The 30th International Geological Congress was held in Beijing, China in August 1997. Leading scientists convened to present their findings and views to the international geological research community. Volume 8 of 26 focuses on basin analysis, global sedimentary geology and sedimentology. All articles in the proceedings have been refereed and keynote papers have been included in Volume 1. These proceedings aim to present a view of contemporary geology and should be of interest to researchers in the geological sciences.
Fluid migration between fault-bound basins on the South China margin, Chi-Yuen Wang et al; sedimentological and tectonic studies on the nonmarine sequences of the tectonic-controlled Cretaceous Gyeongsang basin, Korea, Dae-Kyo Cheong; sequence stratigraphy and distribution of oil and gas, Songliao basin, China, Gao Ruiqi et al; tectonic type of petroliferous basins in Northwest China, He Dengfa et al; intensity of Cretaceous general atmospheric circulation - a deduction from geologic record on Cretaceous desert in China, Jiang Xinsheng et al; temporal and spatial distribution of Cretaceous deserts in Middle and Eastern China and its climatic significance, Jiang Xinsheng et al; potential paleoclimate indicators - compositions of detrital pyroxene and ilmenite in River Nile and Nile Delta sediments, J.S. Schneiderman; early Tertiary depositional basins of Hong Kong, Kuen-Wai Lai; Cainozoic aeolian sediments and their diagenesis at Isipingo Beach, Natal South Coast, South Africa, Kui-Wu Liu; the characteristics of sequence stratigraphy in the epicontinental basin, Li Zhengxue et al; comparative analysis of geochemical processes in the Early Paleozoic sedimentary basin of Estonia, L. Bityukova and A. Shogenova; depositional systems, sequence stratigraphy and basin filling evolution of Erlian fault lacustrine basin, Northeast China, Lin Changsong et al; subsidence and stretching of some Mesozoic rift basins in East China, Lin Changsong et al; basin modelling by gravity, magnetics and electrical information and its application, Meng Yuanlin et al; evolution and subsidence history of the Sichuan basin, Southwest China, R.J. Korsch et al; evolution of fluid flow systems, geothermal regime and hydrocarbon migration and accumulation in the Alberta basin, Canada, S. Bachu; petrogenetic classification of pyroclastic rocks, Sun Shanping et al; stratigraphic architecture of a deltaic succession related to sea-level rise - implications from the autoretreat theory of shoreline, Tetsuji Muto; subsurface temperatures, fluid pressure and salinites in the Rio Grande Embayment, Gulf of Mexico basin, USA, T.E. McKenna and J.M. Sharp, Jr.; supersequences of the Phanerozoic in the Tethys Himalayas, Wang Chengshan and Li Xianghui; tectonic, geothermal history, oil and gas on the continent of China, We Dawei and Yin Xiulan; geological characteristics and formative mechanism of the Wan'an (Nam Con Son) basin southwestern in the South China Sea, Wu Jinmin; a carbonate shelf-to-basin depositional system of the Early Paleozoic Warburton basin, Australia, Xiaowen Sun and W.J. Stuart; geophysical research of deep tectonics and basin evolution in the East China Sea area, Xu Weiling et al; paleogeography of the South China continent and its contrast with the Pangea, Xu Xiaosong et al; lake sedimentation changes during the late glacial and Holocene of Belarus (palynological data), Y. Yelovicheva; Early Cambrian reefs on the northern margin of the Sichuan basin, Ye Jian et al.