The fourth edition of the European Conference on Geostatistics for Environmental Applications (geoENV IV) took place in Barcelona, November 27-29, 2002. As a proof that there is an increasing interest in environmental issues in the geostatistical community, the conference attracted over 100 participants, mostly Europeans (up to 10 European countries were represented), but also from other countries in the world. Only 46 contributions, selected out of around 100 submitted papers, were invited to be presented orally during the conference. Additionally 30 authors were invited to present their work in poster format during a special session.

The COASTAL SEDIMENTS '07 conference was organized as a technical specialty conference devoted to the physical aspects of sediment processes and morphology change in the coastal and inlet environment. Following previous conferences in the Coastal Sediments series that were held in 1977, 1987, 1991, 1999, and 2003, COASTAL SEDIMENTS'07 celebrated 30 years of the Coastal Sediments series and promoted exchange of information and views among specialists in the fields of coastal engineering, geology, oceanography, and related disciplines. The theme of COASTAL SEDIMENTS

ANDREWS, J. T., AUSTIN, W. A., BERGSTEN, H. & JENNINGS, A. E. Palaeoceanography of North Atlantic margins: an introduction
KNUDSEN, K. L. & AUSTIN, W. E. N. Late glacial foraminifera Canadian North Atlantic margins
ANDREWS, J. T., OSTERMAN, L. E. JENNINGS, A. E., SYVITSKI, J. P. M., MILLER, G. H. & Weiner, N. Abrupt changes in marine conditions, Sunneshine Fiord, eastern Baffin Island, NWT during the last deglacial transition: Younger Dryas and H-0 events
JENNINGS, A. E., TEDESCO, K. A., ANDREWS, J. T. & KIRBY, M. E. Shelf erosion and glacial ice proximity in the Labrador Sea during and after Heinrich events (H-3 or 4 to H-0) as shown by foraminifera
SYVITSKI, J. P. M., LEWIS, C. F. M. & PIPER, D. J. W. Palaeoceanographic information derived from acoustic surveys of glaciated continental margins: examples from eastern Canada

Part One: Fractures, Faults and Nappes
1 Hydraulic fractures and their implications regarding the state of stress in a sedimentary sequence during burial
]. W. Cosgrove
2 Geometry and development of normal faults

D.C.P. Peacock and D.]. Sanderson
3 Normal faulting and exhumation of metamorphic rocks in mountain belts
]. Malavieille
4 Evolution of salients in a fold-and-thrust belt: the effects of sedimentary basin geometry, strain distribution and critical taper
G. Mitra

The Quaternary deposits of the Eastern Gulf of Finland

The influence of ferromanganese concretions-forming processes in the Eastern Gulf of Finlandon the marine environment

Distribution of heavy metals and arsenic in soft surface sediments of the coastal area off Kotka, North-Eastern Gulf of Finland, Baltic Sea

Seafloor anoxia and modern laminated sediments in coastal basins of the Eastern Gulf of Finland, Baltic Sea

Background concentrations of trace metals in modern muddy clays of Eastern Gulf of Finland, Baltic Sea

YIRGU, G., EBINGER, C.J. & MAGUIRE, P.K.H. The Afar volcanic province within the East African Rift System: introduction Part 1: Plate kinematic and geodynamic framework of the Afar volcanic province Introduction
CALAIS, E., EBINGER, C.J., HARTNADY, C., & NOCQUET, J.M. Kinematics of the East African Rift from GPS and earthquake slip vector data
GARFUNKEL, Z. & BEYTH, M. Constraints on the structural development of Afar imposed by the kinematics of the major surrounding plates
BUCK, W.R. The role of magma in the development of the Afro-Arabian Rift System

Andrei Y. Barkov and Federica Zaccarini Editorial for the Special Issue “Platinum-Group Minerals: New Results and Advances in PGE Mineralogy in Various Ni-Cu-Cr-PGE Ore Systems”
Federica Zaccarini, Giorgio Garuti, Evgeny Pushkarev and Oskar Thalhammer Origin of Platinum Group Minerals (PGM) Inclusions in Chromite Deposits of the Urals
Sai-Hong Yang, Ben-Xun Su, Xiao-Wen Huang, Dong-Mei Tang, Ke-Zhang Qin, Yang Bai, Patrick Asamoah Sakyi and Melesse Alemayehu Platinum-Group Mineral Occurrences and Platinum-Group Elemental Geochemistry of the Xiadong Alaskan-Type Complex in the Southern Central Asian Orogenic Belt

Michael S. Zhdanov Editorial for Special Issue “Geophysics for Mineral Exploration”
Jianfei Fu, Sanshi Jia and Ende Wang Combined Magnetic, Transient Electromagnetic, and Magnetotelluric Methods to Detect a BIF-Type Concealed Iron Ore Body: A Case Study in Gongchangling Iron Ore Concentration Area, Southern Liaoning Province, China
Fouzan A. Alfouzan, Abdulrahman M. Alotaibi, Leif H. Cox and Michael S. Zhdanov Spectral Induced Polarization Survey with Distributed Array System for Mineral Exploration: Case Study in Saudi Arabia

The Structural Properties of Silica Using Classical and Quantum Interatomic Forces

High Pressure Studies of Mantle Minerals by Ab initio Variable Cell Shape Molecular Dynamics

Calculation of Mineral Properties with the Electron Gas Model

Exploration for Platinum: A Contemporary Viewpoint C.J. MORRISSEY (Riofinex North Ltd, Bristol, UK)
The Platinum Market: Recent History and Future Developments C. R. N. CLARK (Johnson Matthey pIc, London, UK)

Evaluation of the Nickel Sulphide Bead Method of Fire-assay for the Platinum-Group Elements using Neutron Activation Analysis S.J. Parry, I. W. Sinclair & M. Asif {Imperial College Reactor Centre, Ascot, UK)
Preconcentration of Precious Metals by Tellurium Sulphide Fire-assay Followed by Instrumental Neutron Activation Analysis I. Shazali, L. Van’t dack & R. Gijbels {University of Antwerp, Belgium)
The Potential of Fire-assay and ICP-MS for the Determination of Platinum-Group Elements in Geological Materials {Abstract) The late A. R. Date, A. E. Davies & Y. Y. Cheung {British Geological Survey, London, UK)
ICP-AES Determination of Precious Metals in Difficult Materials P. Whitehead {Johnson Matthey Technology Centre, Reading, UK) <...>