SEABED NEWS serving the marine community worldwide Editors: Alan Stevenson (BGS) agst@bgs.ac.uk Guy Rothwell (SOC) rgr@soc.soton.ac.uk Heather Stewart (BGS) hast@bgs.ac.uk June issue number 5 2003 Welcome  to  the  new  edition  of  ‘seabed  news’.   The  magazine  features  news,  scientific  studies, cruise  notices,  project  news,  advertisements  of conferences   and   notices   of   workshops.      The magazine  welcomes  submission  of  any  of  the above items, providing the information submitted has a sedimentary theme. The Millennium Atlas: petroleum geology of the central and northern North Sea. A major new publication. Dan Evans, Colin Graham and Heather Stewart (British Geological Survey, Murchison House, Edinburgh) The   Atlas   describes   the   geology   for   the   UK (largely   Scottish   if   you   will),   Norwegian   and Danish sectors of the central and northern North Sea (Figure 1), with a slant towards the petroleum aspects. This is the first attempt to describe the geology  of  the  North  Sea  Basin  across  these national boundaries, and is a consequence of the co-operation of the Geological Society of London, the    Norwegian    Petroleum    Society    and    the Geological  Survey  of  Denmark  and  Greenland (GEUS). These organisations together formed the not-for-profit  Millennium  Atlas  Company  Limited (MACL) with the sole purpose of producing and distributing the Atlas. The Atlas is in full-colour A2 format with about 400 pages, so that it will weigh about 9 kilograms. For those not feeling too strong it will also be available in CD-Rom format. It will have 458 Figures (many of  them  comprising  multiple  diagrams),  a  list  of about  1600  references,  and  each  chapter  will have an appropriate full-page frontispiece image. An example of a diagram is shown in Figure 2, but remember that full colour will be used throughout the Atlas itself. The idea for producing such an Atlas came from Paul    Bathurst    of    Exploration    Geosciences Limited,  a  small  consultancy  company  that  has worked extensively in western Canada where they had found a major atlas to be invaluable for their oil-exploration   work.   Paul   considered   that   the In This Issue The Millennium Atlas: petroleum geology of the central and northern North Sea. A major new publication. STRATAGEM Atlas of the Neogene of the glaciated European margin Exciting landscapes in the Big Deep MAREANO moving north Meeting place for geologists and biologists A new "must" map for marine and offshore geologists Whats on? Calendar of events Figure 1. The area covered by the Millennium Atlas is shaded. The Atlas does not cover the southern North Sea and the area west of production of a comparable atlas would be a good Shetland is also excluded. way to mark the Millennium at a time when | Next page