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11th Symposium on Latin-American Geosciences: Hannover, 1988
0895-9811/90 $3.00 + 0.00 Pergamon Press pie & Earth Sciences and Resources Institute
Journal of South American F.arth Sciences, Vol. 3, No. 2/3, p. 157, 1990 Printed in Great Britain
BOOK REVIEW
The subject matter is equally wide: 9 papers deal with sedimentation and stratigraphy, 10 with igneous and metamorphic petrology including geochronology, 2 each with soil science, geomorphology and glacial geology, and geophysics. Other papers are concerned with paleontology, tectonics, hydroReviewed by Norman J. Snelling logy, and mineralization. Two papers are written in UniversityofMadrid,Spain German, 2 in Spanish, and 1 in Portuguese; the THIS SPECIAL VOLUME contains a representative remainder are in English, although of the 76 listed selection of thirty-one papers presented at the 11th authors only one is British. It is hoped that the foregoing statistics give some Latin-American Colloquium held in Hannover from 16-18 November 1988. The individual papers are idea of the breadth of subject matter in this volume. It would not be appropriate to review each contrigenerally short -- about 3000 words is the average bution, and indeed many of them are really extended but are well illustrated and supported by much tabulated data. The volume gives a valuable insight abstracts or appetizers indicative of good things to into the impressive amount of cooperative research come in the future. However, earth scientists workbeing undertaken by German and various South ing or considering working in South America will American earth scientists with the generous support find this volume an invaluable d i r e c t o r y to the activities of a major research group. of the Deutsche Forschungasgemeinschaft. In a volume such as this where many of the The papers presented in this volume deal with contributions are to some extent progress reports, projects in almost all the South American countries: time is of the essence and the editors are to be con6 are concerned with Brazil, 6 with Argentina, 3 with gratulated on achieving publication almost within a Mexico, 4 with Colombia, 3 with Peru, and 1 each year of the Colloquium. with Chile, Venezuela, and Paraguay. Three papers cross national borders and are concerning inter alia with Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Chile, Bolivia, and Argentina.
11th Symposium on Latin-American Geosciences: Hannover, 1988. Edited by H. Miller, U. Rosenfeld, and K. Weber-Diefenbach. Zentralblatt fur Geologie und Palaontologie, 1, 1989, Heft 5/6.
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Journal of South American F.arth Sciences, Vol. 3, No. 2/3, p. 157, 1990 Printed in Great Britain
BOOK REVIEW
The subject matter is equally wide: 9 papers deal with sedimentation and stratigraphy, 10 with igneous and metamorphic petrology including geochronology, 2 each with soil science, geomorphology and glacial geology, and geophysics. Other papers are concerned with paleontology, tectonics, hydroReviewed by Norman J. Snelling logy, and mineralization. Two papers are written in UniversityofMadrid,Spain German, 2 in Spanish, and 1 in Portuguese; the THIS SPECIAL VOLUME contains a representative remainder are in English, although of the 76 listed selection of thirty-one papers presented at the 11th authors only one is British. It is hoped that the foregoing statistics give some Latin-American Colloquium held in Hannover from 16-18 November 1988. The individual papers are idea of the breadth of subject matter in this volume. It would not be appropriate to review each contrigenerally short -- about 3000 words is the average bution, and indeed many of them are really extended but are well illustrated and supported by much tabulated data. The volume gives a valuable insight abstracts or appetizers indicative of good things to into the impressive amount of cooperative research come in the future. However, earth scientists workbeing undertaken by German and various South ing or considering working in South America will American earth scientists with the generous support find this volume an invaluable d i r e c t o r y to the activities of a major research group. of the Deutsche Forschungasgemeinschaft. In a volume such as this where many of the The papers presented in this volume deal with contributions are to some extent progress reports, projects in almost all the South American countries: time is of the essence and the editors are to be con6 are concerned with Brazil, 6 with Argentina, 3 with gratulated on achieving publication almost within a Mexico, 4 with Colombia, 3 with Peru, and 1 each year of the Colloquium. with Chile, Venezuela, and Paraguay. Three papers cross national borders and are concerning inter alia with Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Chile, Bolivia, and Argentina.
11th Symposium on Latin-American Geosciences: Hannover, 1988. Edited by H. Miller, U. Rosenfeld, and K. Weber-Diefenbach. Zentralblatt fur Geologie und Palaontologie, 1, 1989, Heft 5/6.
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