Contents of Episodes Volume 21, No.2, June 1998

Articles

Arabian plate oil and gas: Why so rich and so proli?c?
by Ziad R. Beydoun

The Gelasian Stage (Upper Pliocene): A new unit of the global standard
chronostratigraphic scale
by D. Rio, R. Sprovieri, D. Castradori, and E. Di Stefano

The Global Standard Stratotype-section and Point (GSSP) of the
Piacenzian Stage (Middle Pliocene)
by D. Castradori, D. Rio, F. J. Hilgen, and L. J. Lourens

Fuzzy logic in volcanology
by Bruno Cagnoli

Temperature and salinity effects on 18O fractionation for rapidly
precipitated carbonates: Laboratory experiments with alkaline lake
water—Perspective
by Gerald M. Friedman

Coupling of mantle-upwelling and shearing – Mesozoic dyke-swarms in
Da-Hinggan Mountains, Northeast China
by Ji'an Shao, Fengying Gai, and Luqiao Zhang

Conference Reports
1st International Geological Field Workshop of IGCP Project 386 in Spiti
Valley, Himachal Pradesh, Himalaya, India

1st Latin American Congress of Sedimentology

13th Himalaya-Karakorum-Tibet International Workshop

International Workshop on Sustainable Management of Water Quantity and
Quality (IWSMWQ '98)

News Reports

INDEPTH-III Project—A Sino-U.S.-German-Canadian joint effort is now
beginning

Dinofest, the World's Fair of Dinosaurs

Emerging environmental issues: A SOCOPE contribution to the UNEP
Global Environmental Outlook Programme (GEO-2)

World Science Congference

IGCP Project 428: Organization and Plans for Inaugural Meeting

IGCP Project 408: Plans for Inaugural Meeting 264

IGCP Project 425: Introduction and ?rst general meeting

IGCP Project 429: Plans for Inaugural Meeting

Book Reviews

Sea-level changes: The last 20 000 years

Global warming: The complete briefing (2nd Edition)


IUGS activities and accomplishments of 1997-1998 – Scienti?c Commission


IUGS Directory


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