А.П. Лисицын. Биогенная седиментация в океанах и зональность    
Ю.П. Хрусталев, Д.С. Туровский, С.А. Резников, В.Д. Симонов. Голоценовые отложения Аральского моря и условия их накопления    
А.Г. Черняховский, Б.П. Градусов. Почвенно-элювиальный процесс и его роль в гумидном литогенезе современного континентального блока

Л.А. Выхристюк. О поступлении и распределении основных химических элементов в донных отложениях Байкала    
Б.М. Осовецкий. Вещественный состав современного аллювия р. Кубани и условия его формирования

The papers in this volume are all dedicated to Professor Paul Ramdohr, on the occasion of his 90th anniversary. The authors - and many more professional colleagues, friends, and students - owe an immense measure of gratitude to him for his guidance in scientific work and related problems, including principles of teaching and research.

Today’s Turkey occupies an important geopolitical location: the junction of Europe and Asia. Geographically, Turkey is composed of Anatolia (the so-called Asia Minor) and Thrace, an eastern section of Europe. The Sea of Marmara, which is an inland sea, together with the Dardanelles and the Bosphorus separates Anatolia from Thrace and, at the same time, Asia from Europe. Being surrounded on three sides – by the Mediterranean Sea to the south, the Aegean Sea to the west and the Black Sea to the north – Turkey offers the characteristics of a peninsula. Turkey is one of the charter members of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and G20 (the Group of 20) where the world’s leading industrialised and developing countries meet to gather and discuss international affairs. The Customs Union Agreement between Turkey and the European Union plays a significant role in the development of the foreign tradecapability of the country. Construction, automotive, electronics, banking, textiles, petrochemistry, food, mining, agriculture and machinery industries are currently the leading sectors of Turkey’s economy <...>

Plate tectonics, as it operates in the modern earth, represents in a fundamental sense a mechanism by which excess thermal energy from the mantle is dissipated (Sclater et ai., 1980). A substantial data base now exists concerning the operation of plate tectonics during Phanerozoic time, and evidence for similar tectonic activity during Proterozoic time appears to be steadily growing, both in quantity and quality.

Copper belongs to those metals whose concentrations in nature arise from a broad diversity of endogeneous and exogeneous processes, which applies to essentially all genetic classes of ore deposits.

This is the first proceedings volume on copper metallogeny to cover the worldwide distribution of the four main groups of copper deposits, including in Part I: copper-nickel deposits with cobalt and platinum group elements; Part II: copper-molybdenum-gold deposits with silver, zinc, and lead; Part III/IV: copperzinc-lead deposits (with silver etc.).

What is economic geology? It may be defined as the study of geological bodies and materials that may be useful to mankind. The materials included are fuels, metallic and non-metallic minerals, rocks and water. This book will exclude considerations of water and building materials, and will concentrate on ores and fuels.

Some people may say that economic geology is a subdiscipline within the geological sciences, but this is not strictly correct, for it is unlike other su}?disciplines, such as palaeontology, igneous petrology, structural geology, and so on, which all go to make up the science of geology, for each of these can exist independently. Economic geology cannot exist as a separate discipline, for it has to be based on the broad spectrum of the geological sciences.

The study of rocks and other mineral associations, especially of ore deposits, starts out from the purely descriptive. The composition of these materials, their geologic position in the most comprehensive sense, and their gross and fine structures and textures, etc., must be established. Further research must explain, first the "How"', then the "Why". The latter must comprise the interpretation of the association of materials and geologic position as well as each detail of texture and structure, even the smallest. On the knowledge obtained, one must build further and must generalize. Things of which the "Why" can be explained directly will serve in the explanation of others. In doing this the danger of circular reasoning will exist ; criticism is therefore invariably necessary, self-criticism most of all. The interpretations must, if possible, be reached along several paths, and the validity of the various paths must be carefully considered. <...>

Я.М. Страхов. К вопросу о типах литогенеза в океанском секторе Земли
Я.А. Лисицына, Г.Ю. Бутузова, О.А. Дворецкая. Донные осадки на профиле через Тихий океан     
М.А. Глаголева, В.А. Коннов, Ю.П. Парахони, Т.А. Ягодинская. Химические элементы в осадках северо-восточной части Тихого океана    
A.В. Солдатов, Г.С. Харин, Е.М. Емельянов, Ю.М. Сенин. Современные терригенно-вулканогенные минералогические провинции Атлантического океана

Е.М. Емельянов, А.И. Блажчишин, Г.С. Харин. О роли эндогенных источников в формировании химического состава осадков Северной Атлантики
В.Б. Курносов, И.О. Мурдмаа. Глинистые минералы в современных осадках окраинных морей западной части Тихого океана
Я.Я. Куприн, В.М. Сорокин. Нерастворимая часть органического вещества осадков Черного моря    
В.Я. Холодов, Ю.О. Гаврилов, Б.П. Градусов, Я.П. Чижикова. Глинистые минералы в чокракско-караганских отложениях Восточного Предкавказья

В.Б. Курносов, А.М. Короткий. Глинистые минералы в современных осадках оз. Ханка    
B.И. Виноградов, Т.О. Реймер, А.М. Лейтес, С.Б. Смелов. Древнейшие сульфаты в архейских образованиях Южно-Африканского и Алданского щитов и эволюция кислородной атмосферы Земли    
Д.Н. Пачаджанов, И.П. Адамчук, Н.Д. Мельникова. Влияние условий формирования на химический состав нижнемеловых глинистых отложений Таджикской депрессии