Introduction: Problems of Petroleum Migration
The Nature of Shales and the Dynamics of Hydrocarbon Expulsion in the Gulf Coast Tertiary Section. Henry H. Hinch 
Primary Migration: T he Importance of Water-Mineral-Organic Matter Interactions in the Source Rock. Colin Barker
Agents for Primary Hydrocarbon Migration: A Review. Kinji Magara 
Some Mass Balance and Geological Constraints on Migration Mechanisms. R. W Jones 

A major and acknowledged role in the advance o f sedimentological knowledge is played by the methods of physics as expressed through fluid mechanics and loose-boundary  hydraulics. Turbulence is increasingly being seen as involving orderly flow structures, and these are significant for the origin of several sedimentary structures and for suspension transport. Recent advances in sediment-transport theory are rooted in the concept of the sediment load as a downward-acting force and in the notion of the flow as a transporting machine.

This book represents three years of intensive research and experimentation. Information from hundreds of sources has been collected, distilled, and illustrated. It is intended to be both a text and tool, a blend of instruction and reference. Like any tool, its value increases as you bring to it your own perceptions and skills. It is designed to make the information easily accessible, and built to stand up to years of bench-side use.

Chapter I. Mode of Pleistocene Glaciation 1. Geological Evidence of Kara Sea Centre of Inland Glaciation
Valery I. Astakhov
2. New Data on the Latest Activity of Kara-shelf Glaciers in West Siberia
Valery I. Astakhov
3. Middle Pleistocene Glaciations of the Russian North
Valery I. Astakhov
4. Pleistocene Ice Limits in Russian Northern Lowlands
Valery I. Astakhov
Chapter II. Peculiarities of Sedimentary Record
5. The ‘Ice Hill’: An Example of Retarded Deglaciation in Siberia
Valery I. Astakhov and Lia L. Isayeva 
6. The Last Glaciation in West Siberia
Valery I. Astakhov

CRETACEOUS WESTERN INTERIOR SEAWAY DRILLING PROJECT: AN OVERVIEW

Walter E. Dean, and Michael A. Arthur
TIMING OF MID-CRETACEOUS RELATIVE SEA LEVEL CHANGES TN THE WESTERN INTERIOR: AMOCO NO. 1 BOUNDS CORE

Robert W. Scott, M. J. Evetts, P. C. Franks, James A. Bergen, and J. A. Stein
UPPER CRETACEOUS NANNOFOSSIL ASSEMBLAGES ACROSS THE WESTERN INTERIOR SEAWAY: IMPLICATIONS FOR THE ORIGINS OF LITHOLOGIC CYCLES IN THE GREENHORN AND NIOBRARA FORMATIONS

Celeste E. Burns, and Timothy J. Bralower

Linking diagenesis to sequence stratigraphy: an integrated tool for understanding and predicting reservoir quality distribution
S. Morad, J.M. Ketzer and L.F. De Ros

The occurrence of glaucony in the stratigraphic record: distribution patterns and sequencestratigraphic significance
A. Amorosi
Sequence architecture and palaeoclimate controls on diagenesis related to subaerial exposure of icehouse cyclic Pennsylvanian and Permian carbonates
G.J.A. Buijs and R.H. Goldstein
Sequence stratigraphic influence on regional diagenesis of a mixed carbonate-siliciclastic passive margin, Eocene, N.C., USA
B.P. Coffey

The decades of the 1960s and 1970s reflected an awakening of an environmental consciousness in America and increasing efforts to reduce the uncontrolled or poorly controlled releases into the natural environment that had characterized past human activity. It is perhaps hard to understand today the common belief that the air, soil and water were effectively limitless and therefore appropriate for largely uncontrolled disposal of our wastes.

In Australia, the period from 1920 to the present is split by World War II into two sharply contrasting periods with respect to advances in knowledge of the geology of the continent. Between the two world wars geological work was almost entirely restricted to the Geological Surveys and universities of the six states. The official Geological Surveys were more and more confined to routine and ad hoc tasks, such as examination of mines and prospects, siting water bores, and giving assistance to prospectors and the mining industry generally.