Transactions (Doklady) of the Russian Academy of Sciences/Earth Science Section, 2012, V 446, N 1, September.

Part 1. Geology  
 
The Age of the Last Episode of the Precambrian
Regional Metamorphic Event
in South Ulutau (Central Kazakhstan): 
Results of U-Pb Geochronological Studies of Granites
from the Aktas Complex  
A. A. Tretyakov, K. E. Degtyarev, A. B. Kotov, 
E. B. Sal?nikova, K. N. Shatagin, 
E. F. Letnikova, S. Z. Yakovleva, 
and I. V. Anisimova 
p. 1037   
  
Chronology of Isolation of the Solovetskii 
Archipelago Lakes and Current Rates 
of Lake Sedimentation  
D. A. Subetto, V. P. Shevchenko, 
A. V. Ludikova, D. D. Kuznetsov, T. V. Sapelko, 
A. P. Lisitsyn, V. Ya. Evzerov, P. van Beek, 
M. Souhaut, and G. D. Subetto 
p. 1042   
  
Position of Zoned Pt-Bearing Alkali-Ultrabasic 
Plutons in the Southeast of Russia 
According to the Seismic Tomography Data  
V. G. Khomich and N. G. Boriskina 
p. 1049   
  
The Age of Kondyor Massif Dunites 
(Aldan Province, Russia): 
First U-Pb Isotopic Data  
K. N. Malitch, A. A. Efimov, 
and I. Yu. Badanina 
p. 1054  

Paleobiocoenoses in the Middle-Upper 
Riphean Stratotype of the Southern Urals  
A. M. Stanevich, V. I. Kozlov', V. N. Puchkov, 
T. A. Kornilova, and N. D. Sergeeva 
p. 1059   
 
Part 2. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Oceanology, Geography  
 
Coulsonite in the Pyrrhotite Canyon Deposit 
(Kola Peninsula): The First Find in Russia  
S. M. Karpov, A. V. Voloshin, Ye. E. Savchenko, 
E. A. Selivanova, and Yu. S. Polekhovskii 
p. 1064   
  
Isotope Composition of Organic and Carbonate 
Carbon of Surface Horizons of Bottom Sediments 
in the Area of the Shtokmanovskoe Deposit and Pockmarks Field
in the Barents Sea  
A. Yu. Lein, I. A. Nemirovskaya, and M. V. Ivanov 
p. 1067  
  
Age and Substance Sources of the Ilmeno-Vishnevogorsky
Alkaline Complex (South Urals): 
Rb-Sr, Sm-Nd, U-Pb, and Lu-Hf Isotope Data  
I. L. Nedosekova and B. V. Belyatsky 
p. 1071   
  
Geochemical Specifics of Two Groups of Different
Ages of Paraautochthonous Charnokites 
of the Nimnyrskii Terrane (Aldan Shield)  
I. S. Sedova, V. A. Glebovitskii, and L. M. Samorukova 
p. 1077   
  
New Data on the Composition and Hafnium 
Isotopes of Zircons from Carbonatites
of the Khibiny Massif  
M. Ghobadi, A. Gerdes, L. N. Kogarko, and G. Brey 
p. 1083   
  
Economic Optimization of Specifications 
for Geoecological Monitoring Systems  
A. L. Kurakin and L. I. Lobkovsky 
p. 1086   
  
El Ni-o as a Consequence of the Global Oscillation in the Dynamics 
of the Earth's Climatic System  
V. I. Byshev, V. G. Neiman, Yu. A. Romanov, 
and I. V. Serykh 
p. 1089   
  
Contemporary Glacier Systems of Continental Eurasia  
V. M. Kotlyakov, Xie Zichu, T. E. Khromova, 
N. M. Zverkova, and L. P. Chernova 
p. 1095   
  
Physicochemical Conditions of Seasonal Carbonate 
Precipitation in Shira Lake (Khakasia)  
G. A. Tret'yakov, I. A. Kalugin, A. V. Dar'in, 
D. Yu. Rogozin, and A. G. Degermendzhi 
p. 1099   
  
Study of the Anomalous Magnetic Field Structure 
in the Ural Region Using Parallel Algorithms  
P. S. Martyshko, N. V. Fedorova, and D. V. Gemaidinov 
p. 1102   
  
Isotopic and Palynological Compositions of 
a Massive Ice in the Mordyyakha River, 
Central Yamal Peninsula  
Yu. K. Vasil'chuk, A. C. Vasil'chuk, 
and N. A. Budantseva 
p. 1105   
  
Forecast of Geoecological Changes on 
the Bovanenkovo Field, Yamal Peninsula  
V. I. Solomatin and M. A. Konyakhin 
p. 1110   
  
Spectrum of Gas Bubbles and Possibilities 
of Acoustic Spectroscopy
in the Surface Layer of the Ocean  
V. A. Akulichev and V. A. Bulanov 
p. 1112   
  
Numerical Estimates of Mechanical Energy Transfer 
from the Atmosphere to the Indian Ocean  
G. S. Golitsyn, V. G. Polnkov, and 
F. A. Pogarskii 
p. 1116   
  
Nitrogen Dioxide in the North Caucasus 
Atmosphere: 30 Years of Observations  
A. Ya. Arabov, A. N. Borovski, N. F. Elansky, 
A. S. Elokhov, I. A. Senik, and V. V. Savinykh 
p. 1121   
  
Relationship between the bAE-Value and 
Stress under Mixed Mode Loading Conditions  
L. R. Botvina, A. P. Soldatenkov, 
and M. R. Tyutin 
p. 1127   
  
The Degradation of Submarine Permafrost 
and the Destruction of Hydrates
on the Shelf of East Arctic Seas as a 
Potential Cause of the "Methane Catastrophe": 
Some Results of Integrated Studies in 2011  
V. I. Sergienko, L. I. Lobkovskii, I. P. Semiletov, 
O. V. Dudarev, N. N. Dmitrievskii, 
N. E. Shakhova, N. N. Romanovskii, 
D. A. Kosmach, D. N. Nikol'skii, S. L. Nikiforov, 
A. S. Salomatin, R. A. Anan?ev, A. G. Roslyakov, 
A. N. Salyuk, V. V. Karnaukh, D. B. Chernykh, 
V. E. Tumskoi, V. I. Yusupov, A. V. Kurilenko, 
E. M. Chuvilin, and B. A. Bukhanov 
p. 1132