Recent Special Issues
Recently published thematic special issues from e-journals which the Library provides offsite access to for Fellows using 'Athens' logins are listed below. Open Access special issues which require no passwords are also listed.
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The first section of this issue comprises abstracts of papers given at the 35th Annual Winter Meeting of the Geological Society’s Mineral Deposits Studies Group and the Applied Mineralogy Group of the Mineralogical Society in January 2012.
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This issue contains a cross-section of current research on different aspects of the minerals and trace elements in coal. A wide range of techniques have been used to support the science behind the papers, including X-ray and neutron scattering, and isotope evaluation. The minerals and trace elements in coal are intimately related, and many of the papers make use of knowledge and techniques drawn from studies of both fields. An understanding of minerals in particular coals has been used to interpret the mode of occurrence, origin and availability of different trace elements, and data on trace elements have been used to help understand the origin and significance of the minerals in particular coal deposits. Although these papers can be divided between minerals and trace elements, such distinctions are inherently difficult, as many papers encompass both mineral and trace element components.
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The aim of this special issue is to compile multidisciplinary papers with new data and ideas to improve understanding of the crustal evolution of the Central Asian Orogenic Belt and its correlations to other orogens outside this part of Asia. Apart from a few invited contributions, most of the papers were presented at the 2010 International Association for Gondwana Research Annual Convention and 7th International Symposium on Gondwana to Asia.
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Selected papers from the SEGH 2010 conference on Environmental Quality and Human Health.
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Papers arising from a symposium entitled “Up-dating the reasoning on the Middle to Upper Paleolithic biological and cultural shift in Eurasia” which focused on issues related to the replacement of Neandertals by Homo sapiens. This symposium sought to integrate chronological and palaeoecological issues with regard to this topic. Attention was drawn to the effects of recent human palaeogenetic data on evaluations of the Neandertals’ demise and of modern human origins.
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This set of papers examines global correlations for the Precambrian time period for a group of Precambrian cratons from across the globe, based on detailed chronostratigraphic charts (summarizing the supracrustal geological evolution of each craton) shown as adapted Wheeler diagrams for individual sedimentary basin-fill successions, with the aim of establishing first- and second-order sequence stratigraphy for the chosen set of cratons. The ultimate aim of the project was to attempt a pilot study of global sequence stratigraphic correlation; this has not been done before at this scale. The separation of first-order sequences is related to specific tectonic settings in the evolution of a chosen craton, with the first-order sequence boundaries marking changes in the tectonic setting, while the subdivision of first-order sequences into Sloss-scale second-order sequences is at regional group and supergroup level. A set of four introductory papers examines major issues encompassed in such global correlation attempts, followed by the body of the collection of papers, which consists of four specific craton case-studies.
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This is a compendium of reports presenting findings of geosciences research covering a broad spectrum of topics relating to the characterization of unconventional, tight gas sands. It focuses on the long, complex history of largely unsuccessful endeavours designed to appraise the large, onshore, Whicher Range gas field in the southern Perth Basin. These experiences determined that tight gas sands present special challenges and require new approaches to future exploration, drilling, well completion and evaluation practices to develop unconventional reservoirs successfully. The reports investigate, in detail, the nature and problems of tight gas sand reservoir development from a multidisciplinary perspective, collectively providing, by analogy, an evaluation template for the region and beyond.
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This report contains the Master of Science thesis written by Laura G O’Connell on the sedimentology of the Nullarbor Limestone in the western Eucla Basin. The early to middle Miocene Nullarbor Limestone forms the vast karst surface of the Nullarbor Plain and much of the 900 km long cliff along the Great Australian Bight. Most Cenozoic limestones along Australia’s southern margin developed in cool marine waters, but the fauna of the Nullarbor Limestone indicates Miocene water temperatures of at least 20ºC despite deposition at mid-latitudes. Environments ranged from an open sea floor at the base of the photic zone to shallow nearshore waters dominated by seagrass banks, on an epeiric platform that extended 450 km inboard from the shelf edge. Temperature proxies decrease eastward, implying a west-to-east, warm-to-cool seawater temperature gradient. The warm temperatures and interpreted temperature gradient are attributed to internal heating on the platform and flow of a warm proto-Leeuwin Current along the shelf edge, rather than simply the global climate warming of the Miocene Climatic Optimum.
