we study it. (2) Stable isotope proxies. These 4 chapters cover theory of stable isotopes in precipitation and their response to altitudinal gradients (Rowley), and stable isotopes sytematics in paleosols (Quade, Garzione and Eiler), silicates (Mulch and Chamberlain) and fossils (Kohn and Dettman). (3) Proxies of atmospheric properties. These 4 chapters cover temperature lapse rates (Meyer), entropy (Forest), and atmospheric pressure proxies, including total atmospheric pressure from gas bubbles in basalt (Sahagian and Proussevitch), and the partial pressure of CO2 (Kouwenberg, Kürshner, and McElwain). Note that clumped isotope thermometry (Quade, Garzione and Eiler) also provides direct estimates of temperature. (4) Radiogenic and cosmogenic nuclides. These 2 chapters cover low-temperature thermochronologic approaches (Reiners) and cosmogenic isotopes (Riihimaki and Libarkin). Some chapters overlap in general content (e.g., basic principles of stable isotopes in precipitation are covered to different degrees in all stable isotope chapters), but no attempt was made to limit authors' discussion of principles, or somehow attempt to arrive at a "consensus view" on any specific topic. Because science advances by critical discussion of concepts, such restrictions were viewed as counterproductive. This does mean that different chapters may present different views on reliability of paleoelevation estimates, and readers are advised to read other chapters in the book on related topics – they may be more closely linked than they might at first appear! I hope readers of this book will discover and appreciate the synergy among paleoaltimetry, climate change, and tectonic geomorphology. These interrelationships create a complex, yet rich field of scientific enquiry that in turn offers insights into climate and geodynamics.

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

Description / Table of Contents: PAGEOPH, stratosphere, these differences provide us with new evidence, interpretation of which can materially help to advance our understanding of stratospheric dynamics in general. It is now weil established that smaller-scale motions-in particular gravity waves and turbulence-are of fundamental importance in the general circulation of the mesosphere; they seem to be similarly, if less spectacularly, significant in the troposphere, and probably also in the stratosphere. Our understanding of these motions, their effects on the mean circulation and their mutual interactions is progressing rapidly, as is weil illustrated by the papers in this issue; there are reports of observational studies, especially with new instruments such as the Japanese MV radar, reviews of the state of theory, a laboratory study and an analysis of gravity waves and their effects in the high resolution "SKYHI" general circulation model. There are good reasons to suspect that gravity waves may be of crucial significance in making the stratospheric circulation the way it is (modeling experience being one suggestive piece of evidence for this). Direct observational proof has thus far been prevented by the difficulty of making observations of such scales of motion in this region; in one study reported here, falling sphere observations are used to obtain information on the structure and intensity of waves in the upper stratosphere.

Description / Table of Contents: Knowledge of the relation between sonic velocity in sediments and rock lithology is one of the keys to interpreting data from seismic sections or from acoustic logs of sedimentary sequences. Reliable correlations of rock velocity with other petrophysical parameters, such as porosity or density, are essential for calculating impedance models for synthetic seismic sections (BIDDLE et al. , 1992; CAMPBELL and STAFLEU, 1992) or identifying the origin of reflectivity on seismic lines (SELLAMI et al. , 1990; CHRISTENSEN and SZYMANSKI, 1991). Velocity is thus an important parameter for correlating lithological with geophysical data. Recent studies have increased our understanding of elastic rock properties in siliciclastic or shaly sediments. The causes for variations in velocity have been investigated for siliciclastic rocks (VERNIK and NUR, 1992), mixed carbonate siliciclastic sediments (CHRISTENSEN and SZYMANSKI, 1991), synthetic sand-clay mixtures (MARION et aI. , 1992) or claystones (JAPSEN, 1993). The concepts derived from these studies are however only partly applicable in pure carbonates. Carbon­ ates do not have large compositional variations that are, as is the case in the other sedimentary rocks, responsible for velocity contrasts. Pure carbonates are character­ ized by the lack of any clay or siliciclastic content, but are mostly produced and deposited on the top or on the slope of isolated or detached carbonate platforms, that have no hinterland as a source of terrigeneous material (WILSON, 1975; EBERLI, 1991).

Description / Table of Contents: Vol. 157, 2000 spanning across disciplines and national boundaries gives cause for optimism. New participation in ACES to extend its existing synergies is welcomed. We wish to thank the scientific participants of The APEC Cooperation for Earthquake Simulation (ACES) and the contributors to this book. We express appreciation to the Australian, Chinese, Japanese and USA governments for supporting the establishment of ACES. We gratefully acknowledge funding support by the Australian government's Department of Industry, Science and Resources, The University of Queensland, Japan's Science and Technology Agency through its Research Organisation for Information Science and Technology, the Chinese Ministry of Science and Technology, and the National Science Foundation of China. We acknowledge with appreciation additional workshop sponsorship pro­ vided by SGI (Silicon Graphics). Special thanks to QUAKES team members (Tracy Paroz, David Place, Steffen Abe, Dion Weatherley and Steven Jaume) and Kim Olsen who provided assistance to the Editors. Peter Mora would also like to thank Evelyne Meier. REFERENCES I-st ACES Workshop Proceedings (1999), ed. Mora, P. (ACES, Brisbane, Australia, ISBN 1 86499 121 6), 554 pp. APEC Cooperation for Earthquake Simulation: http://quakes. earth. uq. edu. au/ACES ACES Inaugural Workshop: http://quakes. earth. uq. edu. au/ACES_ WS Raul Madariaga Peter Mora QUAKES Laboratoire de Geologie Department of Earth Sciences Ecole Normale Superieur The University of Queensland 24 Rue Lhomond 4072 Brisbane, Qld F-75231 Paris, Cedex 05 Australia France mora@earth. up. edu. au madariag@geologie. ens.

Description / Table of Contents: The 2011 Tohoku earthquake generated a tsunami that caused severe damage including 20,000 casualties in Japan. The tsunami also affected other Pacific coasts, including the Kuril Islands, the USA, French Polynesia, the Galapagos Islands, Australia, and New Zealand. This volume contains an introduction and 21papers, mostly presented at the 25th International Tsunami Symposium held 1-4 July 2011, only four months after the tsunami. They report seismological aspects of the event related to the tsunami warning, the tsunami impacts and effects in Japan and around the Pacific, analyses of instrumental tsunami data and modelling.

Description / Table of Contents: The 2010 tsunamis generated in Haiti, Chile, and Indonesia caused various damage on the coasts. In the past, the 1755 Lisbon, 1964 Alaska, and 2003 Algeria earthquakes also generated damaging tsunamis. This volume contains an introduction and 18 papers, mostly presented at the 25th International Tsunami Symposium held 1-4 July 2011. They report the above tsunamis and discuss tsunami DART observations, warning systems, risk management in the Pacific, modelling of earthquake and landslide tsunamis, and probabilistic tsunami hazard assessment.

Description / Table of Contents: Subduction zones consume oceanic lithosphere and are an indispensible part of plate tectonics. Unlike the oceanic lithosphere production system which can be linked as a nearly continuous, albeit sinuous, strand around the earth, subduction zones are a rather dissociated group and are found in several isolated corners of the world. While plate tectonics can predict that subduction zones are required along certain plate boundaries, it does not stipulate how subduction zones initiate and develop. The preservation of newly created oceanic lithosphere and the propensity for spreading centers to fragment continents leaves a wealth of geological informa­ tion on the initiation and evolution of spreading. On the other hand, the subject of subduction initiation has little observational basis. To find such observations, we need to look at some muddled tectonic regimes. The Macquarie Ridge complex presents a natural laboratory for studies of subduction initiation. 2. Tectonics of the Macquarie Ridge Complex The Macquarie Ridge complex is a complicated physiographic feature that trends approximately north-south between South Island, New Zealand and the Pacific-Antarctica spreading center. This feature consists of a sequence of troughs and ridges, with Macquarie Island as the only exposed expression. The seismically active Macquarie Ridge complex (hereafter: MRC) is crudely continuous with the Tonga-Kermadec-New Zealand seismic activity. The basic physiographic features and seismicity of the MRC are shown in Figure I. The earthquake epicenters generally cluster about the bathymetric expression of the MRC.

Description / Table of Contents: This book presents a series of numerical simulation studies of the earthquake generation process and the evaluation of the hazards caused by large earthquakes and tsunamis, drawn from three distinct topical areas. First, recent research results on earthquake source physics are introduced, which can be used as input for hazard evaluation studies. Then, propagation of seismic waves and tsunamis is discussed, connecting what happens at the source with the resulting damage. Finally, earthquake statistics for forecasting are discussed, a practical application of our knowledge for the mitigation of earthquake and tsunami disasters. This book is suitable for graduate students who are interested in the earthquake generation process and its application in the future. It also will serve researchers who want or need to know how to evaluate the damage due to earthquakes and tsunamis.

Description / Table of Contents: The special issue contains contributions presented at the international workshop Seismic waves in laterally inhomogeneous media IV, which was held at the Castle of Trest, Czech Republic, May 22-27, 1995. The workshop, which was attended by about 100 seismologists from more than 10 countries, was devoted mainly to the current state of theoretical and computational means of study of seismic wave propagation in complex structures. The special issue can be of interest for theoretical, global and explorational seismologists. The first part contains papers dealing with the study and the use of various methods of solving forward and inverse problems in complicated structures. Among other methods, discrete-wave number method, the finite-difference method, the edge-wave supperposition method and the ray method are studied and used. Most papers contained in the second part are related to the ray method. The most important topics are two-point ray tracing, grid calculations of travel times and amplitudes and seismic wave propagation in anisotropic media.

Description / Table of Contents: The 1957 great Aleutian earthquake.- The rupture process and tectonic implications of the great 1964 Prince William Sound earthquake.- Coseismic slip in the 1964 Prince William Sound earthquake A new geodetic inversion.- Seismicity trends and potential for large earthquakes in the Alaska-Aleutian region.- Rupture process of large earthquakes in the northern Mexico subduction zone.- Global variability in subduction thrust zone-forearc systems.- Large thrust earthquakes and volcanic eruptions.

