Contents of Episodes Vol. 22 NO.2, June 1999

Articles
Geoscience provides assets for sustainable development
by Eduardo F. J. de Mulder and Umberto G. Cordani

Pliocene-Quaternary faulting pattern and left- slip propagation
tectonics in North China
by Zhang Yueqiao, P. Vergély and J. L. Mercier

Titano-zirconium placers in sedimentary cover of the platforms
by Natalia G. Patyk-Kara, Evgenia G. Bardeeva and Andrew G. Shevelev

On calculations of oxygen isotope fractionation in minerals
by Yong-Fei Zheng

The European geological surveys and EuroGeoSurveys: roles and tasks
in a supranational structure
by Emilio Custodio

The First International Geological Congress, Paris, 1878
by Francois Ellenberger

Conference Reports
The Mesoproterozoic history of Botswana and the relationship of the NW
Botswana Rift to Rodinia (A report on the second annual meeting of IGCP
418 — The Kibaran of southwestern Africa)

International Symposium on the Upper Permian Stratotypes of the Volga
Region

14th Himalaya-Karakorum-Tibet International Workshop

Shallow Tethys (ST) 5

Thirteenth International Conference and Workshops on Applied Geologic
Remote Sensing

The International Conference on Pangea and the Paleozoic-Mesozoic
Transition

10th Global Warming International Conference & Expo (GW10)
— Climate change, sustainable environment & health for the 21st Century


Book Reviews
Miocene stratigraphy — An integrated approach

Global karst correlation

Annual review of earth and planetary sciences, Volume 26

IUGS Financial Situation and Statement

IUGS Directory

Calendar