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1. New Sales sectiona added to the Internet bookshop:
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2. SP166 Holocene Land-Ocean Interaction and Environmental Change around the
North Sea. Edited by I Shennan and J. E. Andrews. Publication January 2000.
3. SP167 Dynamics of the Norwegian Margin. Edited by A. Nottvedt.
Publication February 2000
4. SP168 Understanding Granites: Integrating New and Classical Techniques.
Edited by A. Castro, C. Fernandez and J. L. Vigernesse. Publication January
2000.
5. Santorini Volcano. Memoir 19. T. H. Druitt et al. January 2000. 
6. New Book sales/order system installation

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discounts of over 70% off list prices.

2. Holocene Land - Ocean Interaction and Environmental Change around the
North Sea
Edited by Ian Shennan (University of Durham, UK) and J. E. Andrews
(University of East Anglia, UK). Geological Society Special Publication no.
166
336 pages ISBN 1-86239-054-1 List price: £79.00 / US$132.00

The majority of research presented in this volume arises from the Land-Ocean
Evolution Perspecitve Study (LOEPS), which was one component of the
Land-Ocean Interaction Study (LOIS - funded by the Natural Environment
Research Council). The main aim of LOEPS was to describe the evolution of
coastal systems from the Holocene to the Present, in response to changes in
relative sea level and the impact of human activities. A key element in the
success of LOEPS has been the integration and interaction between the
various elements of the research programme. The papers published here
reflect this integration rather than summarizing the results of individual
research projects or the achievement of a single LOEPS objective.

The contributions fall into four sections: techniques; Humber catchment;
other areas within the studied region; regional scale analysis.

Contents
An introduction to Holocene land-ocean interaction and environmental change
around the western North Sea * Analysis and interpretation of Holocene
sedimentary sequences in the Humber Estuary * Implications of a
microfossil-based transfer function in Holocene sea-level studies *
Luminescence dating of fine-grain Holocene sediments from a coastal setting
* The development of a methodology for luminescence dating of Holocene
sediments at the land-ocean interface * Holocene environmental change in the
Yorkshire Ouse basin and its influence on river dynamics and sediment fluxes
to the coastal zone * The Holocene evolution of the Humber Estuary:
reconstructing change in a dynamic environment * Holocene sediment storage
in the Humber Estuary * Origin, abundance and storage of organic carbon and
sulphur in the Holocene Humber Estuary, emphasising human impact on storage
changes * Sediment provenance and flux in the Tees Estuary: the record from
the Late Norfolk, eastern UK: climate and sea-level changes as possible
forcing agents for dune initiation * Sedimentary evolution of the Norfolk
barrier coastline in the context of Holocene sea-elevel change * Holocene
sedimentary evolution and palaeo-coastlines of the Fenland embayment,
eastern England * Holocene isostasy and relative sea-level on the east coast
of England * Modelling western North Sea palaeogeographies and tidal changes
during Holocene * Index 
 
3. Dynamics of the Norwegian Margin. Edited by A. Nottvedt (Norsk Hydro
Research Centre, Norway). Special Publication No. 167
474 pages. Published February 2000. ISBN 1-86239-056-8. List price £95.00 /
US$158.00

The papers and research results presented here have been prepared as part of
the Integrated Basin Studies project. This project had the objective of
studying the lithospheric and upper crustal processes governing the
formation and evolution of extensional and foreland basins and to decipher
the role of tectonics, sea level and sedimentary processes in the filling of
such basins. The Dynamics of the Norwegian Margin module focused on the
rifted sedimentary basins of the northern North Sea and off Mid-Norway. This
prolific hydrocarbon province has an extensive industry and scientific
database and offers a unique opportunity to study fundamental earth
processes, from failed rifting to crustal breakup and accretion of oceanic
crust.

A new set of models for basin formation and filling has been derived,
including linking of sedimentary basin faulting to lower crustal
deformation, signature and variability of syn-rift infill, correlation of
mineralogy to seismic signature, nature and characteristics of volcanic
margin formation and distribution of present-day stress field.

