The teens of Team Triassic who came together in book 1 now have a state-of-the-art training facility in Dr. Robertson’s $25 million laboratory on Lone Mountain. There they train for battles against rogue dinos, and some undergo dino DNA upgrades in the lab. It’s all just in time as Centennial High School suffers a deadly attack from enormous rogue dino hybrids, an attack that calls on every team member to limit the carnage and help the wounded. In book 2, we meet twins Xander and Sebastian while we learn more about Nick, the team, Dr. Lingard, and Daniel, who faces an unexpected departure and a mystery threat at the tree house. Hmm . . . who’s back in Las Vegas?

Team Triassic . . . Beginnings, the first in a six-book series, introduces Daniel Robertson and his friends, who appear to be “normal” preteen Las Vegas kids going about their normal lives. But appearances can be deceiving. These kids are genetic hybrids who can morph into dinosaurs! In Book 1, Daniel and his friends find their developing morphing abilities mostly a source of playful fun. But then Daniel’s unique dino-hybrid is drawn into a deadly battle with a rogue dino-hybrid bent on destruction and death at the kids’ middle school. When Daniel is gravely injured in this clash of titans, his friends must step up, training to apply their own dino-hybrid abilities and strengths to defend their city as Team Triassic.

Hendrix (geology, U. of Montana) and Davis (earth sciences, U. of Southern California) present 19 articles detailing ground-based work on the history of assembly and intracontinental deformation of central and eastern Asia. Chapters look at the structural, thermochronologic, and sedimentary records of the history of Paleozoic assembly in Mongolia and central and western China. Further information is presented on Mesozoic deformation in orogenic belts of central and eastern Asia. Asia's sedimentary basins are examined and the intracontinental deformation they record is documented. Many of these contributions, particularly the papers examining Mongolian geology, are the first ground-based articles written in English. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Geological Formation Names of China (1866—2000) is the only catalogue on stratigraphic nomenclature for China in the world to keep two writing types (Wade-Giles Romanization and Chinese Phonetic Alphabet) so as to provide convenience for domestic and overseas readers. The catalogue is intended for specialists and graduates in Geosciences and Stratigraphy. Shouxin Zhang (1927 —2006) was stratigrapher and research professor at the Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences.