A review of: “Principles of Geodynamics, 3rd edition. By Adrian E. Scheiddeger. Springer-Verlag,Berlin-Heidelberg-New York,xvii + 395pp. DM165, U.S. $73.30 (ISBN 3-540-11323-1). 1982.”

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Edited by J.-P. Zhan and J. Zinn-Justin, Elsevier, 1993. XXIV+ 615 pp., US$248.50, hardbound (ISBN-0-444-81797-2).     

Book Review: Monitoring the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty: Data Processing and Infrasound by Zoltan A. Der,Robert H. Shumway and Eugene T. Herrin (Eds.), Birkhäuser Verlag,Basel-Boston-Berlin, 2002, ISBN 3-7643-6676-1

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Comment on Hearty,P.J. and O'Leary,M.J., 2008. Carbonate eolianites,quartz sands,and Quaternary sea-level cycles,Western Australia: A chronostratigraphic approach. Quaternary Geochronology 3: 26–55

A proposal that the yellow sands which commonly overlie Pleistocene eolianites along the west coast of Western Australia may have their origin from major extensions of inland deserts during times of severe aridity, is refuted on several grounds. The eolianites typically are deeply degraded remnants of the original coastal dunes, which contained a high content of non-calcareous detritus. Hence plentiful residual sand will accumulate during weathering of a dune. Studies on heavy mineral content of the yellow sands have shown that there is an inland ageing trend consistent with local derivation from successive dune belts, and have also pointed to local sources for yellow color in the sand, without need to postulate a distant source. Localized denudations have however occurred, during which sand is blown inland to leave tracts of bared limestone. No remnants of the alleged desert extensions exist in the hinterland of the coastal belt.     

A review of: “Problems of Solar and Stellar Oscillations. Iau Colloquium No. 66. Edited by D. O. Gough. D. Reidel Publishing Company, 493 pp. Df1195.00/U.S. $84.50 (ISBN 90-277-1554-8). 1983.”

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The model equations describing two-dimensional thermohaline convection of a Boussinesq fluid in a rotating horizontal layer are known to support multiple instabilities, depending on the values of certain control parameters (Arneodo et al., 1985). Most of these multiple instabilities have already been studied for double or triple diffusive convection, where behaviours ranging from simple steady to irregular motions have been found. Here we consider the one remaining bifurcation mentioned by Arneodo et al. (1985): the interaction between a steady and an oscillatory convection roll when the linear spectrum for a single wavenumber comprises one zero and one pair of purely imaginary eigenvalues. The method of centre manifolds and normal forms is used to derive evolution equations for the amplitudes of the convection rolls close to bifurcation and the behaviours associated with the equations is discussed.     

Book Review of “Fluvial Hydrodynamics:Hydrodynamic and Sediment Transport Phenomena”,2014.Springer Verlag,687 pages,ISBN 978-3-642-19061-2,by Subhasish Dey.

<正>The author,Prof Subhasish Dey,presents an up-to-date and comprehensive consideration of hydrodynamic principles to analyze sediment transport phenomenon.The author is well known in the field of applied hydrodynamics and sediment transport,with wide experience in theoretical and applied research.The book is intended for postgraduate and research students,who already have a decent knowledge and understanding of fluid mechanics,as well as for model developers and users of theoretical models in the fluvial hydrodynamics field.The author's intention is to introduce the readers to the mechanics and physics of sediment transport by turbulent flow,