Contents of Episodes Vol. 21 No.1, March 1998


Editorial
Geology and Development
by Umberto G. Cordani

Articles
Hutton and Hall on theory and experiments: the view after 2 centuries
by Peter J. Wyllie

Proposal of Aidaralash as Global Stratotype Section and Point (GSSP)
for base of the Permian System
by Vladimir I. Davydov, Brian F. Glenister, Claude Spinosa, Scott M. Ritter,
V. V. Chemykh, B. R. Wardlaw, and W. S. Snyder

The role of geochemistry in environmental and epidemiological studies
in developing countries
by Jane Plant, John Baldock, Henry Haslam, and Barry Smith

Desert distributions during the glacial maximum and climatic optimum:
Example of China
by Sun Jimin, Ding Zhongli, and Liu Tungsheng

Museums: A palliative or solution for declining historical mines?
by Javier Garcia-Guinea, Matthew Harffy, and Mark D. Bateman

Conference Reports
Shallow marine and nonmarine reservoirs: Sequence stratigraphy, reservoir
architecture and production characteristics

Jurassic/Cretaceous Carbonate Platform-Basin Systems — Middle East
Models

Second Nepal Geological Congress

11th International Symposium on Placer and Weathered Rock Deposits

Neotectonics and its in?uence on the formation and distribution of oil and
gas deposits

News and Views
Global Geochemical Baselines — an update

What triggers subduction?

IUGS Executive Committee meets

New IGCP Projects funded

Short review of the new IGCP Projects (ten) approved and scheduled to
commence in 1998

GONDWANA-10

Update on geoindicators

The Patterson Medal in environmental geochemistry

Book Reviews
Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Vol. 25, 1997

Studying the Earth: Research, reasoning and riddles

IUGS Financial Situation and Statement

Monographs in the IUGS publication series

New publications

Calendar

Index for 1997