Exploration and evaluation techniques

FLINT, S., AITKEN, J. & HAMPSON, G. Application of sequence stratigraphy to coal-bearing coastal plain successions: implications for the UK Coal Measures

FULTON, I. M., GUION, P. D. & JONES, N. S. Application of sedimentology to the development and extraction of deep-mined coal 

GUION, P. n., FULTON, I. i. & JONES, N. S. Sedimentary facies of the coal-bearing Westphalian A and B north of the Wales-Brabant High 

HAMPSON, G. Discrimination of regionally extensive coals in the Upper Carboniferous of the Pennine Basin, UK using high resolution sequence stratigraphic concepts 

Gee, D. G. & Stephenson, R. A. The European lithosphere: an introduction
Artemieva, I. M, Thybo, H. & Kaban, M. K. Deep Europe today: geophysical synthesis of the upper mantle structure and lithospheric processes over 3.5 Ga
Ziegler, P. A. & Dezes, P. Crustal evolution of Western and Central Europe
Stampfli, G. M. & Kozur, H. W. Europe from the Variscan to the Alpine cycles
Cocks, L. R. M. & Torsvik, T. H. European geography in a global context from the Vendian to the end of the Palaeozoic
Europe: Alpine to Present

A variety of techniques have been used in attempts to date the mineralization in Carlin-type deposits in the Great Basin, with highly variable results. These techniques and results are reviewed in this paper, along with presentation of two new dates, for the Rodeo deposit on the Carlin trend and for the Barneys Canyon deposit in Utah. Complete resetting of sericite by hydrothermal fluids of the temperature and duration of hydrother-mal activity that form Carlin-type deposits is considered highly unlikely. Therefore, dates from sericite are generally of questionable value unless that sericite can be shown to have formed during the same hydrothermal event during which Au was deposited. For the deposits that have been investigated to date, sericite dates rarely, if ever, record the age of Au mineralization. However, sericite ages do appear to record pre-Au events in some districts. Such events may have contributed to ground preparation and, to a much lesser extent, to the tenor of the ore. Fission-track and U/Th-He techniques provide important age constraints on mineralization in some districts but also suffer from a less than clear association with Au. Rb-Sr dating of galkhaite, an Hg sulfosalt, provides the only direct age of mineralization, but galkhaite has been recognized in only a few locations (and dated in only two deposits). In a similar manner, adularia is contemporaneous with Au at Twin Creeks, but Twin Creeks is the only Carlin-type deposit where adularia has been reported. Several other techniques (U-Pb, Re-Os, Sm-Nd) have been used in attempts to date the deposits but with limited success.

Aspects of Evaporite Basin Stratigraphy Alan C. Kendall
Peritidal Evaporites and Their Sedimentary Assemblages
Christopher G. St. C. Kendall and John K. Warren
Depositional Interaction of Siliciclastics and Marginal Marine Evaporites C. Robertson Handford
Subaqueous Evaporite Deposition B. Charlotte Schreiber

Evaporitic Environments as a Source of Petroleum Robert Evans and Douglas W. Kirkland
Applications of Stable Isotope Geochemistry to the Study of Evaporites Catherine Pierre
The Origin of Salt Structures Ralph O. Kehle
Geologic Interpretation of Well Log and Seismic Measurements in Reservoirs Associated with Evaporites Roy D. Nurmi