Description / Table of Contents: The 1993 Southwest Hokkaido Earthquake of Magnitude 7. 9 (July 12, 22: 17 JST) caused serious tsunami disasters in the southwestern part of Hokkaido, particularly on Okushiri Island (a tiny island off the southwest coast of Hokkaido with a population of about 4,500 at the time of earthquake). Of 230 casualties, including 28 missing, about 200 deaths are attributable to the tsunami. We have conducted detailed field surveys of tsunami disasters to learn lessons from this costly natural experiment for the future prevention of similar tsunami disasters. Our field work was conducted in four surveys totaling 39 days. During the first field survey (July 16 through July 21, 1994), we worked mostly on the estimation of the subsidence of Okushiri Island during the earthquake. Hence, our main work on tsunami disasters initiated from the second field survey (July 31 through Aug. 15, 1994). Several groups have conducted detailed surveys of the distribution of tsunami runup height as measured from the level of sea water (TsUJI et al. , 1 994a, b; MATSUTOMI and SHUTO, 1994; GOTO et al. , 1994). Such a precise runup height distribution is essential for characterizing tsunami, including its overall size. Indeed, the height distribution is the fundamental data for inferring earthquake source parameters through the simulation of tsunami generation (TAKAHASHI et al. , 1994; IMAMURA et al. , 1994; TSUJI et al. , 1994a; SATAKE and TANIOKA 1994; ABE, 1994; TANIOKA et al. , in review).

Description / Table of Contents: TRANSMIT (Training Research and Applications Network to Support the Mitigation of Ionospheric Threats) is an initiative funded by the European Commission through a Marie Curie Initial Training Network. It provided a coordinated program of academic and industrial training, focused on atmospheric phenomena that can significantly impair a wide range of systems and applications that are at the core of several activities embedded in our daily life. TRANSMIT deals with the harmful effects of the ionosphere on these systems. Main aim of the project has been to develop a web based prototype demonstrator aiming to showcase the project research outcomes in a user friendly manner, through a series of model outputs and tools that could serve as the blueprint for a future service to assist users and industry to mitigate the effects of ionospheric threats to GNSS. This book is concerned with the TRANSMIT 2014 Workshop Appraisal of Scientific and Technological Output that took place in Torino (Italy) on February 2014, where a full update on the status of the prototype development and the next steps leading to its full implementation were provided.

Description / Table of Contents: The aim of this book is to demonstrate the use of SAR data in three application domains, i.e. land cover (Part II), topography (Part III), and land motion (Part IV). These are preceded by Part I, where an extensive and complete review on speckle and adaptive filtering is provided, essential for the understanding of SAR images. Part II is dedicated to land cover mapping. Part III is devoted to the generation of Digital Elevation Models based on radargrammetry and on a wise fusion (by considering sensor characteristic and acquisition geometry) of interferometric and photogrammetric elevation data. Part IV provides a contribution to three applications related to land motion.

Description / Table of Contents: This Special Publication contains 43 scientific studies presented at the 5th conference on ‘Clays in natural and engineered barriers for radioactive waste confinement’ held in Montpellier, France in 2012. The conference and this resulting volume cover all the aspects of clay characterization and behaviour considered at various temporal and spatial scales relevant to the confinement of radionuclides in clay, from basic phenomenological process descriptions to the global understanding of performance and safety at repository and geological scales. Special emphasis has been given to the modelling of processes occurring at the mineralogical level within the clay barriers. The papers in this Special Publication consider research into argillaceous media under the following topic areas: large-scale geological characterization; clay-based concept/large-scale experiments; hydrodynamical modelling; geochemistry; geomechanics; mass transfer/gas transfer; mass transfer mechanisms. The collection of different topics presented in this Special Publication demonstrates the diversity of geological repository research.

Description / Table of Contents: Preface --- 1. The Full-Scale Laboratory: The Practice of Post-Earthquake Reconnaissance Missions and Their Contribution to Earthquake Engineering --- 2. Rapid Earthquake Loss Assessment after Damaging Earthquakes --- 3. Existing Buildings: The New Italian Provisions for Probabilistic Seismic Assessment --- 4. Seismic Response of Precast Industrial Buildings --- 5. The Role of Site Effects at The Boundary Between Seismology and Engineering: Lessons from Recent Earthquakes --- 6. Seismic Analysis and Design of Bridges with an Emphasis to Eurocode Standards --- 7. From Performance- and Displacement-Based Assessment of Existing Buildings per EN1998-3 to Design of New Concrete Structures in Fib MC2010 --- 8. Testing Historic Masonry Structural Elements and/or Building Models --- 9. Earthquake Risk Reduction: From Scenario Simulators Including Systemic Interdependency to Impact Indicators --- 10. Physics-Based Earthquake Ground Shaking Scenarios in Large Urban Areas --- 11. A Seismic Performance Classification Framework to Provide Increased Seismic Resilience --- 12. Towards Displacement-Based Seismic Design of Modern Unreinforced Masonry Structures --- 13. Pushover Analysis for Plan Irregular Building Structures --- 14. Recent Development and Application of Seismic Isolation and Energy Dissipation and Conditions for Their Correct Use --- 15. Conservation Principles and Performance-Based Strengthening of Heritage Buildings in Post-Event Reconstruction --- 16. Earthquake Risk Assessment: Present Shortcomings and Future Directions --- 17. The Role of Pile Diameter on Earthquake-Induced Bending --- 18. Predictive Models for Earthquake Response of Clay and Quick Clay Slopes.- 19. Recent Advances in Seismic Soil Liquefaction Engineering --- 20. Seismic Hazard and Seismic Design and Safety Aspects of Large Dam Projects

Description / Table of Contents: This volume provides a synopsis of current research on volcanic processes, as gained through the use of palaeomagnetic and rock magnetic techniques. Thermoremanent magnetization information provides a powerful means of deciphering thermal processes in volcanic deposits, including estimating the emplacement temperature of pyroclastic deposits, which allows us to understand better the rates of cooling during eruption and transport. Anisotropy of magnetic susceptibility and anisotropy of remanence are used primarily to investigate rock fabrics and to quantify flow dynamics in dykes, lava flows, and pyroclastic deposits, as well as identify vent locations. Rock-magnetic characteristics allow correlation of volcanic deposits, but also provide means to date volcanic deposits and to understand better their cooling history. Because lava flows are typically good recorders of past magnetic fields, data from them allow understanding of changes in geomagnetic field directions and intensity, providing clues on the origin of Earth's magnetic field.

Description / Table of Contents: From Challenges to Sustainable Solutions for Upland Agriculture in Southeast Asia --- Beyond the Horizons - Challenges and Prospects for Soil Science and Soil Care in Southeast Asia --- Water and Matter Flows in Mountainous Watersheds of Southeast Asia: Processes and Implications for Management --- Agricultural Pesticide Use in Mountainous Areas of Thailand and Vietnam: Towards Reducing Exposure and Rationalizing Use --- Linkages between Agriculture, Poverty and Natural Resource Use in Mountainous Regions of Southeast Asia --- Mango and Longan Production in Northern Thailand: the Role of Water Saving Irrigation and Water Stress Monitoring --- Soil Conservation on Sloping Land: Technical Options and Adoption Constraints --- Improved Sustainable Aquaculture Systems for Small-scale Farmers in Northern Vietnam --- Participatory Approaches to Research and Development in the Southeast Asian Uplands: Potential and Challenges --- Integrated Modeling of Agricultural Systems in Mountainous Areas --- Rethinking Knowledge Provision for the Marginalized: Rural Networks and Novel Extension Approaches in Vietnam --- Policies for Sustainable Development: The Commercialization of Smallholder Agriculture

Description / Table of Contents: This volume addresses the challenges facing explorers and developers alike in a region that is becoming a major focus of the petroleum industry in the United Kingdom, Faroes and North Norway. Several West of Shetland fields are still in the appraisal phase almost a decade after discovery. Sub-volcanic exploration risks remain high: sub-volcanic structural traps are imaged poorly, and so the geophysical community is responding with the application of latest technology. The more simple reservoirs might not be large enough to prompt informed and speedy development decisions; larger fields might have a combination of complexities, requiring a phased approach to the development. Infrastructure has been slow to arrive and planned developments have been subject to dramatic swings in fiscal regime ranging from special allowances to unexpected tax increases. Environmental challenges are significant when moving into more remote, deeper water. The perception of these challenges by the third parties has become much more acute. To sustain its right to operate, the industry has to demonstrate safe drilling operations and appropriate response capability with government agencies.

Description / Table of Contents: Hydrogen may be the most abundant element in the universe, but in science and in nature oxygen has an importance that is disproportionate to its abundance. Human beings tend to take it for granted because it is all around us and we breathe it, but consider the fact that oxygen is so reactive that in a planetary setting it is largely unstable in its elemental state. Were it not for the constant activity of photosynthetic plants and a minor amount of photo dissociation in the upper atmosphere, we would not have an oxygen-bearing atmosphere and we would not be here. Equally, the most important compound of oxygen is water, without which life (in the sense that we know it) could not exist. The role of water in virtually all geologic processes is profound, from formation of ore deposits to igneous petrogenesis to metamorphism to erosion and sedimentation. In planetary science, oxygen has a dual importance. First and foremost is its critical role in so many fundamental Solar System processes. The very nature of the terrestrial planets in our own Solar System would be much different had the oxygen to carbon ratio in the early solar nebula been somewhat lower than it was, because elements such as calcium and iron and titanium would have been locked up during condensation as carbides, sulfides and nitrides and even (in the case of silicon) partly as metals rather than silicates and oxides. Equally, the role of water ice in the evolution of our Solar System is important in the early accretion and growth of the giant planets and especially Jupiter, which exerted a major control over how most of the other planets formed. On a smaller scale, oxygen plays a critical role in the diverse kinds of physical evolution of large rocky planets, because the internal oxidation state strongly influences the formation and evolution of the core, mantle and crust of differentiated planets such as the Earth. Consider that basaltic volcanism may be a nearly universal phenomenon among the evolved terrestrial planets, yet there are basalts and basalts. The basalts of Earth (mostly), Earth's Moon, Vesta (as represented by the HED meteorites) and Mars are all broadly tholeiitic and yet very different from one another, and one of the primary differences is in their relative oxidation states (for that matter, consider the differences between tholeiitic and calc-alkaline magma series on Earth). But there is another way that oxygen has proven to be hugely important in planetary science, and that is as a critical scientific clue to processes and conditions and even sources of materials. Understanding the formation and evolution of our Solar System involves reconstructing processes and events that occurred more than 4.5 Ga ago, and for which the only contemporary examples are occurring hundreds of light years away. It is a detective story in which most of the clues come from the laboratory analysis of the products of those ancient processes and events, especially those that have been preserved nearly unchanged since their formation at the Solar System's birth: meteorites; comets; and interplanetary dust particles. For example, the oxidation state of diverse early Solar System materials ranges from highly oxidized (ferric iron) to so reducing that some silicon exists in the metallic state and refractory lithophile elements such as calcium exist occur in sulfides rather than in silicates or carbonates. These variations reflect highly different environments that existed in different places and at different times. Even more crucial has been the use of oxygen 3-isotope variations, which began almost accidentally in 1973 with an attempt to do oxygen isotope thermometry on high-temperature solar nebula grains (Ca-, Al-rich inclusions) but ended with the remarkable discovery (see Clayton 2008) of non-mass-dependent oxygen isotope variations in high-temperature materials from the earliest Solar System. The presolar nebula was found to be very heterogeneous in its isotopic composition, and virtually every different planet and asteroid for which we have samples has a unique oxygen-isotopic fingerprint.

