Contents of Episodes Volume 25, No.2, June 2002
Presidential Perspective
Presidential Perspective
by Eduardo F. J. de Mudler
Articles
New IUGS Working Group addresses public affairs
by David Applegate
Occurrence of metastable rocks in deeply subducted continental crust
from the Dabie Mountains, central China
by Dong Shuwen, R. Oberh?nsli, R. Schmid, Liu Xiaochun, Tang Jiafu,
and Xue Huaimin
New insights into the evolution of the Yarlung Tsangpo suture zone,
Xizang (Tibet), China
by J. C. Aitchison, A. Abrajevitch, J. R. Ali, Badengzhu, A. M. Davis,
H. Luo, J. B. Liu, I. R.C. McDermid, and S. Ziabrev
Preliminary report on the Ms 8.1 Kokoxili (Qinghai, China) earthquake
of 14 November 2001
by Li Li and Chen Yong
Classic Paper
Alfred Wegener's "The Origin of Continents", 1912
Forum
A complete standard chronostratigraphic scale: How to turn a dream into reality?
Comment by Executive Committee, ICS
Geological Maps
Geological Map of Asia and Europe (1: 5,000,000)
A new CGMW map released: The Seismotectonic Map of the World, ?ve
millennia of earthquakes around the world
Conference Reports
Sea level changes and coastal evolution (INQUA) and Neotectonics (INQUA)
Polar regions of the earth: geology, tectonics, resource value, natural environment
4th International Archaean Symposium
The 33rd Lunar and Planetary Science Conference
The 19th Colloquium of African Geology and the post-colloquium Anti-Atlas ?eld trip
Aquifer Heterogeneity and Environmental Implications—Ancient andModern
Coastal Plain Depositional Environments
XV Argentine Geological Congress
New advances of palaeontology and geology in the Junggar basin, Xinjiang, China
Book Reviews
Precambrian crust in eastern and central India
Geoscience after IT: A view of the present and future impact of information
technology on geoscience
Cretaceous stratigraphy— an update
Ocean circulation and climate: Observing and modelling the global ocean,
International Geophysics Series, Volume 77
Storms in space
Paradoxes in geology
Profiles
The IUGS Commission on Geological Sciences for Environmental Planning
(COGEOENVIRONMENT)
American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG)
Association of Exploration Geochemists (AEG)