"Collection of Scientific Works of the Institute of Geological Sciences of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine" concentrates on the results of the scientific studies, which consider fundamental and applied problems of general and regional geology of Ukraine, lithology, marine geology, stratigraphy and paleontology, geology of oil and gas, hydrogeology and engineering geology, geoecology.

The Proceedings is covered the wide range of the modern problems of lithology – from the general issues of the geological studies history, modern research methods, regional geological problems, facial and formation analyses, the theory of lithogenesis, spreading of minerals in sedimentary basins, modern sedimentation, peculiarities of technogenic lithogenesis to the geological terminology.

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