Description / Table of Contents: The ten articles in this book describe the mode of emplacement of various types of intrusions (salt diapirs, mud volcanoes and magmatic bodies) by means of theoretical reasoning, analogue and analytical modelling, interpretation of seismic and field data, and geodetic surveying. All the articles emphasize the role of regional tectonics in driving or controlling the emplacement of the intrusions. The selection of articles includes examples from Spain, Romania, onshore and offshore Italy, the Eastern Mediterranean, Israel and iran. Better understanding of the mode of emplacement of these intrusions has applications in hydrocarbon exploration (e.g., where salt structures or mud diapirs are present) and in the mining industry (where mineralization is related to the emplacement of batholiths).

Description / Table of Contents: Spectroscopy is the study of the interaction between matter and radiation and spectroscopic methods measure this interaction by measuring the radiative energy of the interaction in terms of frequency or wavelength or their changes. A variety of spectroscopic methods saw their first applications in mineralogical studies in the early 1960s and 1970s and since then have flourished where today they are routinely employed to probe both the general nature of mineralogical and geochemical processes as well as more atom specific interactions. In 1988, a Reviews in Mineralogy volume (Volume 18) was published on Spectroscopic Methods in Mineralogy and Geology by Frank Hawthorne (ed). The volume introduced the reader to a variety of spectroscopic techniques that, up to that time, were relatively unknown to most of the mineralogical and geochemical community. The volume was a great success and resulted in many of these techniques becoming main stream research tools. Since 1988, there have been many significant advances in both the technological aspects of these techniques and their applications to problems in Earth Sciences in general while the range and breadth of the techniques currently employed have greatly expanded since those formative years. The current volume compliments the original volume and updates many of the techniques. In addition, new methods such as X-ray Raman and Brillouin spectroscopy have been added, as well as non-spectroscopic chapters such as Transmission Electron Microscopy (TEM) and Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM) for completeness. The first chapter by Lavina et al. introduces the reader to current X-ray diffraction methods, while those of Newville and Henderson et al. separately cover the widely used techniques of EXAFS and XANES. The new in situ high-pressure technique of X-ray Raman is covered in the chapter by Lee et al. There is an emphasis in all these chapters on synchrotron based methods which continues in the Luminescence chapter by Waychunas. Chapters on high resolution TEM and its associated spectroscopies, and X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy are covered by Brydson et al., and Nesbitt and Bancroft, respectively. The study of mineral surfaces by Atomic Force Microscopy has been covered by Jupille. UV/Vis and IR spectroscopies are described in the chapters by Rossman, Clark et al., Della Ventura et al., and Hofmeister. Rossman’s chapter covers the basics of UV/Vis while Clark et al. describes the detection of materials in the Solar system utilizing UV and IR methods. Synchrotron-based IR imaging is covered by Della Ventura et al. and errors and uncertainties associated with IR and UV/Vis data are covered in the chapter by Hofmeister. Photon/phonon interactions such as Raman and Brillouin are outlined by Neuville et al. and Speziale et al. The latter technique is relatively new outside the fields of condensed matter and minerals physics but is gaining increasing use as interest in elastic properties and anomalous behaviors at high pressure continues to grow. The chapters by Stebbins and Xue, and Pan and Nilges outline the current status of magnetic resonance methods such as NMR and EPR, respectively. Finally the last three chapters have been included for completeness and cover the basics of the theoretical simulations that are carried out to investigate phases beyond accessible experimental pressure-temperature ranges, as well as aiding in the interpretation of experimental spectra (Jahn and Kowalski), the high pressure methods that are now commonly employed for many spectroscopic studies (Shen and Wang) and finally a chapter on methods used in high-temperature melt and crystallization studies (Neuville et al.).

Description / Table of Contents: Concepts and Models --- The falling stage systems tract: recognition and importance in sequence stratigraphic analysis / A. Guy Plint and Dag Nummedal / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 172, 1-17, 1 January 2000, https://doi.org/10.1144/GSL.SP.2000.172.01.01 --- Aspects of the stratal architecture of forced regressive deposits / Henry W. Posamentier and William R. Morris / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 172, 19-46, 1 January 2000, https://doi.org/10.1144/GSL.SP.2000.172.01.02 --- Palaeozoic-Mesozoic --- Carbonate megabreccias in a sequence stratigraphic context; evidence from the Cambrian of North Greenland / Jon R. Ineson and Finn Surlyk / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 172, 47-68, 1 January 2000, https://doi.org/10.1144/GSL.SP.2000.172.01.03 --- Shingled, sharp-based shoreface sandstones: depositional response to stepwise forced regression in a shallow basin, Upper Triassic Gassum Formation, Denmark / Lars Hamberg and Lars Henrik Nielsen / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 172, 69-89, 1 January 2000, https://doi.org/10.1144/GSL.SP.2000.172.01.04 --- The significance of the Etive Formation in the development of the Brent system: distinction of normal and forced regressions / Tina R. Olsen and Ron J. Steel / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 172, 91-112, 1 January 2000, https://doi.org/10.1144/GSL.SP.2000.172.01.05 --- Forced regressions: recognition, architecture and genesis in the Campanian of the Bighorn Basin, Wyoming / Roy Fitzsimmons and Steve Johnson / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 172, 113-139, 1 January 2000, https://doi.org/10.1144/GSL.SP.2000.172.01.06 --- Style contrast between forced regressive and lowstand/transgressive wedges in the Campanian of south-central Wyoming (Hatfield Member of the Haystack Mountains Formation) / Donatella Mellere and Ronald Steel / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 172, 141-162, 1 January 2000, https://doi.org/10.1144/GSL.SP.2000.172.01.07 --- Forward stratigraphic modelling of forced regressions: evidence for the genesis of attached and detached lowstand systems / R. B. Ainsworth, H. Bosscher and M. J. Newall / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 172, 163-176, 1 January 2000, https://doi.org/10.1144/GSL.SP.2000.172.01.08 --- Cenozoic --- Tectonically enhanced forced regressions: examples from growth folds in extensional and compressional settings, the Miocene of the Suez rift and the Eocene of the Pyrenees / Robert L. Gawthorpe, Matt Hall, Ian Sharp and Tom Dreyer / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 172, 177-191, 1 January 2000, https://doi.org/10.1144/GSL.SP.2000.172.01.09 --- Recognition and distinction of normal and forced regression in cyclothemic strata: a Plio-Pleistocene case study from eastern North Island, New Zealand / Douglas W. Haywick / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 172, 193-215, 1 January 2000, https://doi.org/10.1144/GSL.SP.2000.172.01.10 --- Response of Plio-Pleistocene mixed bioclastic-lithoclastic temperate-water carbonate systems to forced regressions: the Calcarenite di Gravina Formation, Puglia, SE Italy / Marcello Tropeano and Luisa Sabato / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 172, 217-243, 1 January 2000, https://doi.org/10.1144/GSL.SP.2000.172.01.11 --- Quaternary forced regression deposits in the Adriatic basin and the record of composite sea-level cycles / Fabio Trincardi and Annamaria Correggiari / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 172, 245-269, 1 January 2000, https://doi.org/10.1144/GSL.SP.2000.172.01.12 --- Depositional response to Quaternary fourth-order sea-level fluctuations on the Latium margin (Tyrrhenian Sea, Italy) / Francesco L. Chiocci / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 172, 271-289, 1 January 2000, https://doi.org/10.1144/GSL.SP.2000.172.01.13 --- Sequence stratigraphy and architecture of the Late Pleistocene Lagniappe delta complex, northeast Gulf of Mexico / V. Kolla, P. Biondi, B. Long and R. Fillon / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 172, 291-327, 1 January 2000, https://doi.org/10.1144/GSL.SP.2000.172.01.14 --- Seismic stratigraphy of the Gulf of Cádiz continental shelf: a model for Late Quaternary very high-resolution sequence stratigraphy and response to sea-level fall / F. J. Hernández-Molina, L. Somoza and F. Lobo / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 172, 329-362, 1 January 2000, https://doi.org/10.1144/GSL.SP.2000.172.01.15 --- Along-strike variability of forced regressive deposits: late Quaternary, northern Peloponnesos, Greece / Lesley S. McMurray and Robert L. Gawthorpe / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 172, 363-377, 1 January 2000, https://doi.org/10.1144/GSL.SP.2000.172.01.16

