Contents of Episodes Volume 23, No.2, June 1998

Articles
Massive granitoid generation in Central Asia : Nd isotope evidence
and implication for continental growth in the Phanerozoic
by Bor-ming Jahn, Fuyuan Wu and Bin Chen

Proposed Magnetostratigraphy Susceptibility Magnetostratotype for
the Eifelian–Givetian GSSP (Anti-Atlas, Morocco)
by Rex E. Crick, Brooks B. Ellwood, Ahmed El Hassani, and
Raimund Feist

A proposed global boundary stratotype for the base of the Upper Series
of the Ordovician System: The Fagelsang section, Scania, southern
Sweden
by Stig M. Bergstrom, S. C. Finney, Chen Xu, Christian P?lsson,
Wang Zhi-hao, and Yngve Grahn

Regional variations in ore composition and fluid features of massive
sulphide deposits in South China: Implications for genetic modelling
by Lian-Xing Gu, Wen-Xuan Hu, Jin-Xiang He, Pei Ni, and Ke-Qin Xu

Regional aspects of shoshonitic volcanism in Iran
by Alijan Aftabi and Habibeh Atapour

Conference Reports
Towards a better understanding of the Mezoproterozoic Irumide Belt of
Zambia: Report on a geotraverse across the belt

15th Himalaya-Karakoram-Tibet Workshop

Continental growth in the Phanerozoic: Evidence from the Central Asian
Orogenic Belt

Earth Alert Conference, A forum on the future of planet Earth

Book Reviews
Diagenesis: A quantitative perspective

History of geology, Volume 2

Evolutionary catastrophes: The science of mass extinction

Introduction to seismology

New Publications

Calendar