Geology of Europe

2nd International Workshop "Neogene of Central and South Eastern Europe" - Kapfenstein (Styria, Austria), 17 - 21. May 2007
4th International Workshop on the Neogene from the Central and South-Eastern Europe - Banska Bystrica (Slovakia), September 12-16, 2011
5th International Workshop on the Neogene from the Central and South-Eastern Europe - Varna (Bulgaria), May 16-20 2013
Alpine-Carpathian-Dinaridic orogenic system: Correlation and evolution of tectonic units
Alpine evolution and hydrocarbon geology of the Pannonian Basin: an overview
Alpine plate kinematics revisited: The Adria problem
An introduction to the structural geology of the western Alps
Anorogenic Cenozoic Volcanism in the Carpathian-Pannonian Region: Mineralogy, Petrology, Geochemistry, Petrogenetic modelling
Astrochronology of the Mediterranean Miocene: Linking palaeoenvironmental changes to gateway dynamics
Atlas of the present-day geodynamics of the Pannonian basin
Carpathian-Balkan Geological Association
Carpathian Geodata - International Conference
Comparison of lithology and tectonometamorphic evolution of units at the northern margin of the Moldanubian Zone: implications for geodynamic evolution in the northeastern part of the Bohemian Massif
Comprehensive interpretation of gravity and magnetic anomalies in Carpathian–Pannonian Region
Connections Between Sedimentary Basins During Continental Collision - How Tectonic, Surface and Sedimentary Processes Shaped the Paratethys
Crustal structure in the Carpatho-Pannonian region: Insights from three-dimensional gravity modelling and their geodynamic significance
DANREG - Danube Region Environmental Geology Programme
Deformation of the Pannonian lithosphere and related tectonic topography: a depth-to-surface analysis
Devonian-Carboniferous pre-flysch and flysch environments in the Circum Pannonian Region
Direct intercalibration of radio-isotopic and astronomical time in the Mediterranean Neogene
Divergent Continental Margins of the Jurassic Proto-Pannonian Basin: Implications for the Petroleum Systems of the Vienna Basin and the Moesian Platform
Dynamics and stress field of the Eurasian plate: A combined lithosphere-mantle approach
Euro-Ages - European Accredited Geological Study Programmes
EuroGeoSurveys - organisation of 33 European Geological Surveys
European Federation of Geologists
Evolution of the Mesozoic basins on the southwestern edge of the East European Craton (Poland, Ukraine, Moldova, Romania)
Evolution of the western Black Sea: Kinematic and sedimentological inferences from geological observations and analogue modelling
Extensional Collapse of the Alpine Orogene and Hydrocarbon Prospects in the Basement and Basement Fill of the Western Pannonian Basin
First International Workshop - "Mesozoic Sediments of Carpatho-Balkanides and Dinarides"
Forum of the European Geological Surveys Directors - an unformal group which is supposed to provide the Directors with an unofficial platform for exchanging the ideas on the status of the national geological surveys
Geodynamic Evolution of the Lithosphere and Upper Mantle Beneath the Alboran Region of the Western Mediterranean - Constraints from Travel Time Tomography
GEODE Alpine-Balkan-Carpathian-Dinarides Project
Geodynamic evolution of the orogen: the West Carpathian and Ouachitas case study
Geological Processes in the Mediterranean and Black Seas and North East Atlantic
Geology and Hydrocarbon Systems in the Western Black Sea
Geology of the Alps - Gallery of Józef Wieczorek - An Independent Geologist
Geology of the Caucasus: A Review
Geology of Europe - Gallery of Józef Wieczorek - An Independent Geologist
Great Caucasus (Cavcasioni): A Long-lived North-Tethyan Back-Arc Basin
IGCP Project No.369 - Comparative Evolution of PeriTethyan Rift Basins
