Vol. 13 No.4 December 1990

Journal of International Geoscience

Published by the International Union of Geological Sciences

Contents

Editorial

        In Memoriam-Vladimir Vladimirvich Beloussov

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Articles

            West Antarctic collapse-How likely?
              by Richard B.Alley
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             The International Lithosphere Program
              by Karl Fuchs 
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            Paleogeography and biostratigraphy of the Austral basin in Argentina and Chile:An appeal for sound systematics
            by Maria B.Aguirre-Urreta
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            What is a fault scarp?
              by Iain S.Stewart and Paul L.Hancock
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            Paleoclimatic oscillations in East Africa interpreted by analysis of trace elements in Nile delta sediments
              by Hany Ahmed Hamroush and Daniel Jean Stanley
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            In search of whiteschists and kornerupine in the southwestern Pamirs,USSR
              by Fdward S.Grew.Andrei K.Litvinenko,and Nikolai N.Pertsev
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Conference Reports

            Development of seismology and related earth sciences in Africa—IASPEI,ICL,and Unesco join together
            Morocco,African promontory between the Mediterranean and the Atlantic
            Phyllosilicates as indicators of very low grade metamorphism and diagenesis
            Meteorite impact studies featured in Australia
     
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News Reports

           The Selmec Museum Library—A place of importance for historians of the Geosciences
           Estimating the near-future via past environmental changes
       
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News Briefs

Book Reviews

           Sediment-Hosted Stratiform Copper Deposits
     PDF(2,917KB)

New publications

Training

Calendar

IUGS Directory

Front Cover
Columnar-jointed rhyolitic welded tuff of the High Island Formation, Kau Sai Chau Volcanic Group, Hong Kong SAR, China (22°15' N, 114° 21' E). The tuff has been dated at 140.9 ± 0.2 Ma. (Hong Kong Geological Survey, GEO, CEDD) (Photograph by D.L. Homer).