Publisher's Synopsis
This collection of short papers constitutes the Proceedings of the first Geologica Belgica International Meeting, held in Leuven in September 2002. The 70 peer reviewed papers are organised according to 7 themes: Active and brittle tectonics; Mesozoic and Caenozoic sedimentary cover; Palaeozoic basin dynamics; Palaeoenvironment: linking data and models; Fluids in geological processes; Hydrogeology and environmental geology; and Engineering geology and geology of construction materials. In each of the themes the papers reflect the wide and rich diversity of the fundamental and applied research in earth sciences currently being performed in Belgium and neighbouring regions. In some of the themes special emphasis is given to the presentation of the current state of the art on a particular subject. This is the case for the palaeoseismological research along the southwestern margin of the Roer Valley Graben System, the litho- and biostratigraphy and tectonometamorphic history of the Brabant Massif, and the role of fluids in deformation, diagenesis and metamorphism in the Variscan orogeny.
