Books in the World and Regional Geology series

This book describes and interprets the Permian and Triassic rocks of the eastern Tethyan region that record the waning phases of the Paleozoic and the early stages of the Mesozoic eras. The information is set out in a way that will allow detailed comparison with strata of comparable age in the western Tethys and other parts of the world.

In this work, 60 specialists come together to discuss the regional occurrences of Jurassic rocks. Not only is this the first comprehensive synthesis of Jurassic geology and palaeontology, but it is in fact the only one of its kind for any geological system.

This text describes how the repeated glaciation, and subsequent deglaciation, of northern continental Europe during the Quaternary affected Scandinavia and its surrounding areas. The book provides a cross-frontier synthesis and will be invaluable to students and researchers of Quaternary science.

This is the first book to deal comprehensively with Spain's tectonic and sedimentary history over the past sixty or so million years. During Tertiary times, Spain had suffered compressional collision between France and Africa, and its Atlantic and Mediterranean coasts had been further modified by extensional rifting.

Glacial deposits provide a record of climate and eustatic change on Earth. This book presents new work on ancient glacial rocks from the International Geological Correlation Project 260.

The Pleistocene Boundary and the Beginning of the Quaternary documents the geology and palaeontology of the agreed physical reference point for the Pleistocene boundary, at 1.81 million years ago, found at Vrica in southern Italy. The book then describes the correlation of the boundary throughout the ocean basins and continents of the world.

This is the first of a series of volumes containing concise geological summaries of lake basin deposits. Geoscientists worldwide have co-operated to bring together the information available on a global spectrum of lacustrine deposits, looking in particular at palaeoenvironmental aspects.

An international assemblage of geologists reveals a wide range of information about the interval between the Carboniferous and Jurassic in the circum-Pacific, as a conclusion to International Geological Correlation Programme Project 272.

These are a collection of 115 papers, presented at the Fifth International Symposium on Antarctic Earth Sciences held under the auspices of the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research in Cambridge in 1987. Contributors addressed problems related to the tectonic evolution of the Antarctic crust and the palaeoenvironmental evolution of Antarctica since the late Mesozoic.