Contents of Episodes Vol. 27 No.2 June 2004

 

 

Editorial

Geology and time in renaissance

By Hou Hongfei

 

Articles

A new Geologic Time Scale, with special reference to Precambrian and

Neogene from the Dabie Mountains, central China

by Felix M. Gradstein, James G. Ogg, Alan G. Smith, Wouter Bleeker and

Lucas J. Lourens

 

Three sessions of the International Geological Congress, held in Russia and the

USSR (1897, 1937, 1984)

by E. E. Milanovsky

 

Paleoclimatical signi.cance of the paleosol levels occurring in the Miocene-

Pleistocene stratigraphy of the Manonga-Wembere Valley in Central Tanzania

by Peter D. Kafumu

 

High-resolution climate records from two stalagmites in Qixin Cave, southern

Guizhou, and Heinrich events during the last glacial period

by Zhang Meiliang, Cheng Hai, Yuan Daoxian, Lin Yushi, Qin Jiaming, Wang Hua,

Feng Yumei, Tu Lingling, and Zhang Huiling

 

Microstructures of co-axially folded vein segments and crenulation cleavage:

Evidence for dissolution phenomena in the Chamba Thrust Sheet, western

Himalayas

by B. K. Sharma and A. M. Bhola

 

Forum

Introduction to concepts and proposed standardization of the term Quaternary

by James Ogg

 

Proposal to redefine the Quaternary

by Brad Pillans

 

Conference Reports

- INHIGEO Symposium: ‘Geological Travellers

- 9th International Symposium on the Ordovician System, 7th International Graptolite

- Conference & Field Meeting of the International Subcommission on Silurian Stratigraphy

- Fourth South American Symposium on Isotope Geology (IV SSAGI)

- The XIV Global Warming International Conference & Expo (GWXIV) Global extreme events

- Upper Cretaceous pelagic red beds, implications for paleoclimate and paleoceanography

- IX Colombian Geological Congress

 

News Reports
- New IGCP Projects accepted in 2004

- IGCP Projects 2004

- IUGS International Commission on Stratigraphy Stratigraphy Award 2004

- Earthquake activity in mainland China, 2003: The heaviest damage caused since 1977

 

Book Reviews

- Geology and health: closing the gap

- Mantle plumes and their record in Earth history

- Proterozoic East Gondwana: supercontinent assembly and breakup

 

Profiles

- International Geological Correlation Programme (IGCP) / International Geoscience Programme (IGCP)

- The Arab Geologists' Association ( AGA )

 

IUGS Financial Situation and Statement

 

Calendar