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CONTENTS INDEX - NCGT NEWSLETTER

Number	Category	Author(s)	Title	Page
No. 55, June, 2010	Announcement	M.I. Bhat, M. Ramasarma and B. Longhinos	NCGT Workshop in India, 2011 – Earth Dynamics. Perceptions and deadlocks	2
	Letters to the Editor	E. Orkan	Israeli Association of Global Warming Fight	3
	Essay	K. Storetvedt	Falling plate tectonics – rising new paradigm: salient historical facts and the current situation	4
	Articles	F. Tsunoda	Habits of earthquakes. Part 3: Earthquake corridors in the Japanese Islands	35
		D.R. Choi	Global seismic synchronicity	66
	Short notes	J.C. Pratsch	Gulf of Mexico Basin – A collapsed Late Carboniferous mantle dome?	74
	Geopolitical Corner	M.I. Bhat	IPCC Chief mellows for bail out package	77
	Publications	A. Bapat	Disaster management plans in view of recent earthquakes	78
		D. Baioni and F.C. Wezel	Morphology and origin of an evaporitic dome in the eastern Tihonium Chasma, Mars	81
		J.M. Herndon	Impact of recent discoveries on petroleum and natural gas exploration	81
	News	Y. Akamatsu	NCGT Japan group report	82
No. 54, Mar., 2010	From the Editor		More earthquakes, more dead: Why can’t we predict earthquakes?	2
	Letters to the Editor	K.M. Storetvedt	The Caribbean case: Agitation of ingrained views	3
		P. James	Earthquake prediction	9
		V. Straser	Chilean earthquake on February 27, 2010	12
	Articles	R.F. Cherkasov	The Earth: The beginning and the end of active geologic evolution	14
		D.R. Choi	Tectonic significance of the 29 September 2009 Samoa earthquake	23
		D.R. Choi	The January 2010 Haiti seismic disaster viewed from the perspective of the energy transmigration concept and block tectonics	36
		F. Tsunoda	Habits of earthquakes: Part 2. Earthquake corridors in East Asia	45
		V. Straser	Twin earthquakes and planetary configurations: Height of planets used for earthquake prediction	57
		N.C. Smoot	The chicken or the egg: The Ogasawara Plateau or the Izu-Bonin Trench	65
	Geopolitical Corner	M.I. Bhat	With cons accruing, pro news for IPCC and its models	73
	Publications	Z. Shou	Precursory earthquake vapour clouds of the Haiti and Chile earthquakes	76
		Z. Shou	Using the earthquake vapour theory to explain the French airbus crash	77
		C. Ollier	Glaciers- science and nonsense	78
		P.D. Lowman	Earthquake distribution viewed from the north and south poles	79
No. 53, Dec., 2009	From the Editor		Lessons from the Samoan earthquakes and tsunamis in September 2009	2
	Letters to the Editor	K.M. Storetvedt and Alan Hayman		3
	Articles	T. Yano, D.R. Choi, A.A. Gavrilov, S. Miyagi and B.I. Vasiliev	Ancient and continental rocks from the Atlantic Ocean	4
		F. Tsunoda	Habits of earthquakes: Part 1 Mechanisms of earthquakes and lateral thermal seismic energy transmigration	38
		V. Straser	Luminous phenomena in the atmosphere: signs of uplift of the Earth’s crust? The “lights” in Taro Valley (Italy) and Hessdalen (Norway)	47
		G.P. Gregori	The Earth’s interior – myth and science	57
	Geopolitical Corner: Global warming	M.I. Bhat	Climate quacks are out to fix you and your progeny	82
		M.I. Bhat	Is IPCC Chief ignorant or conveniently silent?	82
		N.-A. Mörner	Open letter to President Mohamed Nasheed of the Maldives	84
		V. Gray	The ocean is heated from below	86
	Comments and replies	K. Wilson and C. Smoot	Earth expansionists view	89
	News	Leo Maslov	Third Russian national Scientific Conference: Earth’s inner core - 2009	93
			NCGT session at IGC34, Brisbane, 2012	93
			NCGT website traffic report	93
