This book is written as a practical field manual to be used by geologists engaged in mineral exploration. It is also hoped that it will serve as a text and reference for students in Applied Geology courses of universities and colleges. The book aims to outline some of the practical skills that turn the graduate geologist into an explorationist:. It is intended as a practical 'how to' book, rather than as a text on geological or ore deposit theory. An explorationist is a professional who searches for ore bodies in a scientific and structured way. Although an awkward and artificial term, this is the only available word to describe the totality of the skills which are needed to locate and define economic mineralization.

Mining capital is capital required to develop mines from exploration, feasibility studies, mine design, construction, and commissioning to operation; capital to refinance and modernize old mines; capital to purchase mining, processing, and related mine infrastructure equipment; and capital to acquire mines. The supply of commodities remains vital to the development of modern society.

Te mining sector is essential in the economic development of many resource rich African countries as it has the potential to fnance infrastructural developments which are much needed in Africa. Tis is due to the fact that various minerals are used as raw materials in different sectors including construction and transport. Most importantly, mineral materials also play an important role in industrialization and urbanization which are now rapidly escalating on the continent.

VAN RENSBERGEN, P., HILLIS, R.R., MALTMAN, AJ. & MORLEY, C.K. Subsurface sediment mobilization: introduction
MALTMAN, AJ. & BOLTON, A. How sediments become mobilized Shallow subsurface sediment mobilization

OWEN, G. Load structures: gravity-driven sediment mobilization in the shallow subsurface
HARRISON, P. & MALTMAN, A. J. Numerical modelling of reverse-density structures in soft non-Newtonian sediments
PARIZE, O. & FRIES, G. The Vocontian clastic dykes and skills: a geometric model
BANKWITZ, P., BANKWITZ, E., BRAUER, K., KAMPF, H. & STORR, M. Deformation structures in Plioand Pleistocene sediments (NW Bohemia, Central Europe)

ROTHWELL, R. G. & RACK, F. R. New techniques in sediment core analysis: an introduction

HASCHKE, M. The Eagle III BKA system, a novel sediment core X-ray fluorescence analyser with very high spatial resolution
RICHTER, T. O., VAN DER GAAST, S., KOSTER, R., VAARS, A., GIELES, R., DE STIGTER, H. C., DE HAAS, H. & VAN WEERING, T. C. E. The Avaatech XRF Core Scanner: technical description and applications to NE Atlantic sediments
CROUDACE, I. W., RINDBY, A. & ROTHWELL, R. G. ITRAX: description and evaluation of a new multi-function X-ray core scanner
THOMSON, J., CROUDACE, I. W. & ROTHWELL, R. G. A geochemical application of the ITRAX scanner to a sediment core containing eastern Mediterranean sapropel units

The Gas Processors Suppliers Association is an organization of companies with specialized knowledge of the supply and service needs of the gas processing and related industries. A major service to them is embodied in the Engineering Data Book, which was first published in 1935. Over 150,000 copies of the Ninth, Tenth, and Eleventh Editions of the book were distributed for use throughout the world by engineers, operating personnel, and students. The Twelfth Edition of the Engineering Data Book, available in two versions — FPS and SI — is an attempt to assemble, in a single compilation, basic design information together with data and procedures that can be used by field and plant engineers to determine operating and design parameters. It is also intended as an aid to design engineers who, in spite of increasing availability of computer routines and other sophisticated design methods, require a general reference work as a guide to accepted engineering practice for estimating, feasibility studies, preliminary design, and for making on-site operating decisions <...>

The past three decades have seen a remarkable proliferation in the volume of literature devoted to geotechnical and foundation engineering. There are now a vast number of journals that address these subjects, and many conferences annually produce a welter of papers of variable quality. The undergraduate student is insulated from this plethora of information by curricula that usually follow a well-trodden path and which cover the basics of soil mechanics and engineering mechanics and which employ texts that have been tried, tested and refined over the past 50 years.

The intensive studies in the I 960's and I 970's of modern hallow marine carbonate environments in the Persian Gulf (e.g., Shearman, 1963, 1966; Kinsman, 1966; Butler, I 970; Kendall and Skipwith, 1969; Purser, 1973), Florida and the Bahamas (e.g., Shinn and others, 1969; Hardie, 1977a; Enos and Perkins, 1979), and Western Australia (e.g., Logan and others, 1970, 1974b), led to spectacular advances in our understanding of the deposition and early diagenesis of carbonate rocks. These stud1es were part of a major revolution in edimentology that saw a radical change from an approach based heavily on grain textures to one based on sedimentary structures and early diagenetic features. In this new approach, paleo-environments of serumentary deposits are ruagnosed from the vertical and lateral rustribution of elemental rock uruts (subfacies and faCJes), characterized principally by their assemblages of sedimentary structures and early diagenetic features in combinallon With other properties such as sedimentary textures and biota, using analogs established from observations of processes and their sedimentary records 10 modem depositional environments (the "comparative sedimentology" method of Ginsburg, I 974) <...>

North Africa contains some 4% of the world's remaining oil and gas reserves, and is now one of the most active exploration areas. This volume represents the first attempt at a compilation of the petroleum geology of North Africa, documenting a series of papers collected on the petroleum geology of Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Ubya and the western part of Egypt. The main objectives of this book are to increase the level of documentation towards that appropriate for such major petroleum provinces and to facilitate the application of analogues between North African countries and beyond.

This book is mainly about accelerated soil erosion, which is the rapid loss of soil from slopes at rates much faster than those occurring under natural geological conditions. By soil one has in mind the whole system of weathered material and not simply the upper few centimetres in which plants grow. With this definition, it is sometimes difficult and even impossible to differentiate soil from unconsolidated bedrock materials. This broader definition of soil is matched by a broader definition of the erosion problem to include the entire area of small catchments up to several kilometres in length. This is because it is meaningful, in the environments investigated and at the scale studied, to include channel effects as significant contributors to the erosion problem. The economic and social aspects of soil erosion are two-sided; what is lost from fields and orchards is subsequently redeposited in channels and reservoirs and on fields and factories. <...>