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This special issue is an activity of the International Association of Hydrogeologists Karst Commission and a contribution to IGCP 598. It describes the progress of research into karst hydrogeology, in part resulting from the 4th International Symposium on Karst (ISKA). It includes expanded versions of selected contributions concerning methods for groundwater recharge assessment, the time series analysis of spring discharge, the impact of climate change on karst aquifers, natural and dye tracers, flash floods, karst groundwater flow, the protection of karst aquifers, pollution and vulnerability in karst and numerical modeling. The advances in karst hydrogeology presented in this issue show that research into groundwater resource assessment and also into hydrogeological functioning of aquifers, using different tools, are very necessary for the sustainable management of aquifers, particularly under conditions of climate change. At the same time, advances in protection zoning prove to be the best preventative tool for land use management. This issue describes relevant techniques for the characterization and modeling of karst aquifer functioning, which are vital in preventing negative effects such as overexploitation and contamination.
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This issue results from a session on jadeitite at the International Mineralogical Association meeting in 2010. The papers demonstrate the range of activity and discoveries, as well as ongoing debates about the origin of jadeitites – whether metasomatic or vein crystallizations, the similarities and dissimilarities among the occurrences, the mineral diversity recorded in them, and the importance of geochronology to interpreting subduction processes.
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Selected contributions from the International conference ‘Particles in Europe (PiE)’ which was held to promote and further understanding of the importance of suspended particulate matter (SPM) for a very wide range of processes in the aquatic environment – from optics and acoustics, over sediment transport, to the global carbon balance. The papers in the special issue are particularly concerned with the interaction between SPM and water optical properties, as well as how to use optical proxy measurements to understand SPM processes.
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This issue contains a set of eight papers presented at a session at the International Mineralogical Association meeting in 2010. It covers geologically and geographically varied occurrences, and includes papers that represent the different ways in which carbonatites can be investigated and illuminates some of the key controversies.
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The papers in this special issue cover several important aspects associated with magnetic fabric analysis of igneous, sedimentary and metamorphic rocks. Data from various countries and various magnetic techniques are presented, and inferences are drawn about strain, regional tectonics, emplacement mechanisms and processes that can lead to remanence acquisition. The importance of having a thorough knowledge of magnetic properties and magnetic mineralogy and its implications on proper interpretation of magnetic fabric data is also brought out in this issue. The usefulness of integrating magnetic data with SPO data of minerals and numerical modeling is also highlighted.
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Papers arising from the 2010 conference entitled, ‘The Toba Super-eruption: A Critical Moment in Human Evolution?’. This special issue provides new insights into the Toba super-eruption and its impact on environments, plant and animal communities and hominins on different scales of analysis ranging from local and regional settings to the global.
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The papers in this volume are mainly presentations from a workshop entitled “Methods for the study of long-term groundwater dynamics” that was jointly organized by INQUA Palaeogroundwater, UNESCO-GRAPHIC , and IAH-CGCC. It was aimed at strengthening the participant’s capacity for long term management of groundwater resources in arid and semi-arid areas through integrated understanding of groundwater system responses to palaeo, current and future climate.
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This volume contains a selection of papers presented at the “5th SHRIMP User Meeting and a Workshop on Advances in High-Resolution SIMS and LA-ICP-MS Geochronology and Application to Geological Processes”.
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This issue contains papers presented at the Geochemistry of Chalcophile and Siderophile Elements session of the 11th International Platinum Symposium.
