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Description / Table of Contents: PREFACE The objective of this book is to introduce the practitioner as well as the more theoretically interested reader into the integration problem of spatial information for Geo-lnformation Syslems. Former Get-Information Systems are restricted to 2D space. They realize the integration of spatial information by a conversion of vector and raster representations. This, however. leads to conceptual difficulties because of the two totally different paradigms. Furthermore, the internal topology of the get-objects is not considered. In recent years the processing of 3D information has played a growing role in Get-Information Systems. For example, planning processes for environmental protection or city planning are dependent on 3D data. The integration of spatial reformation will become even more impoaant in the 3D context and with the development of a new generation of open GISs. This book is intended to respond to some of these requirements. It presents a model for the integration of spatial information for 3D Geo-lnformation Systems (3D-GISs). As a precondition for the integration of spatial information, the integration of different spatial representations is emphasized. The model is based on a three-level notion of space that likewise includes the geometry, metrics and the topology of get-objects. The so called extended complex (e-complex) is introduced as a kernel of the model. Its internal basic geometries are the point, the line, the triangle and the tetrahedron. It is shown how a convex e-complex (ce-complex) is generated by the construction of the convex hull and the "'filling" of lines, triangles and tetrahedra, respectively. As we know from computer geometry, this results in substantially simpler geometric algorithms. Additionally, the algorithms gain by the explicit utilization of the topology of the ce-complex. This book also builds a bridge from the GIS to the object-oriented database technology, which will likely become a key technology for the development of a new generation of open Geo-lnformation Systems. In the so-called GEtmodel kernel "building blocks" are introduced that s~mplify the development of software architectures for geo-applications. A geological application in the Lower Rhine Basin shows the practical use of the introduced geometric and topological representation for a 3D-GIS...

Description / Table of Contents: Jean-Christophe Sempéré, Brian P. West, and Louis Géli: The Southeast Indian Ridge between 127° and 132°40′E: contrasts in segmentation characteristics and implications for crustal accretion / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 118:1-15, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1996.118.01.01 --- Philippe Blondel: Segmentation of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge south of the Azores, based on acoustic classification of TOBI data / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 118:17-28, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1996.118.01.02 --- Eddie McAllister and Johnson R. Cann: Initiation and evolution of boundary-wall faults along the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, 25–29°N / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 118:29-48, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1996.118.01.03 --- Simon Allerton, Roger C. Searle, and Bramley J. Murton: Bathymetric segmentation and faulting on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, 24°00′N to 24°40′N / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 118:49-60, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1996.118.01.04 --- Kate Lawson, Roger C. Searle, Julian A. Pearce, Paul Browning, and Pamela Kempton: Detailed volcanic geology of the MARNOK area, Mid-Atlantic Ridge north of Kane transform / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 118:61-102, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1996.118.01.05 --- Rodey Batiza: Magmatic segmentation of mid-ocean ridges: a review / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 118:103-130, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1996.118.01.06 --- C. J. Robinson, R. S. White, M. J. Bickle, and T. A. Minshull: Restricted melting under the very slow-spreading Southwest Indian ridge / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 118:131-141, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1996.118.01.07 --- Stephen J. Edwards, Trevor J. Falloon, John Malpas, and Rolf B. Pedersen: A review of the petrology of harzburgites at Hess Deep and Garrett Deep: implications for mantle processes beneath segments of the East Pacific Rise / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 118:143-156, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1996.118.01.08 --- Rachel M. Haymon: The response of ridge-crest hydrothermal systems to segmented, episodic magma supply / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 118:157-168, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1996.118.01.09 --- C. R. German, L. M. Parson, B. J. Murton, and H. D. Needham: Hydrothermal activity and ridge segmentation on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge: a tale of two hot-spots? / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 118:169-184, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1996.118.01.10 --- C. J. MacLeod and C. E. Manning: Influence of axial segmentation on hydrothermal circulation at fast-spreading ridges: insights from Hess Deep / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 118:185-198, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1996.118.01.11 --- V. V. Zaykov, V. V. Maslennikov, E. V. Zaykova, and R. J. Herrington: Hydrothermal activity and segmentation in the Magnitogorsk-West Mugodjarian zone on the margins of the Urals palaeo-ocean / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 118:199-210, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1996.118.01.12 --- Eve C. Southward, Verena Tunnicliffe, Michael B. Black, David R. Dixon, and Linda R.J. Dixon: Ocean-ridge segmentation and vent tubeworms (Vestimentifera) in the NE Pacific / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 118:211-224, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1996.118.01.13 --- Verena Tunnicliffe, C. Mary R. Fowler, and Andrew G. Mcarthur: Plate tectonic history and hot vent biogeography / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 118:225-238, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1996.118.01.14 --- E. G. Nisbet and C. M. R. Fowler: The hydrothermal imprint on life: did heat-shock proteins, metalloproteins and photosynthesis begin around hydrothermal vents? / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 118:239-251, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1996.118.01.15

Description / Table of Contents: Stratigraphy and Sedimentary Geology of Siliciclastic Shelves --- O. Michelsen and M. Danielsen: Sequence and systems tract interpretation of the epicontinental Oligocene deposits in the Danish North Sea / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 117:1-13, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1996.117.01.01 --- P. B. Konradi: Foraminiferal biostratigraphy of the post-mid-Miocene in the Danish Central Trough, North Sea / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 117:15-22, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1996.117.01.02 --- P. Jacobs and M. De Batist: Sequence stratigraphy and architecture on a ramp-type continental shelf: the Belgian Palaeogene / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 117:23-48, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1996.117.01.03 --- D. Mellere and R. J. Steel: Tidal sedimentation in Inner Hebrides half grabens, Scotland: the Mid-Jurassic Bearreraig Sandstone Formation / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 117:49-79, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1996.117.01.04 --- L. A. Spalletti: Estuarine and shallow-marine sedimentation in the Upper Cretaceous-Lower Tertiary west-central Patagonian Basin (Argentina) / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 117:81-93, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1996.117.01.05 --- Modern siliciclastic Shelves: Architecture, Sea Level, Tectonics and Sediment Supply --- J. B. Anderson, K. Abdulah, S. Sarzalejo, F. Siringan, and M. A. Thomas: Late Quaternary sedimentation and high-resolution sequence stratigraphy of the east Texas shelf / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 117:95-124, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1996.117.01.06 --- G. Ercilla and B. Alonso: Quaternary siliciclastic sequence stratigraphy of western Mediterranean passive and tectonically active margins: the role of global versus local controlling factors / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 117:125-137, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1996.117.01.07 --- F. J. Hernández-Molina, L. Somoza, and J. Rey: Late Pleistocene-Holocene high-resolution sequence analysis on the Alboran Sea continental shelf / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 117:139-154, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1996.117.01.08 --- A. Correggiari, M. E. Field, and F. Trincardi: Late Quaternary transgressive large dunes on the sediment-starved Adriatic shelf / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 117:155-169, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1996.117.01.09 --- P. J. Bart and J. B. Anderson: Seismic expression of depositional sequences associated with expansion and contraction of ice sheets on the northwestern Antarctic Peninsula continental shelf / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 117:171-186, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1996.117.01.10 --- H. P. Sejrup, E. L. King, I. Aarseth, H. Haflidason, and A. Elverhøi: Quaternary erosion and depositional processes: western Norwegian fjords, Norwegian Channel and North Sea Fan / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 117:187-202, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1996.117.01.11 --- G. Lericolais, P. Guennoc, J.-P. Auffret, J.-F. Bourillet, and S. Berne: Detailed survey of the western end of the Hurd Deep (English Channel): new facts for a tectonic origin / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 117:203-215, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1996.117.01.12 --- Nearshore and Coastal Environments --- J. M. L. Dominguez: The São Francisco strandplain: a paradigm for wave-dominated deltas? / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 117:217-231, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1996.117.01.13 --- J. V. Barrie and K. W. Conway: Evolution of a nearshore and coastal macrotidal sand transport system, Queen Charlotte Islands, Canada / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 117:233-247, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1996.117.01.14 --- W. J. Cleary, S. R. Riggs, D. C. Marcy, and S. W. Snyder: The influence of inherited geological framework upon a hardbottom-dominated shoreface on a high-energy shelf: Onslow Bay, North Carolina, USA / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 117:249-266, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1996.117.01.15 --- V. Eitner, R. Kaiser, H. D. Niemeyer, and V. Eitner: Nearshore sediment transport processes due to moderate hydrodynamic conditions / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 117:267-288, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1996.117.01.16 --- New Techniques in Continental Shelf Research --- R. J. De Meijer, I. C. Tánczos, and C. Stapel: Radiometry as a technique for use in coastal research / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 117:289-297, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1996.117.01.17 --- T. Missiaen, T. M. McGee, D. Pearks, G. Ollier, and F. Theilen: An interdisciplinary approach to the evaluation of physical parameters of shallow marine sediments / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 117:299-322, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1996.117.01.18 --- A. M. Davis: Geophysics in offshore site investigation: a review of the state of the art / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 117:323-338, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1996.117.01.19

