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paper, 'the mechanical paradox remains vivid'. It is rather a pity to end this review by mentioning that the price of this useful book is ridiculous. M.R.W. Johnson, Edinburgh
REMOTE T.N.
SENSING AND ENERGY (Editor), 1£)75. Remote Energy-Related Studies. Wiley,
Veziroglu
Sensing -
Chichester, 491 pp., £ 22.00. This is a collage of somewhat related papers rather than a conventional 'book'. None-the-less, the content of most of the papers is excellent and the 'book' serves as an extremely useful reference that should be a part of any library maintaining a collection of documents relating to space exploration and aircraft of the planet Earth. The work is divided into six parts: atmospheric and hydrospheric measurements, active sensor applications, land use monitoring, environmental quality monitoring, special topics, and workshop reports. These topics belie the sub-title of the 'book'. There are excellent energy-related papers included but they tend to be scattered, and depending on one's definition of energy-related, in the minority. Outstanding among the presentations are: (1) the paper 'The evolution of atmospheric measurements from satellites' by M. Tepper, which presents an excellent summary of the history and plans of and for satellite meteorology programs; (2) a very excellent summary of geological applications of satellite imagery that is somewhat mistitled 'Exploration for nuclear and fossil fuels, by remote sensing' by N.M. Short; and (3) a very comprehensive and factual report on 'Determining potential solar power sites in Western Hemisphere ocean and land areas based upon satellite observations of cloud cover' by H.W. Hiser and H.V. Senn. Despite the relatively disjointed character of the 'book', I do commend it to your reading; I enjoyed and benefited from the experience, and it is a very useful reference. W.A. Fischer, Reston, Va.
S E D I M E N T A R Y BASINS M.H.P. Bott (Editor), 1976. Sedimentary Basins of Continental Margins and Cratons. Elsevier, Amsterdam, 314 pp., $ 36.75. This book consists of 21 papers presented at the IUGG symposium of the same title held at Durham in April 1976, and published in Tectonophysics. The value of publishing symposium proceedings is often rather dubious. In too many cases, the papers have been hastily cobbled together, and have been presented by the same authors at other conferences in thinly disguised form. The symposium volume that ultimately emerges tends to be a hotch potch of new and old papers only tenuously linked together by the nominal theme of the symposium. Sedimentary basins, by contrast, is an excellent example of how useful a well thought out symposium volume can be. The papers have been organized into three groups. The first deals with theoretical aspects of rheology and the mechanisms of basin subsidence, the second with aspects of continental margin basins, and the third with cratonic basins. There is a brief introductory review by Bott on the mechanisms of basin subsidence. Although useful, this review might have been more valuable if it were a little more substantial. In a period which has seen so much discussion about plate tectonics, it is refreshing to turn one's thoughts for a change to tectonics within plates. The papers within the book are concerned with the two main types of vertical movements that take place within plates; the broad regional subsidence, unconnected with major fault movements, that is characteristic of Atlantic-type continental margins, and the quite different graben type troughs which typically occur within cratonic regions, in the early stages of rifting. Two of the most stimulating papers in the volume are by Burke. In the first, he discusses the one hundred so graben that were formed it1 association with the opening of the Atlantic Ocean, and which formed an elaborate network of triple-rift systems. The rifts, of course, formed long narrow basins in which many kilometres of sediment
paper, 'the mechanical paradox remains vivid'. It is rather a pity to end this review by mentioning that the price of this useful book is ridiculous. M.R.W. Johnson, Edinburgh
REMOTE T.N.
SENSING AND ENERGY (Editor), 1£)75. Remote Energy-Related Studies. Wiley,
Veziroglu
Sensing -
Chichester, 491 pp., £ 22.00. This is a collage of somewhat related papers rather than a conventional 'book'. None-the-less, the content of most of the papers is excellent and the 'book' serves as an extremely useful reference that should be a part of any library maintaining a collection of documents relating to space exploration and aircraft of the planet Earth. The work is divided into six parts: atmospheric and hydrospheric measurements, active sensor applications, land use monitoring, environmental quality monitoring, special topics, and workshop reports. These topics belie the sub-title of the 'book'. There are excellent energy-related papers included but they tend to be scattered, and depending on one's definition of energy-related, in the minority. Outstanding among the presentations are: (1) the paper 'The evolution of atmospheric measurements from satellites' by M. Tepper, which presents an excellent summary of the history and plans of and for satellite meteorology programs; (2) a very excellent summary of geological applications of satellite imagery that is somewhat mistitled 'Exploration for nuclear and fossil fuels, by remote sensing' by N.M. Short; and (3) a very comprehensive and factual report on 'Determining potential solar power sites in Western Hemisphere ocean and land areas based upon satellite observations of cloud cover' by H.W. Hiser and H.V. Senn. Despite the relatively disjointed character of the 'book', I do commend it to your reading; I enjoyed and benefited from the experience, and it is a very useful reference. W.A. Fischer, Reston, Va.
S E D I M E N T A R Y BASINS M.H.P. Bott (Editor), 1976. Sedimentary Basins of Continental Margins and Cratons. Elsevier, Amsterdam, 314 pp., $ 36.75. This book consists of 21 papers presented at the IUGG symposium of the same title held at Durham in April 1976, and published in Tectonophysics. The value of publishing symposium proceedings is often rather dubious. In too many cases, the papers have been hastily cobbled together, and have been presented by the same authors at other conferences in thinly disguised form. The symposium volume that ultimately emerges tends to be a hotch potch of new and old papers only tenuously linked together by the nominal theme of the symposium. Sedimentary basins, by contrast, is an excellent example of how useful a well thought out symposium volume can be. The papers have been organized into three groups. The first deals with theoretical aspects of rheology and the mechanisms of basin subsidence, the second with aspects of continental margin basins, and the third with cratonic basins. There is a brief introductory review by Bott on the mechanisms of basin subsidence. Although useful, this review might have been more valuable if it were a little more substantial. In a period which has seen so much discussion about plate tectonics, it is refreshing to turn one's thoughts for a change to tectonics within plates. The papers within the book are concerned with the two main types of vertical movements that take place within plates; the broad regional subsidence, unconnected with major fault movements, that is characteristic of Atlantic-type continental margins, and the quite different graben type troughs which typically occur within cratonic regions, in the early stages of rifting. Two of the most stimulating papers in the volume are by Burke. In the first, he discusses the one hundred so graben that were formed it1 association with the opening of the Atlantic Ocean, and which formed an elaborate network of triple-rift systems. The rifts, of course, formed long narrow basins in which many kilometres of sediment