Contents

Doklady Earth Sciences

Vol. 477, No. 1, 2017

A simultaneous English language translation of this journal is available from Pleiades Publishing, Ltd.
Distributed worldwide by Springer. Doklady Earth Sciences ISSN 1028-334X.

Geology

The First Find of the Cave Hyena (Crocuta crocuta spelea) on the Oka Plateau (Eastern Sayan)

N. P. Kalmykov and D. V. Kobylkin p. 1247  abstract

Boundary between the Lower and Middle Carboniferous in the Eastern Urals: New Isotope–Geochronological Data

G. A. Mizens, T. I. Stepanova, S. A. Dub and Corresponding Member of the RAS A. B. Kuznetsov p. 1251  abstract

New Type of Gold Mineralization of the Tyrnyauz Ore Cluster (Kabardino-Balkar Republic)

S. G. Parada, Yu. V. Popov and V. V. Stolyarov p. 1256  abstract

Age of Island-Arc Granites in the Shchuch’ya Zone, Polar Urals: First U–Pb (SIMS) Results

V. L. Andreichev, K. V. Kulikova, A. N. Larionov and S. A. Sergeev p. 1260  abstract

Early Pleistocene Magmatism in the Central Part of the Greater Caucasus

V. A. Lebedev, O. Z. Dudauri and Yu. V. Gol’tsman p. 1265  abstract

Rb–Sr and 147Sm–143Nd Systematics of Gabbro and Dolerites from Fragments of Ophiolite Complexes of the Middle Urals

Yu. L. Ronkin, I. V. Semenov and Corresponding Member of the RAS V. N. Puchkov p. 1270  abstract

Early Paleozoic Tectonics for the New Siberian Islands Terrane (Eastern Arctic)

D. V. Metelkin, A. I. Chernova, Academician V. A. Vernikovsky and N. Yu. Matushkin p. 1277  abstract

The Age of Spitsbergen Basement Consolidation: U–Pb Dating of Detrital Zircons from the Upper Precambrian and Lower Carboniferous Clastic Rocks of the Northwestern Part of Nordenskiöld Land

A. N. Sirotkin, Corresponding Member of the RAS Yu. B. Marin, N. B. Kuznetsov, G. A. Korobova and T. V. Romanyuk p. 1282  abstract

New Data on Lineament Control of Modern Centers of Methane Degassing in East Asian Seas

R. B. Shakirov, A. I. Obzhirov, A. S. Salomatin and M. M. Makarov p. 1287  abstract

Geochemistry

Geochemical Typification of Kimberlite and Related Rocks of the North Anabar Region, Yakutia

A. V. Kargin and Yu. Yu. Golubeva p. 1291  abstract

Zircons, Age, and Geological Setting of Rhyodacite–Porphyry from the Bagrusha Complex (South Urals)

Corresponding Member of the RAS V. N. Puchkov, A. A. Krasnobaev, N. D. Sergeeva, S. V. Busharina and S. P. Shokalsky p. 1295  abstract

Specific Mineral Associations of Hydrothermal Shale (South Kamchatka)

S. N. Rychagov, A. V. Sergeeva and M. S. Chernov p. 1301  abstract

Geography

The Connection between the Growth of Anthropogenic Carbon Dioxide in the Atmosphere and the Current Climate Warming

N. V. Valukenko, Academician of the RAS V. M. Kotlyakov and D. M. Sonechkin p. 1307  abstract

Oceanology

Causes of Salinization of the Gulf of Taganrog

Academician G. G. Matishov and K. S. Grigorenko p. 1311  abstract

Geochemistry

Biogenic Nanomagnetite in the Lebedinskii Deposit: Evidence of Biochemical Processes in the Origin of Banded Iron Formation of KMA

Academician N. S. Bortnikov, V. M. Novikov, N. M. Boeva, A. P. Zhukhlistov, E. A. Zhegallo and S. V. Soboleva p. 1316  abstract

New Data on the Age and Nature of the Khan–Bogd Alkaline Granites, Mongolia

A. Gerdes, Academician L. N. Kogarko and N. V. Vladykin p. 1320  abstract

Geophysics

Accounting for the Influence of the Earth’s Sphericity in Three-Dimensional Density Modelling

Corresponding Member of the RAS P. S. Martyshko, D. D. Byzov and A. I. Chernoskutov p. 1325  abstract

Fragmentation of the “Bag-breakup” Type as a Mechanism of the Generation of Sea Spray at Strong and Hurricane Winds

Yu. I. Troitskaya, O. S. Ermakova, A. A. Kandaurov, D. S. Kozlov, D. A. Sergeev and S. S. Zilitinkevich p. 1330  abstract

Geography

The Role of Fires in the Holocene Landscape Dynamics of the Southeastern Part of Meshchera Lowlands

Corresponding Member of the RAS K. N. Dyakonov, E. Yu. Novenko, I. V. Mironenko, D. A. Kuprijanov and M. V. Bobrovsky p. 1336  abstract

Oceanology

Interdecadal Variability in Thermal Structure of Water in the Upper Active Layer in the Northwestern Pacific Ocean

V. I. Byshev, A. L. Figurkin and I. M. Anisimov p. 1343  abstract

Geochemistry

New Results of U–Pb SHRIMP Dating of Zircons from Upper Wuchiapingian (Upper Permian) Deposits in Northeastern Russia

A. S. Biakov, Corresponding Member of the RAS N. A. Goryachev, I. L. Vedernikov, I. V. Brynko and E. V. Tolmacheva p. 1348  abstract

Dumortierite- and Corundum-Bearing Quartz–Feldspar–Mica Rocks of the Belomorian Eclogite Province: An Example of Melting of Phengite + Quartz

K. A. Dokukina, A. N. Konilov, K. V. Van and M. V. Mints p. 1353  abstract

Zirconology of Rutile Eclogites of the Maksutov Complex (Southern Urals)

A. A. Krasnobaev, P. M. Valizer, Corresponding Member of the RAS V. N. Anfilogov, E. V. Medvedeva and S. V. Busharina p. 1358  abstract

The First Data on Breithauptite in Chromitite from the Northern Part of the Voykar–Synya Ultramafic Massif (Polar Urals)

R. I. Shaibekov, M. M. Gaikovich, S. I. Isaenko and S. S. Shevchuk p. 1363  abstract

Geophysics

Thermal Structure of Sikhote Alin and Adjacent Areas Based on Spectral Analysis of the Anomalous Magnetic Field

Corresponding Member of the RAS A. N. Didenko, M. Yu. Nosyrev, B. F. Shevchenko and G. Z. Gilmanova p. 1368  abstract

Non-Monotonous Dependence of the Ocean Surface Drag Coefficient on the Hurricane Wind Speed Due to the Fragmentation of the Ocean-Atmosphere Interface

Yu. I. Troitskaya, O. S. Ermakova, A. A. Kandaurov, D. S. Kozlov, D. A. Sergeev and S. S. Zilitinkevich p. 1373  abstract