Description / Table of Contents: R. W. O’B. Knox: Correlation of the early Paleogene in northwest Europe: an overview / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 101:1-11, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1996.101.01.01 --- Regional Studies: Stratigraphy, Tectonics and Volcanism --- J. E. Neal: A summary of Paleogene sequence stratigraphy in northwest Europe and the North Sea / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 101:15-42, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1996.101.01.02 --- P. A. Nadin and N. J. Kusznir: Forward and reverse stratigraphic modelling of Cretaceous-Tertiary post-rift subsidence and Paleogene uplift in the Outer Moray Firth Basin, central North Sea / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 101:43-62, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1996.101.01.03 --- J. D. Ritchie and K. Hitchen: Early Paleogene offshore igneous activity to the northwest of the UK and its relationship to the North Atlantic Igneous Province / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 101:63-78, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1996.101.01.04 --- Aidan M. Joy: Controls on Eocene sedimentation in the central North Sea Basin: results of a basinwide correlation study / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 101:79-90, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1996.101.01.05 --- David C. Mudge and Jonathan P. Bujak: An integrated stratigraphy for the Paleocene and Eocene of the North Sea / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 101:91-113, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1996.101.01.06 --- J. E. Thomas: The occurrence of the dinoflagellate cyst Apectodinium (Costa & Downie 1976) Lentin & Williams 1977 in the Moray and Montrose Groups (Danian to Thanetian) of the UK central North Sea / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 101:115-120, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1996.101.01.07 --- Susan E. Wood and Richard V. Tyson: An integrated palynological-palynofacies approach to the zonation of the Paleogene in the Forties-Montrose Ridge area, central North Sea / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 101:121-128, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1996.101.01.08 --- Jason R. Ali and David W. Jolley: Chronostratigraphic framework for the Thanetian and lower Ypresian deposits of southern England / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 101:129-144, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1996.101.01.09 --- A. J. Powell, H. Brinkhuis, and J. P. Bujak: Upper Paleocene-Lower Eocene dinoflagellate cyst sequence biostratigraphy of southeast England / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 101:145-183, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1996.101.01.10 --- Richard A. Ellison, Jason R. Ali, Nicolette M. Hine, and David W. Jolley: Recognition of Chron C25n in the upper Paleocene Upnor Formation of the London Basin, UK / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 101:185-193, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1996.101.01.11 --- J. R. Ali, E. A. Hailwood, and C. King: The ‘Oldhaven magnetozone’ in East Anglia: a revised interpretation / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 101:195-203, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1996.101.01.12 --- J. J. Hooker: Mammalian biostratigraphy across the Paleocene-Eocene boundary in the Paris, London and Belgian basins / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 101:205-218, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1996.101.01.13 --- David W. Jolley: The earliest Eocene sediments of eastern England: an ultra-high resolution palynological correlation / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 101:219-254, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1996.101.01.14 --- Alexander G. Mitlehner: Palaeoenvironments in the North Sea Basin around the Paleocene-Eocene boundary: evidence from diatoms and other siliceous microfossils / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 101:255-273, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1996.101.01.15 --- B. Schmitz, C. Heilmann-Clausen, C. King, E. Steurbaut, F. P. Andreasson, R. M. Corfield, and J. E. Cartlidge: Stable isotope and biotic evolution in the North Sea during the early Eocene: the Albæk Hoved section, Denmark / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 101:275-306, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1996.101.01.16 --- Global Perspective: Geochronology and the Oceanic Record --- W. A. Berggren and M.-P. Aubry: A late Paleocene-early Eocene NW European and North Sea magnetobiochronological correlation network / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 101:309-352, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1996.101.01.17 --- Marie-Pierre Aubry, William A. Berggren, Lowell Stott, and Ashish Sinha: The upper Paleocene-lower Eocene stratigraphic record and the Paleocene-Eocene boundary carbon isotope excursion: implications for geochronology / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 101:353-380, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1996.101.01.18 --- Lowell D. Stott, Ashish Sinha, Medard Thiry, Marie-Pierre Aubry, and William A. Berggren: Global δ13C changes across the Paleocene-Eocene boundary: criteria for terrestrial-marine correlations / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 101:381-399, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1996.101.01.19 --- E. Thomas and N. J. Shackleton: The Paleocene-Eocene benthic foraminiferal extinction and stable isotope anomalies / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 101:401-441, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1996.101.01.20 --- Richard M. Corfield and Richard D. Norris: Deep water circulation in the Paleocene Ocean / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 101:443-456, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1996.101.01.21 --- Stella D. Charisi and Birger Schmitz: Early Eocene palaeoceanography and palaeoclimatology of the eastern North Atlantic: stable isotope results for DSDP Hole 550 / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 101:457-472, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1996.101.01.22

Description / Table of Contents: General --- David J. Bottjer, Jennifer K. Schubert, and Mary L. Droser: Comparative evolutionary palaeoecology: assessing the changing ecology of the past / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 102:1-13, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1996.001.01.01 --- Erle G. Kauffman and Peter J. Harries: The importance of crisis progenitors in recovery from mass extinction / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 102:15-39, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1996.001.01.02 --- Peter J. Harries, Erle G. Kauffman, and Thor A. Hansen: Models for biotic survival following mass extinction / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 102:41-60, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1996.001.01.03 --- Valentin A. Krassilov: Recovery as a function of community structure / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 102:61-63, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1996.001.01.04 --- E. A. Jarzembowski and A. J. Ross: Insect origination and extinction in the Phanerozoic / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 102:65-78, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1996.001.01.05 --- Palaeozoic --- Andrey Yu. Zhuravlev: Reef ecosytem recovery after the Early Cambrian extinction / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 102:79-96, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1996.001.01.06 --- F. M. Swain: Ostracode speciation following Middle Ordovician extinction events, north central United States / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 102:97-104, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1996.001.01.07 --- H. A. Armstrong: Biotic recovery after mass extinction: the role of climate and ocean-state in the post-glacial (Late Ordovician-Early Silurian) recovery of the conodonts / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 102:105-117, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1996.001.01.08 --- William B. N. Berry: Recovery of post—Late Ordovician extinction graptolites: a western North American perspective / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 102:119-126, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1996.001.01.09 --- Dimitri Kaljo: Diachronous recovery patterns in Early Silurian corals, graptolites and acritarchs / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 102:127-133, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1996.001.01.10 --- Petr Čejchan and Jindřich Hladil: Searching for extinction/recovery gradients: the Frasnian-Famennian interval, Mokrá Section, Moravia, central Europe / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 102:135-161, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1996.001.01.11 --- Michael R. House: Juvenile goniatite survival strategies following Devonian extinction events / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 102:163-185, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1996.001.01.12 --- O. L. Kossovaya: The mid-Carboniferous rugose coral recovery / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 102:187-199, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1996.001.01.13 --- William A. DiMichele and Tom L. Phillips: Climate change, plant extinctions and vegetational recovery during the Middle-Late Pennsylvanian Transition: the Case of tropical peat-forming environments in North America / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 102:201-221, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1996.001.01.14 --- Mesozoic --- Douglas H. Erwin and P. Hua-Zhang: Recoveries and Radiations: Gastropods After the Permo-Triassic Mass Extinction / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 102:223-229, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1996.001.01.15 --- A. Hallam: Recovery of the marine fauna in Europe after the end-Triassic and Early Toarcian mass Extinctions / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 102:231-236, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1996.001.01.16 --- A. Tewari, M. B. Hart, and M. P. Watkinson: Foraminiferal recovery after the mid-Cretaceous oceanic anoxic events (OAEs) in the Cauvery Basin, southeast India / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 102:237-244, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1996.001.01.17 --- Danuta Peryt and Marcos Lamolda: Benthonic foraminiferal mass extinction and survival assemblages from the Cenomanian-Turonian Boundary Event in the Menoyo Section, northern Spain / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 102:245-258, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1996.001.01.18 --- Nataliya A. Tur: Planktonic foraminifera recovery from the Cenomanian-Turonian mass extinction event, northeastern Caucasus / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 102:259-264, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1996.001.01.19 --- M. B. Hart: Recovery of the food chain after the Late Cenomanian extinction event / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 102:265-277, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1996.001.01.20 --- M. E. J. Fitzpatrick: Recovery of Turonian dinoflagellate cyst assemblages from the effects of the oceanic anoxic event at the end of the Cenomanian in southern England / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 102:279-297, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1996.001.01.21 --- Elena A. Yazykova: Post-crisis recovery of Campanian desmoceratacean ammonites from Sakhalin, far east Russia / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 102:299-307, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1996.001.01.22 --- Carl F. Koch: Latest Cretaceous mollusc species ‘fabric’ of the US Atlantic and Gulf Coastal Plain: a baseline for measuring biotic recovery / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 102:309-317, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1996.001.01.23 --- Cenozoic --- Eduardo A. M. Koutsoukos: Phenotypic experiments into new pelagic niches in early Danian planktonic foraminifera: aftermath of the K/T boundary event / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 102:319-335, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1996.001.01.24 --- E. M. Bugrova: Recovery of North Caucasus foraminiferal assemblages after the pre-Danian extinctions / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 102:337-342, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1996.001.01.25 --- R. P. Speijer and G. J. Van Der Zwaan: Extinction and survivorship of southern Tethyan Benthic foraminifera across the Cretaceous/Palaeogene boundary / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 102:343-371, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1996.001.01.26 --- Patricia H. Kelley and Thor A. Hansen: Recovery of the naticid gastropod predator-prey system from the Cretaceous-Tertiary and Eocene-Oligocene extinctions / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 102:373-386, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1996.001.01.27