Contents
Introduction
NØTTVEDT, A.  The Integrated Basin Studies: Dynamics of the Norwegian Margin
(IBS-DNM) project - an introduction.
Intra-plate Rifting and Basin Formation
CHRISTIANSSON, P., FALEIDE, J.I. & BERGE, A.M.  Crustal structure in the
northern North Sea - An integrated geophysical study.
ODINSEN, T., CHRISTIANSSON, P., GABRIELSEN, R.H., FALEIDE, J.I. & BERGE,
A.M.  The geometries and deep structure of the northern North Sea rift
system.
TER VOORDE, M., FÆRSETH, R.B, GABRIELSEN, R.H. & CLOETHING, S.A.P.L.
Repeated lithosphere extension in the northern North Viking Graben: a
coupled or decoupled rheology?
ODINSEN, T., REMST, P., VAN DER BEEK, P., FALEIDE, J.I. & GABRIELSEN, R.H.
Permo-Triassic and Jurassic extension in the northern North Sea: results
from tectonostratigraphic forward modelling.
FOSSEN, H., ODINSEN, T. FÆRSETH, R.B & GABRIELSEN, R.H.  Detachments and
low-angle faults in the northern North Sea rift system.
Basin filling
RAVNÅS, R., NØTTVEDT, A., STEEL, R.J. & WINDELSTAD, J.  Syn-rift sedimentary
architectures in the northern North Sea.
NØTTVEDT, A., BERGE, A.M., DAWERS,  N.H., FÆRSETH, R.B., HÄGER, K-O.,
MANGERUD, G., & PUIGDEFABREGAS, C.  Syn-rift evolution and play potential in
the Snorre-H area, northern North sea.
JORDT, H., THYBERG, B.I. & NØTTVEDT, A.  Cenozoic evolution of the Central
and northern North Sea with focus on differential vertical movements of the
basin floor and surrounding clastic source areas.
THYBERG, B., JORDT, H., BJØRLYKKE, K. & FALEIDE, J.I.  Relationships between
sequence stratigraphy, mineralogy and geochemistry in Cenozoic sediments of
the northern North Sea.
KYRKJEBØ, R., HAMBORG, M., FALEIDE, J.I., JORDT, H. & CHRISTIANSSON, P.
Cenozoic tectonic subsidence from 2D depositional simulations of a regional
transect in the northern North Sea basin.
Conjugate Volcanic Margins
SKOGSEID, J., PLANKE, S., FALEIDE, J.I., PEDERSEN, T., ELDHOLM, O. &
NEVERDAL, F.  NE Atlantic continental rifting and volcanic margin formation.
BREKKE, H.  The tectonic evolution of the Norwegian Sea continental margin,
with emphasis on the Vøring and Møre basins.
MOGENSEN, T.E., NYBY, R., KARPUZ, R. & HAREMO, P.  Late Cretaceous and
Tertiary structural evolution of the north-eastern part of the Vøring Basin,
Norwegian Sea.
SUNDVOR, E., E., ELDHOLM, O., GLADCZENKO, T.P. & PLANKE,
S.Norwegian-Greenland Sea thermal field.
ELDHOLM, O., GLADCZENKO, J, SKOGSEID, J. & PLANKE, S. Atlantic volcanic
margins: a comparative study.
Present Stress
LINDHOLM, C.D., BUNGUM, H., HICKS, E. & VILLAGRAN, M.  Crustal stress and
tectonics in Norwegian regions; determined from eartquake focal mechanisms.
FEJERSKOV, M., LINDHOLM, C.D., MYRVANG, A. & BUNGUM, H.  Crustal stress in
and around Norway; a compilation of in-situ stress observations.
FEJERSKOV, M. & LINDHOLM, C.D.  Crustal stress in and around Norway; an
evaluation of stress generating mechanisms.

4. Understanding Granites: Integrating New and Classical Techniques.
Edited by A. Castro, C. Fernandez (Universidad de Huelva, Spain) and J. L.
Vigneresse (Universite Nancy, France). Geological Society Special
Publication no. 168
288 pages. ISBN 186239-058-4. List price: £70.00 / US$117.00

Granite magmatism represents a major contribution to crustal growth and
recycling and, consequently, is one of the most important mechanisms to have
contributed to the geochemical differentiation of the Earth's crust since
Archaean time.

The modern view of the granite problems requires the application of many
different theoretical, experimental and empirical resources provided by
geophysics, geochemistry, experimental petrology, structural geology, scale
modelling and field geology. Because of the complexity of the granite
problem, it is necessary to integrate a variety of techniques and
corroborate the finding with field observations. This is the philosophy of
this book.

Many chapters are review papers dealing with the development and
achievements of a particular technique, whilst other chapters deal with the
application of a number of techniques to a specific problem. This volume
brings together papers that would otherwise be dispersed in different
publications.

Readership: 
Igneous petrologists, geophysicists, structural geologists and geochemists.

