摘要
The International Geological Map of Europe and Adjacent Areas （IGME 5000） is a major European geological GIS project being managed and implemented by the German Geological Survey （Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources, BGR） under the umbrella of the Commission for the Geological Map of the World （CGMW）. It is a collaborative European project that to date involves 48 Geological Surveys and is supported by a network of scientific advisors. The original aims of the project have now been achieved： to develop a Geographic Information System （GIS） containing up-to-date harmonised lithological and geochronological data of Europe, and to print a geological map （Figure 1） of the preQuaternary on-shore and, for the first time at this scale, off-shore areas of Europe （see Asch, 2003, for a full account.）
