Transactions (Doklady) of the Russian Academy of Sciences/Earth Science Section, 2004, V 396, N 4, May-June.

Part 1. Geology

New Data on the Structure and Hydrocarbon
Potential of the Mezen Basin 
S. V. Aplonov, B. A. Lebedev, and 
N. V. Timoshenkova 
p. 469  

The Late Visean–Serpukhovian Stage of Reef
Formation in Russia and Adjacent Countries 
V. G. Kuznetsov and A. I. Antoshkina 
p. 474  

Evidence of Paleotsunami in the Early Holocene
Lake Kunda (Southern Coast of the Finnish Bay) 
A. A. Nikonov 
p. 477  

Explosive Origin of Ore-Bearing Cataclasites
in the Albitite–Uranium Deposits 
of the Central Ukrainian Shield 
N. N. Tarasov 
p. 481  

Formation Dynamics of the Middle Riphean
Riftogenic Structure 
(Western Slope of the Southern Urals) 
S. G. Kovalev
p. 484  

The First Finds of Larval Shells in Ordovician Orthids 
A. A. Madison 
p. 488  

Early Paleozoic Granitoid Batholiths of the Altai–Sayan
Folded Region (Lateral–Temporal Zoning and Sources) 
S. N. Rudnev, A. G. Vladimirov, V. A. Ponomarchuk, 
N. N. Kruk, G. A. Babin, and S. M. Borisov 
p. 492  

Intricately Dislocated Carbonaceous Rocks on the
Western Slope of the Southern Urals 
S. G. Kovalev 
p. 496  

Part 2. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Oceanology, Geography 

Growth, Structural–Morphological Features, and Some
Properties of Quartz–Germanium Oxide Solid Solution
Monocrystals with Quartz Structure 
V. S. Balitsky, D. V. Balitsky, A. N. Nekrasov, L. V. Balitskaya, 
G. V. Bondarenko, and O. L. Samokhvalova 
p. 500  

Clinopyroxene–Olivine–Ilmenite Megacryst Assemblage 
in Kimberlite from the Udachnaya Pipe 
S. I. Kostrovitskii, Z. V. Spetsius, N. V. Alymova, and 
L. F. Suvorova 
p. 504  

Platinum–Palladium Mineralization in Chromite Ores 
from Ultrabasic Rocks of the Western Sayan Region 
M. Yu. Podlipsky, A. P. Krivenko, and G. V. Polyakov 
p. 508  

New Data on Thermal Flow in the Central Part of the
Kola Peninsula 
V. N. Glaznev, I. T. Kukkonen, A. B. Raevskii, 
and J. Jokinen 
p. 512  

The Zerkaly Chondritic Meteorite 
L. V. Agafonov, S. M. Kuznetsov, and L. N. Pospelova 
p. 515  

The X-Ray Study and Thermal Analysis of Amphiboles 
A. S. Batyrmurzaev, A. G. Alibekov, and A. A. Bekieva 
p. 519  

Fluorine Migration Forms in Acid Drainage Waters
of Tungsten Deposits 
in the Eastern Transbaikal Region 
L. V. Zamana and M. B. Bukaty 
p. 522  

The Rb–Sr Geochronology and Isotopic Geochemistry
of Ore-Hosting Rocks and Wall-Rock Metasomatites
of the Mesothermal Taloveis Gold Deposit, Western Karelia 
Yu. O. Larionova, A. V. Samsonov, and A. A. Nosova 
p. 525  

Duration of Young (Pliocene) Intrusive Magmatism 
in the Tyrnyauz Ore Field, Northern Caucasus: 
New K–Ar and Rb–Sr Data 
V. A. Lebedev, I. V. Chernyshev, A. V. Chugaev, 
and M. M. Arakelyants 
p. 529  

Satellite Altimetry Potentialities in the Study
of the Gravity Field 
N. V. Drobyshev, L. K. Zheleznyak, V. V. Klevtsov, 
V. N. Koneshov, and V. N. Solov’ev 
p. 534  

The Age of Mammoth Fauna on the Lower Ob 
V. I. Astakhov, Kh. A. Arslanov, and D. V. Nazarov 
p. 538  

The Mixed Genetic Scheme of Natural Hydrocarbon
Synthesis: A Principle Model 
A. A. Abidov and F. G. Dolgopolov 
p. 543  

The Ultramafic–Mafic Section of the Southern
Block of the Volkov Pluton (Central Urals): 
New Data on the Composition of Au–Pd 
Mineralization 
E. V. Anikina, I. A. Rusin, V. V. Knauf, G. Garuti, 
F. Zaccarini, E. V. Pushkarev, and 
S. Ya. Bersenev 
p. 546  

Association of Simple (1T, 3R) and Complex
Six-Layer Lizardite Polytypes 
in the Katoka Kimberlite Pipe, Angola 
A. P. Zhukhlistov, D. D. Kotel’nikov, 
and N. N. Zinchuk
p. 551 

Ore Traps in the Magmatic Sulfide Formation 
A. I. Malyshev 
p. 556  

Dynamics of the Radioactive Pollution 
of Bottom Sediments of the Barents,
White, and Azov Seas 
D. G. Matishov, G. G. Matishov, N. E. Kasatkina, 
and I. S. Usyagina 
p. 560  

Metasomatic Formation of Poikilitic Crystals: 
Experimental Modeling 
A. E. Glikin and M. Yu. Sinai 
p. 563  

Zircon Geochronology of the Aleksandrov 
Metamorphic Complex, Southern Urals 
A. A. Krasnobaev and N. V. Cherednichenko
p. 567  

Abundance of Water and Trace Elements in the 
Ongonite Melt of the Ary-Bulak Massif, 
Eastern Transbaikal Region: Evidence 
from Study of Melt Inclusions 
V. A. Kuznetsov, I. A. Andreeva, V. I. Kovalenko,
V. S. Antipin, and N. N. Kononkova 
p. 571  

Metallogenic and Biogeochemical Systematics 
of Transition Metals 
A. A. Marakushev and S. A. Marakushev
p. 577  

Dynamics of Crystallization, Immiscibility, 
and Boiling Fronts at the Upper Contacts 
of Flat Intrusive Bodies 
A. N. Cherepanov, V. K. Cherepanova, and
V. N. Sharapov 
p. 582  

Self-Organization of Tornado and Hurricanes
in Atmospheric Currents with Meso-Scale Eddies 
S. A. Arsenyev, A. Yu. Gubar, and V. N. Nikolayevskiy 
p. 588