This is the first volume in the English language to cover the entire range of the geology of Thailand since the joint Thai-US account by Brown et al. exactly 60 years ago. Over this period there has been a phenomenal growth in interest in this core area of SE Asia. This has been led by geologists in Thailand, but with important and highly significant input from geologists based elsewhere in Asia and in Europe, Australasia and North America. Some of that research was prompted by commercial considerations, since Thailand has important energy and mineral resources, while other research has sought to understand better the stratigraphic and structural history, including the plate-tectonic story which Thailands rocks reveal. This new volume seeks to bring together all of this knowledge into a single accessible book; it is the work of an international team drawn from Thailand, Japan, Australia, USA, Canada, Germany and the UK.
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The book is well structured, a dealing with the major stratigraphic units in the logical order, followed by sedimentary mineral resources (petroleum, coal), then igneous rocks, and metalliferous minerals. It is intriguing to see chapters on regional geophysics and tectonic evolution at the end of the book; but there is constant reference beforehand to the structural framework that has shaped this country's fascinating geology. So, the narrative sequence works. Highlights include the illustrations, which stir the imagination. --Reviwed by David Manning - Review featured in Geoscientist, Vol 22.2 March 2012
Numerous excellent figures and a long list of references at the end of each chapter make this book a standalone monograph for the next decades to all people who are interested in several geoscientific aspects of Thailand and even for SE Asia. --Review by Thomas Hofmann
Review featured in Jahrbuch Der Geologischen Bundesanstalt Dec 2012