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During the last half century, advances in geomorphology—abetted by conceptual and technical developments in geophysics, geochemistry, remote sensing, geodesy, computing and ecology—have enhanced the potential value of fluvial history for reconstructing erosional and depositional sequences on the Earth and on Mars and for evaluating climatic and tectonic changes, the impact of fluvial processes on human settlement and health, and the problems faced in managing unstable fluvial systems. The time therefore seemed ripe for a reappraisal of river history in its own right and also as a constituent of collaborative enquiries. Besides developments within geomorphology itself, three major sources of ideas and techniques bearing on fluvial studies can be identified: isotope-based environmental analysis and dating; plate tectonics and planetary exploration; and the integration of biological and physical brands of geoscience. The papers making up the present issue illustrate the impact of these advances on river history at different time scales and its bearing on such matters as palaeoclimatology, soil erosion, tectonics, epidemiology and land management.
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This special issue is dedicated to fluid-rock interactions (diagenesis) and their impacts on reservoir properties and includes eight peer-reviewed papers that expose recent research activities conducted at IFP Energies nouvelles with the collaboration of other academic and industrial institutes. The presented papers encompass a variety of studies on diagenesis from plug-scale to outcrop-scale using several tools and improved methodologies (e.g. XRD/Ritveld, Micro-CT/Geochemical Modelling, Fluid Inclusions/Basin Modelling) as well as numerical geostatistical and pore network modelling. While none of these papers present a complete approach for predicting reservoir heterogeneities, they constitute a variety of approaches that could be followed and improved in order to better understand the impacts of diagenesis and fluid-rock interactions on reservoir rocks, quantifying the diagenetic phases and drawing us a bit closer to predicting their spatial and temporal occurrence.
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The papers in this special issue illustrate the broad scope and complimentary nature of medical geology and environmental chemistry. They cover arsenic in groundwater, radioactivity in foods grown near a uranium mine, health effects of Croatian mud, heavy metals in groundwater and sediments, the bioaccessibility of nickel, and the influence on milk quality of grazing practices near a bauxite quarry.
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This volume is based on Session 08c at the 2010 Goldschmidt Conference entitled “Geochemical processes in continental collision zones”. It focuses on metamorphic, magmatic and sedimentary rocks from collisional orogens in China and represents a contribution to the development of plate tectonic theory through the study of continental deep subduction and UHP metamorphism. It also reflects the growing number of discoveries of UHP rocks in the country and the current high level of research activity there.
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This special issue is dedicated to the publication of a selection of papers presented during the 23rd Meeting of French Speaking Ostracodologists (ROLF 23). These papers are written in english and illustrate the current status of ostracodes as an invaluable tool for solving geological and ecological problems. The recent major oil discoveries offshore Brazil confirm the utility of ostracodes for the biostratigraphical analysis and palaeoenvironmental interpretation of lacustrine pre-salt (Early Cretaceous) reservoirs.
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This volume presents a small proportion of the ‘Réunion des Sciences de la Terre’ 2010 session on geodynamics and orogenesis. It covers the collision of India with Asia, the Oligocene revolution in the Western Alpine arc, evolution of the alpine continental subduction wedge, evolution of the Briançonnais zone, evidence for subduction jumps during Anatolide-Tauride-Armenian block accretion and the Arabia-Eurasia collision in the Lesser Caucuasus-East Anatolia, mylonites of the South Armorican Shear Zone, ductile deformation in the Bohemian Massif, and the thermal-mechanical evolution of crustal orogenic belts at convergent plate boundaries.
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This volume is a compendium of environmental reconstructions of diverse anthropogenic impacts.
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The articles in this special issue were presented at Geo-Mod2010. They illustrate recent advances in different aspects of analogue and numerical modelling of geologic processes and are divided into lithospheric-scale processes, crustal-scale processes, deformation and mineralisation, surface processes, and miscellaneous.
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The papers in this volume are derived from a session at the 17th National Congress of Argentine Archaeology. They deal with important archaeological issues such as paleoenvironmental proxies, hunter gatherer mobility patterns and space use, subsistence practices and resource exploitation, population interactions and paleodemography, technological innovation and cultural evolution. Modeling cultural and demographic dynamics in the changing adaptive scenarios of the Middle Holocene and transitional phases in South America are also covered.
