Promoting geological heritage through postage stamps

Postage stamps are useful in promoting geological heritage. This concept is explored through an analysis of British and New Zealand stamps, which portray a variety of different types of geological heritage. Coastal, glacial, fluvial and limestone scenery all feature, together with volcanic landforms such as the Giant's Causeway. Other stamps celebrate the work of historically significant figures who have contributed to geology, such as Charles Darwin. The field of palaeontology is represented in stamps, for example, featuring dinosaurs. Others portray economic activities and engineering achievements associated with geology such as oil and gas exploration. Industrial heritage is depicted by stamps featuring, for example, abandoned tin mines, while building stones are represented in stamps of ancient monuments, bridges, cathedrals and domestic architecture. Perhaps subjects for future stamp issues in the UK might draw upon the recently published 100 top geosites list.     

Celebrating a Nation’s heritage on music stamps: Constructing an international community

Stamps convey important visible messages about a state’s heritage and worldview. They are images or official visible products seen by those living within the state’s borders and those beyond. They also can be considered as “imagined communities,” as like festivals, holidays, or WWW pages, they represent attachments to and images of place. We investigate stamps as elements of visual culture by examining salient music themes and topics from several countries and then focus on the music stamps of Brazil, Hungary, and Senegal. In each case, we examine the number and variety of issues, the importance they place on musical instruments, composers and performers, and musical events.     

Notes on Continental Geology

Over a continental area, the sediments are mostly found, either asoriginally spread by water along the slopes (gravels or loams: fan-deposits), or as accumulated by streams in the bottom of the basins(lake-deposits, or fluvial plains), either as disseminated by wind (sand-dunes and loess deposits).     

医药地质学浅析

地质作用、地质环境、医药矿产与人类生存、健康的关系极为密切,建立和发展医药地质学有利于科学、系统、深入地探究其内在关系,促进地质学在生命科学中发挥就有的作用。医药地质学建立的思想基础是人地同一理论,实践基础是药用矿产在人类防病,治病和保健中的广泛应用及科学研究,技术支撑是无机、有机成分的微区、微量等现代测试、分析技术的进步。本文论述了医药地质及其建立的基础,展示了医药地质学在地质学和生命科学发展中     

构造地质学

第一章构造地质学(即全书之绪论)1.构造地质学之意义及其与他种地质学科之关系。2.因研究之范围及方法不同,构造地质学复可分为三部分。3.本书研讨之范围。     

天体地质学研究新进展火星发现有水

最近,地球的近邻——火星成了一颗耀眼的新闻明星,各种媒体争相报道有关火星上发现水的新闻。在火星上发现水,是天体地质学研究的最新进展。天体地质学,又称为宇宙地质学、行星地质学、行星地球科学,是运用地质学原理和技术来研究行星及其卫星、彗星和小行星等凝聚态天体的性质、     

金顶铅锌矿床地质-地球化学

金顶铅锌矿床的成矿作用发生在中－新生代沉积地层当中，且矿区内没有明显出露岩浆岩，矿体为板状，产在古新统统云龙组和下白垩统景星组的陆相碎屑岩中，但成矿并不受岩相地层控制，而受断裂和穹隆构造控制。铅同位素数据指示成矿金属主要为自地幔。硫同位素具有δ^34S黄铁矿＞δ^34S闪锌矿＞δ^34S方铅矿的趋势，硫主要来自地壳，闪锌矿及有关脉石矿物（石英，天青石，方解石和硬石膏）的流体包裹体研究表明，均一温度主要在110－150℃，盐度ω（NaCleq)5.09%-19.63%，成矿压力32.5-22.6MPa，所对应的成矿深度0.9-1.5km。     

Environmental Geology

The mining environment, medical geology and urban geochemistry form a group of related scientific disciplines that have developed strongly during recent years in the Nordic countries. Modern legislation controls the environmental issues. Close co-operation of researchers and legislators has improved the quality and safety of life in the societies of the Nordic countries. In mining environmental studies, methods that are suitable in Arctic conditions have been developed; in medical geology, the input from the Nordic countries has made it an appreciated scientific discipline throughout the world, and in the case of the urban environment, methods developed by our geochemists have especially improved the health conditions, particularly of children.     

Editorial: The Future of Mathematical Geology

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