Description / Table of Contents: Peter Turner and Amanda Turner: Palaeomagnetic Applications in Hydrocarbon Exploration and Production: Introduction / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 98:1-5, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1995.098.01.01 --- Magnetic Mineral Assemblages and Hydrocarbons --- Hans G. Machel: Magnetic mineral assemblages and magnetic contrasts in diagenetic environments — with implications for studies of palaeomagnetism, hydrocarbon migration and exploration / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 98:9-29, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1995.098.01.02 --- Palaeomagnetic Properties of Hydrocarbon Reservoirs --- Hervé Perroud, Annick Chauvin, and Michel Rebelle: Hydrocarbon seepage dating through chemical remagnetization / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 98:33-41, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1995.098.01.03 --- P. Turner, S. D. Burley, D. Rey, and J. Prosser: Burial history of the Penrith Sandstone (Lower Permian) deduced from the combined study of fluid inclusion and palaeomagnetic data / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 98:43-78, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1995.098.01.04 --- Stuart A. Hall and Ian Evans: Palaeomagnetic and rock magnetic properties of hydrocarbon reservoir rocks from the Permian Basin, southeastern New Mexico, USA / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 98:79-95, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1995.098.01.05 --- S. A. Johnson, P. Turner, A. Hartley, and D. Rey: Palaeomagnetic implications for the timing of hematite precipitation and remagnetization in the Carboniferous Barren Red Measures, UK southern North Sea / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 98:97-117, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1995.098.01.06 --- Mark W. Hounslow, Barbara A. Maher, and Laurence Thistlewood: Magnetic mineralogy of sandstones from the Lunde Formation (late Triassic), northern North Sea, UK: origin of the palaeomagnetic signal / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 98:119-147, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1995.098.01.07 --- Claus Beyer: Results from a palaeomagnetic investigation of the Brent Group sediments in wells 34/10–16 and 34/10–17 showing evidence for complete remagnetization of the sediment / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 98:149-159, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1995.098.01.08 --- Magnetostratigraphic Applications --- Mark W. Hounslow, Barbara A. Maher, Laurence Thistlewood, and Kevin Dean: Magnetostratigraphic correlations in two cores from the late Triassic Lunde Formation, Beryl Field, northern North Sea, UK / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 98:163-172, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1995.098.01.09 --- Kifaya N. Belkaaloul, Djafar M. Aissaoui, Michel Rebelle, and Gerard Sambet: Magnetostratigraphic correlations of the Jurassic carbonates from the Paris Basin: implications for petroleum exploration / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 98:173-186, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1995.098.01.10 --- Eirik Hauger and Paul Van Veen: Application of magnetostratigraphy to Brent Group reservoir zonation in the Visund Field / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 98:187-204, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1995.098.01.11 --- Gillian M. Turner and Ian D. Bryant: Application of a palaeomagnetic reversal stratigraphy to constrain well correlation and sequence stratigraphic interpretation of the Eocene C1 Sands, Maui Field, New Zealand / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 98:205-221, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1995.098.01.12 --- R. Thompson and T. D. J. Cameron: Palaeomagnetic study of Cenozoic sediments in North Sea boreholes: an example of a magnetostratigraphic conundrum in a hydrocarbonproducing area / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 98:223-236, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1995.098.01.13 --- Core Orientation and Susceptibility Logging --- T. C. Rolph, J. Shaw, T. R. Harper, and J. T. Hagan: Viscous remanent magnetization: a tool for orientation of drill cores / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 98:239-243, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1995.098.01.14 --- E. A. Hailwood and F. Ding: Palaeomagnetic reorientation of cores and the magnetic fabric of hydrocarbon reservoir sands / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 98:245-258, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1995.098.01.15 --- Reidar Løvlie and Paul Van Veen: Magnetic susceptibility of a 180 m sediment core: reliability of incremental sampling and evidence for a relationship between susceptibility and gamma activity / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 98:259-266, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1995.098.01.16 --- H. Shi and D. H. Tarling: Magnetic field of a core barrel / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 98:267-272, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1995.098.01.17 --- D. H. Tarling and H. Shi: Magnetic anisotropy of borehole core samples / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 98:273-280, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1995.098.01.18 --- Structural Applications --- S. A. Stewart and K. C. Jackson: Palaeomagnetic analysis of fold closure growth and volumetrics / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 98:283-295, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1995.098.01.19

Description / Table of Contents: D. A. Nieuwland and P. G. Buchanan: Introduction / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 99:1-3, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1996.099.01.01 --- Seismic Interpretation --- T. R. Horscroft and J. E. Bain: Validation of seismic data processing and interpretation with integration of gravity and magnetic data / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 99:5-9, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1996.099.01.02 --- G. Pickering, J. M. Bull, and D. J. Sanderson: Scaling of fault displacements and implications for the estimation of sub-seismic strain / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 99:11-26, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1996.099.01.03 --- J. J. Walsh, J. Watterson, C. Childs, and A. Nicol: Ductile strain effects in the analysis of seismic interpretations of normal fault systems / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 99:27-40, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1996.099.01.04 --- Palinspastic Reconstruction and Forward Modelling --- James G. Buchanan: The application of cross-section construction and validation within exploration and production: a discussion / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 99:41-50, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1996.099.01.05 --- Mike P. Coward: Balancing sections through inverted basins / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 99:51-77, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1996.099.01.06 --- Richard H. Groshong, Jr: Construction and validation of extensional cross sections using lost area and strain, with application to the Rhine Graben / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 99:79-87, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1996.099.01.07 --- T. A. Hauge and G. G. Gray: A critique of techniques for modelling normal-fault and rollover geometries / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 99:89-97, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1996.099.01.08 --- Kevin C. Hill and Gareth T. Cooper: A strategy for palinspastic restoration of inverted basins: thermal and structural analyses in SE Australia / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 99:99-115, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1996.099.01.09 --- C. K. Morley: Discussion of potential errors in fault heave methods for extension estimates in rifts, with particular reference to fractal fault populations and inherited fabrics / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 99:117-134, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1996.099.01.10 --- A. G. Skuce: Forward modelling of compaction above normal faults: an example from the Sirte Basin, Libya / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 99:135-146, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1996.099.01.11 --- Mark G. Rowan: Benefits and limitations of section restoration in areas of extensional salt tectonics: an example from offshore Louisiana / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 99:147-161, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1996.099.01.12 --- Fault Populations and Geometric Analyses --- Joseph A. Cartwright, Chris Mansfield, and Bruce Trudgill: The growth of normal faults by segment linkage / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 99:163-177, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1996.099.01.13 --- Hugh G. Kerr and Nicky White: Kinematic modelling of normal fault geometries using inverse theory / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 99:179-188, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1996.099.01.14 --- D. T. Needham, G. Yielding, and B. Freeman: Analysis of fault geometry and displacement patterns / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 99:189-199, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1996.099.01.15 --- Analogue Modelling --- K. R. McClay: Recent advances in analogue modelling: uses in section interpretation and validation / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 99:201-225, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1996.099.01.16 --- Mark Verschuren, Dick Nieuwland, and Jim Gast: Multiple detachment levels in thrust tectonics: Sandbox experiments and palinspastic reconstruction / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 99:227-234, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1996.099.01.17 --- Mathematical Modelling --- J. D. Barnichon and R. Charlier: Finite element modelling of the competition between shear bands in the early stages of thrusting: Strain localization analysis and constitutive law influence / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 99:235-250, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1996.099.01.18 --- F. Beekman, J. M. Bull, S. Cloetingh, and R. A. Scrutton: Crustal fault reactivation facilitating lithospheric folding/buckling in the central Indian Ocean / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 99:251-263, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1996.099.01.19 --- Stuart Hardy, Josep Poblet, Ken McClay, and Dave Waltham: Mathematical modelling of growth strata associated with fault-related fold structures / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 99:265-282, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1996.099.01.20 --- M. Ter Voorde and S. Cloetingh: Numerical modelling of extension in faulted crust: effects of localized and regional deformation on basin stratigraphy / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 99:283-296, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1996.099.01.21 --- J. D. Van Wees, S. Cloetingh, and G. de Vicente: The role of pre-existing faults in basin evolution: constraints from 2D finite element and 3D flexure models / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 99:297-320, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1996.099.01.22 --- Regional Analyses and Remote Sensing --- M. W. Insley, F. X. Murphy, D. Naylor, and M. Critchley: The use of satellite imagery in the validation and verification of structural interpretations for hydrocarbon exploration in Pakistan and Yemen / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 99:321-343, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1996.099.01.23 --- Jonathan P. Turner: Gravity-driven nappes and their relation to palaeobathymetry: examples from West Africa and Cardigan Bay, UK / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 99:345-362, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1996.099.01.24

Description / Table of Contents: PREFACE The ocean has always been reluctant to reveal its secrets. Its size and the inaccessibility of its deeper regions have made their safeguard a reasonably simple matter with the result that significant misconceptions persisted for many years. Two of the most widespread of these concerned the featureless nature of the sea floor and the silence of the deep ocean. Underwater acoustics has played a key role in discrediting both and in so doing introduced new and exciting developments in oceanography and geophysics. In the years following World War II, echosounders and subbottom profilers based on new active sonar technology, revealed the true nature of the seafloor topography and led to the major advances represented by plate tectonics. Research driven by the requirements of passive sonar, on the other hand, was to demonstrate that the sea was not silent but was characterised by a complex noise spectrum. Many individual mechanisms and sources ranging from man-made, biological and geophysical activity to the intrinsic noise of the sea itself were found to contribute to this spectrum. A major component, which is the subject of this book, was to remain unrecognised to underwater acoustics until noise measurements could be made effectively at very low frequencies, although its presence had been indicated by seismology long before these measurements were possible. By virtue of its geographical isolation in the Southern Ocean, New Zealand has provided an ideal environment for long-range propagation and ambient noise investigations and numerous studies have been reported. Our interest in the subject of this book was aroused initially in the course of one such experiment in 1966. For the first time it had been possible to extend the recording bandwidth to 1 Hz and the improved performance of this new system was anticipated eagerly. However the main purpose of the experiment was nearly aborted by the appearance of a new and unsuspected noise component at frequencies below 10 Hz. Due primarily to technical limitations in the equipment then available, a subsequent programme, designed to identify the properties and origin of the source more clearly, was not productive and was soon abandoned. An opportunity to revisit the problem arose some 10 years later, when the University of Auckland became involved in a major environmental study in support of the development of an offshore gas field in Cook Strait. The technology then available provided an opportunity to examine afresh the relationship between sea state and the seismo-acoustic response generated. An initial trim demonstrated the potential of the site. Accordingly a long-term programme, involving the parallel measurement of the oceanwave field and acoustic response, was undertaken in a series of student research theses. The data so gathered were of sufficiently high quality to ultimately establish wave-wave interactions as the source of the acoustic effects observed and to identify many of its characteristics. This result was soon to be confirmed by other studies. As the noise data accumulated, however, it became apparent that certain refinements to the theories describing the mechanism were required. Our attempts to provide these refinements have been reported in a number of contributions in recent years. The accounts of these and similar contributions by others have unfortunately appeared in the literature in a somewhat disjointed manner, with the result that the evolution of the subject has not been easy to follow. This book attempts to present a more coherent account of the subject and its development. Most of the early experimental and theoretical results from our group have arisen from two key Ph.D. theses, due to Dr. K.C. Ewans and Dr. C.Y. Wu. The painstaking and careful instrumentation development and data analysis provided by Dr. Ewans were critical to the definitive correlation which we were able to establish between wind field, seastate and the acoustic response so generated. Dr. Wu's thesis presented the first phase of our attempt at the resolution of certain key theoretical issues, which were identified in the course of the experimental programme. Both studies owe much to the support of Shell BP Todd Oil Services Ltd., acting for Maui Development Ltd., and to the University of Auckland. The support of the Electricity Corporation of New Zealand Ltd. during a later experimental investigation of the Southern Ocean wave field is also acknowledged...