Contents 
Understanding granites: Integrating new and classical techniques * Some
Time-Space Relationships for Crustal Melting and Granitic Intrusion at
various depths * Granitic melt viscosities * Geophysical Imaging of the
shape of Granitic Intrusions at depth: A review	 * What do experiments tell
us about the relative contributions of crust and mantle to the origin of
granitic magmas? * Geometry of granite emplacement in the upper crust:
contributions of analogue modelling * A multidisciplinary approach combining
geochemical, gravity and structural data: implications for pluton
emplacement and zonation * The Coastal Batholith and other aspects of Andean
magmatism in Peru * Contrasts in morphogenesis and tectonic setting during
contemporaneous emplacement of S- and I-type granitoids in the Eastern
Lachlan Fold Belt, southeastern Australia * Structure and geophysics of the
Gasborn granite, central Sweden: An example of fracture- fed asymmetric
pluton emplacement * Emplacement of the Joshua Flat-Beer Creek-Pluton (White
Inyo Mountains, California): a story of multiple material transfer processes
* Petrology, magnetic fabric and emplacement in a strike-slip regime of a
zoned peraluminous granite: the Campanario-La Haba pluton, Spain * Brittle
behaviour of granitic magma: the example of puente del congosto, Iberian
Massif, Spain * Origin of megacrysts in granitoids by textural coarsening: A
Crystal Size Distribution (CSD) Study of Microline in the Cathedral Peak
Granodiorite, Sierra Nevada, California * Movement of melt during
synchronous regional deformation and granulite facies anatexis, an example
from the Wuluma Hills, central Australia * Partial melting and P-T-t
evolution of LP/HT metamorphic terranes: an example from the Svecofennian
Kfs-poor leucosome migmatite belt, Southern Finland * Evidence of magnetic
hybridization related with feeding zones: the synkinematic Guitiriz
granitoid, NW Iberian Massif * Index
Principal Authors
A. Castro, Universidad de Huelva, Spain
A. B. Thompson, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
D. B. Dingwell, Universitaet Bayreuth, Germany
L. Ameglio, LMTG UMR CNRS, France
A. E. Patino Douce, University of Georgia, Greece
T. Roman-Berdiel, Universidad del Pais Vasco, Spain
L. Hecht, Technische Universitat Munchen, Germany
E. J. Cobbing, British Geological Survey, UK
R. Trzebski, The Universiry of New South Wales, Australia
A. R. Cruden, University of Toronto, Canada
C. Dietl, Ruprecht-Karls-Universitat Heidelberg, Germany
A. Alonso Olazabal, Universidad del Pais Vasco, Spain
C. Fernandez, Universidad de Huelva, Spain
M. D. Higgins, Universite du Quebec, Canada
E. W. Sawyer, Universite du Quebec a Chicoutimi, Canada
H. Mouri, Geological Survey of Finland, Finland
M. Menendez, Universidad del Pais Vasco, Spain

5. Santorini Volcano. T. H. Druitt, L. Edwards, R. M. Mellors, D. M. Pyle,
R. S. J. Sparks, M. 
Lanphere, M. Davies & B. Barriero. Geological Society Memoir no. 19
October 1999. ISBN: 1-86239-048-7. 176 pages. List price £70/US$117.

Santorini is one of the most spectacular caldera volcanoes in the world. It
has been the focus of significant scientific and scholastic interest because
of the great Bronze Age explosive eruption that buried the Minoan town of
Akrotiti. Santorini is still active. It has been dormant since 1950, but
there have been several substantial historic eruptions. Because of this
potential risk to life, both for the indigenous population and for the large
number of tourists who visit it, Santorini has been designated one of five
European Laboratory Volcanoes by the European Commission.

Santorini has long fascinated geologists, with some important early work on
volcanoes being conducted there. Since 1980, research groups at Cambridge
University, and later at the University of Bristol and Blaise Pascal
University in Clermont-Ferand, have collected a large amount of data on the
stratigraphy, geochemistry, geochronology and petrology of the volcanics.
The volcanic field has been remapped at a scale of 1:10 000. A remarkable
picture of cyclic volcanic activity and magmatic evolution has emerged from
this work. Much of this work has remained unpublished until now. 

This Memoir synthesizes for the first time all the data from the
Cambridge/Bristol/Clermont groups, and integrates published data from other
research groups. It provides the latest interpretation of the tectonic and
magmatic evolution of Santorini. It is accompanied by the new 1:20 000
full-colour geological map of the island.
*	Includes 1: 20 000 full-colour geological map

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