IGME 5000 International Geological Map of Europe and Adjacent Areas
Improved geophysical image of the Carpathian-Pannonian Basin Region
Jurassic Evolution of the Tectonostratigraphic Units of the Circum-Pannonian Region
Kinematic reconstruction of the Mediterranean region since the Triassic
Laminated sediments as archives of short timescale climate change and palaeoceanography of the Mediterranean
Late Carboniferous-Neogene geodynamic evolution and paleogeography of the circum-Carpathian region and adjacent areas
Late Variscan (Carboniferous to Permian) environments in the Circum Pannonian Region
LGCA Laboratoire de géodynamique des chaînes alpines (UJF)
Lithospheric structure of Central Europe: Puzzle pieces from Pannonian Basin to Trans-European Suture Zone resolved by geophysical-petrological modeling
Long-period orbital climate forcing. Cyclostratigraphic studies of Cenozoic continental and marine successions in Europe
Metamorphic Map and Database of Carpatho-Balkan-Dinaride Area
Messinian salinity crisis: chronology and paleoenvironment in the (circum-) Mediterranean area
Middle Miocene climate transition in the Central Mediterranean
Neotectonics and surface processes: the Pannonian Basin and Alpine/Carpathian System
NorFa - The Nordic Network on the Transition from Orogenic to Anorogenic Magmatism in the Fennoscandian shield
Oligocene-Middle Miocene depositional sequences of the Central Paratethys and their correlation with regional stages
OneGeology-Europe- aims to create dynamic digital geological map data for Europe
Palaeoceanography of the Miocene Mediterranean Sea and Paratethys: Regional ocean modelling of the response to closure of the Tethys Seaway
Paleogene–early Miocene igneous rocks and geodynamics of the Alpine-Carpathian-Pannonian-Dinaric region: An integrated approach
Paleomagnetic and geochronologic constraints on the geodynamic evolution of the Central Dinarides
Paleomagnetic and geochronologic constraints on the Miocene evolution of semi-isolated basins in southeastern Europe
Pre-Alpide Palaeozoic and Mesozoic orogenic events in the Eastern Mediterranean region
Pre-Jurassic Basement of the Greater Caucasus: Brief Overview
Present-day stress field in the Pannonian Basin and the surrounding Alpine-Carpathian-Dinaric orogens
ProGEO - European Association for the Conservation of the Geological Heritage
RCMNS Interim Colloquium - Paratethys-Mediterranean Interactions: Environmental Crises during the Neogene (Bucharest, Romania, 27th-30th of September 2012)
Reconstruction of the Periadriatic Mesozoic Platforms through reflection seismic profiles and deep exploratory wells
Regional Committee on Mediterranean Neogene Stratigraphy
Resolving the Variscan evolution of the Moldanubian sector of the Bohemian Massif: the significance of the Bavarian and the Moravo-Moldanubian tectonometamorphic phases
South-Western Boundary of Central Paratethys
Structure of the Alps
Tectonostratigraphic terrane and palaeoenvironment maps of the Circum-Pannonian region (in Hungarian)
Tethyan evolution of the Black Sea region since the Paleozoic: a paleomagnetic approach
The isolation of the Pannonian basin (Central Paratethys): New constraints from magnetostratigraphy and biostratigraphy
Triassic Evolution of the Tectonostratigraphic Units of the Circum-Pannonian Region
Variscan and Alpine terranes of the Circum-Pannonian region
XX Congress of the Carpathian Balkan Geological Association (Tirana, Albania 24-26 September 2014)
XXVa Jornadas de la Sociedad española de Paleontología (Ronda (Malaga) 24 - 26 September 2009) - Annual Meeting of the Spanish Palaeontological Society
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National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, Institute of Geological Sciences