Description / Table of Contents: Induced seismic events are of high scientific and economic significance. They are the result of human activities interacting with regional and local tectonics, changing the local crustal stress state by mining, extraction of rock masses, injection of fluids into the rock massif, and by changing the surface loading and pore pressure state near large reservoirs. Within Europe the study of induced seismic events has a long tradition and international scientific organizations have actively stimulated the co-operation in this field. During its General Assembly in September 1994, the European Seismological Society organized the symposium "Induced Seismic Events". The focus of this symposium was concentrated on induced events in central and eastern Europe, as well as in the former Soviet Union. The major contributions to the symposium, and also some Chinese, Canadian, and South African results are presented here. Case studies as well as data analyses and methodological studies are included. Seismologists and specialists working in the field of geohazard prevention will find much information in this volume that is pertinent to their work.

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: John F. Aitken and John A. Howell: High resolution sequence stratigraphy: innovations, applications and future prospects / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 104:1-9, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1996.104.01.01 --- S. F. Mitchell, C. R. C. Paul, and A. S. Gale: Carbon isotopes and sequence stratigraphy / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 104:11-24, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1996.104.01.02 --- S. J. Davies and T. Elliott: Spectral gamma ray characterization of high resolution sequence stratigraphy: examples from Upper Carboniferous fluvio-deltaic systems, County Clare, Ireland / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 104:25-35, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1996.104.01.03 --- David G. Quirk: ‘Base profile’: a unifying concept in alluvial sequence stratigraphy / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 104:37-49, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1996.104.01.04 --- Ian D. Bryant: The application of physical measurements to constrain reservoir-scale sequence stratigraphic models / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 104:51-63, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1996.104.01.05 --- John M. Armentrout: High resolution sequence biostratigraphy: examples from the Gulf of Mexico Plio-Pleistocene / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 104:65-86, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1996.104.01.06 --- David C. Jennette and Cheyenne O. Riley: Influence of relative sea-level on facies and reservoir geometry of the Middle Jurassic lower Brent Group, UK North Viking Graben / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 104:87-113, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1996.104.01.07 --- F. L. Wehr and L. D. Brasher: Impact of sequence-based correlation style on reservoir model behaviour, lower Brent Group, North Cormorant Field, UK North Sea / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 104:115-128, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1996.104.01.08 --- John A. Howell and Stephen S. Flint: A model for high resolution sequence stratigraphy within extensional basins / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 104:129-137, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1996.104.01.09 --- T. McKie and I. R. Garden: Hierarchical stratigraphic cycles in the non-marine Clair Group (Devonian) UKCS / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 104:139-157, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1996.104.01.10 --- A. Guy Plint: Marine and nonmarine systems tracts in fourth-order sequences in the Early-Middle Cenomanian, Dunvegan Alloformation, northeastern British Columbia, Canada / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 104:159-191, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1996.104.01.11 --- John F. Aitken and Stephen S. Flint: Variable expressions of interfluvial sequence boundaries in the Breathitt Group (Pennsylvanian), eastern Kentucky, USA / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 104:193-206, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1996.104.01.12 --- Ciaran J. O’Byrne and Stephen Flint: Interfluve sequence boundaries in the Grassy Member, Book Cliffs, Utah: criteria for recognition and implications for subsurface correlation / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 104:207-220, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1996.104.01.13 --- Gary J. Hampson, Trevor Elliott, and Stephen S. Flint: Critical application of high resolution sequence stratigraphic concepts to the Rough Rock Group (Upper Carboniferous) of northern England / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 104:221-246, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1996.104.01.14 --- David Uličný and Lenka Špičáková: Response to high frequency sea-level change in a fluvial to estuarine succession: Cenomanian palaeovalley fill, Bohemian Cretaceous Basin / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 104:247-268, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1996.104.01.15 --- David Owen: Interbasinal correlation of the Cenomanian Stage; testing the lateral continuity of sequence boundaries / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 104:269-293, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1996.104.01.16 --- Bruce W. Fouke, Arnout-Jan W. Everts, Erik W. Zwart, Wolfgang Schlager, P. C. Smalley, and Helmut Weissert: Subaerial exposure unconformities on the Vercors carbonate platform (SE France) and their sequence stratigraphic significance / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 104:295-319, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1996.104.01.17 --- Dave Hunt, Tim Allsop, and Richard E. Swarbrick: Compaction as a primary control on the architecture and development of depositional sequences: conceptual framework, applications and implications / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 104:321-345, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1996.104.01.18 --- Lars Stemmerik: High frequency sequence stratigraphy of a siliciclastic influenced carbonate platform, lower Moscovian, Amdrup Land, North Greenland / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 104:347-365, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1996.104.01.19

Description / Table of Contents: A. Morris and D. H. Tarling: Palaeomagnetism and tectonics of the Mediterranean region: an introduction / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 105:1-18, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1996.105.01.01 --- Western Mediterranean --- A. Kirker and E. McClelland: Application of net tectonic rotations and inclination analysis to a high-resolution palaeomagnetic study in the Betic Cordillera / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 105:19-32, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1996.105.01.02 --- J. J. Villalaín, M. L. Osete, R. Vegas, V. García-Dueñas, and F. Heller: The Neogene remagnetization in the western Betics: a brief comment on the reliability of palaeomagnetic directions / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 105:33-41, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1996.105.01.03 --- H. Feinberg, O. Saddiqi, and A. Michard: New constraints on the bending of the Gibraltar Arc from palaeomagnetism of the Ronda peridotites (Betic Cordilleras, Spain) / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 105:43-52, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1996.105.01.04 --- D. Khattach, D. Najid, N. Hamoumi, and D. H. Tarling: Palaeomagnetic studies in Morocco: tectonic implications for the Meseta and Anti-Atlas since the Permian / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 105:53-57, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1996.105.01.05 --- D. Rey, P. Turner, and A. Ramos: Palaeomagnetism and magnetostratigraphy of the Middle Triassic in the Iberian Ranges (Central Spain) / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 105:59-82, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1996.105.01.06 --- M. T. Juárez, M. L. Osete, R. Vegas, C. G. Langereis, and G. Meléndez: Palaeomagnetic study of Jurassic limestones from the Iberian Range (Spain): tectonic implications / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 105:83-90, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1996.105.01.07 --- M. Garcés, J. M. Parés, and L. Cabrera: Inclination error linked to sedimentary facies in Miocene detrital sequences from the Vallès-Penedès Basin (NE Spain) / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 105:91-99, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1996.105.01.08 --- P. Keller and U. Gehring: Consequences of post-collisional deformation on the reconstruction of the East Pyrenees / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 105:101-109, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1996.105.01.09 --- J. L. Pereira, A. Rapalini, D. H. Tarling, and J. Fonseca: Palaeomagnetic dating and determination of tectonic tilting: a study of Mesozoic-Cenozoic igneous rocks in central West Portugal / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 105:111-117, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1996.105.01.10 --- Central Mediterranean and Carpathians --- J. E. T. Channell: Palaeomagnetism and palaeogeography of Adria / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 105:119-132, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1996.105.01.11 --- M. Iorio, G. Nardi, D. Pierattini, and D. H. Tarling: Palaeomagnetic evidence of block rotations in the Matese Mountains, Southern Apennines, Italy / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 105:133-139, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1996.105.01.12 --- M. Mattei, C. Kissel, L. Sagnotti, R. Funiciello, and C. Faccenna: Lack of Late Miocene to Present rotation in the Northern Tyrrhenian margin (Italy): a constraint on geodynamic evolution / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 105:141-146, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1996.105.01.13 --- M. Fedi, G. Florio, and A. Rapolla: The pattern of crustal block rotations in the Italian region deduced from aeromagnetic anomalies / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 105:147-152, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1996.105.01.14 --- Emő Márton and Péter Márton: Large scale rotations in North Hungary during the Neogene as indicated by palaeomagnetic data / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 105:153-173, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1996.105.01.15 --- Miroslav Krs, Marta Krsová, and Petr Pruner: Palaeomagnetism and palaeogeography of the Western Carpathians from the Permian to the Neogene / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 105:175-184, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1996.105.01.16 --- Václav Houša, Miroslav Krs, Marta Krsová, and Petr Pruner: Magnetostratigraphy of Jurassic-Cretaceous limestones in the Western Carpathians / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 105:185-194, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1996.105.01.17 --- M. Iorio, D. H. Tarling, B. D’argenio, and G. Nardi: Ultra-fine magnetostratigraphy of Cretaceous shallow water carbonates, Monte Raggeto, southern Italy / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 105:195-203, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1996.105.01.18 --- E. McClelland, B. Finegan, and R. W. H. Butler: A magnetostratigraphic study of the onset of the Mediterranean Messinian salility crisis; Caltanissetta Basin, Sicily / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 105:205-217, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1996.105.01.19 --- F. Florindo and L. Sagnotti: Revised magnetostratigraphy and rock magnetism of Pliocene sediments from Valle Ricca (Rome, Italy) / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 105:219-223, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1996.105.01.20 --- Giancarlo Scalera, Paolo Favali, and Fabio Florindo: Palaeomagnetic database: the effect of quality filtering for geodynamic studies / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 105:225-237, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1996.105.01.21 --- Eastern Mediterranean --- A. H. F. Robertson, J. E. Dixon, S. Brown, A. Collins, A. Morris, E. Pickett, I. Sharp, and T. Ustaömer: Alternative tectonic models for the Late Palaeozoic-Early Tertiary development of Tethys in the Eastern Mediterranean region / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 105:239-263, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1996.105.01.22 --- H. J. Mauritsch, R. Scholger, S. L. Bushati, and A. Xhomo: Palaeomagnetic investigations in Northern Albania and their significance for the geodynamic evolution of the Adriatic-Aegean realm / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 105:265-275, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1996.105.01.23 --- D. Kondopoulou, A. Atzemoglou, and S. Pavlides: Palaeomagnetism as a tool for testing geodynamic models in the North Aegean: convergences, controversies and a further hypothesis / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 105:277-288, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1996.105.01.24 --- H. Feinberg, B. Edel, D. Kondopoulou, and A. Michard: Implications of ophiolite palaeomagnetism for the interpretation of the geodynamics of Northern Greece / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 105:289-298, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1996.105.01.25 --- J. D. A. Piper, Joanna M. Moore, O. Tatar, H. Gursoy, and R. G. Park: Palaeomagnetic study of crustal deformation across an intracontinental transform: the North Anatolian Fault Zone in Northern Turkey / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 105:299-310, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1996.105.01.26 --- Antony Morris: A review of palaeomagnetic research in the Troodos ophiolite, Cyprus / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 105:311-324, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1996.105.01.27 --- A. M. Kafafy, D. H. Tarling, M. M. El Gamili, H. H. Hamama, and E. H. Ibrahim: Palaeomagnetism of some Cretaceous Nubian Sandstones, Northern Sinai, Egypt / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 105:325-332, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1996.105.01.28 --- A. L. Abdeldayem and D. H. Tarling: Palaeomagnetism of some Tertiary sedimentary rocks, southwest Sinai, Egypt, in the tectonic framework of the SE Mediterranean / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 105:333-343, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1996.105.01.29 --- Applications in Volcanology --- Leon Bardot, Rick Thomas, and Elizabeth McClelland: Emplacement temperatures of pyroclastic deposits on Santorini deduced from palaeomagnetic measurements: constraints on eruption mechanisms / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 105:345-357, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1996.105.01.30 --- Maurizio De’ Gennaro, Paola R. Gialanella, Alberto Incoronato, Giuseppe Mastrolorenzo, and Debora Naimo: Palaeomagnetic controls on the emplacement of the Neapolitan Yellow Tuff (Campi Flegrei, Southern Italy) / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 105:359-365, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1996.105.01.31 --- Alberto Incoronato: Magnetic stratigraphy procedures in volcanic areas: the experience at Vesuvius / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 105:367-371, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1996.105.01.32 --- Archaeomagnetism --- M. E. Evans: Archaeomagnetic results from the Mediterranean region: an overview / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 105:373-384, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1996.105.01.33 --- P. Márton: Archaeomagnetic directions: the Hungarian calibration curve / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 105:385-399, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1996.105.01.34 --- A. Morris: Glossary of basic palaeomagnetic and rock magnetic terms / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 105:401-415, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1996.105.01.35

