Doklady Earth Sciences, Vol. 478, No. 2, 2018

Geology

Lower Carboniferous Siderites: A Product of Bottom
Seeps and Bacterial Metanogenesis (Subpolar Urals)
A. I. Antoshkina and N. N. Ryabinkina 
p. 139  

Ranking the Productivity Potential of Ore-Placer
Nodes of the Amur Gold-bearing Province
A. V. Melnikov, Academician V. G. Moiseenko 
and V. A. Stepanov 
p. 143  

The U–Pb System in Schorlomite from Calcite–Amphobole–Pyroxene 
Pegmatite of the Afrikanda Complex (Kola Peninsula)
E. B. Salnikova, M. V. Stifeeva, A. R. Chakhmouradian, 
Corresponding Member of the RAS V. A. Glebovitsky and 
E. P. Reguir 
p. 148  

Pool Structures: A New Type of Interaction Zones of 
Lithospheric Plate Flows
Foreign Member of the RAS R. G. Garetskyi and M. G. Leonov 
p. 152  

Late Carboniferous Monzonite–Granosyenite Magmatism 
in the Northern Balkhash Region (Central Kazakhstan)
P. V. Ermolov, Corresponding Member of the RAS 
K. E. Degtyarev, E. B. Salnikova, A. A. Tretyakov, 
A. B. Kotov, I. V. Anisimova and Yu. V. Plotkina 
p. 156  

N and C Isotopic Compositions of the Lower Triassic 
of Southern Primorye and Reconstruction of Habitat 
Conditions of Marine Organisms after Mass Extinction 
at the End of the Permian
Y. D. Zakharov, M. Horacek, Y. Shigeta, 
A. M. Popov and T. Maekawa 
p. 161  

Features of the Ore Forming Process on the Dvoinoye 
Epithermal Au–Ag Deposit (Western Chukotka)
E. E. Kolova, A. V. Volkov, N. E. Savva, V. Yu. Prokof’ev 
and Corresponding Member of the RAS A. A. Sidorov 
p. 166  

Rift–Related Sediments of the Passive Continental 
Margin of the Paleo-Asian Ocean (Baikal Segment)
A. M. Mazukabzov, A. M. Stanevich, Corresponding 
Member of the RAS D. P. Gladkochub, T. V. Donskaya, 
V. B. Khubanov, Z. L. Motova and T. A. Kornilova 
p. 171  

New Data on the Composition of Cretaceous Volcanic 
Rocks of the Alazeya Plateau, Northeastern Yakutia
N. V. Tsukanov and S. G. Skolotnev 
p. 175  

The First Precise Data on the Age of Charoite 
Mineralization (Eastern Siberia, Russia)
A. V. Ivanov, V. A. Gorovoy, D. P. Gladkochub, 
A. S. Shevelev and N. V. Vladykin 
p. 179  

The Oldest Granites of Russia: Paleoarchean (3343 Ma) 
Subalkali Granites of the Okhotsk Massif
V. K. Kuzmin, E. S. Bogomolov, Corresponding Member 
of the RAS V. A. Glebovitskii and N. V. Rodionov 
p. 183  

Origin of the Early Sial Crust and U–Pb 
Isotope–Geochemical Heterogeneity of the Earth’s Mantle
M. A. Mishkin, A. D. Nozhkin, G. M. Vovna, 
Corresponding Member of the RAS V. G. Sakhno 
and A. A. Veldemar 
p. 190  

Extent of the Middle Cretaceous Orogen in 
Eastern Asia and the Geodynamic Causes of Its Transformation
N. I. Filatova 
p. 194  

The Hirnantian ?13C Positive Excursion in 
the Nabiullino Section (South Urals)
R. R. Yakupov, T. M. Mavrinskaya and 
I. V. Smoleva 
p. 199  

Geochemistry

Cosmogenic Substances in the Zhamanshin Crater
T. A. Gornostaeva, A. V. Mokhov, P. M. Kartashov 
and Academician O. A. Bogatikov 
p. 204  

