Catastrophist Geology

Year 2, No. 2.
Decemher 1977

A magazine dedicated to the study of discontinuities in Earth history

In this issue:

Bone Breccias
Augustus Sordinas, Robert O. van Everdingen, Richard H.Tedford ...
Fossil Cemeteries
V.A. Obruchev
USGS versus Fringe
Johan B.Kloosterman
Earthquake Lights
USGS News Release
Neocatastrophism?
Otto H.Schindewolf
Glaciations, Biologic Crises and Supernovae
L.J. Salop
Galactic Domains, G Fluctuations and Geomagnetic Reversals
Harold Aspden
Articles in other Magazines
Meetings
Apophoreta - 4
Johan B.Kloosterman

Publisher: Johan R.Kloosterman,
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Price for four half-yearly issues is Cr$ 180, in Brazil, uss in,outside Brazil. If desired add US$3, for airmail. Please send money-orders in favour of Catastrophist Geoloqy through Panco Holandes Unido S/A, Caixa Postal 1242-7C-00, Rio de Janeiro.

In forthcoming issues:

René Thom on catastrophe theory and plate tectonics
Pietro Passerini on knowledge and entropy
George Choubert on the transmutation of elements and granite genesis
Albert V.Carozzi on the effect of tornadoes on carbonate rocks
Johan B.Kloosterman on the Tunguska explosion and the concept of actualism
Eugène Wegmann on a glacier lake spill in Greenland
Haroun Tazieff on the formation of guyots
Roger G.Cooper on William Buckland and the Duncombe Park fissure

also forthcoming: A special issue on THE COMING GEOCHEMISTRY

Editorial board:

Johan B.Kloosterman	geologist	Rio de Janeiro
Charles Finkl	pedologist	Fort Lauderdale, USA
Doeko Goosen	pedologist	Enschedé, Holland
Alistair Pitty	geomorphologist	Hull, Great Britain
Peter Gretener	geophysicist	Calgary, Canada
Peter Chadwick	geologist/psychologist	Glasgow, Great Pritain
Pietro Passerini	geologist	Florence, Italy
Albert V.Carozzi	sedimentologist	Urbana, USA

Board of advisors:

V.Axel Firsoff	astronomer	Glastonbury, Great Britain
Horace C.Dudley	physicist	Chicago, USA
Manoel Nunes Pereira	anthropologist	Rio de Janeiro
Roger W.Wescott	linguist/prehistorian	Madison, USA

Correspondents:

Ewoud H.Bon	exploration geologist	Amsterdam
David J.Thomas	palaeontologist	Osweqo, USA
G.W.van Oosterhout	chemist	nelft, Holland
R.n.van Everdinpen	hydrogeologist	Calgary, Canada
C.Eugène Wegmann	geologist	Neuchitel, Switzerland

In evaluating an MS submitted for Duhlication the followinq criteria are used, separately or together:

a) does it study discontinuities in Farth history? b) does it clarify what catastronhist qeoloqy is about? c) does it focus on subJects neglected or tabooed in the main stream geological journals?

Cover:

Photomicrograph of thin section of dunite (nicols //) from the Gardiner intrusion, E. Greenland. Dendritic magnetite within olivine (foresterite). From: Frisch W., Keusen H.¸ 1977. Gardiner intrusion, an ultramafic complex at Kangerdlugssuag, E. Greenland. Grønl. Geol. Unders. Bull. 122, p.14. Scale: |--------------------| = 0.1mm

Euphemistically speaking...

This journal is a low-budget venture (euphemistically speaking), so I have to do most of the dirty work myself: correcting, running to the setter, running to the photographer, correcting again, measuring, cutting, gluing, running to the printer, and then - so help me God! - correcting again. It is a miracle that the journal reaches you at all, so please don't become too impatient when it reaches you a couple of months late (euphemistically speaking).

Han Kloosterman