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Great Britain

British Geological Survey
The BGS Geoscience Data Index (GDI)
British Antarctic Survey
A geological fence diagram for England and Wales
A lithostratigraphical framework for onshore Quaternary and Neogene (Tertiary) superficial deposits of Great Britain and the Isle of Man
A lithostratigraphical framework for the Carboniferous successions of southern Great Britain (onshore)
A new Quaternary and Neogene lithostratigraphical framework for Great Britain and the Isle of Man
About Pembrokeshire - Geology
An overview of the lithostratigraphical framework for the Quaternary deposits on the United Kingdom continental shelf
BGS classification of lithodemic units: a classification of onshore Phanerozoic intrusions in the UK
British Fossil Fauna and Flora
Congleton Geology
Craven and Pendle Geological Society
Crustal Structure of the British Isles and its Epeirogenic Consequences
Devonian and Permian fossils from the Falkland Islands in the biostratigraphy collection of the British Geological Survey
Discovering Fossils.co.uk - education resource dedicated to British Fossils, Fossil Collecting Locations and the Geology of the UK
East Midlands Geological Society
Edinburgh Geological Society
Field Geology of the Yorkshire coast - The North Sea basin exposed on land
Fossils - Charmouth and Stonebarrow, Dorset
Fossils of the Gault Clay and Folkestone Beds of Kent
Fossils of the lower cretaceous Albian (Gault Clay and Folkestone Beds) in the county of Kent
Geological mapping of the Late Cretaceous Chalk Group of southern England: a specialised application of landform interpretation
Geological Society of Glasgow
Geological Society of London
Geology in Cornwall
Geology of the Durness Region, N.W. Scotland
Geology of Easdale
Geology of East Yorkshire
Geology of London, UK
Geology of Northamptonshire - England's Jurassic County
John Mason's Homepage - Geology, Minerals, Climatics & Poetics from Machynlleth in Mid-Wales
North Eastern Geological Society
North Staffordshire Group Geologists' Association
Peak District
Petroleum Systems of the Scotian Basin
Revealing deep structural influences on the Upper Cretaceous Chalk of East Anglia (UK) through inter-regional geophysical log correlations
Sheppey Fossils - site is dedicated to the Lower Eocene (Ypresian) marine fauna of the London clay of the north coastal section of the Isle of Sheppey Kent UK and covers all the main fossil groups found there
Shropshire Geological Society
Southampton Mineral and Fossil Society
Stratigraphical framework for the Middle Jurassic strata of Great Britain and the adjoining continental shelf
Stratigraphical framework for the Ordovician and Silurian sedimentary strata of northern England and the Isle of Man
Stratigraphical framework for the Palaeogene successions of the London Basin, UK
United Kingdom Minerals Yearbook 2011 : statistical data to 2010
Ward Lock illustrated guide to the Isle of Wight
Westmorland Geological Society
Yorkshire Geological Society

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State Geological Survey of Latvia (SGSL)

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Lithuanian Institute of Geology

Macedonia

Correlation of the lithostratigraphic profiles in the Paleogene basins in the Republic of Macedonia

Evolution of the Neogene-Pleistocene Basins of Macedonia

Foraminifers And Nannofossils From Upper Flysch Lithozone In The Tikveš Paleogene Basin, Republic Of Macedonia

Foraminifers in Paleogene sediments at Crna Skala in the Delcevo Basin, Republic of Macedonia

Geo-Database Model of the Republic of Macedonia

Geophysical Aspects of the Geotectonic Processes in the Vardar Zone and the Eastern Macedonian Zone

Main characteristic of gold in some deposits and occurrences related to Tertiary magmatism in Republic Macedonia

Minerals From Macedonia. XII. The Dependence of Quartz and Opal Color on Trace Element Composition - AAS, FT IR and Micro-Raman Spectroscopy Study

Minerals From Macedonia. XX. Geological Setting, Lithologies, and Identification of the Minerals from Rzanovo Fe-Ni Deposit

New data on the magmatism and the magmatic fluids of the Kozuf volcanic massif, Macedonia

Small foraminifers from the Paleogene basins in the Republic of Macedonia

Tectonics Evolution of the Paleogene Basins in the Republic of Macedonia

Temporal evolution of the Cenozoic magmatism in WSW Bulgaria and SE Macedonia; crustal thickness control on zircon populations and whole-rock 87Sr/86Sri – 143Nd/144Ndi ratios

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Books about European Geology

