Russian Geology and Geophysics, 2006, V 47, N 1, January.


SPECIAL PUBLICATION
GEODYNAMICS AND PETROLOGY OF THE LITHOSPHERE AND UPPER MANTLE
(to the 70th birthday of Academician NIKOLAI LEONTIEVICH DOBRETSOV)

CONTENTS
* Major scientific , administrative, teaching, and public activities of Academician Nikolai Leontievich Dobretsov 1
TECTONICS, GEODYNAMICS, AND PALEOCLIMATE
* Kuz'min M.I. and Yarmolyuk V.V. Mountain growth and climatic variations in the Earth's history 4 * A.M.C. Sengor Orogenic style, sea level, Sr isotopes and a brief history of the Earth for the last 600 million years 21 * Vernikovsky V.A. and Vernikovskaya A.E. Tectonics and evolution of granitoid magmatism in the Yenisei Ridge 32 * Gordienko I.V. Geodynamic evolution of late Baikalides and Paleozoids in the folded periphery of the Siberian craton 51 * Sklyarov E.V. Exhumation of metamorphic complexes: basic mechanisms 68 * Kirdyashkin A.A., Kirdyashkin A.G., and Surkov N.V. Thermal gravitational convection in the asthenosphere beneath a mid-oceanic ridge and stability of main deep-seated parageneses 73
PETROLOGY, GEOCHEMISTRY, AND ORE FORMATION
* Sobolev N.V. Coesite as an indicator of ultrahigh pressures in continental lithosphere 94 * Shatsky V.S., Ragozin A.L., and Sobolev N.V. Some aspects of metamorphic evolution of ultrahigh-pressure calc-silicate rocks of the Kokchetav Massif 105 * Likhanov I.I., Reverdatto V.V., and Vershinin A.E. Geochemical evidence for protolith origin of Fe- and Al-rich metapelites from the Kuznetsk Alatau and Yenisei Ridge 120 * Litasov K.D., Litasov Yu.D., Ivanov A.V., Rasskazov S.V., Yurimoto H., Demonterova E.I., Sharygin V.V., and Mal'kovets V.G. Upper mantle beneath the Udokan volcanic field: study of peridotite xenoliths in Late Cenozoic basaltoids 134 * Smelov A.P., Beryozkin V.I., Popov N.V., Kravchenko A.A., Travin A.V., and Shaporina M.N. First data on the Paleoproterozoic syncollisional mafic and ultramafic rocks of the Aldan-Stanovoi shield 156 * Borisenko A.S., Sotnikov V.I., Izokh A.E., Polyakov G.V., and Obolensky A.A. Permo-Triassic mineralization in Asia and its relation to plume magmatism 170 * Zhmodik S.M., Postnikov A.A., Buslov M.M., and Mironov A.G. Geodynamics of the Sayan-Baikal-Muya accretion-collision belt in the Neoproterozoic-Early Paleozoic and regularities of the formation and localization of precious-metal mineralization 187