The current tragic seismic events along the East Anatolian Fault Zone shed light of the fragility of our society against catastrophic earthquake events. While this zone was always known as an active mobile region, an unfortunate event can shed light on the importance of the science of seismology in the broader geotectonic framework. This proposed book aims to provide the most current and state-of-the-art summary of our knowledge about the seismotectonic features the East Mediterranean and the Red Sea region where in a short distance very diverse geotectonic situations can be observed including nearly every known kinematic condition, plate movements, and associated magmatism.

The geological history of the Earth is an indomitable aspiration of its lithosphere structures (undoubtedly, as well as the rest geospheres, which are inaccessible to observation) for differentiation and ordering, i.e. for self-organization. However till now, geology and geological analysis show that in the course of evolution systems aspire to equilibrium states and supposedly accumulate deformations. The deformations, as links of the supposed evolution, become the principal object of investigations. A result of such an ideal study is a reconstruction of dynamic conditions, under which systems began a calculation of accumulated deformations, successively approaching the observed pattern. In other words, it is necessary to reconstruct the initial point of the dynamic trajectory according to the final result. At present the overwhelming majority of geologists are convinced that if we cannot deduce the properties of the object under study from the properties of its elements, the reason for this is our poor knowledge of these elements properties or peculiarities of their pairwise interactions. <...>

Die Studie der Art Exogyra sigmoidea REUSS, 1844 aus der Brandungsfazien der böhmischen Kreide ist ein Teil der vorbereiteten Monogralie über die Familie Ostreidae. Ausser den einführenden Kapiteln und dem biostratigrafischen Teil mit Beschreibung der Lokalitäten, wurde die Aufmerksamkeit hauptsächlich der Morfologie, Ontogenesis, Variabilität, Ökologie, den Mikrostrukturen und dem Bau der Gehäuse der studierten Art gewidmet. Da der Holotypus nicht festgestellt wurde, wurde aus dem Topotyp-Material der Neotypus ausgesucht und abgebildet und diagnostische Merkmale angeführt, durch welche sich die Art Exogyra sigmoidea REUSS von einigen verwandten Arten unterscheidet [Exogyra reticulata REUSS, 1846 und Exogyra haliotoidea

In 1989, the chief geologist of BP Exploration and his senior colleagues recognized the need to expand the company’s resource of sequence stratigraphers, and created the Stratigraphic Studies Group. This group initially included a few experts, but was composed chiefly of a mixture of willing geophysicists, sedimcntologists and bio-stratigraphers, who were to train as sequence stratigraphers, but more importantly, were to bring the expertise from their own disciplines to bear on sequence stratigraphy. This merging of geological disciplines with sequence stratigraphic principles first saw the light of day as BP’s ‘Introduction to Sequence Stratigraphy’ course. This course has been given internally since 1991, and has been presented in whole or in part to over a dozen national oil companies and at several international geological and geophysical conferences.