	Geological History of Britain and Ireland Britain, Ireland, and their surrounding areas have a varied geology. This text tells the geological story of the region, with full coverage of the Precambrian and Early Palaezoic periods, as well as later events.
	The Geology of England and Wales This second edition of The Geology of England and Wales is considerably expanded from its predecessor, reflecting the increase in our knowledge of the region, and particularly of the offshore areas. Forty specialists have contributed to 18 chapters, which cover a time range from 700 million years ago to 200 million years into the future. A new format places all the chapters in approximately temporal order. Both offshore and economic geology now form an integral part of appropriate chapters. Most of England and Wales is formed from part of a single terrane, Avalonia, and its pre-Cambrian (Neoproterozoic) history is preserved in patches. However the time intervals from the Cambrian to the present day are well represented in our sequences and the Cambrian, Ordovician, Silurian and Devonian systems were all defined here. William Smith’s map of England and Wales was the world’s first geological map of a country and the British Geological Survey’s copy is reproduced in the introductory chapter. This chapter, by the editors, consists of a broad overview aimed particularly at the non-specialist while guiding the reader towards the appropriate succeeding chapters. The volume concludes with a look at the future, from the short-term effects of climate change and sea-level rise to the position of our region in a possible plate tectonic configuration 200 million years hence. While the authors have taken a ‘dynamic’ view of the evolution of the area over geological time, they have also ensured that the geological evidence on which the interpretations are based is reviewed thoroughly. Hence the volume provides a valuable resource for both Earth scientists and the broader community.
	Tectonic Aspects of the Alpine-Dinaride-Carpathian System The Alps, Carpathians and Dinarides form a complex, highly curved and strongly coupled orogenic system. Motions of the European and Adriatic plates gave birth to a number of 'oceans' and microplates that led to several distinct stages of collision. Although the Alps serve as a classical example of collisional orogens, it becomes clearer that substantial questions on their evolution can only be answered in the Carpathians and Dinarides. Our understanding of the geodynamic evolution of the Alpine-Dinaride-Carpathian System has substantially improved and will continue to develop; this is thanks to collaboration between eastern and western Europe, but also due to the application of new methods and the launch of research initiatives. The largely field-based contributions investigate the following subjects: pre-Alpine heritage and Alpine reactivation; Mesozoic palaeogeography and Alpine subduction and collision processes; extrusion tectonics from the Eastern Alps to the Carpathians and the Pannonian Basin; orogen-parallel and orogen-perpendicular extension; record of orogeny in foreland basins; tectonometamorphic evolution; and relations between the Alps, Apennines and Corsica.
	CROP Project, Volume 1: Deep Seismic Exploration of the Central Mediterranean and Italy This book presents and discusses new data ranging from Alps to Africa, obtained by the CROP PROJECT (transcrustal seismic exploration of the Mediterranean and Italy). New lithospheric imagings of relevant importance for understanding disputed topics are provided. Alps, Apennines, Calabrian Arc, Sicilian Apennine, Maghrebian Chain, Corso-Sardinian Block, paleo-basins (Ionian, Alpine Tethys), neo-basins (Balearic and Tyrrhenian) are innovatively reconstructed.
	Permo-carboniferous Magmatism And Rifting in Europe Widespread extension occurred within the Variscan orogen and its northern foreland during Late Carboniferous to Early Permian times. This was associated with magmatism and with a fundamental change, at the Westphalian-Stephanian boundary, in the regional stress field, coincident with the termination of orogenic activity and onset of dextral translation between North Africa and Europe. Rifting propagated across basement terranes with different ages and thermal histories. Most of the rift basins developed on relatively thin lithosphere; however, the highly magmatic Oslo Graben initiated within the edge of a craton. Early Stephanian regional uplift is contemporaneous with the onset of magmatism, inviting speculation that it might have been induced by a thermal anomaly within the upper mantle. The contributions to this volume suggest that the geodynamic setting in which magmatism occurred was complex, involving wrench tectonics, slab detachment, and delamination or thermal erosion of the base of the lithosphere.
