Vol. 28 No.3 September 2005

Journal of International Geoscience

Published by the International Union of Geological sciences

Contents

President’s Vision
157  How to unite geological community better
by Hongren Zhang
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Articles

158  Effects of basement structural and stratigraphic heritages on volcano behaviour and implications for human activities (the IGCP project 455)
by Alessandro Tibaldi, Alfredo Mahar F. A. Lagmay, Vera V. Ponomareva,
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171  Mantle plume activity and melting conditions: Evidence from olivines in  picritic-komatiitic rocks from the Emeishan Large Igneous Province, southwestern China
by Zhaochong Zhang, Jingwen Mao, Fusheng Wang, Yanli Hao and  John J. Mahoney
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177  Definition of the Portuguese frameworks with international relevance as an input for the European geological heritage characterisation
by José Brilha and others
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187  The Sixth International Geological Congress: Zürich, 1894
by Sibylle Franks and Rudolf Trümpy
Abstract  |  PDF(1270K)

197  Quaternary: “Quo Vadis”?
by Kenitiro Suguio, Alethéa Ernandes Martins Sallun, and Emílio A. A. Soares
Abstract  |  PDF(1256K)

Research Note
201  A newly discovered major fault of the 1976 Tangshan earthquake in China
by Zehua Qiu, Jin Ma, and Guoxi Liu
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Classic Paper
205  An early view of Permo-Carboniferous glaciation and its implications,from Australia (1906)
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 Geological Map
193  An innovative cartographic concept—The Geodynamic Map of the Mediterranean
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 Conference Reports
209  The Origin, Evolution and Present State of Subcontinental Lithosphere— an IUGS-SECE conference
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210  First Field Workshop of IGCP-486
212  Maar Conference
214  China-ASEAN Workshop on Earthquake-Generated Tsunami Warning
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215  Interim IAGOD Conference on “Metallogeny of the Pacific Northwest: Tectonics,Magmatism, and Metallogeny of Active Continental Margins”
217  ‘The Geology of the Gulf of Cádiz’ Symposium held on VI Geological Congress of Spain
218  Micro- and Mesoporous Mineral Phases
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Book Reviews
220  Climate change—environment and civilization in the Middle East
PDF(477K)

221  A geologic time scale 2004
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222  Renewable energy in nontechnical language
222  Heterogeneity in the crust and upper mentle: nature, scaling and seismic properties 
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Letter
224  IUGS and the State of the Geosciences 
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Profile
226  The Circum-Pacific Council for Energy and Mineral Resources (CPCEMR) 
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229  Calendar 
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Front Cover
Mount Vesuvius,which destroyed Pompei in 79 A.D. is now dormant.Nowadays,this valcano is surrounded by a densely inhabited area(Courtesy CGR-Compangnia Generale Riprese Aeree,Parma,Italy).

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