The Academy of the Socialist Republic of Romania, in co-operation with the
Ministry of Geology, organized the XIIIth Symposium of Earth's Physics and
Applied Geophysics and the IInd National Exhibition of instruments in the corresponding
fields between 14 and 16 March1985.
In the opening session, after the greeting speech pronounced by acad. Radu
Voinea, President of the Academy of the Socialist Republic of Romania, acad.
Sabba Stefanescu, President of the Romanian National Committee of Geodesy and
Geophysics and dr. Ioan Folea, Minister of Geology underlined in their speeches
the significance of the Symposium and wished it all the success.
The sessions of the Symposium, chaired by members and corresponding members
of the Academy, were held in three sections:
First Section: Geophysical investigations for energy resources and engineering
geophysics (chairman professor Radu Botezatu, corresponding member of the Academy);
Second Section: Geophysical investigations for solid mineral substances (chairman
acad. Sabba Stefanescu),
Third Section: Earth's Physics and Geodesy researches (chairman professor Liviu
Constantinescu, corresponding member of the Academy).
In order to give the interested specialists the possibility to become acquainted
with the main directions of development of the scientific researches in the
fields of Earth's physics and applied geophysics, the abstracts of papers and
short presentations of the instruments on display are given in the following,
each abstract being accompanied by the keywords for a better outlining of the
area of interest.