	The Geology of Spain This book provides the first comprehensive account in English of the geology of mainland Spain and the Balearic and Canary Islands. It has been written by 159 research-active, mostly Spanish authors working together in teams from over 20 universities and other centres of research excellence. The 19 chapters begin with an overview of Spanish geology prepared by the editors, followed by a detailed examination of Iberian Precambrian and Palaeozoic rocks in Spain, Variscan magmatism and tectonics, and the Mesozoic and Cenozoic sedimentary and fossil record. Subsequent chapters deal with the Alpine orogeny in the Pyrenees, Betics and other mountain ranges of Spain and the Balearic Islands, and with Cenozoic magmatism, including the classic hot spot-related volcanism of the Canary Islands. The final chapter focuses on economic and environmental geology, emphasising metallic deposits and industrial minerals, hydrocarbon energy resources, water supply, and modern seismic hazard. Finally a bibliography of around 4000 references provide a uniquely valuable information source. Encompassing subjects as diverse as the origin of Spanish granites, the palaeogeographic and tectonometamorphic history of the Iberian plate, human evolution in the SW Mediterranean, and modern volcanism and earthquake activity, The Geology of Spain is a key reference work suitable not only for libraries across the world, but of interest to all researchers, teachers and students of SW European geology.
	Sequence Stratigraphy on the Northwest European Margin This is a beautifully-presented collection of conference papers with a considerable number of effective illustrations in colour, including fold-out cross sections. Apart from contributing significantly to the geology of the North Sea and Greenland regions, it provides a good introduction to sequence stratigraphy and its uses in petroleum exploration and development.
	Russian-Style Formation Evaluation The fall of the Soviet Union and the subsequent opening of its borders to western oil companies have seen the search for oil turn increasingly to the 'east'. The London Petrophysical Society, chapter of the SPWLA, decided to create this formation evaluation manual specifically to help explorationists and geoscientists who have been brought up on a diet of high-quality, abundant North Sea data, to understand and interpret 'Russian-Style' logs. In addition to the Soviet Union, these logs were run in every country which was under the Soviet sphere of influence. Consolidates current western experience of gathering and analysing exploration data from the Former Soviet Union Provides many rules of thumb to get quickly to the right answer Overviews other related disciplines: drilling, testing, coring, regional stratigraphy Includes Rw database Gives an understanding of Soviet philosophy of the oil industry and how this impacts on operating practice and data quality Case studies show how western ideas and technology can be married with Soviet capability to provide an enhanced result.
	Geological Atlas of Western and Central Europe In this completely revised edition of the Atlas the geological evolution of Europe is discussed in a broad plate tectonic framework on the basis of 26 palaeogeographic maps (late Silurian to Mid-Pliocene) supported by 9 tectonic and geological maps, 7 isopach maps and 9 stratigraphic correlation charts. The Atlas is based on data gathered by the Shell Group of Companies, in the course of their exploration efforts in the onshore and offshore sedimentary basins of Western and Central Europe, and on published literature. Far from being a reprint of the original Atlas published in 1982, this new edition contains 56 enclosures compared with 40 in the first edition. The text has been completely rewritten and the number of text figures has increased from 29 to 100. Peter Ziegler has taken the opportunity to summarize in the new edition his studies on the evolution of the Arctic-North Atlantic rift system, the Western Tethys and Laurussia, in an effort to place the geoloigical evolution of Western and Central Europe in a global-tectonic framework.
	Encyclopedia of European and Asian Regional Geology Joe McCall in the Geoscientist, 8:9 `The book should be in standard use for practicing and research geologists, teachers and students. It would also profit civil servants and officials holding posts in environmental and nature resources departments'
	Dynamics of Complex Intracontinental Basins: The Central European Basin System Sedimentary basins host, among others, most of our energy and fresh-water resources: they can be regarded as large geo-reactors in which many physical and chemical processes interact. Their complexity can only be well understood in well-organized interdisciplinary co-operations. This book documents how researchers from different geo-scientific disciplines have jointly analysed the structural, thermal, and sedimentary evolution as well as fluid dynamics of a complex sedimentary basin system which has experienced a variety of activation and reactivation impulses as well as intense salt tectonics. In this book we have summarized our geological, geophysical and geochemical understanding of some of the most important processes affecting sedimentary basins in general and our view on the evolution of one of the largest, best explored and most complex continental sedimentary basins on Earth: The Central European Basin System.
