Contents of Episodes Vol.23 No.4, December 2000

Articles
Geological records of the recent past, a key to the near future world
environments
by Nicole Petit-Maire, Philippe Bouysse and others

Application of graphic correlation to compare Lower Permian sections
of the Glass Mountains, West Texas and the Western Slope of the Ural
Mountains, Russia
by Stephen L. Benoist

Isotope zonation in basement crustal blocks of southeastern China:
Evidence for multiple terrane amalgamation
by R. J. Sewell, L. S. Chan, C. J. N. Fletcher, T. S. Brewer, and J. C. Zhu

Electromagnetic pulses generated by compression of granitic rocks and
animal behavior
by Motoji Ikeya, Chihiro Yamanaka, Tomonori Mattsuda, Hideki
Sasaoka, Hideki Ochiai, Qinghua Huang, Nobuyo Ohtani, Takako
Komuranani, Mitsuaki Ohta, Yoshiteru Ohno and Takao Nakagawa

The garnet placer deposit from SE Spain: industrial recovery and
geochemical features
by María-Jesús Munoz-Espadas, Rosario Lunar and Jesús Martínez-Frías

Conference Reports
The Sixth Conference of International Organization of Palaeobotany
(IOPC-VI)

18th Colloquium of African Geology

GEOCHIM 2000—Postgraduate certificated training course in geochemical
exploration methods and their environmental applications

The Second World Chinese Conference on Geological Sciences

Climate and Carbon: E.G.S seen from an INQUA perspective

Second International Conference Risk 2000—Computer Simulation in
Risk Analysis and Hazard Mitigation

Penrose Conference — Great Cascadia Earthquake Tricentennial

News Reports
Future Directions within the International Commissions on Stratigraphy

IGCP 448: World Correlation of Karst Ecosystem (2000–2004)

In Memorium— Harold L. James, 1912–2000

In Memorium – Professor Zhang Bingxi, 1919–2000

Book Reviews
Earth science systems: Processes and issues

Billion-year earth history of Australia and its neighbours in Gondwanaland

The Earth’s mantle: composition, structure, and evolution

Fire in the Sea

Introduction to seismology

New Publications

Calendar