The world’s mountain ranges are the clearest manifestations of long-term deformation of the continental crust. As such they have attracted geological investigations for centuries. Throughout this long history of research a few keynote publications stand out. One of the most important is the Geological Survey’s 1907 memoir, The Geological Structure of the North-West Highlands of Scotland. The papers in this Special Publication celebrate the 100th anniversary of this remarkable book, placing the original findings in a present-day context by juxtaposing them against modern studies, not only from the NW Highlands, but also from elsewhere around the world <...>

Mankind constructed many structures in/on rocks in association with better living conditions and expectations of their societies. Without any doubt, these activities would continue in modern days and the future. Such activities may be extended to other planets in our solar system. The rock mechanics and rock engineering feld utilizes some of the basic laws of continuum mechanics and the techniques developed in computational mechanics. This book is intended to describe the basic concepts behind these fundamental laws and their utilization in practice irrespective of whether rock and rock mass contain discontinuities. <...>

Besides pioneer works of the 60s, the tidal sedimentologist community really emerged in the 70s (see Klein, 1998). The first international conference on tidal sedimentology took place in 1973 in Florida (USA). It was devoted to carbonate facies, less to siliciclastic deposits and mostly to intertidal areas. The conference resulted in a book gathering case studies (Ginsburg, 1975). The fining‐upward tidal flat sequence represented at this time the tidal facies model; and this was mainly applied to carbonates. The growing knowledge in siliciclastic tide‐dominated environments was synthesized a few years later by Klein (1977). Following the paper of Visser (1980) demonstrating the record of tidal cycles in estuarine dunes, clastic tidal sedimentology evolved quickly towards more comprehensive and quantitative studies, both ancient and modern. A community was born <...>

A. Allgemeiner Teil Einführung in die Forschungsrichtung der Sedimentologie und Vorstellung des Studienobjektes
Nachstehende allgemeinverständliche Einleitung für einen breiten Leserkreis gibt einen Überblick über die Stellung der Sedimentologie in der Geologie und die Arbeitsrichtungen dieses Wissenschaftszweiges, stellt den Buntsandstein als Beispielsobjekt sedimentologischer Forschung vor und definiert die Zielsetzung des Buches.