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This book results from the Integrated Basin Studies Project (IBS), which ran during 1992–1995 with the support of the European Commission DGXII. Several papers have been added to the ones resulting directly from IBS, in order to offer the reader a more comprehensive overview of Western Europe’s Cenozoic foreland basins. I warmly thank the authors for their much appreciated contribution.
Two other books resulting from IBS will be published in the near future by the Geological Society, completing a series of three books devoted to field studies of European Basins: one will be on the Mediterranean extensional basins within the Alpine orogen and the other will be on the Norwegian rifted margin.
A series of papers on compaction of fine-grained sediments, which was also an important theme of the IBS project, has been accepted for publication in Marine and Petroleum Geology.
The IBS project was born at a meeting held in Strasbourg in June 1989 on the initiative of Hubert Curien, former French Minister for Research and Technology. The meeting was aimed at defining promising new avenues of research in Geosciences. It was said that, one such avenue would be research on sedimentary basins, not only for its intrinsic scientific interest, but also because it is upstream of strategic economic activities, such as the oil and gas industry, the management of water resources and the storage of wastes. Also, most human activities take place at the surface of sedimentary basins. These activities are developing exponentially, resulting in a rapid growth
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