Description / Table of Contents: Stephen P. Hesselbo and D. Neil Parkinson: Sequence stratigraphy in British geology / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 103:1-7, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1996.103.01.01 --- Non-Marine and Paralic Sequences --- P. M. Burgess and P. A. Allen: A forward-modelling analysis of the controls on sequence stratigraphical geometries / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 103:9-24, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1996.103.01.02 --- M. R. Leeder and M. D. Stewart: Fluvial incision and sequence stratigraphy: alluvial responses to relative sea-level fall and their detection in the geological record / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 103:25-39, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1996.103.01.03 --- J. P. Wonham and T. Elliott: High-resolution sequence stratigraphy of a mid-Cretaceous estuarine complex: the Woburn Sands of the Leighton Buzzard area, southern England / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 103:41-62, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1996.103.01.04 --- V. P. Wright: Use of palaeosols in sequence stratigraphy of peritidal carbonates / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 103:63-74, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1996.103.01.05 --- Shallow Marine Sequences --- Richard V. Tyson: Sequence-stratigraphical interpretation of organic facies variations in marine siliciclastic systems: general principles and application to the onshore Kimmeridge Clay Formation, UK / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 103:75-96, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1996.103.01.06 --- J. H. S. Macquaker, K. G. Taylor, T. P. Young, and C. D. Curtis: Sedimentological and geochemical controls on ooidal ironstone and ‘bone-bed’ formation and some comments on their sequence-stratigraphical significance / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 103:97-107, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1996.103.01.07 --- Angela L. Coe: Unconformities within the Portlandian Stage of the Wessex Basin and their sequence-stratigraphical significance / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 103:109-143, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1996.103.01.08 --- Deep Marine Sequences --- G. Shanmugam, R. B. Bloch, S. M. Mitchell, J. E. Damuth, G. W. J. Beamish, R. J. Hodgkinson, T. Straume, S. E. Syvertsen, and K. E. Shields: Slump and debris-flow dominated basin-floor fans in the North Sea: an evaluation of conceptual sequence-stratigraphical models based on conventional core data / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 103:145-176, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1996.103.01.09 --- Andrew S. Gale: Turonian correlation and sequence stratigraphy of the Chalk in southern England / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 103:177-195, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1996.103.01.10 --- N. H. Woodcock, A. J. Butler, J. R. Davies, and R. A. Waters: Sequence stratigraphical analysis of late ordovician and early Silurian depositional systems in the Welsh Basin: a critical assessment / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 103:197-208, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1996.103.01.11 --- Regional Studies --- Robert W. O’B. Knox: Tectonic controls on sequence development in the Palaeocene and earliest Eocene of southeast England: implications for North Sea stratigraphy / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 103:209-230, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1996.103.01.12 --- D. N. Parkinson: Gamma-ray spectrometry as a tool for stratigraphical interpretation: examples from the western European Lower Jurassic / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 103:231-255, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1996.103.01.13 --- B. W. Glover and T. McKie: A sequence stratigraphical approach to the understanding of basin history in orogenic Neoproterozoic successions: an example from the central Highlands of Scotland / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 103:257-269, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1996.103.01.15

Description / Table of Contents: Ian Davison, Ian Alsop, and Derek Blundell: Salt tectonics: some aspects of deformation mechanics / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 100:1-10, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1996.100.01.01 --- Outcrop, Mine and Borehole Studies --- Stanisław Burliga: Kinematics within the Kłodawa salt diapir, central Poland / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 100:11-21, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1996.100.01.02 --- Ian Davison, Dan Bosence, G. Ian Alsop, and Mohammed H. Al-Aawah: Deformation and sedimentation around active Miocene salt diapirs on the Tihama Plain, northwest Yemen / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 100:23-39, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1996.100.01.03 --- Amos Frumkin: Uplift rate relative to base-levels of a salt diapir (Dead Sea Basin, Israel) as indicated by cave levels / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 100:41-47, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1996.100.01.04 --- Manuel Hoyos, Miguel Doblas, Sergio Sánchez-Moral, Juan Carlos Cañaveras, Salvador Ordoñez, Carmen Sesé, Enrique Sanz, and Vicente Mahecha: Hydration diapirism: a climate-related initiation of evaporite mounds in two continental Neogene basins of central Spain / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 100:49-63, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1996.100.01.05 --- M. Sans, A. L. Sánchez, and P. Santanach: Internal structure of a detachment horizon in the most external part of the Pyrenean fold and thrust belt (northern Spain) / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 100:65-76, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1996.100.01.06 --- Denys B. Smith: Deformation in the late Permian Boulby Halite (EZ3Na) in Teesside, NE England / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 100:77-87, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1996.100.01.07 --- C. J. Talbot and M. Alavi: The past of a future syntaxis across the Zagros / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 100:89-109, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1996.100.01.08 --- Regional Case Studies --- Peter G. Buchanan, Daniel J. Bishop, and David N. Hood: Development of salt-related structures in the Central North Sea: results from section balancing / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 100:111-128, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1996.100.01.09 --- H. S. Edgell: Salt tectonism in the Persian Gulf Basin / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 100:129-151, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1996.100.01.10 --- Fivos Spathopoulos: An insight on salt tectonics in the Angola Basin, South Atlantic / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 100:153-174, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1996.100.01.11 --- S. A. Stewart, M. J. Harvey, S. C. Otto, and P. J. Weston: Influence of salt on fault geometry: examples from the UK salt basins / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 100:175-202, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1996.100.01.12 --- Max Zirngast: The development of the Gorleben salt dome (northwest Germany) based on quantitative analysis of peripheral sinks / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 100:203-226, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1996.100.01.13 --- Physical Modelling --- G. Ian Alsop: Physical modelling of fold and fracture geometries associated with salt diapirism / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 100:227-241, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1996.100.01.14 --- H. Koyi: Salt flow by aggrading and prograding overburdens / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 100:243-258, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1996.100.01.15 --- P. Szatmari, M. C. M. Guerra, and M. A. Pequeno: Genesis of large counter-regional normal fault by flow of Cretaceous salt in the South Atlantic Santos Basin, Brazil / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 100:259-264, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1996.100.01.16 --- Numerical and Geophysical Modelling --- Harvey A. Cohen and Stuart Hardy: Numerical modelling of stratal architectures resulting from differential loading of a mobile substrate / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 100:265-273, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1996.100.01.17 --- K. Petersen and I. Lerche: Temperature dependence of thermal anomalies near evolving salt structures: importance for reducing exploration risk / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 100:275-290, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1996.100.01.18 --- Alexei N. B. Poliakov, Yuri Yu. Podladchikov, Ethan Ch. Dawson, and Christopher J. Talbot: Salt diapirism with simultaneous brittle faulting and viscous flow / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 100:291-302, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1996.100.01.19

Description / Table of Contents: This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the ESPRIT Working Group CONTESSA Workshop on Constraint Databases and Applications, held in Friedrichshafen, Germany in September 1995. The 10 full revised papers selected for inclusion in this volume are written by and for practitioners, researchers, and application users of core constraint database technology; they can be classified in three sections on expressiveness of the various constraint database models; implementation and optimization issues in areas like spatial databases, geographic information systems, scheduling and routing. This book is the first to focus on the extension of the important new programming paradigm of constraint processing to database design and management.