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

Description / Table of Contents: Tectonics of the Nanga Parbat syntaxis and the western Himalaya: an introduction / Peter J. Treloar, Michael P. Searle, M. Asif Khan and M. Qasim Jan / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 170, 1-6, 1 January 2000, https://doi.org/10.1144/GSL.SP.2000.170.01.01 --- The gravity field of the Karakoram Mountain Range and surrounding areas / A. Caporali / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 170, 7-23, 1 January 2000, https://doi.org/10.1144/GSL.SP.2000.170.01.02 --- Mafic sheets from Indian plate gneisses in the Nanga Parbat syntaxis: their significance in dating crustal growth and metamorphic and deformation events / P. J. Treloar, M. T. George and A. G. Whittington / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 170, 25-50, 1 January 2000, https://doi.org/10.1144/GSL.SP.2000.170.01.03 --- Structural evolution of the western margin of the Nanga Parbat massif, Pakistan Himalaya: insights from the Raikhot-Liachar area / R. W. H. Butler / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 170, 51-75, 1 January 2000, https://doi.org/10.1144/GSL.SP.2000.170.01.04 --- Tectonics of the SW margin of the Nanga Parbat-Haramosh massif / M. A. Edwards, W. S. F. Kidd, M. A. Khan and D. A. Schneider / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 170, 77-100, 1 January 2000, https://doi.org/10.1144/GSL.SP.2000.170.01.05 --- The evolution of the Main Mantle Thrust in the Western Syntaxis, Northern Pakistan / T. W. Argles / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 170, 101-122, 1 January 2000, https://doi.org/10.1144/GSL.SP.2000.170.01.06 --- Geological structure of the southern part of the Nanga Parbat massif, Pakistan Himalaya, and its tectonic implications / R. W. H. Butler, J. Wheeler, P. J. Treloar and C. Jones / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 170, 123-136, 1 January 2000, https://doi.org/10.1144/GSL.SP.2000.170.01.07 --- Geochronological constraints on the evolution of the Nanga Parbat syntaxis, Pakistan Himalaya / P. J. Treloar, D. C. Rex, P. G. Guise, J. Wheeler, A. J. Hurford and A. Carter / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 170, 137-162, 1 January 2000, https://doi.org/10.1144/GSL.SP.2000.170.01.08 --- Unroofing of the Nanga Parbat Himalaya / J. F. Shroder and M. P. Bishop / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 170, 163-179, 1 January 2000, https://doi.org/10.1144/GSL.SP.2000.170.01.09 --- Remote sensing and geomorphometric assessment of topographic complexity and erosion dynamics in the Nanga Parbat massif / M. P. Bishop and J. F. Shroder / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 170, 181-200, 1 January 2000, https://doi.org/10.1144/GSL.SP.2000.170.01.10 --- Tracing the origins of the western Himalaya: an isotopic comparison of the Nanga Parbat massif and Zanskar Himalaya / A. Whittington, N. B. W. Harris, M. W. Ayres and G. Foster / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 170, 201-218, 1 January 2000, https://doi.org/10.1144/GSL.SP.2000.170.01.11 --- From buckling to asymmetric folding of the continental lithosphere: numerical modelling and application to the Himalayan syntaxes / J.-P. Burg and Y. Podladchikov / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 170, 219-236, 1 January 2000, https://doi.org/10.1144/GSL.SP.2000.170.01.12 --- Mantle exhumation along the Tirich Mir Fault Zone, NW Pakistan: pre-mid-Cretaceous accretion of the Karakoram terrane to the Asian margin / A. Zanchi, S. Poli, P. Fumagalli and M. Gaetani / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 170, 237-252, 1 January 2000, https://doi.org/10.1144/GSL.SP.2000.170.01.13 --- New field, structural and geochronological data from the Shyok and Nubra valleys, northern Ladakh: linking Kohistan to Tibet / R. F. Weinberg, W. J. Dunlap and M. Whitehouse / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 170, 253-275, 1 January 2000, https://doi.org/10.1144/GSL.SP.2000.170.01.14 --- Geological evolution of the Hindu Kush, NW Frontier Pakistan: active margin to continent-continent collision zone / P. R. Hildebrand, M. P. Searle, Shakirullah, Zafarali Khan and H. J. Van Heijst / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 170, 277-293, 1 January 2000, https://doi.org/10.1144/GSL.SP.2000.170.01.15 --- Pre-collisional anastomosing shear zones in the Kohistan arc, NW Pakistan / L. Arbaret, J.-P. Burg, G. Zeilinger, N. Chaudhry, S. Hussain and H. Dawood / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 170, 295-311, 1 January 2000, https://doi.org/10.1144/GSL.SP.2000.170.01.16 --- Timing of magmatic and metamorphic events in the Jijal complex of the Kohistan arc deduced from Sm-Nd dating of mafic granulites / H. Yamamoto and E. Nakamura / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 170, 313-319, 1 January 2000, https://doi.org/10.1144/GSL.SP.2000.170.01.17 --- Isotopic constraints on the evolution of metamorphic conditions in the Jijal-Patan complex and the Kamila Belt of the Kohistan arc, Pakistan Himalaya / R. Anczkiewicz and D. Vance / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 170, 321-331, 1 January 2000, https://doi.org/10.1144/GSL.SP.2000.170.01.18 --- Formation of mélanges in the Indus Suture Zone, Ladakh Himalaya by successive subduction-related, collisional and post-collisional processes during Late Mesozoic-Late Tertiary time / A. H. F. Robertson / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 170, 333-374, 1 January 2000, https://doi.org/10.1144/GSL.SP.2000.170.01.19 --- The Main Mantle Thrust in Pakistan: its character and extent / J. A. DiPietro, A. Hussain, I. Ahmad and M. A. Khan / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 170, 375-393, 1 January 2000, https://doi.org/10.1144/GSL.SP.2000.170.01.20 --- Crustal shortening estimates across the north Indian continental margin, Ladakh, NW India / R. I. Corfield and M. P. Searle / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 170, 395-410, 1 January 2000, https://doi.org/10.1144/GSL.SP.2000.170.01.21 --- Glaucophane and barroisite eclogites from the Upper Kaghan nappe: implications for the metamorphic history of the NW Himalaya / B. Lombardo, F. Rolfo and R. Compagnoni / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 170, 411-430, 1 January 2000, https://doi.org/10.1144/GSL.SP.2000.170.01.22 --- Metamorphic evolution, 40Ar-39Ar chronology and tectonic model for the Neelum valley, Azad Kashmir, NE Pakistan / D. Fontan, M. Schouppe, C. J. Hunziker, G. Martinotti and J. Verkaeren / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 170, 431-453, 1 January 2000, https://doi.org/10.1144/GSL.SP.2000.170.01.23 --- Exotic conglomerates of the Neogene Siwalik succession and their implications for the tectonic and topographic evolution of the Western Himalaya / I. A. Abbasi and P. F. Friend / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 170, 455-466, 1 January 2000, https://doi.org/10.1144/GSL.SP.2000.170.01.24 --- Stratigraphic and tectonic evolution of the northwestern Indian plate and Kabul Block / M. S. Badshah, E. Gnos, M. Q. Jan and M. I. Afridi / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 170, 467-476, 1 January 2000, https://doi.org/10.1144/GSL.SP.2000.170.01.25