	Publications	K. James, M.A. Lorente and J. Pindell	The origin and evolution of the Caribbean plate	94
		K. James and M.A. Lorente	Pacific origin paradigm of the Caribbean plate questioned	94
		K.M. Storetvedt	Caribbean evolution – a new account	94
		G.G. Kochemasov	Geometric tectonic regularities in the eastern hemisphere of Earth	95
		ElectricQuakes	Sun bolts shake the Earth	96
No. 52, Sep., 2009	From the Editor		Earthquakes and their prediction	2
	Letters to the Editor	K. M. Storetvedt	Facts about the Earth and the search for a functional global theory	3
		C. Smoot	North Atlantic cruse observations	6
		V. Straser	Luminous phenomena as earthquake precursors	6
		G. Vetten, T. Heidemann and M. Levin		8
	Articles	P. James	Geoid Tectonics: Chapter 6, Some major geological processes	10
		S.M. Tabunov, Yu. I. Tomanovskaya and G.N. Staritsina	Rock assemblages from the Pacific Ocean bedrock in the Clarion-Clipperton Fault region	19
		M. Hanada and M. Hoshino	Origin of the world’s deepest bays	30
		L. Galetskiy	“Getrans” – a planetary geodynamic system of transcontinental core-concentrating activation megazones	40
	Comments and replies	V. Straser and P. James	A “jackpot” for the forecast of earthquakes	51
	Book review	Dong Choi	Tsunoda, F., “Habits of earthquakes”	52
	Publications	V.V. Orlenok	Reduction of the radius and heat losses within the Earth and other planets in light of recent data	56
		Suzuki, Y. and Research Group of Deep Structure of the Island Arcs	On the ring-like arrangement of faults accompanied by shallow and deep earthquakes in central Honshu, Japan (Part 1)	56
No. 51, Jun., 2009	From the Editor		Proposal for an international multidisciplinary project: paleogeography of the world oceans	2
	Letters to the Editor	F.-C. Wezel; V. Straser	April 6, 2009 L’Aquila earthquake, Italy	3
	Articles	V. Straser	A “Jackpot” for the forecast of earthquakes: the seismic swarm in the north-western Apennines, December 2008	4
		Y. Suzuki and Research Group of Deep Structure of Island Arcs	The minute investigation of seismicity beneath the Japanese islands and surrounding regions	14
		L.A.G. Hissink	The Earth in an electric solar system	23
		C. Ollier	Sea level in the Southwest Pacific is stable	35
		P. M. James	Geoid tectonics: Chapter 5. Deformation and failure of the crust	41
		G.G. Kochemasov	A regular row of planetary relief ranges connected with tectonic granulations of celestial bodies	58
	Geopolitical Corner	IGC33 Local Organizing Committee; STT-09 session conveners; IUGS President	Ideological suppression at theIGC33 Oslo (2)	62
	Publications	T. Yano, A.A. Gavrilov, S. Miyagi and B.I. Vasiliev	Ancient and continental rocks in the atlantic	65
		V.P. Melnikov and J.J. Smurlsky	Astronomical theory of ice ages: New approximations, solutions and challenges	66
No. 50, Mar., 2009	From the Editor		We have come a long way and made great achievements	2
	Letters to the Editor	C. Laing, R. Boulay, V. Straser and V.V. Orlenok		3
	Articles
		P. James	Geoid tectonics, Chapter 4. State of stress in the Earth’s crust	8
		V. Mueller	Does cosmological expansion exist in smaller scale?	18
		G.G. Kochemasov	On universal tectonic trends of rotating celestial bodies (supertectonics)	23
		L.A. Maslov	Stress distribution in continental margins and intraplate seismicity	35
		D.R. Choi and N. Pavlenkova	Geology and tectonic development o the Pacific Ocean. Part 5. Global low-gravity belt: an outer ring of the Great Pacific Ring Structure	46