Abstracts from the 35th Annual Winter Meeting of the Geological Society’s Mineral Deposits Studies Group
Applied earth sciences Volume 120 Number 2 Pages 61-87 (2011)Athens login required
The first section of this issue comprises abstracts of papers given at the 35th Annual Winter Meeting of the Geological Society’s Mineral Deposits Studies Group and the Applied Mineralogy Group of the Mineralogical Society in January 2012.
Minerals and trace elements in coal
International journal of coal geology Volume 94 Pages 1-348 (1 May 2012)Athens login required
This issue contains a cross-section of current research on different aspects of the minerals and trace elements in coal. A wide range of techniques have been used to support the science behind the papers, including X-ray and neutron scattering, and isotope evaluation. The minerals and trace elements in coal are intimately related, and many of the papers make use of knowledge and techniques drawn from studies of both fields. An understanding of minerals in particular coals has been used to interpret the mode of occurrence, origin and availability of different trace elements, and data on trace elements have been used to help understand the origin and significance of the minerals in particular coal deposits. Although these papers can be divided between minerals and trace elements, such distinctions are inherently difficult, as many papers encompass both mineral and trace element components.
Orogenic belts in Central Asia: correlations and connections
Journal of Asian earth sciences Volume 49 Pages 1-396 (30 Apr 2012)Athens login required
The aim of this special issue is to compile multidisciplinary papers with new data and ideas to improve understanding of the crustal evolution of the Central Asian Orogenic Belt and its correlations to other orogens outside this part of Asia. Apart from a few invited contributions, most of the papers were presented at the 2010 International Association for Gondwana Research Annual Convention and 7th International Symposium on Gondwana to Asia.
Recent progress in environmental geochemistry
Applied geochemistry Volume 27 Issue 5 Pages 937-1034 (May 2012)Athens login required
Selected papers from the SEGH 2010 conference on Environmental Quality and Human Health.
Middle to upper paleolithic biological and cultural shift in Eurasia
Quaternary international Volume 259 Pages 1-112 (9 May 2012)Athens login required
Papers arising from a symposium entitled “Up-dating the reasoning on the Middle to Upper Paleolithic biological and cultural shift in Eurasia” which focused on issues related to the replacement of Neandertals by Homo sapiens. This symposium sought to integrate chronological and palaeoecological issues with regard to this topic. Attention was drawn to the effects of recent human palaeogenetic data on evaluations of the Neandertals’ demise and of modern human origins.
First- and second-order global sequence stratigraphic correlations for the Precambrian
Marine and petroleum geology Volume 33 Pages 1-140 (May 2012)Athens login required
This set of papers examines global correlations for the Precambrian time period for a group of Precambrian cratons from across the globe, based on detailed chronostratigraphic charts (summarizing the supracrustal geological evolution of each craton) shown as adapted Wheeler diagrams for individual sedimentary basin-fill successions, with the aim of establishing first- and second-order sequence stratigraphy for the chosen set of cratons. The ultimate aim of the project was to attempt a pilot study of global sequence stratigraphic correlation; this has not been done before at this scale. The separation of first-order sequences is related to specific tectonic settings in the evolution of a chosen craton, with the first-order sequence boundaries marking changes in the tectonic setting, while the subdivision of first-order sequences into Sloss-scale second-order sequences is at regional group and supergroup level. A set of four introductory papers examines major issues encompassed in such global correlation attempts, followed by the body of the collection of papers, which consists of four specific craton case-studies.
Whicher Range tight gas sands study
Report. Geological Survey of Western Australia Number 112 (2012)No login required. Chose “Report” from ‘Series’ dropdown list and enter report number in “Series Number” field.
