Transactions (Doklady) of the Russian Academy of Sciences/Earth Science Section, 2000, V 372, N 4, May-June.

Part 1. Geology

Southwestern Shelf of the Laptev Sea and Tectonic Nature of Its Basement
V. A. Vinogradov and S. S. Drachev 
p. 601  

Pneumatolytic-Hydrothermal Activity on Flanks
of Hydrothermal-Active Segments of the East Pacific Rise, 13° N
M. P. Davydov 
p. 604  

Age and Geodynamic Setting of the Kuznetsk Alatau Ophiolites
A. V. Plotnikov, S. I. Stupakov, G. A. Babin, A. G. Vladimirov,
and V. A. Simonov 
p. 608  

Palynology, Chronology, and Fine Structure of the Geomagnetic Field
of Holocene Sediments in the Southern Part of Western Siberia
S. A. Arkhipov, V. S. Volkova, Z. N. Gnibidenko, and L. A. Orlova
p. 613  

Finds of Upper Devonian Fossils in the Southeasternmost Part of the West
Siberian Plate: Evidence from Deep Drilling Data on the Vezdekhodnaya Area,
 Tomsk District
E. A. Elkin, S. A. Anastasieva, N. K. Bakharev, O. I. Bogush, V.
A. Luchinina, and G. I. Tanygin 
p. 617  

Late Cenozoic Depressions in the Kuril-Kamchatka Region:
Promising Oil- and Gas-Bearing Basins
V. A. Ermakov and G. S. Shteinberg 
p. 620  

Isotope Age of the Middle-Upper Riphean Boundary:
Pb-Pb Geochronology of the Lakhanda Group Carbonates, Eastern Siberia
M. A. Semikhatov, G. V. Ovchinnikova, I. M. Gorokhov, A. B.
Kuznetsov, I. M. Vasil'eva, B. M. Gorokhovskii, and V. N. Podkovyrov 
p. 625  

Vendian Sediments on the Western Enisei Ridge
Yu. K. Sovetov, V. V. Blagovidov, V. A. Luchinina, and A. I.
Romashko p. 630  

Development of Geometric Modeling in the Study of Geological Objects
I. V. Istratov 
p. 633  

The First Find of Fossil Flora in Permian-Triassic Boundary Layers
of the Moscow Syneclise
V. A. Krasilov, V. R. Lozovskii, S. A. Afonin, and I. A. Morkovin
p. 636  

Pyropes and Chromites from Kimberlites in the Nakyn Field (Yakutia)
and Snipe Lake District (Slave River Region, Canada):
Evidence for Anomalous Structure of the Lithosphere
N. P. Pokhilenko, N. V. Sobolev, S. D. Chernyi, and Yu. T.Yanygin 
p. 638  

Thermal Regime Variations in the Jurassic Marine Basin of the 
East European Platform at the Callovian/Oxfordian Boundary: Evidence 
from Stable Isotopes in Belemnite Rostra
I. S. Barskov and S. I. Kiyashko 
p. 643  

New Data on Late Mesozoic Strike-Slip Deformations in Sedimentary Cover
of the Northern Sector of the West Siberian Plate
S. L. Belyakov, G. E. Bondarenko, V. V. Ivanyuk, and A. V.
Smirnov 
p. 646  

Rhythmic Zoning of Cave Calcite (Popcorn) from Hungary: Statistic
Characteristics
N. A. Bryksina, Yu. V. Dublyansky, N. M. Halden, J. L. Campbell,
and W. J. Teesdale 
p. 650  

Granulomorphology: the Problem of Asymmetrical Shapes
Yu. L. Voitekhovskii 
p. 654  

Geodynamics of the Lesser Kuril Paleoisland Arc: Geochronological and
Petrochemical Data
G. I. Govorov 
p. 657  

Precambrian Complexes in the Fold Structure of the Far Eastern 
Margin of Asia
V. M. Grannik 
p. 661  

Divisibility of the Earth's Crust in the Verkhoyansk-Chukot Fold Region
V. M. Kuznetsov 
p. 665  


Part 2. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Oceanology, Geography


Graphite Eclogite from the Maksyutovo Metamorphic Complex, Southern Urals
A. A. Alekseev and G. V. Alekseeva 
p. 669  

Age and Origin of the Il'menskie Gory Sequence (Il'meny Mountains, the
Southern Urals): Evidence from Zircon Study
A. A. Krasnobaev and V. A. Davydov 
p. 672  

Trace and Rare Earth Elements in Mafic Granulites of the 
Kokchetav Massif, Kazakhstan
V. V. Reverdatto, Yu. P. Kolmogorov, and V. S. Parkhomenko 
p. 678