Description / Table of Contents: The chapters in this volume represent an extensive compilation of the material presented by the invited speakers at a short course on Diffusion in Minerals and Melts held prior (December 11-12, 2010) to the Annual fall meeting of the American Geophysical Union in San Francisco, California. The short course was held at the Napa Valley Marriott Hotel and Spa in Napa, California and was sponsored by the Mineralogical Society of America and the Geochemical Society. Because diffusion plays a critical role in numerous geological processes, petrologists and geochemists (as well as other geologists and geophysicists) often apply diffusion data and models in a range of problems, including interpretation of the age of rocks and thermal histories, conditions for formation and retention of chemical compositional and isotopic zoning in minerals, controls on bubble sizes in volcanic rocks, and processes influencing volcanic eruptions. A major challenge in the many applications of diffusion data is for researchers to find relevant and reliable data. For example, diffusivities determined in different labs may differ by orders of magnitude. Sometimes the differences are a result of limitations not recognized in certain diffusion studies due to the materials or methodologies used. For example, diffusivities determined through bulk analyses are often orders of magnitude greater than those obtained from directly measured diffusion profiles; the former are often affected by cracks, extended defects and/or other additional diffusion paths whose influence may not be recognized without direct profiling. Differences in depth resolution of analytical techniques may also contribute to discrepancies among measured diffusivities, as can the occurrence of non-diffusional processes (e.g., convection, crystal dissolution or surface reaction) that may compromise or complicate diffusion experiments and interpretations of results. Sometimes the discrepancies among datasets may be due to subtle variations in experimental conditions (such as differing oxygen fugacities, pressures, or variations in H2O content of minerals and melts used in respective experimental studies). Experts in the field may be able to understand and evaluate these differences, but those unfamiliar with the field, and even some experimental practitioners and experienced users of diffusion data, may have difficulty discerning and interpreting dissagreements among diffusion findings. For those who want to investigate diffusion through experiments, it is critical to understand the advantages and limitations of various experimental approaches and analytical methods in order to optimize future studies, and to obtain a clear sense of the "state of the art" to put their own findings in perspective with earlier work. Two early books were important landmarks in diffusion studies in geology. One was a special publication by Carnegie Institution of Washington edited by Hofmann et al. (1974) titled Geochemical Transport and Kinetics. The other was a Reviews of Mineralogy volume edited by Lasaga and Kirkpatrick (1981) titled Kinetics of Geochemical Processes. Various recent tomes are available on diffusion theory in metallurgy, chemical engineering, materials science, and geology (e.g., Kirkaldy and Young 1987; Shewmon 1989; Cussler 1997; Lasaga 1998; Glicksman 2000; Balluffi et al. 2005; Mehrer 2007; Zhang 2008) and the mathematics of solving diffusion problems (e.g., Carslaw and Jaeger 1959; Crank 1975). There have also been summaries of geologically relevant diffusion data (e.g., Freer 1981; Brady 1995), review articles and book chapters presenting diffusion data for specific mineral phases (e.g., Yund 1983; Giletti 1994; Cherniak and Watson 2003) and for specific species in minerals and melts (e.g., Chakraborty 1995; Cole and Chakraborty 2001; Watson 1994) and applications of diffusion in geology (e.g., Ganguly 1991; Watson and Baxter 2007; Chakraborty 2008). However, there is no single resource that reviews and evaluates a comprehensive collection of diffusion data for minerals and melts, and previously published summaries of geologically-relevant diffusion data predate the period in which a large proportion of the existing reliable diffusion data have been generated. This volume of Reviews in Mineralogy and Geochemistry attempts to fill this void. The goal is to compile, compare, evaluate and assess diffusion data from the literature for all elements in minerals and natural melts (including glasses). Summaries of these diffusion data, as well as equations to calculate diffusivities, are provided in the chapters themselves and/or in online supplements. Suggested or assessed equations to evaluate diffusivities under a range of conditions can be found in the individual chapters. The aim of this volume is to help students and practitioners to understand the basics of diffusion and applications to geological problems, and to provide a reference for and guide to available experimental diffusion data in minerals and natural melts. It is hoped that with this volume students and practitioners will engage in the study of diffusion and the application of diffusion findings to geological processes with greater interest, comprehension, insight, and appreciation. This volume begins with three general chapters. One chapter presents the basic theoretical background of diffusion (Zhang 2010), including definitions and concepts encountered in later chapters. This chapter is not meant to be comprehensive, as detailed, book-length treatments of diffusion theory can be found in other sources. Some discussion of advanced topics of diffusion theory and mechanisms can be found in individual chapters throughout the volume, including models for diffusion in melts (Lesher 2010), multi-species diffusion (Zhang and Ni 2010), multicomponent diffusion (Liang 2010; Ganguly 2010), and defect chemistry (Chakraborty 2010; Cherniak and Dimanov 2010; Van Orman and Crispin 2010). Diffusion data for minerals and melts are most commonly obtained through experimental studies which require analyses of the experimental products; these considerations are reflected in the topics of the next two chapters. For readers who are interested in carrying out experimental research or understanding experimental results and diffusion data, the second general chapter (Watson and Dohmen 2010) covers experimental methods in diffusion studies, with focus on nontraditional and emerging methods. Additional discussion of experimental methods in diffusion studies is provided in Ganguly (2010) and Farver (2010). The third general chapter reviews a range of analytical techniques applied in analyses of diffusion experiments (Cherniak et al. 2010). Experimental methods and analytical techniques are also described in other chapters in the context of discussion of specific diffusion studies. The next five chapters are on diffusion in melts (including glasses), focusing on natural melts relevant in geological systems. Zhang and Ni (2010) discuss the diffusion of H, C and O in silicate melts, which involves multi-species diffusion, where one species (such as molecular H2O) may contribute to the diffusion of two elements (such as H and O in this case). They also assess the relative importance of various diffusing species, and extract oxygen diffusion data in hydrous silicate melts from diffusion data for water. Behrens (2010) offers a thorough review and evaluation of noble gas diffusion data for natural silicate melts and industrial glasses. Lesher (2010) elaborates on the various diffusion models for self diffusion, tracer diffusion, isotopic diffusion and trace element diffusion. Zhang et al. (2010) summarize available diffusion data (focusing on effective binary diffusivities) of all elements in silicate melts. Liang (2010) presents a systematic assessment of multicomponent diffusion studies for silicate melts. The next eleven chapters review and evaluate diffusion data for minerals. Farver (2010) reviews H and O diffusion data for a range of mineral phases and examines the effect of oxygen, hydrogen and water fugacities on diffusion. Noble gas diffusion in minerals, notably diffusion of the important radiogenic nuclides 40Ar and 4He for application in closure temperature determinations and thermochronometry, is reviewed by Baxter (2010). Ganguly (2010) assesses cation diffusion data in garnet, with discussion of multicomponent diffusion in garnet and its geological applications. Chakraborty (2010) focuses on diffusion in (Fe,Mg)2SiO4 polymorphs (olivine, wadsleyite and ringwoodite) with a discussion of the role of defects in diffusion and the effects of pressure on diffusion in these phases. Diffusion of major and trace elements in pyroxenes, amphibole, and mica is discussed by Cherniak and Dimanov (2010). Cherniak (2010a) reviews diffusion data for feldspars, examining the effects of feldspar composition on diffusion in this common crustal mineral. Cherniak (2010d) summarizes diffusion data for the silicate phases quartz, melilite, silicate perovskite, and mullite. Van Orman and Crispin (2010) discuss diffusion in oxide minerals including periclase, magnesium aluminate spinel, magnetite, and rutile, and explore the intricacies of defect chemistry and its effects on diffusion in these deceptively simple compounds. Cherniak (2010b) reviews diffusion in the accessory minerals zircon, monazite, apatite, and xenotime, phases important in geochronologic studies. Diffusion in other minerals, including carbonates, sulfide minerals, fluorite and diamond, is reviewed by Cherniak (2010c). Brady and Cherniak (2010) take a broad overview of extant diffusion data for minerals, examining possible relations among diffusivities for various mineral phases and diffusants to assess trends and correlations that may be of value in developing or refining predictive models and empirical relations. The next two chapters discuss the specialized topics of grain-boundary diffusion and computational methods for determining diffusion coefficients. Dohmen and Milke (2010) present existing data for grain boundary diffusion in polycrystalline materials, discuss theoretical underpinnings and the different types of grain-boundary diffusion regimes, and outline mathematical treatments and experimental approaches for quantifying grain-boundary diffusion. Computation of diffusion coefficients using ab initio methods and molecular dynamics simulations are reviewed by De Koker and Stixrude (2010) with focus on recent progress and what the future may bring for these rapidly-developing techniques. The final chapter is devoted to geological applications of diffusion data (Mueller et al. 2010). The applications outlined include not only forward problems of applying diffusion theory and data to infer rates and extents of diffusion-related processes, but also inverse problems of thermochronology and geospeedometry.

Description / Table of Contents: D. H. Tarling: Introduction: sediments and diagenesis / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 151:1-8, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1999.151.01.21 --- C. M. Batt: Preliminary investigations into the acquisition of remanence in archaeological sediments / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 151:9-19, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1999.151.01.02 --- S. A. Pisarevsky: Studies of post-depositional remanent magnetization and their relevance to the palaeomagnetic record / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 151:21-26, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1999.151.01.03 --- Graham J. Borradaile: Viscous remanent magnetization of high thermal stability in limestone / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 151:27-42, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1999.151.01.04 --- Barbara A. Maher and Mark W. Hounslow: The significance of magnetotactic bacteria for the palaeomagnetic and rock magnetic record of Quaternary sediments and soils / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 151:43-46, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1999.151.01.05 --- Shmuel Marco, Hagai Ron, Michael O. McWilliams, and Mordechai Stein: The locking-in of remanence in upper Pleistocene sediments of Lake Lisan (palaeo Dead Sea) / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 151:47-52, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1999.151.01.06 --- J. Dinarès-Turell and M. J. Dekkers: Diagenesis and remanence acquisition in the Lower Pliocene Trubi marls at Punta di Maiata (southern Sicily): palaeomagnetic and rock magnetic observations / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 151:53-69, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1999.151.01.07 --- L. Vigliotti, L. Capotondi, and M. Torii: Magnetic properties of sediments deposited in suboxic-anoxic environments: relationships with biological and geochemical proxies / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 151:71-83, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1999.151.01.08 --- Michael Urbat, Mark J. Dekkers, and Simon P. Vriend: The isolation of diagenetic groups in marine sediments using fuzzy c-means cluster analyses / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 151:85-93, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1999.151.01.09 --- Gary S. Wilson and Andrew P. Roberts: Diagenesis of magnetic mineral assemblages in multiply redeposited siliciclastic marine sediments, Wanganui basin, New Zealand / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 151:95-108, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1999.151.01.10 --- P. Turner, P. Chandler, D. Ellis, G. P. Leveille, and M. L. Heywood: Remanence acquisition and magnetostratigraphy of the Leman Sandstone Formation: Jupiter Fields, southern North Sea / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 151:109-124, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1999.151.01.11 --- E. A. Hailwood, D. Bowen, F. Ding, P. W. M. Corbett, and P. Whattler: Characterizing pore fabrics in sediments by anisotropy of magnetic susceptibility analyses / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 151:125-126, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1999.151.01.12 --- F. Hrouda and J. Ježek: Magnetic anisotropy indications of deformations associated with diagenesis / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 151:127-137, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1999.151.01.13 --- Graham J. Borradaile, Philip W. Fralick, and France Lagroix: Acquisition of anhysteretic remanence and tensor subtraction from AMS isolates true palaeocurrent grain alignments / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 151:139-145, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1999.151.01.14 --- B. D’Argenio, V. Ferreri, M. Iorio, A. Raspini, and D. H. Tarling: Diagenesis and remanence acquisition in the Cretaceous carbonate sediments of Monte Raggeto, southern Italy / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 151:147-156, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1999.151.01.15 --- Emő Márton: Diagenesis in platform carbonate rocks: a palaeomagnetic study of an upper Triassic-lower Jurassic section, Tata (Hungary) / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 151:157-165, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1999.151.01.16 --- Alla Shogenova: The influence of dolomitization on the magnetic properties of Lower Palaeozoic carbonate rocks in Estonia / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 151:167-180, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1999.151.01.17 --- Herbert Haubold: Alteration of magnetic properties of Palaeozoic platform carbonate rocks during burial diagenesis (Lower Ordovician sequence, Texas, USA) / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 151:181-203, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1999.151.01.18 --- Glossary / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 151:205-208, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1999.151.01.19

Description / Table of Contents: Donald B. Mcintyre: James Hutton’s Edinburgh: a précis / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 150:1-12, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1999.150.01.01 --- Don L. Anderson: A theory of the Earth: Hutton and Humpty Dumpty and Holmes / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 150:13-35, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1999.150.01.02 --- Peter J. Wyllie: Hot little crucibles are pressured to reveal and calibrate igneous processes / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 150:37-57, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1999.150.01.03 --- Werner Schreyer: High-pressure experiments and the varying depths of rock metamorphism / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 150:59-74, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1999.150.01.04 --- Andrew J. Watson: Coevolution of the Earth’s environment and life: Goldilocks, Gaia and the anthropic principle / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 150:75-88, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1999.150.01.05 --- Ursula B. Marvin: Impacts from space: the implications for uniformitarian geology / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 150:89-117, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1999.150.01.06 --- Ian W. D. Dalziel: Vestiges of a beginning and the prospect of an end / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 150:119-155, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1999.150.01.07 --- S. K. Monro and A. J. Crosbie: The Dynamic Earth project and the next millennium / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 150:157-167, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1999.150.01.08 --- Robert H. Dott, Jr: Closing remarks for the Hutton bicentenary, Edinburgh / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 150:169-173, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1999.150.01.09 --- Dennis R. Dean: Hutton Scholarship, 1992–1997 / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 150:175-179, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1999.150.01.10

