Transactions (Doklady) of the Russian Academy of Sciences/Earth Science Section, 2012, V 446, N 2, October.

Part 1. Geology  
Igneous Rocks in the Collisional 
Suture of Central Sakhalin  
V. M. Grannik 
p. 1139   
  
High-Siderophile Elements (Platinum Group and Re), 
187Os/188Os Isotopic Data 
on Volcanic Glasses from the Elgygytgyn 
Crater (Central Chukotka, Russia), and Their Origin  
V. G. Sakhno and R. Sh. Krymskii 
p. 1143   
  
A Calciosolenia brasiliensis (Coccolithophorida) 
Find in Neogene Sediments 
of a Deep Black Sea Basin and Its 
Connection with the Mediterranean  
A. S. Alekseev, V. M. Sorokin, 
V. N. Sokolov, and P. N. Kuprin 
p. 1148   
  
Geological Position, Geochemistry, and 
Geodynamic Formation Environments 
of Late Givetian-Early Frasnian 
Basalts in the Central Gornyi Altai Region  
N. N. Kruk and N. V. Sennikov 
p. 1151   
  
Late Riphean Microbial Colonies Adapted
to Desiccating Environments  
D. V. Grazhdankin, Yu. Yu. Goy, 
and A. V. Maslov 
p. 1157   
  
The Chelkar Peridotite?Gabbronorite 
Pluton (Kokchetav Massif, Northern Kazakhstan): 
Formation Type and Geochronology  
K. E. Degtyarev, A. A. Tret'yakov, A. B. Kotov, 
E. B. Sal?nikova, K. N. Shatagin, 
S. Z. Yakovleva, I. V. Anisimova, 
and Yu. V. Plotkina 
p. 1162   
  
Oriented Goethite Inclusions in Metamorphic 
Garnet of Alumina Gneisses
of the Orekhovo-Pavlograd Zone 
(Ukrainian Shield, Vasil'kovka Village Area)  
A. V. Yurchenko, Sh. K. Baltybaev, 
M. V. Morozov, and O. L. Galankina 
p. 1167   

Part 2. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Oceanology, Geography  
 
  The Upper and Lower Age Boundaries of the Middle 
Riphean (Ti-Fe-V) Intrusions of the Kusinsko-Kopanskii 
Complex in the South Urals: U-Pb Dating of Zircons
from the Medvedevskoe Deposi  
V. V. Kholodnov and E. S. Shagalov 
p. 1171   
  
The Van Earthquake on October 23, 2011: 
Natural and Technogenic Causes  
E. V. Arkhipova, A. D. Zhigalin, 
L. I. Morozova, and A. V. Nikolaev 
p. 1176   
  
Stabilization of the Planetary Climate 
in the Twenty-First Century by Transition 
to a New Paradigm of Energy Consumption  
A. A. Akaev 
p. 1180   
  
Assessment of Impact from the Fukushima 
Nuclear Plant Accidental Emission 
on Western Arctic Seas (Barents Sea Case Study)  
G. G. Matishov, G. V. Il?in, N. E. Kasatkina, 
I. S. Usyagina, and E. V. Pavel'skaya 
p. 1185   
  
Discovery Gap: The Terminal Point of 
Antarctic Bottom Water Spreading  
E. G. Morozov and R. Yu. Tarakanov 
p. 1190   
  
Micro- and Nanostructures of Carbon 
in Pt-Low-Sulfide Ores 
of the Talnakh Deposit (Siberian Platform)  
V. V. Ryabov, V. A. Ponomarchuk, A. T. Titov, 
and D. V. Semenova 
p. 1193   
  
Evolution and Radiation Effects of the 
Extreme Smoke Pollution over the European Part 
of Russia in the Summer of 2010  
S. A. Sitnov, G. I. Gorchakov, 
M. A. Sviridenkov, and A. V. Karpov 
p. 1197   
  
Evolution of Tere-Khol Lake and the 
Holocene Dynamics of the Environment 
in the Southeastern Part of the Sayan-Tuva Highland  
A. V. Panin, M. A. Bronnikova, O. N. Uspenskaya, 
I. A. Arzhantseva, E. A. Konstantinov, 
A. V. Koshurnikov, E. V. Selezneva, 
Yu. N. Fuzeina, and E. D. Sheremetskaya 
p. 1204   
  
Abyssal Cataracts in the Romanche and Chain Fracture Zones  
E. G. Morozov, R. Yu. Tarakanov, 
V. Yu. Lyapidevskii, and N. I. Makarenko 
p. 1211   
  
Nonconventional Types of Noble-, Rare-Metal, 
and Rare-Earth Mineralization 
in Coal-Bearing Basins in the Far East  
A. P. Sorokin, V. A. Chanturiya, V. I. Rozhdestvina, 
V. M. Kuzminykh, and S. M. Zhmodik 
p. 1215   
  
Propagation of Oceanic Plates through the 
Boundary between the Upper and Lower Mantle  
V. P. Trubitsyn 
p. 1220   
  
Thermodynamic and Convective Properties 
of Baikal Waters in the Region of Maximum Depths 
of Lake Baikal Based on Observations 
from the Manned Submersible MIR-2 
during the Period of the Spring Thermal Bar  
P. P. Sherstyankin, V. A. Fialkov, E. S. Chernyaev, 
A. M. Sagalevich, V. G. Ivanov, L. N. Kuimova, 
and A. G. Kichigin 
p. 1223   
  
Subinertial Motions over the Northeastern 
Shelf of the Black Sea  
G. G. Matishov and Yu. I. Inzhebeikin 
p. 1229