Description / Table of Contents: This book contains revised refereed papers selected from the presentations at the First International Workshop on Graphics Recognition, held in University Park, PA, USA, in August 1995. The 23 full papers included are divided into sections on low-level processing, vectorization and segmentation of scanned graphics documents; symbol and diagram recognition, map processing, interpretation of engineering drawings. Each section contains both survey articles to assess the state of the art, and research papers presenting novel results. One section is devoted to a contest held to determine the best algorithm for detection of dashed lines in drawings. The final chapter summarizes the conclusions and recommendations of the discussions held during the workshop.

Description / Table of Contents: Geodynamics concerns the dynamics of the earth's global motion, of the earth's interior motion and its interaction with surface features, together with the mechanical processes in the deformation and rupture of geological structures. Its final object is to determine the driving mechanism of these motions. It is highly interdisciplinary. In providing the basic geological, geophysical infromation required for a comprehensive mechanical analysis, there are also many mechanical problems involved, which means the problem is coupled intricately with geophysics, rock mechanics, seismology, structural geology, etc. This is Part II of the Proceedings of an IUTAM/IASPEI Symposium on Mechanics Problems in Geodynamics held in Beijing, September 1994. It discusses different aspects of mechanics problems in geodynamics involving the earth's rotation, tectonic analyses of various parts of the world, mineral physics and flow in the mantle, seismic source studies and wave propagation and application of the DDA method in tectonic analysis.

Description / Table of Contents: The special issue contains contributions presented at the international workshop Seismic waves in laterally inhomo- geneous 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: Alan E. S. Kemp: Laminated sediments as palaeo-indicators / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 116:vii-xii, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1996.116.01.01 --- Controls on Formation and Strategies for Study --- Roger Y. Anderson: Seasonal sedimentation: a framework for reconstructing climatic and environmental change / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 116:1-15, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1996.116.01.02 --- Constance Sancetta: Laminated diatomaceous sediments: controls on formation and strategies for analysis / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 116:17-21, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1996.116.01.03 --- Neal R. O’Brien: Shale lamination and sedimentary processes / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 116:23-36, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1996.116.01.04 --- Methods and Techniques --- Jennifer Pike and Alan E. S. Kemp: Preparation and analysis techniques for studies of laminated sediments / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 116:37-48, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1996.116.01.05 --- Bernd Zolitschka: Image analysis and microscopic investigation of annually laminated lake sediments from Fayetteville Green Lake (NY, USA) Lake C2 (NWT, Canada) and Holzmaar (Germany): a comparison / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 116:49-55, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1996.116.01.06 --- Lacustrine Environments --- Konrad A. Hughen, Jonathan T. Overpeck, Robert F. Anderson, and Kerstin M. Williams: The potential for palaeoclimate records from varved Arctic lake sediments: Baffin Island, Eastern Canadian Arctic / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 116:57-71, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1996.116.01.07 --- Gunilla Petterson: Varved sediments in Sweden: a brief review / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 116:73-77, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1996.116.01.08 --- A. B. Leslie, A. C. Kendall, G. M. Harwood, and D. W. Powers: Conflicting indicators of palaeodepth during deposition of the Upper Permian Castile Formation, Texas and New Mexico / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 116:79-92, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1996.116.01.09 --- California Borderland Basins --- D. S. Gorsline, Enrique Nava-Sanchez, and Janette Murillo de Nava: A survey of occurrences of Holocene laminated sediments in California Borderland Basins: products of a variety of depositional processes / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 116:93-110, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1996.116.01.10 --- James W. Hagadorn: Laminated sediments of Santa Monica Basin, California continental borderland / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 116:111-120, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1996.116.01.11 --- Arndt Schimmelmann and Carina B. Lange: Tales of 1001 varves: a review of Santa Barbara Basin sediment studies / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 116:121-141, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1996.116.01.12 --- David Bull and Alan E. S. Kemp: Composition and origins of laminae in late Quaternary and Holocene sediments from the Santa Barbara Basin / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 116:143-156, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1996.116.01.13 --- Continental Margin and Other Marine Basins --- Jennifer Pike and Alan E. S. Kemp: Records of seasonal flux in Holocene laminated sediments, Gulf of California / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 116:157-169, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1996.116.01.14 --- Konrad A. Hughen, Jonathan T. Overpeck, Larry C. Peterson, and Robert F. Anderson: The nature of varved sedimentation in the Cariaco Basin, Venezuela, and its palaeoclimatic significance / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 116:171-183, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1996.116.01.15 --- H. Schulz, U. Von Rad, and U. Von Stackelberg: Laminated sediments from the oxygen-minimum zone of the northeastern Arabian Sea / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 116:185-207, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1996.116.01.16 --- Grzegorz Haczewski: Oligocene laminated limestones as a high-resolution correlator of palaeoseismicity, Polish Carpathians / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 116:209-220, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1996.116.01.17 --- Deep-sea Laminated Sediment Records --- R. B. Pearce, A. E. S. Kemp, J. G. Baldauf, and S. C. King: High-resolution sedimentology and micropalaeontology of laminated diatomaceous sediments from the eastern equatorial Pacific Ocean (Leg 138) / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 116:221-241, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1996.116.01.18 --- Alan E. S. Kemp, Jack G. Baldauf, and Richard B. Pearce: Origins and palaeoceangraphic significance of laminated daitom ooze from the Eastern Equatorial Pacific Ocean / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 116:243-252, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1996.116.01.19

Description / Table of Contents: The Context of Palaeohydrology --- K. J. Gregory: Introduction / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 115:1-8, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1996.115.01.01 --- L. Starkel: Palaeohydrological reconstruction: advantages and disadvantages / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 115:9-17, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1996.115.01.02 --- Nigel W. Arnell: Palaeohydrology and future climate change / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 115:19-25, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1996.115.01.03 --- J. M. Adams and H. Faure: Changes in moisture balance between glacial and interglacial conditions: influence on carbon cycle processes / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 115:27-42, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1996.115.01.04 --- D. E. Walling: Erosion and sediment yield in a changing environment / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 115:43-56, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1996.115.01.05 --- A. G. Brown: Human dimensions of palaeohydrological change / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 115:57-72, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1996.115.01.06 --- V. R. Baker: Discovering Earth’s future in its past: palaeohydrology and global environmental change / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 115:73-83, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1996.115.01.07 --- Approaches to Palaeohydrological Analysis --- Mediterranean, Tropical and Monsoon Regions --- G. Benito, M. J. Machado, and A. Pérez-González: Climate change and flood sensitivity in Spain / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 115:85-98, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1996.115.01.08 --- Ian C. Fuller, Mark G. Macklin, David G. Passmore, Paul A. Brewer, John Lewin, and Ann G. Wintle: Geochronologies and environmental records of Quaternary fluvial sequences in the Guadalope basin, northeast Spain, based on luminescence dating / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 115:99-120, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1996.115.01.09 --- Yehouda Enzel, Lisa L. Ely, P. Kyle House, and Victor R. Baker: Magnitude and frequency of Holocene palaeofloods in the southwestern United States: A review and discussion of implications / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 115:121-137, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1996.115.01.10 --- Michael F. Thomas and Martin B. Thorp: The response of geomorphic systems to climatic and hydrological change during the Late Glacial and early Holocene in the humid and sub-humid tropics / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 115:139-153, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1996.115.01.11 --- Vishwas S. Kale, Lisa L. Ely, Yehouda Enzel, and Victor R. Baker: Palaeo and historical flood hydrology, Indian Peninsula / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 115:155-163, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1996.115.01.12 --- Cold Regions --- Paul A. Carling: A preliminary palaeohydraulic model applied to late Quaternary gravel dunes: Altai Mountains, Siberia / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 115:165-179, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1996.115.01.13 --- A. F. Yamskikh: Late Quaternary intra-continental river palaeohydrology and polycyclic terrace formation: the example of south Siberian river valleys / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 115:181-190, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1996.115.01.14 --- Temperate Regions --- J. M. Hooke: River responses to decadal-scale changes in discharge regime: the Gila River, SE Arizona / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 115:191-204, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1996.115.01.15 --- T. Kalicki: Climatic or anthropogenic alluviation in Central European valleys during the Holocene? / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 115:205-215, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1996.115.01.16 --- Barbara T. Rumsby and Mark G. Macklin: River response to the last neoglacial (the ‘Little Ice Age’) in northern, western and central Europe / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 115:217-233, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1996.115.01.17 --- A Future for Palaeohydrology --- J. Branson, K. J. Gregory, and M. J. Clark: Issues in scientific co-operation on information sharing: the case of palaeohydrology / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 115:235-249, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1996.115.01.18 --- J. R. Pilcher: The Past Global Changes (PAGES) Project / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 115:251-256, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1996.115.01.19 --- A. G. Brown: Palaeohydrology: prospects and future advances / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 115:257-265, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1996.115.01.20