Description / Table of Contents: K. J. W. McCaffrey: Dave Johnston: an appreciation and bibliography / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 155:vii-viii, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1999.155.01.01 --- Lidia Lonergan, Jamie Wilkinson, and Ken McCaffrey: Fractures, fluid flow and mineralization: an introduction / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 155:1-6, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1999.155.01.02 --- Fracture Populations --- S. Roberts, D. J. Sanderson, and P. Gumiel: Fractal analysis and percolation properties of veins / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 155:7-16, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1999.155.01.03 --- Julia F. W. Stowell, Adrian P. Watson, and Neil F. C. Hudson: Geometry and population systematics of a quartz vein set, Holy Island, Anglesey, North Wales / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 155:17-33, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1999.155.01.04 --- P. A. Gillespie, J. D. Johnston, M. A. Loriga, K. J. W. McCaffrey, J. J. Walsh, and J. Watterson: Influence of layering on vein systematics in line samples / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 155:35-56, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1999.155.01.05 --- Maria Antonietta Loriga: Scaling systematics of vein size: an example from the Guanajuato mining district (Central Mexico) / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 155:57-67, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1999.155.01.06 --- Fluid Flow and Fracture Systems --- David J. Sanderson and Xing Zhang: Critical stress localization of flow associated with deformation of well-fractured rock masses, with implications for mineral deposits / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 155:69-81, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1999.155.01.07 --- Mark A. Jones, Alec B. Pringle, Iain M. Fulton, and Shane O’Neill: Discrete fracture network modelling applied to groundwater resource exploitation in southwest Ireland / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 155:83-103, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1999.155.01.08 --- Peter Connolly and John Cosgrove: Prediction of static and dynamic fluid pathways within and around dilational jogs / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 155:105-121, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1999.155.01.09 --- Structural Controls on Mineralization --- Stephen F. Cox: Deformational controls on the dynamics of fluid flow in mesothermal gold systems / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 155:123-140, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1999.155.01.10 --- Tom G. Blenkinsop and David J. Sanderson: Are gold deposits in the crust fractals? A study of gold mines in the Zimbabwe craton / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 155:141-151, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1999.155.01.11 --- S. J. Jolley, I. H. C. Henderson, A. C. Barnicoat, and N. P. C. Fox: Thrust-fracture network and hydrothermal gold mineralization: Witwatersrand Basin, South Africa / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 155:153-165, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1999.155.01.12 --- Piergiorgio Rossetti and Fabrizio Colombo: Adularia-sericite gold deposits of Marmato (Caldas, Colombia): field and petrographical data / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 155:167-182, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1999.155.01.13 --- Yannick Branquet, Alain Cheilletz, Gaston Giuliani, Bernard Laumonier, and Oscar Blanco: Fluidized hydrothermal breccia in dilatant faults during thrusting: the Colombian emerald deposits / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 155:183-195, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1999.155.01.14 --- M. A. N. Brown, R. J. H. Jolly, W. Stone, and M. P. Coward: Nickel ore troughs in Archaean volcanic rocks, Kambalda, Western Australia: indicators of early extension / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 155:197-211, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1999.155.01.15 --- I. R. Colke, J. Craig, and D. J. Blundell: Structural controls on the hydrocarbon and mineral deposits within the Kutai Basin, East Kalimantan / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 155:213-232, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1999.155.01.16 --- Irish Zn/Pb Deposits: Structure and Fluid Flow --- Murray W. Hitzman: Extensional faults that localize Irish syndiagenetic Zn-Pb Deposits and their reactivation during Variscan compression / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 155:233-245, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1999.155.01.17 --- C. E. Everett, J. J. Wilkinson, and D. M. Rye: Fracture-controlled fluid flow in the Lower Palaeozoic basement rocks of Ireland: implications for the genesis of Irish-type Zn-Pb deposits / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 155:247-276, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1999.155.01.18 --- Helen Lewis and Gary D. Couples: Carboniferous basin evolution of central Ireland — simulation of structural controls on mineralization / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 155:277-302, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1999.155.01.19 --- G. D. Sevastopulo and P. Redmond: Age of mineralization of carbonate-hosted, base metal deposits in the Rathdowney Trend, Ireland / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 155:303-311, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1999.155.01.20 --- B. M. O’Reilly, P. W. Readman, and T. Murphy: Gravity lineaments and Carboniferous-hosted base metal deposits of the Irish Midlands / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 155:313-321, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1999.155.01.21

Description / Table of Contents: Nick Cameron, Ray Bate, Val Clure, and Jeremy Benton: Oil and gas habitats of the South Atlantic: Introduction / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 153:1-9, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1999.153.01.01 --- The Geological and Geophysical Framework --- Garry D. Karner and Neal W. Driscoll: Tectonic and stratigraphic development of the West African and eastern Brazilian Margins: insights from quantitative basin modelling / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 153:11-40, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1999.153.01.02 --- Kerry Gallagher and Roderick Brown: The Mesozoic denudation history of the Atlantic margins of southern Africa and southeast Brazil and the relationship to offshore sedimentation / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 153:41-53, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1999.153.01.03 --- Renato M. Darros de Matos: History of the northeast Brazilian rift system: kinematic implications for the break-up between Brazil and West Africa / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 153:55-73, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1999.153.01.04 --- Bruce R. Rosendahl and Henrike Groschel-Becker: Deep seismic structure of the continental margin in the Gulf of Guinea: a summary report / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 153:75-83, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1999.153.01.05 --- R. Crossley and D. Cripps: Templates from mainland Africa and the Red Sea for interpreting the early evolution of the South Atlantic / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 153:85-96, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1999.153.01.06 --- Oil and Gas Habitats --- P. Dolan: Western Africa: an unfinished story of oil and gas exploration / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 153:97-99, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1999.153.01.07 --- M. P. Coward, E. G. Purdy, A. C. Ries, and D. G. Smith: The distribution of petroleum reserves in basins of the South Atlantic margins / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 153:101-131, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1999.153.01.08 --- Ian Davison: Tectonics and hydrocarbon distribution along the Brazilian South Atlantic margin / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 153:133-151, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1999.153.01.09 --- Eric H. A. Jungslager: Petroleum habitats of the Atlantic margin of South Africa / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 153:153-168, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1999.153.01.10 --- Organic Geochemistry --- C. F. Schiefelbein, J. E. Zumberge, N. R. Cameron, and S. W. Brown: Petroleum systems in the South Atlantic margins / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 153:169-179, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1999.153.01.11 --- R. Burwood: Angola: source rock control for Lower Congo Coastal and Kwanza Basin petroleum systems / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 153:181-194, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1999.153.01.12 --- Applications --- Ann Holbourn, Wolfgang Kuhnt, Abderrazzak El Albani, Thomas Pletsch, Florian Luderer, and Thomas Wagner: Upper Cretaceous palaeoenvironments and benthonic foraminiferal assemblages of potential source rocks from the western African margin, Central Atlantic / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 153:195-222, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1999.153.01.13 --- A. El Albani, W. Kuhnt, F. Luderer, J. P. Herbin, and M. Caron: Palaeoenvironmental evolution of the Late Cretaceous sequence in the Tarfaya Basin (southwest of Morocco) / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 153:223-240, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1999.153.01.14 --- Thomas Wagner and Thomas Pletsch: Tectono-sedimentary controls on Cretaceous black shale deposition along the opening Equatorial Atlantic Gateway (ODP Leg 159) / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 153:241-265, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1999.153.01.15 --- R. C. Preece, M. A. Kaminski, and T. W. Dignes: Miocene benthonic foraminiferal morphogroups in an oxygen minimum zone, offshore Cabinda / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 153:267-282, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1999.153.01.16 --- Raymond H. Bate: Non-marine ostracod assemblages of the Pre-Salt rift basins of West Africa and their role in sequence stratigraphy / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 153:283-292, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1999.153.01.17 --- R. V. Dingle: Walvis Ridge barrier: its influence on palaeoenvironments and source rock generation deduced from ostracod distributions in the early South Atlantic Ocean / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 153:293-302, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1999.153.01.18 --- Exploration Studies and Issues --- Jonathan P. Turner: Detachment faulting and petroleum prospectivity in the Rio Muni Basin, Equatorial Guinea, West Africa / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 153:303-320, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1999.153.01.19 --- Joanne Bagguley and Sarah Prosser: The interpretation of passive margin depositional processes using seismic stratigraphy: examples from offshore Namibia / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 153:321-344, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1999.153.01.20 --- I. G. Stanistreet and H. Stollhofen: Onshore equivalents of the main Kudu gas reservoir in Namibia / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 153:345-365, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1999.153.01.21 --- Dougal A. Jerram, Nigel Mountney, and Harald Stollhofen: Facies architecture of the Etjo Sandstone Formation and its interaction with the Basal Etendeka Flood Basalts of northwest Namibia: implications for offshore prospectivity / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 153:367-380, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1999.153.01.22 --- J. Clemson, J. Cartwright, and R. Swart: The Namib Rift: a rift system of possible Karoo age, offshore Namibia / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 153:381-402, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1999.153.01.23 --- P. F. Barker: Falkland Plateau evolution and a mobile southernmost South America / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 153:403-408, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1999.153.01.24 --- S. R. Lawrence, M. Johnson, S. R. Tubb, and S. J. Marshallsea: Tectono-stratigraphic evolution of the North Falkland region / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 153:409-424, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1999.153.01.25 --- P. J. E. Bransden, P. Burges, M. J. Durham, and J. G. Hall: Evidence for multi-phase rifting in the North Falklands Basin / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 153:425-443, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1999.153.01.26 --- Neil S. Meadows: Basin evolution and sedimentary fill in the Palaeozoic sequences of the Falkland Islands / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 153:445-464, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1999.153.01.27

