Contents  of Episodes Vol. 22, No. 1, March 1999

Editorial
Improving Episodes: An Editorial Office perspective
by Zhang Hongren

Articles
Canada’s LITHOPROBE Project (Collaborative, multidisciplinary
geoscience research leads to new understanding of continental evolution)
by Ron Clowes, Frederick Cook, Zoltan Hajnal, Jeremy Hall, John Lewry,
Stephen Lucas, and Richard Wardle

Architecture of biomats reveals history of geo-, aqua-, and bio-systems
by Kazue Tazaki

IGCP Project 414: Realistic Modeling of Seismic Input for Megacities
and Large Urban Areas
by G. F. Panza, F. Vaccari, and F. Romanelli

CO₂ source-sink in karst processes in karst areas of China
by Jiang Zhongcheng and Yuan Daoxian

Observing orogeny — Maria Graham’s account of the earthquake in
Chile in 1822
by M. Kolbl-Ebert

The Devonian-Carboniferous boundary in South Africa and the age of
the earliest episode of the Dwyka glaciation: New palynological result
by Maurice Streel and Johannes N. Theron

Conference Reports
IUGS Executive Committee meets

International workshop on ultrahigh-pressure metamorphism and exhumation

International workshop on Cretaceous-Paleogene transitions in Tunisia:
The El Kef stratotype for the Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary recon?rmed

Fifth International Symposium on the Jurassic System

International conference on the Central Orogenic Belt of China: Its structure,
composition and evolution

Symposium on the role of “African Geological Surveys – beyond 2000”

Natural hazards, society and cultural heritage: Approaches for the next
millennium – The 1999 Tokyo Appeal

News Reports
New IGCP projects accepted and starting in 1999

Economic superaccumulations of metals in the lithosphere (IGCP Project 354)

Earthquakes and Megacities Initiative (EMI)

In Memorium: Paul L. Hancock (1937–1998)

Book Reviews
Urban geology of Canadian cities

Correlation chart and biostratigraphy of the Silurian rocks of Canada

Regional and petroleum geology of the Black Sea and surrounding region

The mineral resources of South Africa (Sixth Edition)

New Publications

Calendar

Index for 1998