This is the first book to deal comprehensively with Spain's tectonic and sedimentary history over the past sixty or so million years. During these Tertiary times, Spain has suffered compressional collision between France and Africa, and its Atlantic and Mediterranean coasts have been further modified by extensional rifting. This study will therefore be of interest to earth scientists generally because of the insights it provides into continental crustal deformation.
Spain contains some of the best exposed outcrop geology in Europe.

Scientists, in general, tend to be reticent in calling attention to their contributions to science. Satisfaction comes from the solution of a problem rather than from any public acclaim they may receive. Once a paper is presented, there is generally reluctance to present it again. The true scientist is never satisfied with past results, and is constantly attacking new problems. He is an entrepreneur in the finest sense of the word, and at the same time a religious zealot in his dedication to his work, and a visionary in his concentration on the unknown. It is, therefore, not surprising that scientists and churchmen have many characteristics in common; that churchmen through the ages have made significant contributions to the advance of science; and that scientists and churchmen, individually, are 'warm' human beings more concerned with their work and others than with themselves.

The initiative for this Memoir arose from a series of field-based geological studies in Sumatra by the Institute of Geological Sciences (later the British Geological Survey) and the University of London Group for Geological Research in Southeast Asia in collaboration with the Indonesian Ministry of Mines, through the Geological Research and Development Centre and the Directorate of Mineral Resources in Bandung, and the Research and Development Centre for Oil and Gas Technology (LEMIGAS) in Jakarta between 1975 and 1995. The Indonesian side selected Sumatra as a suitable area for this programme of scientific and technical assistance in geological, geochemical and geophysical surveys, inventories of mineral potential and the training of geoscientists in pursuance of successive five-year development plans (Pelita). The work culminated in the publication by the Geological Research and Development Centre of a series of 42 1:250 000 Geological Map Sheets with Explanatory Notes covering the whole of Sumatra. In compiling these geological maps the work of the Dutch geologists of the Netherlands Indies Geological Survey, who commenced a systematic programme of mapping in Sumatra before the Second World War, and the work of geologists working for oil companies with concessions in Sumatra, supported by the Indonesian National Oil Company (Pertamina), and published since 1971 in the Proceedings of the Indonesian Petroleum Association, were also incorporated. 

The study of seismic wave propagation, especially of the P (longitudinal) waves, has enabled us to distinguish two components in the shallower part of the earth:

- The crust (thickness varying from 10 to 70 km, average 30 Ian);

- The underlying mantle, separated from the crust by a surface of discontinuity at which the seismic-wave velocities change suddenly (the Mohorovicic discontinuity, generally shortened to Moho).

Данные методические указания предназначены для студентов 3 курса для дневного отделения факультета природных ресурсов ГОУ ОГУ. В них, в соответствии с программой курса «Региональная геология» и учебным планом факультета, изложено содержание лабораторных занятий по следующему разделу: Геологическое строение территории России и стран ближнего зарубежья.

The south-west Pacific Ocean is a region of isolated islands and submerged plateaus and ridges (Figure 1). The three main islands of New Zealand (North, South, and Stewart) make up the largest landmass group in the region. Schists, greywackes, and granitoids are exposed in islands on the Challenger Plateau and Chatham Rise and have been sampled in dredges on the Campbell Plateau and Norfolk Ridge, thus demonstrating their continental geological character.

The Geology of Greece was my major teaching responsibility and research focus for about 40 years in the Department of Geology at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. My first book regarding the Geology of Greece published in 1986 (Eptalofos Publ. Co., Athens, 240 p., in greek) was focused in assisting the students of Geology to refine the basic aspects about the geology of Greece, incorporating the «theoretical» part together with the description of the geological formations and the overall geodynamic and paleogeographic evolution. It should be noted that the Geology of Greece is a complex and rather challenging task, incorporating a Late Paleozoic—Early Cenozoic orogenic history of a Tethyan segment and an active subduction and orogenic arc in the Eastern Mediterranean.

Regional geology forms an essential bridge between local and continental/global geology. Its purpose should be to simplify local surface and subsurface data to a scale that aids prediction and further illuminates the broader brush generalisations implicit in continent-wide and global syntheses.

Расширенные тезисы отражают новые результаты в области геологии и минералогии метал-логсничсских провинций северо-восточной Азии, отдельных рудных узлов и месторождений золота, серебра, олова. Реконструированы теютшические и геодинамические обстановки рудогенеза. Характеризуются некоторые ранее мало описанные формации и типы эндогенных рул, привлекательные с поисковой точки зрения Рассматриваются вопросы геологии и методы изучения осадочных полезных ископаемых в океане, россыпей золота в Магаданской области. Поставлены новые проблемы в гидрогеологии, динамической геологии и экологии горнорудных районов. Многие выводы, как регионального характера, так и относящиеся к геологии эндогенных и экзогенных месторождений полезных ископаемых, опираются на результаты геофизических (магнитометрических, сейсморазведочных, гравиметрических) исследований.
Для широкого круга геологов и специалистов по полезным ископаемым