This is a compendium of reports presenting findings of geosciences research covering a broad spectrum of topics relating to the characterization of unconventional, tight gas sands. It focuses on the long, complex history of largely unsuccessful endeavours designed to appraise the large, onshore, Whicher Range gas field in the southern Perth Basin. These experiences determined that tight gas sands present special challenges and require new approaches to future exploration, drilling, well completion and evaluation practices to develop unconventional reservoirs successfully. The reports investigate, in detail, the nature and problems of tight gas sand reservoir development from a multidisciplinary perspective, collectively providing, by analogy, an evaluation template for the region and beyond.
Sedimentology of the Miocene Nullarbor limestone; Southern Australia
Report. Geological Survey of Western Australia Number 111 Pages 1-198 (2011)No login required. Chose “Report” from ‘Series’ dropdown list and enter report number in “Series Number” field.
This report contains the Master of Science thesis written by Laura G O’Connell on the sedimentology of the Nullarbor Limestone in the western Eucla Basin. The early to middle Miocene Nullarbor Limestone forms the vast karst surface of the Nullarbor Plain and much of the 900 km long cliff along the Great Australian Bight. Most Cenozoic limestones along Australia’s southern margin developed in cool marine waters, but the fauna of the Nullarbor Limestone indicates Miocene water temperatures of at least 20ºC despite deposition at mid-latitudes. Environments ranged from an open sea floor at the base of the photic zone to shallow nearshore waters dominated by seagrass banks, on an epeiric platform that extended 450 km inboard from the shelf edge. Temperature proxies decrease eastward, implying a west-to-east, warm-to-cool seawater temperature gradient. The warm temperatures and interpreted temperature gradient are attributed to internal heating on the platform and flow of a warm proto-Leeuwin Current along the shelf edge, rather than simply the global climate warming of the Miocene Climatic Optimum.
Advances in karst hydrogeology
Environmental earth sciences Volume 65 Number 8 Pages 2219-2421 (Apr 2012)Athens login required
This special issue is an activity of the International Association of Hydrogeologists Karst Commission and a contribution to IGCP 598. It describes the progress of research into karst hydrogeology, in part resulting from the 4th International Symposium on Karst (ISKA). It includes expanded versions of selected contributions concerning methods for groundwater recharge assessment, the time series analysis of spring discharge, the impact of climate change on karst aquifers, natural and dye tracers, flash floods, karst groundwater flow, the protection of karst aquifers, pollution and vulnerability in karst and numerical modeling. The advances in karst hydrogeology presented in this issue show that research into groundwater resource assessment and also into hydrogeological functioning of aquifers, using different tools, are very necessary for the sustainable management of aquifers, particularly under conditions of climate change. At the same time, advances in protection zoning prove to be the best preventative tool for land use management. This issue describes relevant techniques for the characterization and modeling of karst aquifer functioning, which are vital in preventing negative effects such as overexploitation and contamination.
Jadeitites: new occurrences, new data, and implications for subduction-zone fluids
European journal of mineralogy Volume 24 Number 2 Pages 197-399 (Mar, Apr 2012)Athens login required
This issue results from a session on jadeitite at the International Mineralogical Association meeting in 2010. The papers demonstrate the range of activity and discoveries, as well as ongoing debates about the origin of jadeitites – whether metasomatic or vein crystallizations, the similarities and dissimilarities among the occurrences, the mineral diversity recorded in them, and the importance of geochronology to interpreting subduction processes.
Particles in Europe (PiE) 2010
Geo-marine letters Volume 32 Number 2 Pages 85-193 (Apr 2012)Athens login required
Selected contributions from the International conference ‘Particles in Europe (PiE)’ which was held to promote and further understanding of the importance of suspended particulate matter (SPM) for a very wide range of processes in the aquatic environment – from optics and acoustics, over sediment transport, to the global carbon balance. The papers in the special issue are particularly concerned with the interaction between SPM and water optical properties, as well as how to use optical proxy measurements to understand SPM processes.
Continuing the carbonatite controversy
Mineralogical magazine Volume 76 Number 2 Pages 255-441 (Apr 2012)Athens login required
This issue contains a set of eight papers presented at a session at the International Mineralogical Association meeting in 2010. It covers geologically and geographically varied occurrences, and includes papers that represent the different ways in which carbonatites can be investigated and illuminates some of the key controversies.
