Doklady Earth Sciences, 2017, V 477, N 1.

Geology

The First Find of the Cave Hyena (Crocuta crocuta spelea)
on the Oka Plateau (Eastern Sayan)
N. P. Kalmykov and D. V. Kobylkin 
p. 1247  

Boundary between the Lower and Middle Carboniferous 
in the Eastern Urals: New Isotope–Geochronological Data
G. A. Mizens, T. I. Stepanova, S. A. Dub 
and Corresponding Member of the RAS A. B. Kuznetsov 
p. 1251  

New Type of Gold Mineralization of the Tyrnyauz 
Ore Cluster (Kabardino-Balkar Republic)
S. G. Parada, Yu. V. Popov and V. V. Stolyarov 
p. 1256  

Age of Island-Arc Granites in the Shchuch’ya Zone, 
Polar Urals: First U–Pb (SIMS) Results
V. L. Andreichev, K. V. Kulikova, A. N. Larionov 
and S. A. Sergeev 
p. 1260  

Early Pleistocene Magmatism in the Central 
Part of the Greater Caucasus
V. A. Lebedev, O. Z. Dudauri and Yu. V. Gol’tsman 
p. 1265  

Rb–Sr and 147Sm–143Nd Systematics of Gabbro and 
Dolerites from Fragments of Ophiolite Complexes 
of the Middle Urals
Yu. L. Ronkin, I. V. Semenov and 
Corresponding Member of the RAS V. N. Puchkov 
p. 1270  

Early Paleozoic Tectonics for the New Siberian 
Islands Terrane (Eastern Arctic)
D. V. Metelkin, A. I. Chernova, 
Academician V. A. Vernikovsky and N. Yu. Matushkin 
p. 1277  

The Age of Spitsbergen Basement Consolidation: 
U–Pb Dating of Detrital Zircons from the Upper 
Precambrian and Lower Carboniferous Clastic 
Rocks of the Northwestern Part of Nordenskiold Land
A. N. Sirotkin, Corresponding Member of the RAS 
Yu. B. Marin, N. B. Kuznetsov, G. A. Korobova and 
T. V. Romanyuk 
p. 1282  

New Data on Lineament Control of Modern Centers 
of Methane Degassing in East Asian Seas
R. B. Shakirov, A. I. Obzhirov, A. S. Salomatin 
and M. M. Makarov 
p. 1287  

Geochemistry

Geochemical Typification of Kimberlite and Related
Rocks of the North Anabar Region, Yakutia
A. V. Kargin and Yu. Yu. Golubeva 
p. 1291  

Zircons, Age, and Geological Setting of 
Rhyodacite–Porphyry from the Bagrusha 
Complex (South Urals)
Corresponding Member of the RAS V. N. Puchkov, 
A. A. Krasnobaev, N. D. Sergeeva, S. V. Busharina 
and S. P. Shokalsky 
p. 1295  

Specific Mineral Associations of Hydrothermal Shale (South Kamchatka)
S. N. Rychagov, A. V. Sergeeva and M. S. Chernov 
p. 1301  

Geography

The Connection between the Growth of Anthropogenic 
Carbon Dioxide in the Atmosphere and the Current Climate Warming
N. V. Valukenko, Academician of the RAS 
V. M. Kotlyakov and D. M. Sonechkin 
p. 1307  

Oceanology

Causes of Salinization of the Gulf of Taganrog
Academician G. G. Matishov and K. S. Grigorenko 
p. 1311  

Geochemistry

Biogenic Nanomagnetite in the Lebedinskii Deposit: 
Evidence of Biochemical Processes in the Origin 
of Banded Iron Formation of KMA
Academician N. S. Bortnikov, V. M. Novikov, N. M. Boeva, 
A. P. Zhukhlistov, E. A. Zhegallo and S. V. Soboleva 
p. 1316  

New Data on the Age and Nature of the Khan–Bogd 
Alkaline Granites, Mongolia
A. Gerdes, Academician L. N. Kogarko and N. V. Vladykin 
p. 1320  

Geophysics

Accounting for the Influence of the Earth’s Sphericity
in Three-Dimensional Density Modelling
Corresponding Member of the RAS P. S. Martyshko, 
D. D. Byzov and A. I. Chernoskutov 
p. 1325  

Fragmentation of the “Bag-breakup” Type as a 
Mechanism of the Generation of Sea Spray at 
Strong and Hurricane Winds
Yu. I. Troitskaya, O. S. Ermakova, 
A. A. Kandaurov, D. S. Kozlov, D. A. Sergeev and 
S. S. Zilitinkevich 
p. 1330  

Geography

The Role of Fires in the Holocene Landscape Dynamics
of the Southeastern Part of Meshchera Lowlands
Corresponding Member of the RAS K. N. Dyakonov, 
E. Yu. Novenko, I. V. Mironenko, D. A. Kuprijanov 
and M. V. Bobrovsky 
p. 1336  

Oceanology

Interdecadal Variability in Thermal Structure of 
Water in the Upper Active Layer in the Northwestern Pacific Ocean
V. I. Byshev, A. L. Figurkin and I. M. Anisimov 
p. 1343  

Geochemistry

New Results of U–Pb SHRIMP Dating of Zircons from
Upper Wuchiapingian (Upper Permian) Deposits in 
Northeastern Russia
A. S. Biakov, Corresponding Member of the RAS 
N. A. Goryachev, I. L. Vedernikov, I. V. Brynko 
and E. V. Tolmacheva 
p. 1348  

Dumortierite- and Corundum-Bearing Quartz–Feldspar–Mica 
Rocks of the Belomorian Eclogite Province: 
An Example of Melting of Phengite + Quartz
K. A. Dokukina, A. N. Konilov, K. V. Van and M. V. Mints 
p. 1353  

Zirconology of Rutile Eclogites of the Maksutov 
Complex (Southern Urals)
A. A. Krasnobaev, P. M. Valizer, Corresponding Member 
of the RAS V. N. Anfilogov, E. V. Medvedeva 
and S. V. Busharina 
p. 1358  

The First Data on Breithauptite in Chromitite 
from the Northern Part of the Voykar–Synya 
Ultramafic Massif (Polar Urals)
R. I. Shaibekov, M. M. Gaikovich, S. I. Isaenko 
and S. S. Shevchuk 
p. 1363  

Geophysics

Thermal Structure of Sikhote Alin and Adjacent Areas
Based on Spectral Analysis of the Anomalous Magnetic Field
Corresponding Member of the RAS A. N. Didenko, 
M. Yu. Nosyrev, B. F. Shevchenko and G. Z. Gilmanova 
p. 1368  

Non-Monotonous Dependence of the Ocean Surface Drag 
Coefficient on the Hurricane Wind Speed Due to the 
Fragmentation of the Ocean-Atmosphere Interface
Yu. I. Troitskaya, O. S. Ermakova, A. A. Kandaurov, 
D. S. Kozlov, D. A. Sergeev and S. S. Zilitinkevich 
p. 1373