	Geopolitical Corner	Open Letter to IUGS; Reply from the President of IUGS	Ideological suppression at the 33 IGC	55
	33IGC Oslo NCGT session paper abstracts			57
	Publications	V. Raiverman	Trans-Asiatic lineaments and Himalayan Orogeny	70
		I.V. Florinsky	Global lineaments: Application of digital terrain modelling	71
		L.P. Karsakov et al.	Tectonics, deep structure, metallogeny of the Central Asian-Pacific belt junction area	71
		T. Yano	Distribution of ancient continental rocks in the Atlantic Ocean	72
		V.V. Orlenok	Global volcanism and the Earth oceanization	73
	Obituary	C. Grover, S. Grover and J. McRoberts	John Grover	78
No. 49, Dec., 2008	From the Editor		Changing tide is irreversible	2
	Letters to the Editor	C. Pratch and P. James	Basic intrusives of great age in the Pacific and the Atlantic Oceans; Freedom in scientific thought	2
	Articles
		D. Baioni and F.C. Wezel	Similarities of a martian dome with terrestrial salt domes	4
		A. Gavrilov	Some paradoxes of plate-tectonic palaeogedynamic models and reconstructions (Russian Southeast)	19
		V. Straser	300-day seismic cycles in the southern segment of the San Andreas Fault, California.	30
		P. James	Geoid tectonics. Chapter 3, General effects of polar wander	54
	NCGT Briefs	P. Binev	Earthquakes and their tsunamis	67
	Publications	G. Guo and B. Wang	Earthquake clouds in Iran	67
	Book review	C. Ollier	David Archibald: Solar Cycle 24	68
No. 48, Sep., 2008		K. Storetvedt	Reflections on the 33^rd Geological Congress	2
	Letters to the Editor	V. Straser and M. Kokus	Planetary alignment and earthquakes	3
	Articles
		P. James	The massive Missoula floods – an alternative rationale	5
		B.I. Vasiliev and D.R. Choi	Geology and tectonic development of the Pacific Ocean. Part 3. Structure and composition of the basement.	23
		D.R. Choi and B.I. Vasiliev	Geology and tectonic development of the Pacific Ocean. Part 4. Geological interpretation of seismic tomography	52
		R.Z. Tarakanov	Seismic focal zone as a system of deep faults	61
	Book Reviews	C. Ollier	Tectonic geomorphology of mountains. A new approach to paleoseismology by William Bull	71
		E.D. Manev	Fallacies in realm of natural sciences by Bencho Binev	72
	NCGT Briefs			74
	News		NCGT Tokyo Symposium. “Ring structures and their geological implication”	76
No. 47, Jun., 2008	From the Editor
	Letters to the Editor	K. Wilson, P. James, C. Pratsch
	Articles	S. Rangarajan	Evidence of igneous diapirism in the northern part of Narmada block, Cambay Basin, Indias	5
		V.G. Kolvankar	Sun induced semi-diurnal stresses on Earth’s surface, which trigger earthquakes and volcanic eruption	12
		G. Scalera	Is large-scale subduction made unlikely by the Mediterranean deep seismicity?	24
		D.R. Choi, R. Rodriguez and B.I. Vasiliev	Geology and tectonic development of the Pacific Ocean. Part 2: Regional structural control on the auriferous Tabar-Feni volcanic arc, Papua New Guinea	31
	Comments and Replies	P. James and V. Straser	Planetary perturbations and twin earthquakes	45
	Publications	I. V. Florinsky	Global lineaments: Application of digital terrain modelling	47
No. 46, Mar., 2008	From the Editor			2
	Letters to Editor	P. James	Earthquakes and Arctic Ocean warming	3
	Articles	E.P. Lelikov, I.B. Tsoy, E.P. Terekhov, V.T. S’edin, N.G. Vashchenkova and A.A. Nabiullin	Geology and dredged rocks from the Sea of Japan floor: Part 2, Photographs of dredged rocks	5
		B.I. Vasiliev and L.N. Sovetnikova	Geological development of the northwestern Pacific	20
		D.R. Choi and B.I. Vasiliev	Geology and tectonic development of the Pacific Ocean: Part 1, Mesozoic basins and deep-seated tectonic zones	28