Rocks, fabrics and magnetic anisotropy
International journal of earth sciences Volume 101 Number 3 Pages 605-888 (Apr 2012)Athens login required
The papers in this special issue cover several important aspects associated with magnetic fabric analysis of igneous, sedimentary and metamorphic rocks. Data from various countries and various magnetic techniques are presented, and inferences are drawn about strain, regional tectonics, emplacement mechanisms and processes that can lead to remanence acquisition. The importance of having a thorough knowledge of magnetic properties and magnetic mineralogy and its implications on proper interpretation of magnetic fabric data is also brought out in this issue. The usefulness of integrating magnetic data with SPO data of minerals and numerical modeling is also highlighted.
The Toba volcanic super-eruption of 74,000 years ago: climate change, environments, and evolving humans
Quaternary international Volume 258 Pages 1-200 (1 May 2012)Athens login required
Papers arising from the 2010 conference entitled, ‘The Toba Super-eruption: A Critical Moment in Human Evolution?’. This special issue provides new insights into the Toba super-eruption and its impact on environments, plant and animal communities and hominins on different scales of analysis ranging from local and regional settings to the global.
Palaeogroundwater dynamics and their importance for past human settlements and today’s water management
Quaternary international Volume 257 Pages 1-102 (20 April 2012)Athens login required
The papers in this volume are mainly presentations from a workshop entitled “Methods for the study of long-term groundwater dynamics” that was jointly organized by INQUA Palaeogroundwater, UNESCO-GRAPHIC , and IAH-CGCC. It was aimed at strengthening the participant’s capacity for long term management of groundwater resources in arid and semi-arid areas through integrated understanding of groundwater system responses to palaeo, current and future climate.
Advances in high-resolution ion-microprobe geochronology
Gondwana research Volume 21 Issue 4 Pages 717-1128 (May 2012)Athens login required
This volume contains a selection of papers presented at the “5th SHRIMP User Meeting and a Workshop on Advances in High-Resolution SIMS and LA-ICP-MS Geochronology and Application to Geological Processes”.
Behaviour of chalcophile and siderophile elements in magmatic systems
Chemical geology Volume 302-303 Pages 1-136 (2 Apr 2012)Athens login required
This issue contains papers presented at the Geochemistry of Chalcophile and Siderophile Elements session of the 11th International Platinum Symposium.
River history
Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society A Volume 370 Number 1966 Pages 2027-2263 (13 May 2012)No login required
During the last half century, advances in geomorphology—abetted by conceptual and technical developments in geophysics, geochemistry, remote sensing, geodesy, computing and ecology—have enhanced the potential value of fluvial history for reconstructing erosional and depositional sequences on the Earth and on Mars and for evaluating climatic and tectonic changes, the impact of fluvial processes on human settlement and health, and the problems faced in managing unstable fluvial systems. The time therefore seemed ripe for a reappraisal of river history in its own right and also as a constituent of collaborative enquiries. Besides developments within geomorphology itself, three major sources of ideas and techniques bearing on fluvial studies can be identified: isotope-based environmental analysis and dating; plate tectonics and planetary exploration; and the integration of biological and physical brands of geoscience. The papers making up the present issue illustrate the impact of these advances on river history at different time scales and its bearing on such matters as palaeoclimatology, soil erosion, tectonics, epidemiology and land management.
Diagenesis – fluid-rocks interactions
Oil & gas science and technology Volume 67 Number 1 Pages 1-178 (Jan-Feb 2012)No login required
This special issue is dedicated to fluid-rock interactions (diagenesis) and their impacts on reservoir properties and includes eight peer-reviewed papers that expose recent research activities conducted at IFP Energies nouvelles with the collaboration of other academic and industrial institutes. The presented papers encompass a variety of studies on diagenesis from plug-scale to outcrop-scale using several tools and improved methodologies (e.g. XRD/Ritveld, Micro-CT/Geochemical Modelling, Fluid Inclusions/Basin Modelling) as well as numerical geostatistical and pore network modelling. While none of these papers present a complete approach for predicting reservoir heterogeneities, they constitute a variety of approaches that could be followed and improved in order to better understand the impacts of diagenesis and fluid-rock interactions on reservoir rocks, quantifying the diagenetic phases and drawing us a bit closer to predicting their spatial and temporal occurrence.
