Publications

A new edition of the partially annotated 'Bibliography of the geology of Indonesia and surrounding areas' is now available and will be accessible online at www.vangorselslist.com. The bibliography has grown from 700 pages with about 7,700 titles in the first edition (Bibliography of Indonesia Geology Literature, Proc. 33rd Ann. Convention IPA 2009, 730p.) to 1100 pages with over 11,700 titles, with significant additional annotations and corrections.Like the first edition, this is a traditional bibliography, with papers listed alphabetically by region or by subject. It aims to be a complete list of all publications (not including meeting abstracts) relevant to the geology of Indonesia. It includes papers published between 1850 and 2011. Focus is on regional geology, tectonics, structure, stratigraphy, biostratigraphy, paleontology, sedimentology, petrography, paleobiogeography and hydrocarbon occurrences. Also included are selected papers from specialized fields, like coal and mineral occurrences, mining, modern volcanoes, earthquakes and tsunamis, Quaternary geology, prehistory and hominid evolution, geothermal, groundwater, petroleum production and engineering, geological and geophysical modeling, economic analyses, tools and methods, etc., but these are not complete listings.The purpose of this ongoing project has been to promote awareness of the vast amount of material published on Indonesia geology and to encourage its use. In our experience searches of existing 'worldwide' geoscience literature data bases like GeoRef, etc., yielded only a fraction of all available papers on Indonesia. Some Indonesia- focused academic and government data bases exist, but are also not comprehensive and generally have access restrictions.Many of the papers listed here are hard to find or have been 'forgotten'. Lack of access to geosciences libraries, foreign language barriers, cost of purchase and time available for reading causes much of this valuable geoscience heritage to be under-utilized. Many of the 'old' papers still contain information that cannot be found elsewhere, or research results that would be difficult to replicate today. This is a reminder to the geoscience community that 'we are standing on strong shoulders' and reading is important. The library contains the results of work by thousands of geologists that spent tens of thousands of men-years and many billions of $$ on survey work and studies! And remember: the most recent paper on a topic is not always the most useful.