		V. Straser	Planetary perturbations and ‘Twin earthquakes’: a model for the long-term prediction of earthquakes	35
	Publications	Ellen Sigmond and D. Roberts	Geology of the land and sea areas of Northern Europe	52
	Book review	C.N. Smoot	The map that changed the world: William Smith and the birth of modern geology by Simon Winchester	53
		C. Ollier	Crustal development and sea level by M. Hoshino	54
	News	G. Scalera	European Geosciences Union Annual Meeting, April 2008	59
		K. Storetvedt	33 IGC, Oslo, August 2008	59
		Tom Harris	Manhattan Declaration on Climate Change	60
No.45, Dec., 2007	From the Editor		Oceanic crust is continental; great, timely news for the oil industry!	2
	Letters to the Editor	P. James	Earth expansion @ AAPG	2
		H. De Kalb	Diagonal strain lines	3
	Articles	Lelikov, E.P., Tsoy, I.B., Terekhov, E.P., S’edin, V.T., Vashchenkova, N.G. and Nabiulline, A.A.	Geology and dredged rocks from the Sea of Japan floor: Part 1	5
		N.C. Smoot	Wherefore the Tethys Sea(s)?	21
		Z. Shou	The cloud of the M8.4 Indonesian earthquake on September 12, 2007	31
		J.G.A. Croll	A new hypothesis for Earth lithosphere evolution	34
		C.D. Ollier	Exceptional planets and moons, and theories of the expanding Earth	52
	Publications	Robinson, A.B.	Environmental effects of increased atmospheric carbon dioxide	55
		Suzuki, Y.	Historical review of the study on intermediate and deep earthquakes	57
		Kolvankar, V.G.	Earthquake patterns based on diurnal and semidiurnal electromagnetic field	58
		Kolvankar, V.G.	RF emission, types of earthquake precursors: possibly caused by the planetary alignments	58
	Book review	N.C. Smoot	Lomborg, B., “Cool it”	59
	Conference Reports	S. Tassos and K. Storetvedt	AAPG & AAPG European Region Energy Conference and Exhibition	60
		L. Maslov	American Geophysical Union 2007 Fall Meeting	72
	News		Open Letter to the UN Secretary-General, “Bali Climate Conference”; 33IGC, Oslo, August, 2008; European Geosciences Union Annual Meeting, April, 2008; NCGT website traffic report	78
	Financial support		New subscription fee structure	78
No. 44 Sep., 2007	Financial report		Financial report from March, 2006 to September, 2007	2
	Articles	CR. Twidale	What’s in a name? The discovery of Neotecotnics	3
		N.C. Smoot	NW Pacific seamount/trench interaction	8
		V. Straser	Precursory luminous phenomena used for earthquake prediction – The Taro Valley, northwestern Apennines, Italy	18
		H. De Kalb	Diagonal strain lines	33
	Short notes	C. Blot and D.R. Choi	The Great September 12, 2007 Southern Sumatra Earthquakes, as predicted by the seismic energy transmigration concept, Part 1	38
		G.G. Kochemasov	Plato’s polyhedra as shapes of small satellite in the outer solar system	43
	Comments and replies	L. Maslov and F. De Kalb	Global shear deformation	46
		P.M. James	Earthquake activity and bushfires	47
		S. Shou	Earthquake vapour clouds	50
	Publications		M.R. Edwards, 2007. Photon-graviton recycling as cause of gravitation R.P. Lelikov, et al., 2006. Geology and basic types of rocks of the Sea of Japan floor	53
	Book review	N.C. Smoot	Ages in chaos: James Hutton and the discovery of deep time by Stephen Baxter	54
		C. Ollier	The greatest lie ever told by N.A. Mörner	55
	Conference report	Y. Suzuki, A.A. Gavrilov and B.I. Vassiliev	Report of Vladivostok Workshop	57
	News		AAPG Athens and IGC33	61
No. 43 June, 2007	From the Editor

New Concepts in Global Tectonics

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