United Kingdom Oil and Gas Fields 25 Year Commemorative/No: 265

Abbotts, Ian L.

Business & Money

Geological Society Pub House

Contaminated Land and Groundwater: Future Directions

Politics & Social Sciences

Politics & Government

North Africa contains 4% of the world's remaining oil and gas reserves, and is now one of the most actively explored areas. This text looks at current knowledge of the petroleum geology of the area.

Petroleum Geology of North Africa

Gs #132

Science & Math

Tectonics is concerned with the processes which control the structure and properties of the Earth's crust, and its evolution through time.

Continental Transpressional Tectonics and Transtensional Tectonics (Geological Society Special Publication)

Geological Society Of London

Earth Sciences

Basin Modelling: Practice and Progress (Geological Society Special Publication)

Engineering & Transportation

Engineering

This book explores the factors that control metamorphism and the rates of metamorphic processes. In particular it looks at distribution of heat within the crust, the type and location of major heat sources and rates of heat flux through crustal rocks.

What Drives Metamorphism and Metamorphic Reactions (Geological Society Special Publication)

James Hutton - Present and Future (Geological Society Special Publication)

Research

The Geology of Chile

This book is the first comprehensive account in English of the geology of Chile, providing a key reference work that brings together many years of research, and written mostly by Chilean authors from various universities and other centres of research excellence. The 13 chapters begin with a general overview, followed by detailed accounts of Andean tectonostratigraphy and magmatism, the amazingly active volcanism, the world class ore deposits that have proven to be so critical to the welfare of the country, and Chilean water resources. The subject then turns to geophysics with an examination of neotectonics and earthquakes, the hazardous frequency of which is a daily fact of life for the Chilean population. There are chapters on the offshore geology and oceanography of the SE Pacific Ocean, subjects that continue to attract much research not least from those seeking to understand world climatic variations, and on late Quaternary land environments, concluding with an account examining human colonization of southernmost America. The geological evolution of Chile is the c. 550 million year history of a continental margin over 4000 km long. During his voyage on H.M.S. Beagle, an extended visit to Chile (1834-35) had a profound impact on Charles Darwin, especially on his understanding of volcanoes, earthquakes and tsunamis. Over more recent decades scientists have come to recognize the Chilean Andes as providing the classic example of a mountain belt produced by oceanic subduction beneath a continent, as well as some of the most dramatic scenic and climatic variations on Earth. In the final chapter, the editors offer a description of a drive from the Mediterranean landscapes of central Chile to the hyperarid Atacama Desert, a contribution designed to give visitors a chance to experience for themselves the geology and scenery of this extraordinary country.
Also available:
 The Geology of Spain - ISBN 1862391270 The Neuquen Basin, Argentina: A Case Study in Sequence Stratigraphy and Basin Dynamics - ISBN 1862391904 High-Strain Zones - ISBN 1862391785

Teresa Moreno

Understanding the sediments deposited by glaciers or other cold-climate processes assumes enhanced significance in the context of current global warming and the predicted melt and retreat of glaciers and ice sheets.  This volume analyses glacial, proglacial and periglacial settings. Papers include topics such as sedimentation at termini of tidewater glaciers, poorly understood high-mountain features, and slope and aeolian deposits that have been sourced in glacial and periglacial regions and subsequently transported and deposited by azonal processes. Difficulties encountered in inferring Pleistocene and pre-Pleistocene cold-climate conditions when the sedimentary record lacks specific diagnostic indicators are discussed. The main objective of this volume is to establish the validity and limitations of the evidence that is used to achieve reliable palaeogeographic and palaeoclimatic reconstructions. On the much longer geological timescale, an understanding of ice-marginal and periglacial environments may better prepare us for the unavoidable reversal towards cooler and perhaps even glacial times in the future.The Geological Society of LondonFounded in 1807, the Geological Society of London is the oldest geological society in the world, and one of the largest publishers in the Earth sciences.The Society publishes a wide range of high-quality peer-reviewed titles for academics and professionals working in the geosciences, and enjoys an enviable international reputation for the quality of its work.The many areas in which we publish in include:-Petroleum geology-Tectonics, structural geology and geodynamics-Stratigraphy, sedimentology and paleontology-Volcanology, magmatic studies and geochemistry-Remote sensing-History of geology-Regional geology guides

Ice-Marginal and Periglacial Processes and Sediments (Geological Society Special Publication)

I. P. Martini

H. M. French

A. Perez-Alberti

Humankind has pervasively influenced the Earths atmosphere, biosphere, geosphere, hydrosphere and cryosphere, arguably to the point of fashioning a new geological epoch, the Anthropocene. To constrain the Anthropocene as a potential formal unit within the Geological Time Scale, a spectrum of indicators of anthropogenically-induced environmental change is considered, and shown as stratigraphical signals that may be used to characterize an Anthropocene unit, and to recognize its base. This volume describes a range of evidence that may help to define this potential new time unit and details key signatures that could be used in its definition. These signatures include lithostratigraphical (novel deposits, minerals and mineral magnetism), biostratigraphical (macro- and micro-palaeontological successions and human-induced trace fossils) and chemostratigraphical (organic, inorganic and radiogenic signatures in deposits, speleothems and ice and volcanic eruptions). We include, finally, the suggestion that humans have created a further sphere, the technosphere, that drives global change.

A Stratigraphical Basis for the Anthropocene (Geological Society of London Special Publication)

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