Regolith – the mantle of in situ and transported weathered material that covers landscapes across the world – presents a major challenge to mineral explorers and natural resource managers.

When computers were frst invented in the middle of the last century, nobody ever anticipated that the instruction sets to program them would ultimately evolve to the point where many of them could be accessed freely, without charge, in ways that would become widely available to nonexpert communities. Nor did we ever consider that computers would penetrate every corner of social life, revolutionizing our social behavior, our science, and our politics.

The spontaneous potential well-logging is one of the most common and useful welllogging techniques in petroleum exploitation. Since the earth layer can be regarded as a piecewise uniform medium, and due to electrochemical and other factors, there exists a jump of potential (spontaneous potential difference) on each interface of different layers.

The characteristics, peculiarities, the development of the epikarst, and its role in karstifcation are described here. Epikarst varieties are differentiated, the development of these varieties is interpreted, and the factors infuencing the development of varieties are taken into consideration. <...>

The history of recorded geological observations of the Egyptian Eastern Desert and Sinai is divided into five stages: Pharaonic, Roman to early Ottoman, nineteenth century, twentieth century to the 1950s and post-1950s. Pharaonic interests were mainly resource-focused (gold, gemstones, hard stone) and are exemplified by the Turin Papyrus geological map. Roman to early Ottoman activities followed similar motivations and transported huge quantities of Egyptian stone across the Mediterranean.

A variety of global and regional classifi cation schemes for uranium deposits have been proposed in the past by a number of geoscientists including Heinrich (1958), Roubault (1958), Ruzicka (1971), Ziegler (1974), Mickle and Mathews (1978), Mathews et al. (1979), Nash et al. (1981), Barthel et al. (1986), Dahlkamp (1989, 1993), McKay and Miezitis (2001) mainly for deposits in the western hemisphere and by Kazansky and Laverov (1977), Boitsov (1989, 1996),

Introduction to Geodynamics of the Indian Plate: Evolutionary Perspectives Sampat K. Tandon and Neal Gupta
Evolving Early Earth: Insights from Peninsular India M. Jayananda, S. Dey, and K. R. Aadhiseshan
Tracking India Within Precambrian Supercontinent Cycles Sarbani Patranabis-Deb, Dilip Saha, and M. Santosh
Proterozoic Sedimentary Basins of India Partha Pratim Chakraborty, S. K. Tandon, Sagnik Basu Roy, Subhojit Saha, and Pritam P. Paul
Oxygenation of Early Atmosphere and Potential Stratigraphic Records from India Joydip Mukhopadhyay

The beginning of any scientific, economic, investigational, and executive achievement depends on the proper knowledge of basic information. The application of geosciences to meet the needs of each country is related to the level of knowledge of the geologists.

Reviewers of the German edition of this book found that the text deals with facts and descriptions of limestones rather than with global speculations on facies models or large-scale sedimentation patterns. The book is neither a picture-book nor a recipe-book for facies interpretation of carbonates, but an attempt to summarize the present "state of the art" of a rather small but increasingly more important part of geology.

The Bergell Alps offer not only a magnificent landscape with impressive mountains that attract many tourists, but also they document a unique geological history, first explored by Bernhard Studer (1851) and since then studied and documented in many publications. In this book, we try to connect visitors with scientific curiosity with remarkable geological features observed in the Bergell Alps, such as a young granite that intrudes into an older stack of nappes (thrust sheets) that represent the European continental plate at the base overthrust by the African plate, causing gradients in temperature and pressure that can be explored by looking at outcrops of rocks in the field.