Description / Table of Contents: Eulàlia Gràcia, Lindsay M. Parson, Daniel Bideau, and Roger Hekinian: Volcano-tectonic variability along segments of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge between Azores platform and Hayes fracture zone: evidence from submersible and high-resolution sidescan sonar data / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 148:1-15, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1998.148.01.01 --- J. S. Collier and S. C. Singh: A seismic inversion study of the axial magma chamber reflector beneath the East Pacific Rise near 10°N / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 148:17-28, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1998.148.01.02 --- S. Allerton and C. J. Macleod: Fault-controlled magma transport through the mantle lithosphere at slow-spreading ridges / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 148:29-42, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1998.148.01.03 --- Yildirim Dilek and Peter Thy: Structure, petrology and seafloor spreading tectonics of the Kizildag Ophiolite, Turkey / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 148:43-69, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1998.148.01.04 --- T. A. Minshull, M. R. Muller, C. J. Robinson, R. S. White, and M. J. Bickle: Is the oceanic Moho a serpentinization front? / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 148:71-80, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1998.148.01.05 --- D. A. H. Teagle, J. C. Alt, and A. N. Halliday: Tracing the evolution of hydrothermal fluids in the upper oceanic crust: Sr-isotopic constraints from DSDP/ODP Holes 504B and 896A / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 148:81-97, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1998.148.01.06 --- A. G. Hunter and DP Leg 168 Scientific Party: Petrological investigations of low temperature hydrothermal alteration of the upper crust, Juan de Fuca Ridge, ODP Leg 168 / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 148:99-125, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1998.148.01.07 --- M. J. Bickle, D. A. H. Teagle, J. Beynon, and H. J. Chapman: The structure and controls on fluid-rock interactions in ocean ridge hydrothermal systems: constraints from the Troodos ophiolite / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 148:127-152, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1998.148.01.08 --- D. M. Wells, R. A. Mills, and S. Roberts: Rare earth element mobility in a mineralized alteration pipe within the Troodos ophiolite, Cyprus / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 148:153-176, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1998.148.01.09 --- R. H. James, R. C. Duckworth, M. R. Palmer, and The ODP Leg 169 Shipboard Scientific Party: Drilling of sediment-hosted massive sulphide deposits at the Middle Valley and Escanaba Trough spreading centres: ODP Leg 169 / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 148:177-199, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1998.148.01.10 --- H. C. Goulding, R. A. Mills, and R. W. Nesbitt: Precipitation of hydrothermal sediments on the active TAG mound: implications for ochre formation / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 148:201-216, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1998.148.01.11 --- A. Robertson and P. Degnan: Significance of modern and ancient oceanic Mn-rich hydrothermal sediments, exemplified by Jurassic Mn-cherts from Southern Greece / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 148:217-240, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1998.148.01.12 --- R. J. Herrington, V. V. Maslennikov, B. Spiro, V. V. Zaykov, and C. T. S. Little: Ancient vent chimney structures in the Silurian massive sulphides of the Urals / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 148:241-257, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1998.148.01.13 --- C. T. S. Little, R. J. Herrington, V. V. Maslennikov, and V. V. Zaykov: The fossil record of hydrothermal vent communities / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 148:259-270, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1998.148.01.14 --- A. G. McArthur and V. Tunnicliffe: Relics and antiquity revisited in the modern vent fauna / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 148:271-291, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1998.148.01.15

Description / Table of Contents: J. F. Dewey, R. E. Holdsworth, and R. A. Strachan: Transpression and transtension zones / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 135:1-14, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1998.135.01.01 --- Modelling Transpression and Transtension --- Haakon Fossen and Basil Tikoff: Extended models of transpression and transtension, and application to tectonic settings / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 135:15-33, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1998.135.01.02 --- Richard R. Jones and Robert E. Holdsworth: Oblique simple shear in transpression zones / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 135:35-40, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1998.135.01.03 --- Shoufa Lin, Dazhi Jiang, and Paul F. Williams: Transpression (or transtension) zones of triclinic symmetry: natural example and theoretical modelling / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 135:41-57, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1998.135.01.04 --- Guido Schreurs and Bernard Colletta: Analogue modelling of faulting in zones of continental transpression and transtension / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 135:59-79, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1998.135.01.05 --- Continental Transform Zones --- R. W. H. Butler, S. Spencer, and H. M. Griffiths: The structural response to evolving plate kinematics during transpression: evolution of the Lebanese restraining bend of the Dead Sea Transform / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 135:81-106, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1998.135.01.06 --- Enrico Tavarnelli: Tectonic evolution of the Northern Salinian Block, California, USA: Paleogene to Recent shortening in a transform fault-bounded continental fragment / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 135:107-118, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1998.135.01.07 --- Derek Rust: Contractional and extensional structures in the transpressive ‘Big Bend’ of the San Andreas fault, southern California / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 135:119-126, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1998.135.01.08 --- Jurriaan Reijs and Ken McClay: Salar Grande pull-apart basin, Atacama Fault System, northern Chile / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 135:127-141, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1998.135.01.09 --- Christian Teyssier and Basil Tikoff: Strike-slip partitioned transpression of the San Andreas fault system: a lithospheric-scale approach / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 135:143-158, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1998.135.01.10 --- Oblique Divergence Zones --- Maarten Krabbendam and John F. Dewey: Exhumation of UHP rocks by transtension in the Western Gneiss Region, Scandinavian Caledonides / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 135:159-181, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1998.135.01.11 --- Roy K. Dokka, Timothy M. Ross, and Gang Lu: The Trans Mojave-Sierran shear zone and its role in Early Miocene collapse of southwestern North America / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 135:183-202, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1998.135.01.12 --- M. K. Watkeys and D. Sokoutis: Transtension in southeastern Africa associated with Gondwana break-up / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 135:203-214, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1998.135.01.13 --- Mark B. Allen, David I. M. Macdonald, Zhao Xun, Stephen J. Vincent, and Christine Brouet-Menzies: Transtensional deformation in the evolution of the Bohai Basin, northern China / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 135:215-229, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1998.135.01.14 --- Oblique Convergence Zones --- Hans Dirk Ebert and Yociteru Hasui: Transpressional tectonics and strain partitioning during oblique collision between three plates in the Precambrian of southeast Brazil / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 135:231-252, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1998.135.01.15 --- Rod Gayer, Tanya Hathaway, and Michal Nemcok: Transpressionally driven rotation in the external orogenic zones of the Western Carpathians and the SW British Variscides / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 135:253-266, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1998.135.01.16 --- G. Gleizes, D. Leblanc, and J. L. Bouchez: The main phase of the Hercynian orogeny in the Pyrenees is a dextral transpression / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 135:267-273, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1998.135.01.17 --- David C. Tanner, Jan H. Behrmann, Onno Oncken, and Klaus Weber: Three-dimensional retro-modelling of transpression on a linked fault system: the Upper Cretaceous deformation on the western border of the Bohemian Massif, Germany / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 135:275-287, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1998.135.01.18 --- M. L. Curtis: Development of kinematic partitioning within a pure-shear dominated dextral transpression zone: the southern Ellsworth Mountains, Antarctica / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 135:289-306, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1998.135.01.19 --- M. P. Searle, R. F. Weinberg, and W. J. Dunlap: Transpressional tectonics along the Karakoram fault zone, northern Ladakh: constraints on Tibetan extrusion / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 135:307-326, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1998.135.01.20 --- Michel De Saint Blanquat, Basil Tikoff, Christian Teyssier, and Jean Louis Vigneresse: Transpressional kinematics and magmatic arcs / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 135:327-340, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1998.135.01.21 --- Marcello Schiattarella: Quaternary tectonics of the Pollino Ridge, Calabria-Lucania boundary, southern Italy / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 135:341-354, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1998.135.01.22

Description / Table of Contents: J. S. Gilbert and R. S. J. Sparks: Future research directions on the physics of explosive volcanic eruptions / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 145:1-7, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1996.145.01.01 --- Donald B. Dingwell: Recent experimental progress in the physical description of silicic magma relevant to explosive volcanism / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 145:9-26, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1996.145.01.02 --- Oded Navon and Vladimir Lyakhovsky: Vesiculation processes in silicic magmas / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 145:27-50, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1996.145.01.03 --- H. M. Mader: Conduit flow and fragmentation / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 145:51-71, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1996.145.01.04 --- C. Jaupart: Gas loss from magmas through conduit walls during eruption / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 145:73-90, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1996.145.01.05 --- Andrew W. Woods: Observations and models of volcanic eruption columns / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 145:91-114, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1996.145.01.06 --- M. Bursik: Tephra dispersal / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 145:115-144, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1996.145.01.07 --- T. H. Druitt: Pyroclastic density currents / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 145:145-182, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1996.145.01.08