	Permo-carboniferous Magmatism And Rifting in Europe Widespread extension occurred within the Variscan orogen and its northern foreland during Late Carboniferous to Early Permian times. This was associated with magmatism and with a fundamental change, at the Westphalian–Stephanian boundary, in the regional stress field, coincident with the termination of orogenic activity and onset of dextral translation between North Africa and Europe. Rifting propagated across basement terranes with different ages and thermal histories. Most of the rift basins developed on relatively thin lithosphere; however, the highly magmatic Oslo Graben initiated within the edge of a craton. Early Stephanian regional uplift is contemporaneous with the onset of magmatism, inviting speculation that it might have been induced by a thermal anomaly within the upper mantle. The contributions to this volume suggest that the geodynamic setting in which magmatism occurred was complex, involving wrench tectonics, slab detachment, and delamination or thermal erosion of the base of the lithosphere.
	Neotectonics and Quaternary Fault-reactivation in Europe's Intraplate Lithosphere The EU funded interdisciplinary Environmental Tectonics research program ENTEC has led to new insights into the strength distribution of Europe's intraplate lithosphere, and its relationship with the localization of intraplate deformation and associated vertical motions. Pronounced lateral variations in Europe's intraplate strength occur, as a result of recent thermal perturbation in the underlying mantle and inherited inhomogeneity in lithospheric structures, as a result of Europe's polyphase pre-Quaternary evolution. Results are presented from quantitative subsidence analysis studies, and constraints by geothermochronology, pointing to pronounced acceleration in differential vertical motions and associated topography development in intraplate Europe. These results demonstrate the vulnerability of Europe's lithosphere to neotectonic activity documented by detailed studies in the three natural laboratories of the ENTEC program: (1) the Lower Rhine Graben (LRG), (2) the Upper Rhine Graben (URG), and (3) the Vienna Basin (VB).
	The Geology of Britain: An Introduction This text covers the geological history of Britain, starting over 2000 million years ago and continuing up to the 20th century. It covers fundamental geological principles, and 13 chapters describe the rocks, minerals and fossils of the recognized geological time periods.
	The Mediterranean Basins: Tertiary Extension Within the Alpine Orogen The coexistence in space and time of growing mountain belts and actively extending basins poses a number of yet unsolved questions in terms of mechanics. This problem is particularly crucial in the Mediterranean regions, where all Cenozoic basins opened in the internal zones of mountain belts. The Tyrrhenian Sea opened in the back-arc region of the Apennines, the Aegean Sea in the back-arc domain of the Hellenides and Hellenic arc, the Pannonian Basin behind the Carpathians and the Alboran Sea between the Betics and the Rif. In some examples such as the Tyrrhenian Sea and the Aegean Sea, extension is ongoing while peripheral compression and convergence are active. The Alboran Sea and Pannonian Basin are now in a compression stage.Several models have been proposed to explain this coexistence of compression and extension: slab retreat during subduction process, detachments of a deep lithospheric root under the internal zones leading to radial extension and peripheral compression and slab detachments. This volume brings together contributions from geologists and geophysicists in the quest to solve the complex dynamic problem posed by the Mediterranean region. It presents a wealth of new data on various topics centred on the Mediterranean region from the deep mantle structure to the detailed geometry of sedimentary basins.This book results for the Integrated Basins Studies Project, which was funded by the European Commission and which involved the collaboration of over 200 researchers across Europe. A sister volume has been published - Cenozoic Foreland Basins of Western Europe.
	The Geodynamics of the Aegean and Anatolia The complexity of plate interactions and associated crustal deformation in the Eastern Mediterranean region is reflected by the numerous destructive earthquakes that have occurred throughout its history. Many of these have been well documented and studied. In addition, the Aegean region provides examples of core-complex formation, synchronous basin evolution and subsequent graben formation and continental extensional deformation following orogenic contraction. It is therefore considered to be a perfect natural laboratory for the study of these mechanisms. The region has been the subject of intensive research for several decades. This book contains current results and ideas regarding the geodynamics of the Aegean and Anatolia. It will be essential reading for all geoscientists with an interest in the structural evolution of the Eastern Mediterranean.
	Paleomagnetism and Tectonics of the Mediterranean Region The Mediterranean Region represents a complex mosaic of continental, microcontinental and ophiolitic terranes, whose overall evolution has been controlled by relative movements between the African and Eurasian plates. Covers the full width of the Mediterranean basin and presents results from Permian to Quaternary rocks, providing a snap-shot of the current state of palaeomagnetic research in the Mediterranean region.

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