U–Pb Age and Geochemical Characteristics of 
Ultramafic–Mafic Rocks of the Dzhida Zone 
Ophiolite Association (Southwestern Transbaikalia)
A. L. Elbaev, Corresponding Member of the RAS 
I. V. Gordienko, T. B. Bayanova, D. V. Gorokhovskiy, 
D. A. Orsoev, R. A. Badmatsyrenova and O. V. Zarubina 
p. 208  

Sources of Matter and Ore-Producing Fluid of the 
Tamunyer Gold–Sulfide Deposit (Northern Urals): 
Isotope Results
D. A. Zamyatina and V. V. Murzin 
p. 211  

Nanodiamond Formation at the Lithogenesis and 
Low-Stages of Regional Metamorphism
S. K. Simakov, N. N. Melnik and V. I. Vyalov 
p. 214  

Geophysics

The Density Jump at the Inner Core Boundary 
in the Eastern and Western Hemispheres
D. N. Krasnoshchekov and V. M. Ovtchinnikov 
p. 219  

The Two-Layer Geodynamo Model
M. Yu. Reshetnyak 
p. 224  

Geography

The Influence of Climate Change on the Intensity
of Ice Gouging of the Bottom by Hummocky Formations
S. A. Ogorodov, V. V. Arkhipov, A. V. Baranskaya,
O. V. Kokin and A. O. Romanov 
p. 228  

Geochemistry

Contraction of Spawning Areas in the Baksan River
and Pollution of Superficial Water of Adjacent Territories
S. F. Vinokurov, A. G. Gurbanov, Academician O. A. Bogatikov, 
B. S. Karamurzov, V. M. Gazeev, A. V. Shevchenko, 
V. A. Sychkova, S. M. Dolov and Z. I. Dudarov 
p. 232  

Experimental Study of REEs, Ba, and Sr Interphase 
Partitioning in Fluid–Magmatic Silicate Systems 
at T = 1250°C and P = 2 kbar
N. I. Suk, A. R. Kotelnikov and Corresponding 
Member of the RAS Yu. B. Shapovalov 
p. 237  

Geography

New Data on Vegetation and Climate Reconstruction 
in the Baikal-Patom Highland (Eastern Siberia) 
in the Last Glacial Maximum and Early Holocene
A. Henry, E. V. Bezrukova, A. V. Teten’kin 
and Academician M. I. Kuz’min 
p. 241  

The Long-Term Pattern of Temperature and 
Precipitation in the Southern Urals
D. Yu. Vasil’ev, V. M. Pavleychik, 
Corresponding Member of the RAS V. A. Semenov, 
J. T. Sivohip and Academician A. A. Chibilev 
p. 245  

Geochemistry

A Unique Find of Rhenium-bearing Wolframite
in Ongonites of the Russian Far East
V. I. Alekseev and Corresponding Member
 of the RAS Yu. B. Marin 
p. 250  

The First Results of Study of Hydrocarbon Biomarkers
 and Hydrocarbons of a Diamond-like Structure 
in the Riphean, Vendian, and Lower Cambrian 
Rocks of the Katanga Saddle
G. N. Gordadze, V. Yu. Kerimov, A. V. Gaiduk, 
M. V. Giruts, M. A. Lobusev, S. G. Serov, 
N. B. Kuznetsov and T. V. Romanyuk 
p. 253  

Geophysics

The First Heat Flow Measurements on the 
Novaya Zemlya Archipelago
D. S. Nikitin and M. D. Khutorskoi 
p. 258  

Geography

Evaluation of the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation
Impact on Large-Scale Atmospheric Circulation 
in the Atlantic Region in Summer
Corresponding Member of the RAS V. A. Semenov 
and E. A. Cherenkova 
p. 263  

Oceanology

Aerosols in the Near-Water Surface Layer of the Caspian Sea
Academician A. P. Lisitzin, V. N. Lukashin, A. N. Novigatsky, 
A. A. Klyuvitkin, O. M. Dara and N. V. Politova 
p. 268