Description / Table of Contents: J. J. Veldkamp, M. G. Gaillard, H. A. Jonkers, B. K. Levell, M. G. Gaillard, and H. A. Jonkers: A Kimmeridgian time-slice through the Humber Group of the central North Sea: a test of sequence stratigraphic methods / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 114:1-28, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1996.114.01.01 --- Alan Carruthers, Tom Mckie, John Price, Robin Dyer, Gwydion Williams, and Paul Watson: The application of sequence stratigraphy to the understanding of Late Jurassic turbidite plays in the Central North Sea, UKCS / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 114:29-45, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1996.114.01.02 --- M. J. David: History of hydrocarbon exploration in the Moray Firth / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 114:47-80, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1996.114.01.03 --- Richard J. Davies, Kevin J. Stephen, John R. Underhill, Richard J. Davies, and Kevin J. Stephen: A re-evaluation of Middle and Upper Jurassic stratigraphy and the flooding history of the Moray Firth Rift System, North Sea / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 114:81-108, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1996.114.01.04 --- S. D. Harker and M. Rieuf: Genetic stratigraphy and sandstone distribution of the Moray Firth Humber Group (Upper Jurassic) / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 114:109-130, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1996.114.01.05 --- Claire R. Hallsworth, Andrew C. Morton, and Graham Dore: Contrasting mineralogy of Upper Jurassic sandstones in the Outer Moray Firth, North Sea: implications for the evolution of sediment dispersal patterns / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 114:131-144, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1996.114.01.06 --- R. E. Frost and J. F. Rose: Tectonic quiescence punctuated by strike-slip movement: influences on Late Jurassic sedimentation in the Moray Firth and the North Sea region / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 114:145-162, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1996.114.01.07 --- M. A. Martin, J. E. Pollard, and M. A. Martin: The role of trace fossil (ichnofabric) analysis in the development of depositional models for the Upper Jurassic Fulmar Formation of the Kittiwake Field (Quadrant 21 UKCS) / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 114:163-183, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1996.114.01.08 --- Stuart Gowland: Facies characteristics and depositional models of highly bioturbated shallow marine siliciclastic strata: an example from the Fulmar Formation (Late Jurassic), UK Central Graben / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 114:185-214, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1996.114.01.09 --- S. J. C. Cannon and S. Gowland: Facies controls on reservoir quality in the Late Jurassic Fulmar Formation, Quadrant 21, UKCS / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 114:215-233, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1996.114.01.10 --- Geoff Freer, Andrew Hurst, and Paul Middleton: Upper Jurassic sandstone reservoir quality and distribution on the Fladen Ground Spur / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 114:235-249, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1996.114.01.11 --- C. Y. McCants and S. D. Burley: Reservoir architecture and diagenesis in downthrown fault block plays: the Lowlander Prospect of Block 14/20b, Witch Ground Graben, Outer Moray Firth, UK North Sea / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 114:251-285, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1996.114.01.12 --- Michael J. Pearson, Alasdair D. Duncan, and Alasdair D. Duncan: Biomarker maturity profiles in the Inner Moray Firth Basin and implications for inversion estimates / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 114:287-298, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1996.114.01.13 --- B. Dickinson: The Puffin Field: the appraisal of a complex HP-HT gas-condensate accumulation / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 114:299-327, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1996.114.01.14 --- Susan Currie: The development of the Ivanhoe, Rob Roy and Hamish Fields, Block 15/21A, UK North Sea / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 114:329-341, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1996.114.01.15

Description / Table of Contents: C. F. Mills: Geochemical aspects of the aetiology of trace element related diseases / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 113:1-5, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1996.113.01.01 --- J. A. Plant, J. W. Baldock, and B. Smith: The role of geochemistry in environmental and epidemiological studies in developing countries: a review / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 113:7-22, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1996.113.01.02 --- F. M. Fordyce, D. Masara, and J. D. Appleton: Stream sediment, soil and forage chemistry as indicators of cattle mineral status in northeast Zimbabwe / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 113:23-37, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1996.113.01.03 --- I. O. Jumba, N. F. Suttle, E. A. Hunter, and S. O. Wandiga: Effects of botanical composition, soil origin and composition on mineral concentrations in dry season pastures in western Kenya / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 113:39-45, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1996.113.01.04 --- John Maskall and Iain Thornton: The distribution of trace and major elements in Kenyan soil profiles and implications for wildlife nutrition / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 113:47-62, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1996.113.01.05 --- R. J. Bowell, A. Warren, and I. Redmond: Formation of cave salts and utilization by elephants in the Mount Elgon region, Kenya / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 113:63-79, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1996.113.01.06 --- O. Selinus, A. Frank, and V. Galgan: Biogeochemistry and metal biology / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 113:81-89, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1996.113.01.07 --- W. M. Edmunds and P. L. Smedley: Groundwater geochemistry and health: an overview / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 113:91-105, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1996.113.01.08 --- R. J. Bowell, S. McEldowney, A. Warren, B. Mathew, and M. Bwankuzo: Biogeochemical factors affecting groundwater quality in central Tanzania / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 113:107-130, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1996.113.01.09 --- C. B. Dissanayake: Water quality and dental health in the Dry Zone of Sri Lanka / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 113:131-140, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1996.113.01.10 --- B. Smith, N. Breward, M. B. Crawford, D. Galimaka, S. M. Mushiri, and S. Reeder: The environmental geochemistry of aluminium in tropical terrains and its implications to health / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 113:141-152, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1996.113.01.11 --- Iain Thornton: Sources and pathways of arsenic in the geochemical environment: health implications / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 113:153-161, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1996.113.01.12 --- P. L. Smedley, W. M. Edmunds, and K. B. Pelig-Ba: Mobility of arsenic in groundwater in the Obuasi gold-mining area of Ghana: some implications for human health / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 113:163-181, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1996.113.01.13 --- E. Helios Rybicka: Environmental impact of mining and smelting industries in Poland / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 113:183-193, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1996.113.01.14 --- Keith Nicholson: Lacustrine sediment geochemistry as a tool in retrospective environmental impact assessment of mining and urban development in tropical environments: examples from Papua New Guinea / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 113:195-199, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1996.113.01.15 --- Ron Fuge: Geochemistry of iodine in relation to iodine deficiency diseases / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 113:201-211, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1996.113.01.16 --- C. B. Dissanayake and R. L. R. Chandrajith: Iodine in the environment and endemic goitre in Sri Lanka / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 113:213-221, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1996.113.01.17 --- A. G. Stewart and P. O. D. Pharoah: Clinical and epidemiological correlates of iodine deficiency disorders / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 113:223-230, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1996.113.01.18 --- M. G. Nair, S. M. Maxwell, and B. J. Brabin: The protective role of trace elements in preventing aflatoxin induced damage: a review / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 113:231-237, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1996.113.01.19 --- R. A. Nicholson, P. D. Roberts, and P. J. Baxter: Preliminary studies of acid and gas contamination at Poas volcano, Costa Rica / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 113:239-244, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1996.113.01.20 --- M. A. Oliver: Kriging: a method of estimation for environmental and rare disease data / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 113:245-254, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1996.113.01.21 --- R. Harvey, J. J. Powell, and R. P. H. Thompson: A review of the geochemical factors linked to podoconiosis / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 113:255-260, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1996.113.01.22

Description / Table of Contents: D. B. Snyder, S. B. Lucas, and J. H. McBride: Crustal and mantle reflectors from Palaeoproterozoic orogens and their relation to arc-continent collisions / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 112:1-23, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1996.112.01.01 --- H. R. Rollinson: Tonalite-trondhjemite-granodiorite magmatism and the genesis of Lewisian crust during the Archaean / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 112:25-42, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1996.112.01.02 --- A. Vrevsky, R. Krimsky, and S. Svetov: Rare earth and isotopic (Nd, O) heterogeneity of the Archaean mantle, Baltic Shield / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 112:43-53, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1996.112.01.03 --- E. V. Bibikova, T. Skiöld, and S. V. Bogdanova: Age and geodynamic aspects of the oldest rocks in the Precambrian Belomorian Belt of the Baltic (Fennoscandian) Shield / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 112:55-67, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1996.112.01.04 --- S. V. Bogdanova: High-grade metamorphism of 2.45–2.4 Ga age in mafic intrusions of the Belomorian Belt in the northeastern Baltic Shield / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 112:69-90, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1996.112.01.05 --- Martin J. Van Kranendonk and Richard J. Wardle: Burwell domain of the Palaeoproterozoic Torngat Orogen, northeastern Canada: tilted cross-section of a magmatic are caught between a rock and a hard place / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 112:91-115, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1996.112.01.06 --- Toby Rivers, Flemming Mengel, David J. Scott, Lisa M. Campbell, and Normand Goulet: Torngat Orogen — a Palaeoproterozoic example of a narrow doubly vergent collisional orogen / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 112:117-136, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1996.112.01.07 --- R. J. Wardle and M. J. Van Kranendonk: The Palaeoproterozoic Southeastern Churchill Province of Labrador-Quebec, Canada: orogenic development as a consequence of oblique collision and indentation / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 112:137-153, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1996.112.01.08 --- Andrew Kerr, Bruce Ryan, Charles F. Gower, Richard J. Wardle, and Andrew Kerr: The Makkovik Province: extension of the Ketilidian Mobile Belt in mainland North America / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 112:155-177, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1996.112.01.09 --- B. Chadwick and A. A. Garde: Palaeoproterozoic oblique plate convergence in South Greenland: a reappraisal of the Ketilidian Orogen / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 112:179-196, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1996.112.01.10 --- Charles F. Gower: The evolution of the Grenville Province in eastern Labrador, Canada / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 112:197-218, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1996.112.01.11 --- Ian C. Starmer: Accretion, rifting, rotation and collision in the North Atlantic supercontinent, 1700-950 Ma / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 112:219-248, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1996.112.01.12 --- A. Wikström, T. Skiöld, and B. Öhlander: The relationship between 1.88 Ga old magmatism and the Baltic-Bothnian shear zone in northern Sweden / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 112:249-259, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1996.112.01.13 --- J. N. Connelly and K-I. Åhäll: The Mesoproterozoic cratonization of Baltica — new age constraints from SW Sweden / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 112:261-273, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1996.112.01.14 --- J. F. Menuge and T. S. Brewer: Mesoproterozoic anorogenic magmatism in southern Norway / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 112:275-295, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1996.112.01.15 --- J. N. Connelly, J. Berglund, and S. Å. Larson: Thermotectonic evolution of the Eastern Segment of southwestern Sweden: tectonic constraints from U-Pb geochronology / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 112:297-313, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1996.112.01.16 --- Laurence M. Page, Michael B. Stephens, and Carl-Henric Wahlgren: 40Ar/39Ar geochronological constraints on the tectonothermal evolution of the Eastern Segment of the Sveconorwegian Orogen, south-central Sweden / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 112:315-330, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1996.112.01.17 --- S. Mertanen, L. J. Pesonen, and H. Huhma: Palaeomagnetism and Sm-Nd ages of the Neoproterozoic diabase dykes in Laanila and Kautokeino, northern Fennoscandia / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 112:331-358, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1996.112.01.18 --- Trevor F. Emmett: The provenance of pre-Scandian continental flakes within the Caledonide Orogen of south-central Norway / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 112:359-366, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1996.112.01.19 --- W. R. Fitches, N. J. G. Pearce, J. A. Evans, and R. J. Muir: Provenance of late Proterozoic Dalradian tillite clasts, Inner Hebrides, Scotland / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 112:367-377, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1996.112.01.20

