Vol. 12 No.2 June 1989

Journal of International Geoscience

Published by the International Union of Geological Sciences

Contents

Guest Editorial
       Special Occasion for IUGS
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A PORTRAIT OF IUGS

        WHAT IS IUGS?
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            STRATIGRAPHIC COMMISSION ACCELERATES PROGRESS,1984 TO 1989
              by John W.Cowie,Willi Ziegler and Jurgen Remane
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             SETTING STANDARDS IN PETROLOGY:The Commission on Systematics in Petrology
              by Peter A.Sabine 
           PDF(2,983KB)

            A PLANETARY PERSPECTIVE:The Commission on Comparative Planetology
            by James W.Head,Alexander T.Basilevsky and Richard A.F.Grieve
           PDF(6,210KB)

            THE INTERNATIONAL LITHOSPHERE PROGRAM REVIEWED
              by Henk J.Zwart
           PDF(3,198KB)

            THE GARS KIBARAN PROJECT IN AFRICA
              by Gottfried Gabert
           PDF(1,991KB)

            IAGOD:History and Aims
              by Robert W.Boyle
           PDF(6,393KB)

            THE SPIRIT OF WRI
              by Brian Hitchon
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            IUGS PUBLICATION POLICY
      PDF(1,301KB)

            THE ADVISORY BOARD FOR RESEARCH DEVELOPMENT
              by R.W.R.Rutland
           PDF(1,493KB)

           THE ASSOCIATION OF EUROPEAN GEOLOGICAL SOCIETIES
              by Richard Bateman
           PDF(1,493KB)

           THE CARPATHIAN-BALKAN GEOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION
              by Ondrej Samuel
           PDF(1,291KB)

           THE HUTCHISON YOUNG SCIENTIST AWARD
              by Brian Hitchon
           PDF(2,990KB)

SCIENTIFIC ARTICLES

           DECISION ON THE LOCHKOVIAN-PRAGIAN BOUNDARY STRATOTYPE(Lower Devonian
              by Ivo Chlupac and William A.Oliver,Jr.
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           THE PARADOX OF LATE PROTEROZOIC GLACIATIONS AT LOW LATITUDES
              by Nicolai M.Chumakov and Donald P.Elston
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NEWS REPORT

            IUGS Proposes Contribution to Global Change
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NEWS IN BRIEF

CONFERENCE REPORTS

           Computers and Resource Exploration
           Tectonics of Eastern Asia and the Western Pacific
           Metamorphism and Crustal Evolution
           Rudistologists Convene
           Zuffardays'88
           Late Glacial and Holocene Environments, Vistula Basin
           Tectonostratigraphic Terranes in China
           Stratabound Copper in China

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DEPARTMENTS
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PERSONAL PROFILE: Bruce Hanshaw

LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS

BOOK REVIEWS

FOR YOUR BOOKSHELVES

COMING EVENTS

MAPS AVAILABLE

TRAINING COURSES

DIRECTORY OF IUGS BODIES

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