Geology of London,UK

The population of London is around 7 million. The infrastructure to support this makes London one of the most intensively investigated areas of upper crust. However construction work in London continues to reveal the presence of unexpected ground conditions. These have been discovered in isolation and often recorded with no further work to explain them. There is a scientific, industrial and commercial need to refine the geological framework for London and its surrounding area. This paper reviews the geological setting of London as it is understood at present, and outlines the issues that current research is attempting to resolve.     

北京的矿产、地下水资源和环境地质问题

北京位于太行山与燕山的交汇之地,地质环境复杂。北京具有山区,平原和盆地,是世界具有地热资源的6个首都之一,是地质学摇篮。北京城市地质环境系统研究,要适应北京两轴两带多中心的社会经济发展布局,要对北山,西山,盆地和平原多角度、多层面开展地质环境系统研究。     

Geology and the Royal Society

The Royal Society, founded in the seventeenth century, exists to promote all fields of science. We asked Peter Warren, its Executive Secretary, to explain how the Society is currently helping geology and geologists.     

Geology and the dark side

The diabolical and supernatural folklore traditions of geology are examined systematically for the first time. The following have all been suggested explanations for fossil remains: Devil's footprints, bones, toenails, fingers, thumbs, buttons, money and ninepins; Hobgoblin's claws; Fairy's fingers, heads, faces, hearts, beads, causeways, saltcellars, bottles, weights, money and loaves; elf arrows; witches’ beads and tongues. Twinned staurolite crystals have been called Fairy crosses.     

Environmental Geology and the marine dimension

This paper reviews the role of environmental geology, and the practice of environmental geology mapping, in the context of the geological, geophysical and geochemical factors which are relevant to human activity and safety.
It is concluded that informed planning policies for the offshore areas are necessary. These would allow mutually acceptable and sensible exploitation of all natural resources, engineering and military developments and recreational uses, and would also take account of natural and man-made hazards to such activities. The policies would follow from multidisciplinary, systematic, environmental studies involving international cooperation.
The imperative for the earth-science practitioner to remain sensitive to the requirements of the users of such information is recognized, as is the need to communicate unambiguously. It is concluded that geologists should look increasingly from the past to the future.     

Geology of the Dolomites

The Dolomites region is a spectacularly exposed portion of the Southern Alps, a northern Italian chain derived from the comparatively gentle deformation of the Tethyan passive continental margin of Adria. The regionhad an active Permo-Jurassic tectono-magmatic evolu-tion, leading from Permian magmatism, through a Mid-die Triassic episode offast subsidence and volcanism, to the Jurassic oceanic break-up. Although the sedimentary succession ranges in age from Middle Permian to Creta-ceous, the geological landscape is largely dominated by the majestic Triassic carbonates, making the area a clas-sical one for the early Mesozoic stratigraphy. Particu-larly noteworthy are the Anisian to Carnian carbonate platforms, recording an evolution from regional muddy banks to isolated high-relief builduos. The hlline of the various basins and the development of a last generation of regional peritidal platform followed. The carbonate platforms of the Dolomites bear witness to a remarkable set of changes in the carbonate production and to signif-icant palaeoclimatic fluctuations,from arid to moist con-difions and vice versa; a great range of margin and slope depositional styles is therefore recorded. Alpine tectonic shortening strongly affected the area, with a first Eocenede formation, followed by later Neogene overthrusting and strike-slip movements.     

Geology in the Pyrenees

M.D. Jones runs special–interest, geology and natural history holidays to the Pyrenees, Spain, North Africa, Iceland and elsewhere, and is a part–time tutor in the Department of Adult Education at the University of Leicester.     

地质与人生

选择我这一辈子可以说是合着共和国发展的脉膊过来的。和所有年轻人一样对未来充满着幢景,中学时代曾立志想当一名医生,悬壶济世,解救病人的痛苦。谁知临近高中毕业之时,我尊敬的地理老师冯增昭先生说“现在国家极其缺乏地质人才……”,一席话改变了我一生的前途命运。