Description / Table of Contents: W. R. Peltier: Global glacial isostatic adjustment and coastal tectonics / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 146:1-29, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1999.146.01.01 --- John Chappell, Yoko Ota, and Colin Campbell: Decoupling post-glacial tectonism and eustasy at Huon Peninsula, Papua New Guinea / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 146:31-40, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1999.146.01.02 --- Steven Soter: Holocene uplift and subsidence of the Helike Delta, Gulf of Corinth, Greece / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 146:41-56, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1999.146.01.03 --- M. A. Trecker, L. D. Gurrola, and E. A. Keller: Oxygen-isotope correlation of marine terraces and uplift of the Mesa hills, Santa Barbara, California, USA / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 146:57-69, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1999.146.01.04 --- Paola Bordoni and Gianluca Valensise: Deformation of the 125 ka marine terrace in Italy: tectonic implications / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 146:71-110, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1999.146.01.05 --- Yves Cornet and Alain Demoulin: Neotectonic implications of a lineament-coplanarity analysis in southern Calabria, Italy / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 146:111-127, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1999.146.01.06 --- N. C. Flemming: Archaeological evidence for vertical movement on the continental shelf during the Palaeolithic, Neolithic and Bronze Age periods / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 146:129-146, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1999.146.01.07 --- Ehud Galili and Jacob Sharvit: Ancient coastal installations and the tectonic stability of the Israeli coast in historical times / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 146:147-163, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1999.146.01.08 --- G. R. Foulger and M. A. Hofton: Regional vertical motion in Iceland 1987–1992, determined using GPS surveying / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 146:165-178, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1999.146.01.09 --- Antony R. Orme: Late Quaternary tectonism along the Pacific coast of the Californias: a contrast in style / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 146:179-197, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1999.146.01.10 --- Glenn D. Thackray: Convergent-margin deformation of Pleistocene strata on the Olympic coast of Washington, USA / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 146:199-211, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1999.146.01.11 --- Dorothy Merritts, Rebecca Eby, Ron Harris, R. Lawrence Edwards, and Hai Chang: Variable rates of Late Quaternary surface uplift along the Banda Arc-Australian plate collision zone, eastern Indonesia / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 146:213-224, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1999.146.01.12 --- J. L. Reyss, P. A. Pirazzoli, A. Haghipour, C. Hatté, and M. Fontugne: Quaternary marine terraces and tectonic uplift rates on the south coast of Iran / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 146:225-237, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1999.146.01.13 --- Mustapha Meghraoui, Fatima Outtani, Abdelmajid Choukri, and Dominique Frizon De Lamotte: Coastal Tectonics across the South Atlas Thrust Front and the Agadir Active Zone, Morocco / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 146:239-253, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1999.146.01.14 --- C. V. Murray-Wallace, A. P. Belperio, and J. H. Cann: Quaternary neotectonism and intra-plate volcanism: the Coorong to Mount Gambier Coastal Plain, southeastern Australia: a review / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 146:255-267, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1999.146.01.15 --- P. D. Nunn: Late Cenozoic emergence of the islands of the northern Lau-Colville Ridge, southwest Pacific / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 146:269-278, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1999.146.01.16 --- Francisco H. R. Bezerra, Francisco P. Lima-Filho, Ricardo F. Amaral, Luciano H. O. Caldas, and Leão X. Costa-Neto: Holocene coastal tectonics in NE Brazil / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 146:279-293, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1999.146.01.17 --- Roger Bilham: Slip parameters for the Rann of Kachchh, India, 16 June 1819, earthquake, quantified from contemporary accounts / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 146:295-319, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1999.146.01.18 --- Lisa C. McNeill, Chris Goldfinger, Robert S. Yeats, and Laverne D. Kulm: The effects of upper plate deformation on records of prehistoric Cascadia subduction zone earthquakes / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 146:321-342, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1999.146.01.19 --- Dale Dominey-Howes, Alastair Dawson, and David Smith: Late Holocene coastal tectonics at Falasarna, western Crete: a sedimentary study / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 146:343-352, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1999.146.01.20 --- James R. Goff, Michael Crozier, Venus Sutherland, Ursula Cochran, and Phil Shane: Possible tsunami deposits from the 1855 earthquake, North Island, New Zealand / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 146:353-374, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1999.146.01.21

Description / Table of Contents: Derek J. Blundell and Andrew C. Scott: Introduction / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 143:vii-viii, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1998.143.01.01 --- Part 1. The Life and Influence of Lyell --- M. J. S. Rudwick: Lyell and the Principles of Geology / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 143:1-15, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1998.143.01.02 --- John C. Thackray: Charles Lyell and the Geological Society / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 143:17-20, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1998.143.01.03 --- Leonard G. Wilson: Lyell: the man and his times / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 143:21-37, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1998.143.01.04 --- Ezio Vaccari: Lyell’s reception on the continent of Europe: a contribution to an open historiographical problem / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 143:39-52, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1998.143.01.05 --- Robert H. Dott, Jr: Charles Lyell’s debt to North America: his lectures and travels from 1841 to 1853 / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 143:53-69, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1998.143.01.06 --- Gerald M. Friedman: Charles Lyell in New York State / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 143:71-81, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1998.143.01.07 --- Claudine Cohen: Charles Lyell and the evidences of the antiquity of man / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 143:83-93, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1998.143.01.08 --- Part 2. Lyell and the Development of Geological Science --- M. R. Leeder: Lyell’s Principles of Geology: foundations of sedimentology / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 143:95-110, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1998.143.01.09 --- William A. Berggren: The Cenozoic Era: Lyellian (chrono)stratigraphy and nomenclatural reform at the millennium / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 143:111-132, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1998.143.01.10 --- A. Hallam: Lyell’s views on organic progression, evolution and extinction / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 143:133-136, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1998.143.01.11 --- Joe D. Burchfield: The age of the Earth and the invention of geological time / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 143:137-143, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1998.143.01.12 --- Patrick J. Boylan: Lyell and the dilemma of Quaternary glaciation / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 143:145-159, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1998.143.01.13 --- James Rodger Fleming: Charles Lyell and climatic change: speculation and certainty / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 143:161-169, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1998.143.01.14 --- Victor R. Baker: Catastrophism and uniformitarianism: logical roots and current relevance in geology / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 143:171-182, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1998.143.01.15 --- John Mather: From William Smith to William Whitaker: the development of British hydrogeology in the nineteenth century / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 143:183-196, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1998.143.01.16 --- Part 3. The Legacy of Lyell --- C. R. Van Staal, J. F. Dewey, C. Mac Niocaill, and W. S. McKerrow: The Cambrian-Silurian tectonic evolution of the northern Appalachians and British Caledonides: history of a complex, west and southwest Pacific-type segment of Iapetus / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 143:197-242, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1998.143.01.17 --- Andrew C. Scott: The legacy of Charles Lyell: advances in our knowledge of coal and coal-bearing strata / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 143:243-260, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1998.143.01.18 --- J. H. Calder: The Carboniferous evolution of Nova Scotia / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 143:261-302, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1998.143.01.19 --- R. C. L. Wilson: Sequence stratigraphy: a revolution without a cause? / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 143:303-314, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1998.143.01.20 --- Christopher J. Talbot: Extrusions of Hormuz salt in Iran / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 143:315-334, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1998.143.01.21 --- Hazel Rymer, Fabrizio Ferrucci, and Corinne A. Locke: Mount Etna: monitoring in the past, present and future / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 143:335-347, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1998.143.01.22 --- Bruce A. Bolt: Earthquakes and Earth structure: a perspective since Hutton and Lyell / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 143:349-361, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1998.143.01.23 --- John Knill: Humanity and the modern environment / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 143:363-368, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1998.143.01.24

Description / Table of Contents: John Parnell: Introduction: Approaches to dating and duration of fluid flow and fluid-rock interaction / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 144:1-8, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1998.144.01.01: Specific Techniques for Dating of Fluids and Fluid Flow --- R. Douglas Elmore, T. Campbell, S. Banerjee, and W. G. Bixler: Palaeomagnetic dating of ancient fluid-flow events in the Arbuckle Mountains, southern Oklahoma / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 144:9-25, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1998.144.01.02 --- D. T. A. Symons, M. T. Lewchuk, and D. L. Leach: Age and duration of the Mississippi Valley-type mineralizing fluid flow event in the Viburnum Trend, southeast Missouri, USA, determined from palaeomagnetism / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 144:27-39, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1998.144.01.03 --- Ian R. Duddy, Paul F. Green, Kerry A. Hegarty, Richard J. Bray, and Geoffrey W. O’Brien: Dating and duration of hot fluid flow events determined using AFTA® and vitrinite reflectance-based thermal history reconstruction / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 144:41-51, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1998.144.01.04 --- Daniele L. Pinti and Bernard Marty: The origin of helium in deep sedimentary aquifers and the problem of dating very old groundwaters / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 144:53-68, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1998.144.01.05 --- J. J. Wilkinson, L. Lonergan, T. Fairs, and R. J. Herrington: Fluid inclusion constraints on conditions and timing of hydrocarbon migration and quartz cementation in Brent Group reservoir sandstones, Columba Terrace, northern North Sea / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 144:69-89, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1998.144.01.06 --- Isotope Techniques for Dating of Fluid Flow --- Horst Zwingmann, Norbert Clauer, and Reinhard Gaupp: Timing of fluid flow in a sandstone reservoir of the north German Rotliegend (Permian) by K-Ar dating of related hydrothermal illite / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 144:91-106, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1998.144.01.07 --- Christoph Spötl, Michael J. Kunk, Karl Ramseyer, and Fred J. Longstaffe: Authigenic potassium feldspar: a tracer for the timing of palaeofluid flow in carbonate rocks, Northern Calcareous Alps, Austria / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 144:107-128, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1998.144.01.08 --- D. M. Wayne and A. M. McCaig: Dating fluid flow in shear zones: Rb-Sr and U-Pb studies of syntectonic veins in the Néouvielle Massif, Pyrenees / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 144:129-135, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1998.144.01.09 --- R. D. Walshaw and J. F. Menuge: Dating of crustal fluid flow by the Rb-Sr isotopic analysis of sphalerite: a review / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 144:137-143, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1998.144.01.10 --- Case Studies Assessing Timing of Fluid Flow Events --- Maurice Pagel, Norbert Clauer, Jean-Robert Disnar, Jean-Rémi Mossmann, Jean-François Sureau, Michel Steinberg, and Charlotte Vinchon: Thermal history and timing of fluid flow at the Ardèche palaeomargin, France / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 144:145-151, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1998.144.01.11 --- Cathy Hollis: Reconstructing fluid history: an integrated approach to timing fluid expulsion and migration on the Carboniferous Derbyshire Platform, England / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 144:153-159, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1998.144.01.12 --- George A. Morris and Bruce E. Nesbitt: Geology and timing of palaeohydrogeological events in the MacKenzie Mountains, Northwest Territories, Canada / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 144:161-172, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1998.144.01.13 --- Hairuo Qing: Geochemical constraints on the origin and timing of palaeofluid flow in the Presqu’ile barrier reef, Western Canada Sedimentary Basin / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 144:173-187, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1998.144.01.14 --- Timing, Duration and Speed of Oil Migration --- M. Lisk, P. J. Eadington, and G. W. O’Brien: Unravelling complex filling histories by constraining the timing of events which modify oil fields after initial charge / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 144:189-203, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1998.144.01.15 --- Dan Carruthers and Philip Ringrose: Secondary oil migration: oil-rock contact volumes, flow behaviour and rates / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 144:205-220, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1998.144.01.16 --- Øyvind Sylta, J. I. Pedersen, and M. Hamborg: On the vertical and lateral distribution of hydrocarbon migration velocities during secondary migration / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 144:221-232, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1998.144.01.17 --- Dating of Quaternary Fluid Flow Events --- R. Metcalfe, P. J. Hooker, W. G. Darling, and A. E. Milodowski: Dating Quaternary groundwater flow events: a review of available methods and their application / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 144:233-260, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1998.144.01.18 --- Tatsuro Fukuchi and Noboru Imai: ESR isochron dating of the Nojima Fault gouge, southwest Japan, using ICP-MS: an approach to fluid flow events in the fault zone / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 144:261-277, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1998.144.01.19