Current research in medical geology and environmental geochemistry
Environmental geochemistry and health Volume 34 Number 2 Pages 153-295 (Apr 2012)Athens login required
The papers in this special issue illustrate the broad scope and complimentary nature of medical geology and environmental chemistry. They cover arsenic in groundwater, radioactivity in foods grown near a uranium mine, health effects of Croatian mud, heavy metals in groundwater and sediments, the bioaccessibility of nickel, and the influence on milk quality of grazing practices near a bauxite quarry.
Processes in continental collision zones
Lithos Volume 136-139 Pages 1-282 (Apr 2012)Athens login required
This volume is based on Session 08c at the 2010 Goldschmidt Conference entitled “Geochemical processes in continental collision zones”. It focuses on metamorphic, magmatic and sedimentary rocks from collisional orogens in China and represents a contribution to the development of plate tectonic theory through the study of continental deep subduction and UHP metamorphism. It also reflects the growing number of discoveries of UHP rocks in the country and the current high level of research activity there.
Progress in ostracodology
Revue de micropaléontology Volume 55 Number 1 Pages 1-38 (Jan-Mar 2012)Athens login required
This special issue is dedicated to the publication of a selection of papers presented during the 23rd Meeting of French Speaking Ostracodologists (ROLF 23). These papers are written in english and illustrate the current status of ostracodes as an invaluable tool for solving geological and ecological problems. The recent major oil discoveries offshore Brazil confirm the utility of ostracodes for the biostratigraphical analysis and palaeoenvironmental interpretation of lacustrine pre-salt (Early Cretaceous) reservoirs.
Geodynamics and orogenesis
Journal of geodynamics Volume 56-57 Pages 1-146 (May 2012)Athens login required
This volume presents a small proportion of the ‘Réunion des Sciences de la Terre’ 2010 session on geodynamics and orogenesis. It covers the collision of India with Asia, the Oligocene revolution in the Western Alpine arc, evolution of the alpine continental subduction wedge, evolution of the Briançonnais zone, evidence for subduction jumps during Anatolide-Tauride-Armenian block accretion and the Arabia-Eurasia collision in the Lesser Caucuasus-East Anatolia, mylonites of the South Armorican Shear Zone, ductile deformation in the Bohemian Massif, and the thermal-mechanical evolution of crustal orogenic belts at convergent plate boundaries.
Environmental records of Anthropogenic impacts
Geochimica et cosmochimica acta Volume 82 Pages 1-200 (1 Apr 2012)Athens login required
This volume is a compendium of environmental reconstructions of diverse anthropogenic impacts.
Modelling in geosciences
Tectonophysics Volume 526-529 Pages 1-218 (10 Mar 2012)Athens login required
The articles in this special issue were presented at Geo-Mod2010. They illustrate recent advances in different aspects of analogue and numerical modelling of geologic processes and are divided into lithospheric-scale processes, crustal-scale processes, deformation and mineralisation, surface processes, and miscellaneous.
Middle Holocene archaeology: dynamics of environmental and socio-cultural change in South America
Quaternary international Volume 256 Pages 1-88 (4 Apr 2012)Athens login required
The papers in this volume are derived from a session at the 17th National Congress of Argentine Archaeology. They deal with important archaeological issues such as paleoenvironmental proxies, hunter gatherer mobility patterns and space use, subsistence practices and resource exploitation, population interactions and paleodemography, technological innovation and cultural evolution. Modeling cultural and demographic dynamics in the changing adaptive scenarios of the Middle Holocene and transitional phases in South America are also covered.