Recent Dynamics of the Baikal Rift Zone: Compression
and Subsequent Tension Episodes in 1992-1996
P. G. Dyad'kov, V. I. Mel'nikova, V. A. San'kov, L. A. Nazarov,
L. A. Nazarova, and V. Yu. Timofeev 
p. 682  

Anomalies of Gravimetric Tides
A. V. Kopaev 
p. 686  

An Effective Model of the Layered Elastic-Porous Medium
L. A. Molotkov and A. V. Bakulin 
p. 690  

Specific Features of [Image]Nd Distribution in Riftogenic Igneous Rocks
E. A. Landa and B. A. Markovskii 
p. 695  

The Burakov Layered Pluton, Southern Karelia: Petrological
and Isotope Geochemical Evidence for the Juxtaposition of Two Intrusions
A. V. Chistyakov, O. A. Bogatikov, T. L. Grokhovskaya, E. V.Sharkov,
B. V. Belyatskii, and G. V. Ovchinnikova 
p. 698  

Specific Features of Lunar Tidal Seismicity
S. I. Aleksandrov, I. N. Galkin, A. G. Gamburtsev, and O. V.
Oleinik 
p. 705  

The Green Function for the Elastic Half-Space with a 
Curvilinear Boundary
V. P. Dzyuba and A. M. Zapolsky 
p. 709  

Specific Features of the Dilatancy Boundary Layer Formation
in Multilayer Half-Space with a Deep Cavity
A. A. Lyapin and A. L. Sobisevich 
p. 712  

Teleseismic Tomography of the Baikal Rift Lithosphere
V. V. Mordvinova, L. P. Vinnik, G. L. Kosarev, S. I. Oreshin, and
A. V. Treusov 
p. 716  

Origin of the Sulfate Composition of Nitric Thermal Waters 
in the Baikal Rift Zone
L. V. Zamana 
p. 721  

Geochemical and Mineralogical Correlation of Kimberlites from 
Timan and Zimnii Bereg
V. A. Kononova, V. A. Pervov, and I. P. Ilupin 
p. 724  

Thermodynamics of the Apatite-Group Minerals
A. A. Marakushev and T. A. Stolyarova 
p. 728  

Sm-Nd Isotope System in Lower Crustal Rocks of the Southern 
Pekul'nei Ridge (Late Mesozoides of Chukotka)
G. E. Nekrasov and D. Z. Zhuravlev 
p. 732  

Typomorphism of Talc from Apoultramafic Metasomatites of the Urals
E. M. Spiridonov, V. I. Zhernakov, I. A. Baksheev, and D. N. Savina 
p. 737  

The Existence of Toroidal Magnetic Field in Currentless Region Near the
Spherical Source
V. V. Aksenov 
p. 740  

Climatic Changes in the F2 Layer of the Ionosphere
M. G. Deminov, A. V. Garbatsevich, and R. G. Deminov 
p. 742

Tensosensitivity of Seismic Wave Velocities in the 
Earth's Crust
L. A. Morozova and M. V. Nevskii 
p. 745  

Gyres in the Southern Ocean
M. A. Chepurina 
p. 748  

New Data on Paleoseismic Dislocations within the Barguzin 
Fault Zone, Baikal Rift System
A. V. Chipizubov, R. M. Semenov, S. G. Arzhannikov, and O. P.
Smekalin 
p. 751  

Population Dynamics as a Process Obeying the Nonlinear 
Diffusion Equation
A. A. Koronovskii, D. I. Trubetskov, and A.E. Khramov 
p. 755

The Find of Natural Soda Alum in the Lower Volga Region
Yu. V. Van'shin 
p. 759  

Unusual Association of Li-F- and Alkaline Granitoids
in the Soktui Massif, Eastern Transbaikal Region: 
Age and Magma Sources
V. I. Kovalenko, E. B. Sal'nikova, V. S. Antipin,
V. V. Yarmolyuk, V. P. Kovach, and A. B. Kotov 
p. 762  

Balance of Anthropogenic Passive Pollutants in the Russian Arctic
Atmosphere during the Spring-Summer Period
A. A. Vinogradova and T. Ya. Ponomareva 
p. 767  

Specific Features of the Recurrence of Tropical Cyclones versus 
Their Energy
G. S. Golitsyn and M. I. Yaroshevich 
p. 770  

Two Conditions for the Rayleigh System Order Reduction
A. N. Kuznetsov and V. M. Markushevich 
p. 773  


Errata


MAIK Nauka apologizes for errors made in the paper "The Crustal Thermal
Structure ..." by M.V. Mints
(Doklady Earth Sciences, 1999, vol. 369, no. 8, 
pp. 1054-1057).