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 17 of 26 focuses on Precambrian geology and metamorphic petrology. 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.
Part 1 Precambrian major events and tectonics: the Archean-Proterozoic boundary in the geology history of the Earth, T.F. Negrutsa and V.Z. Negrutza; Precambrian and Caledonian events in Svalbard, northwestern edge of the Eurasian plate - a review in a regional context of the North Atlantic Arctic Ocean, Y. Ohta et al; tectonic correlation of the Precambrian evolution of the North China Craton with the Baltic Shield, Xianling Qian; the identification of a late Pan-African granulite facies event in northeastern China - SHRIMP U-Pb zircon dating of the Mashan Group at Liu Mao, Heilongjiang Province, China, S. Wilde et al; the relationship and timing of granitoid evolution with respect to felsic volcanism in the Wutai Complex, North China Craton, S. Wilde et al; formation, break-up and amalgamation of the early Precambrian continental crust in China - dynamics and periodicity, Jin Bai et al; geochemical evolution of the Paleoproterozoic volcanic and plutonic rocks from the Owai area, Guyana, South America - implications for tectonic history and source regions, G. Voicu et al; geology, geochemistry and geochronology of Neoproterozoic volcanics from Huaiyu Mountains of southeastern China - implications for its tectonic setting and origin, Fengqing Zhao et al. Part 2 Types of metamorphism and metamorphic rocks: evolution of continental lithosphere - evidences from UHPM rocks, Wang Qingchen et al; lack of fluid during ultrahigh-P metamorphism in the Dabie-Sulu region, Eastern China, J.G. Liou et al; granulite facies overprints ecologites - short-lived events deduced from diffusion modelling, P.J. O'Brien; notes on the anatexis of some metamorphic rock types of the Late Archean Fuping Group of northwestern Pingshan, Hebei province, China, Cheng Yupi et al; migmatites and melt migration, M. Brown; dynamic models for origin of the migmatites with thermal centres in the Dabie Complex, Hubei, Central China, Jiang-Hui Qang et al; evolution of metamorphic belts - a changing view, M. Brown and P.J. O'Brien; high-pressure metamorphism in kyanite-bearing schists from the original Jingangku formation of the Wutaishan, Kaiyi Wang et al; metamorphism in Palaezoic forearc basin sequences, southern New England Fold Belt, NSW, Australia, R. Offler et al; the metamorphic evidences for post orogenic uplift of the Tongbai-Dabie tectonic belt, Central China, Zhengdong You et al. Part 3 Precambrian rock associations and mineral deposits: origin of anorthosites - relation to subduction at an early Proterozoic continental margin in central Australia, W.J. Sivell and M.Y. McCulloch; greenstone hosted gold deposits in China - types, regional distribution and metallogenic aspects, Baofeng Shen et al. (Part contents)