The last decade has witnessed the expansion of field work and the recovery of many important new fossil vertebrates from a number of areas in the Rocky Mountain Interior. This has resulted in (among other things) discovery of many previously unknown taxa and of much better preserved specimens of known forms, significant geographic and temporal range extensions, the development of greater temporal resolution and sampling density for many taxa (leading to much more precise biochronology), and the creation and applicaton of models for examining faunal relations and evolutionary patterns. When the opportunity for this symposium arose, we were faced with the dilemma of how to incorporate as much of this new information as possible, yet limit the resulting monograph to manageable proportions. We decided to confine the subject matter geographically and temporally, to a region and a time span with which we are most familiar and within which much of the exciting new research is now being conducted—the latest Cretaceous and early Tertiary of the northern Rocky Mountain region. This volume is derived from papers presented at that symposium on May 2,1987, at the annual regional meeting of the Rocky Mountain Section of the Geological Society of America, held at the University of Colorado in Boulder <...>

A typical debris flow is a torrential flow of a mixture of water, mud and debris that suddenly pushes ahead with a vanguard of huge, jostling and roaring boulders. It is certainly a very fearful phenomenon that causes disasters, but it is also truly a wonder of nature exciting the curiosity of researchers as to how such a phenomenon can arise. The phenomena themselves had been recognized since ancient times in Japan and given various mnemonic names to make people aware of the dangers. Although there were several detailed witness records around in 1965 when I began working for the Disaster Prevention Research Institute of Kyoto University (hereafter called DPRI), the characteristics and mechanisms of debris flows were still vague, and it was called a ‘phantasmal disaster’.

Part I: T hermal Strucure of Deep Earth 1

1 Melting of Fe Alloys and the Thermal Structure of the Core

2 Temperature of the Lower Mantle and Core Based on Ab Initio Mineral Physics Data

3 Heat Transfer in the Core and Mantle

4 Thermal State and Evolution of the Earth Core and Deep Mantle

Part II: S tructures, Anisotropy, and Plasticity of Deep Earth Materials 

5 Crystal Structures of Core Materials

Torsten Bickert Zentrum fu¨r Marine Umweltwissenschaften, Universita¨t Bremen, Germany
Steven N. Carey Graduate School of Oceanography, University of Rhode Island, Narragansett,
Rhode Island, USA Jean-Claude Fauge`res Universite´ de Bordeaux, UMR CNRS 5805 EPOC, Talence Cedex, France
Rudiger Henrich Department of Sedimentology and Paleoceanography, Faculty of Geosciences, University of Bremen, klagenfurter Straße, Bremen, and Fachbereich Geowissenschaften, Universita¨t Bremen, Germany
Reinhard Hesse Earth and Planetary Sciences, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada