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Geoscience Canada articles from March 2005
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Geoscience Canada archives from March 2005
Editorial.(Editorial)
March 1, 2005... The December issue (Volume 31, No. 4) marked the end of Godfrey Nowlan's term as Editor of Geoscience Canada, and the beginning of our term as co-editors. Notably, this is the first time in the 31-year history of the journal that the editorship...
Brainstorming about the future of Solid Earth Sciences in Canada.(Issues in Canadian Geoscience)
March 1, 2005... SUMMARY
This article is a synopsis of an informal meeting that was convened in Montreal last May to discuss strategic planning for the "Solid Earth Sciences" in Canada. Five possible approaches for developing a new research program are...
Celestial climate driver: a perspective from four billion years of the carbon cycle.
March 1, 2005... SUMMARY
The standard explanation for vagaries of our climate, championed by the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change), is that greenhouse gases, particularly carbon dioxide, are its principal driver. Recently, an alternative...
Igneous rock associations 4. Oceanic island volcanism I mineralogy and petrology.(Series)
March 1, 2005... SUMMARY
Oceanic islands tend to occur at the young ends of hotspot trails because they record the passage of oceanic plates over rising convection cells (plumes) in the mantle, of the propagation of cracks in the lithosphere. Basaltic...
The North Atlantic Igneous Province: Stratigraphy, Tectonic, Volcanic and Magmatic Processes.(Book Review)
March 1, 2005... Edited by D.W. Jolley and B.R. Bell The Geological Society of London (UK) Special Publication No. 197, 344 p. ISBN 1-86239-108-4, Hardback. $142.00 US (list price); $71.00 US (GSL member price); $85.00 US (AAPG member price)
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Deformation Mechanisms, Rheology and Tectonics: Current Status and Future Perspectives.(Book Review)
March 1, 2005... Edited by S. de Meer, M.R. Drury, J.H.P. de Bresser and G.M. Pennock The Geological Society of London Special Publication No. 200, 2002, 416p. ISBN: 1-86239-117-3, Hardcover, 50.00 [pounds sterling] (GSL member price)
"The motion and...
Global Warming: the Complete Edition (3rd Edition).(Book Review)
March 1, 2005... By Sir John Houghton Cambridge University Press, 2004, $45.00, paperback, ISBN 0521528747
Discussing the weather is one of our great Canadian pastimes, almost certainly taking over from hockey as the top conversation ice breaker in...