Contents of Episodes Vol.26, No. 4, December 2003

 

Articles

270 Medical geology: New relevance in the Earth Sciences

by Charlotte A. Bowman, Peter T. Bobrowsky, and Olle Selinus

 

279 Sustainable groundwater management Problems and scientific tool

by Wolfgang Kinzelbach, Peter Bauer, Tobias Siegfried, and Philip Brunner

 

285 Early Cretaceous subduction of continental crust at the Diego de Almagro archipelago, southern Chile

by Francisco Hervé and C. Mark Fanning

 

290 US-Russian Civilian Research and Development Fund Project: An origin of microdiamonds in metamorphic rocks of the Kokchetav Massif, Northern

Kazakhstan

by N.V. Sobolev, V.S. Shatsky, J.G. Liou, R.Y. Zhang, S.L. Hwang, P. Shen,
H.T. Chu, T.F. Yui, A.A. Zayachkovsky, and M.A. Kasymov

 

295 Mining and geological knowledge during the Neolithic: a geological study on the variscite mines at Gavà, Catalonia

by Antoni Camprubí, Joan-Carles Melgarejo, Joaquín A. Proenza, Fidel Costa,

Josep Bosch, Alícia Estrada, Ferran Borell, Nikolai P. Yushkin, and Valentin L. Andreiche

 

302 The socio-economic benefits of establishing National Geoparks in China

by Zhao Xun and Zhao Ting

 

Classic Paper

310 A. P. Karpinsky On the Regularity in Outline, Distribution, and Structure of Continents

 

Conference Reports

TRANSALP Conference: a crustal section through the Eastern Alps

Recent Advances on the Study of the Proterozoic Geological Evolution of Sri Lanka: International Symposium and Field Workshop of IGCP-440 and LEGENDS Proposal

African Geoscientists Embrace Environmental ThemeAbuja Geocongress 2003

VII International Symposium 'Cultural Heritage in Geosciences, Mining and Metallurgy' at Leiden, The Netherlands

Mesozoic Palaeoceanography in Response to Palaeogeographic & Palaeoclimatic Forcings

 

News Reports

"Dark nature"Rapid natural changes, catastrophes, and human responses

The first "Golden Spike" within Cambrian

OrbituaryNikita A. Bogdanov

 

Book Reviews
Intensive use of groundwater: challenges & opportunities
Earth, Water, Ice and Fire: Two Hundred Years of Geological Research in the English Lake District

 

Profiles

Association of European Geological Societies
IUGS Task Group on Public Affairs
The Society for Geology Applied to Mineral Deposits (SGA)

 

New Publications

 

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