Description / Table of Contents: Coalbed Methane Resources in USA and Europe --- D. Keith Murray: Coalbed methane in the USA: analogues for worldwide development / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 109:1-12, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1996.109.01.01 --- Thomas G. Fails: Coalbed methane potential of some Variscan foredeep basins / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 109:13-26, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1996.109.01.02 --- F. J. MacCarthy, R. M. Tisdale, and W. B. Ayers, Jr: Geological controls on coalbed prospectivity in part of the North Staffordshire Coalfield, UK / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 109:27-42, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1996.109.01.03 --- J. L. Knight, B. J. Shevlin, D. C. Edgar, and P. Dolan: Coal thickness distributions on the UK continental shelf / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 109:43-57, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1996.109.01.04 --- Dierk Juch: Assessment of West German hardcoal resources and its relation to coalbed methane / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 109:59-65, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1996.109.01.05 --- U. Freudenberg, S. Lou, R. Schlüter, K. Schütz, and K. Thomas: Main factors controlling coalbed methane distribution in the Ruhr District, Germany / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 109:67-88, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1996.109.01.06 --- James S. Marshall, Raymond C. Pilcher, and Carol J. Bibler: Opportunities for the development and utilization of coalbed methane in three coal basins in Russia and Ukraine / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 109:89-101, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1996.109.01.07 --- Coal as a Reservoir --- R. A. Gayer, J. Pešek, I. Sýkorová, and P. Valterová: Coal clasts in the upper Westphalian sequence of the South Wales coal basin: implications for the timing of maturation and fracture permeability / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 109:103-120, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1996.109.01.08 --- T. M. Hathaway and R. A. Gayer: Thrust-related permeability in the South Wales Coalfield / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 109:121-132, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1996.109.01.09 --- C. I. Pattison, C. R. Fielding, R. H. McWatters, and L. H. Hamilton: Nature and origin of fractures in Permian coals from the Bowen Basin, Queensland, Australia / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 109:133-150, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1996.109.01.10 --- Basim S. M. Faraj, Chris R. Fielding, and Ian D. R. Mackinnon: Cleat mineralization of Upper Permian Baralaba/Rangal Coal Measures, Bowen Basin, Australia / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 109:151-164, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1996.109.01.11 --- Paul Gamson, Basil Beamish, and David Johnson: Coal microstructure and secondary mineralization: their effect on methane recovery / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 109:165-179, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1996.109.01.12 --- Ian H. Harris, Gareth A. Davies, Rodney A. Gayer, and Keith Williams: Enhanced methane desorption characteristics from South Wales anthracites affected by tectonically induced fracture sets / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 109:181-196, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1996.109.01.13 --- Jeffrey R. Levine: Model study of the influence of matrix shrinkage on absolute permeability of coal bed reservoirs / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 109:197-212, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1996.109.01.14 --- M. I. Davidson, R. Bryant, and D. J. A. Williams: Characterization of anthracite / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 109:213-225, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1996.109.01.15 --- Pavel Konečhný and Alena Kožušníková: Measurement of gas permeability of coal and clastic sedimentary rocks under triaxial stress conditions / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 109:227-229, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1996.109.01.16 --- A. Kožušníková: Relationship between the hydrogen content of coal and the lithological characteristics of rocks overlying the coal seam / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 109:231-236, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1996.109.01.17 --- Coal Geological Studies Related to Coalbed Methane --- Edward Lester, Martin Allen, Michael Cloke, and Brian Atkin: Analysis of the problems associated with the use of image analysis for microlithotype analysis on solid coal mounts / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 109:237-248, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1996.109.01.18 --- I. Sýkorová, M. Novotná, H. Pavlíková, and V. Machovič: Petrological and spectroscopic structural characteristics of Bohemian and Moravian coals and their possible relation to gas proneness / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 109:249-260, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1996.109.01.19 --- Grzegorz J. Nowak: Petrological coal seam accumulation model for the Zacler Formation of the Lower Silesian coal basin, southwestern Poland / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 109:261-286, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1996.109.01.20 --- J. Barraza, A. Gilfillan, M. Cloke, and D. Clift: Minerals and major elements in density-separated coal fractions from Point of Ayr coal, Wales, UK / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 109:287-299, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1996.109.01.21 --- Irena Kostova, Ognyan Petrov, and Jordan Kortenski: Mineralogy, geochemistry and pyrite content of Bulgarian subbituminous coals, Pernik Basin / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 109:301-314, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1996.109.01.22 --- Duncan McLean and Iain Murray: Subsurface correlation of Carboniferous coal seams and inter-seam sediments using palynology: application to exploration for coalbed methane / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 109:315-324, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1996.109.01.23 --- A. I. Karayigit, E. Eris, and E. Cicioglu: Coal geology, chemical and petrographical characteristics, and implications for coalbed methane development of subbituminous coals from the Sorgun and Suluova Eocene basins, Turkey / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 109:325-338, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1996.109.01.24

Description / Table of Contents: The atlas of the water balance of the Northern Polar area has been made for the first time. It was prepared by scientists of the Arctic and Antarctic research institute. The atlas includes monthly and annual maps of all water fluxes at the earth's surface, variations of total water mass content and horizontal total water mass influxes in the atmosphere, annual map of horizontal total water mass influxes in the ocean and on land. There are also maps and graphs of annual variations of snow cover boundaries, of snow depth and density in the atlas. At present it is the comprehensive on components of the water balance of the area 90-65°N for mean climatic conditions. In all, there are 81 maps in the atlas. The explanations of the atlas contain water balance equations, methods of observations and calculation of balance components and their brief characteristic. The atlas is intended for use in research, practical and educational work. It can be used by a wide range of specialists in the field of natural sciences.

Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Introduction and Global Setting ; The Study of the Atmosphere ; The Atmospheric Envelope and Radiative Processes ; The General Circulation of the Atmosphere ; Synoptic Scale Processes and Phenomena ; Atmospheric Stability and Air Mass Characteristics ; The Origins of Horizontal Motion ; Synoptic Scale Circulation ; Weather Systems in the Australia and New Zealand Origin ; Weather Forecasting ; Sub-Synoptic Scale Processes and Phenomena ; Mesoscale Circulation Systems ; Regional, Local, and Micro-Scale Climates ; Climate Change and Variability ; The Climatic Record and Recent Variability ; Present and Possible Future Climate Change

Description / Table of Contents: Inhalt: LANGE REISE - LEERES LAND. - Beerenberg an Steuerbord. - Zur Bäreninsel. - Ultima Thule: Vorstoß an das Ende der Welt. - Kurs Spitzbergen. - Klimaforschung in der Arktis. - Im Magdalenenfjord. - Abenteur Fotografie. - Auf 81 Grad Nord. - Am Rand des Packeises. - Der Weg ins Unbekannte. - Reise ohne Wiederkehr: Die Suche nach John Franklin. - Kurs Süd. - ARKTIS-GLOSSAR. - Wo fängt die Arktis an?. - Karte: Die Arktis. - Ein Mittelmeer voller Packeis. - Karte: In der Tiefe des Nordpolarmeeres. - Wenn der Nordpol zum Südpol wird. - Die Völker der Arktis. - Aurora borealis: Das Licht des Nordens. - Karten: Eisausdehnung in der Arktis. - Die weiße Wüste. - Von kleinen Algen und großen Zwergwalen. - Ein Vertrag und seine Folgen. - "In Nacht und Eis". - Kartenlesen in der Arktis. - Begegnungen mit dem Horizont. - Karte: Arktisexpeditionen. - Überleben in der Arktis. - Reisen nördlich des Polarkreises. - Mit dem Eisbrecher zum Nordpol.

Description / Table of Contents: Bis weit in unser Jahrhundert hinein war eine Forschungsreise in die Arktis oder eine Fahrt zum Nordpol ein Spiel mit dem Tod. Allein in der Endlosigkeit von Eis und Meer erlebten viele, die voll Mut aufgebrochen waren, die Grenzen des Menschenmöglichen. Heute kann man sicher und in wenigen Tagen mit einem modernen Eisbrecher zum Nordpol fahren: Der Weg ist nicht mehr, was er war, das Ziel lockt nach wie vor - einmal am nördlichsten Punkt der Erde stehen! Der Fotograf Kurt Ulrich fuhr auf dem russischen Eisbrecher "Jamal" zweimal zum Nordpol; er zeigt in seinen Bildern die arktische Welt und das Leben der Menschen jenseits des Polarkreises. Im Essay schildert der Wissenschaftsjournalist Albert Gerdes Eindrücke von einer Reise an die Packeisgrenze und berichtet von Barents, Nansen, Peary, Cook und anderen Arktisfahrern. Im Glossar informiert er zum Beispiel über den Aufbau des Nordpolarmeeres, über Entstehung und Formen des Eises und die im Norden lebenden Menschen. Außerdem gibt er Tips zur Ausrüstung und den erreichbaren arktischen Regionen. Zur Ergänzung greift er in "Vorstoß an das Ende der Welt", "Klimaforschung in der Arktis", "Mit einem Fuß über dem Abgrund: Überleben in der Arktis" und einigen anderen Informationskästen besonders spannende Themen auf.