Table Of ContentCONTENTS OF VOLUME 116
NUMBER 1 Mesozoic Extensional Tectonics in Eastern Asia: The
South Liaodong Peninsula Metamorphic Core Complex
Articles (NE China)
Wei Lin, Michel Faure, Patrick Monié, Urs Scharer, and Domi-
Methane Release from Igneous Intrusion of Coal during nique Panis
Late Permian Extinction Events
Gregory J. Retallack and A. Hope Jahren Initial Formation and Mesozoic Tectonic Exhumation of
an Intracontinental Tectonic Belt of the Northern Part
of the Taihang Mountain Belt, Eastern Asia
From Closure of the Mozambique Ocean to Gondwana
Breakup: New Evidence from Geochronological Data of Yu Wang and Huimin Li
the Vohibory Terrane, Southwest Madagascar
Geological Notes
B. Emmel, N. Jons, A. Kroner, J. Jacobs, J.-A. Wartho, V. Schenk,
T. Razakamanana, and A. Austegard
Wind Scour of Navajo Sandstone at the Wave (Central
Timing and Duration of the Calc-Alkaline Arc of the Colorado Plateau, U.S.A.)
Pampean Orogeny: Implications for the Late Neopro- David B. Loope, Winston M. Seiler, Joseph A. Mason, and Mar-
jorie A. Chan
terozoic to Cambrian Evolution of Western Gondwana
Joshua ]. Schwartz, L. Peter Gromet, and Roberto Mir6
Limestone Xenolith in Siddanpalli Kimberlite, Gadwal
Terra Rossa Genesis, Implications for Karst, and Eolian Granite-Greenstone Terrain, Eastern Dharwar Craton,
Dust: A Geodynamic Thread Southern India: Remnant of Proterozoic Platformal
Cover Sequence of Bhima/Kurnool Age?
Enrique Merino and Amlan Banerjee
A. Dongre, N. V. Chalapathi Rao, and G. Kamde
Sediment Sorting in the Deposits of Turbidity Currents
Created by Experimental Modeling of Explosive Sub- Sequential Solvent Extraction for Forms of Antimony in
Five Selected Coals
aqueous Eruptions
A. Cantelli, S. Johnson, J. D. L. White, and G. Parker Cuicui Qi, Guijian Liu, Yu Kang, Chen-Lin Chou, and
Ruwei Wang
Geological Note
Discussion and Reply
Paralava Produced by Combustion of Dead Gorse Near
The Age of the Potassic Alkaline Igneous Rocks along
Colac Bay, Southland, New Zealand
the Ailao Shan—Red River Shear Zone: Implications
D. S. Coombs, R. J. Beck, C. J. Adams, J. M. Bannister, L. A.
for the Onset Age of Left-Lateral Shearing: A Discussion
Paterson, and B. P. Roser
Sun-Lin Chung, Michael P. Searle, and Meng-Wang Yeh
Reviews
The Age of the Potassic Alkaline Igneous Rocks along
the Ailao Shan-Red River Shear Zone: Implications
Erratum
for the Onset Age of Left-Lateral Shearing: A Reply
Hua-Ying Liang, Ian H. Campbell, Charlotte A. Allen, Wei-
Dong Sun, Ying-Weng Xie, and Yuan-Qian Zhang
NUMBER 2
Reviews
Articles
Geochronology of the 983-Ma Chilka Lake Anorthosite, NUMBER 3
Eastern Ghats Belt, India: Implications for Pre-Gond-
wana Tectonics Articles
Nilanjan Chatterjee, James L. Crowley, Amalbikash Mukher-
jee, and Subhasish Das Revised Chronostratigraphy and Biostratigraphy of
the John Day Formation (Turtle Cove and Kimberly
Geochronology and Geochemistry of the Kuwei Mafic Members), Oregon, with Implications for Updated Cali-
Intrusion, Southern Margin of the Altai Mountains,
bration of the Arikareean North American Land Mam-
Northern Xinjiang, Northwest China: Evidence for Dis- mal Age
tant Effects of the Indo-Eurasia Collision
L. Barry Albright III, Michael O. Woodburne, Theodore J.
Zhaochong Zhang, Timothy Kusky, Jingwen Mao, Li Zhao, Fremd, Carl C. Swisher III, Bruce J. MacFadden, and Gary
Shenghao Yan, Bailin Chen, Gang Zhou, and Fengmei Chai R. Scott
CONTENTS OF VOLUME 116
The ~860-Ma, Cordilleran-Type Guandaoshan Dioritic 401 Evidence of Possible Enhanced Peat Burning by Deep-
Pluton in the Yangtze Block, SW China: Implications Origin Methane in the Po River Delta Plain (Italy)
for the Origin of Neoproterozoic Magmatism Stefano Cremonini, Giuseppe Etiope, Franco Italiano, and
Wei-Hua Sun and Mei-Fu Zhou Giovanni Martinelli
Evaluating Trace Elements as Paleoclimate Indicators: Geological Notes
Multivariate Statistical Analysis of Late Mississippian
Pennington Formation Paleosols, Kentucky, U.S.A. Crustal Evolution in the Southern Appalachian Orogen:
Julia A. Kahmann, John Seaman III, and Steven G. Driese Evidence from Hf Isotopes in Detrital Zircons
Paul A. Mueller, George D. Kamenov, Ann L. Heatherington,
and Joshua Richards
A Permian Layered Intrusive Complex in the Western
Tarim Block, Northwestern China: Product of a Ca.
275-Ma Mantle Plume? A New Age Constraint on the Onset of the Neoproter-
Chuan-Lin Zhang, Xian-Hua Li, Zheng-Xiang Li, Hai-Min Ye, ozoic Glaciations in the Yangtze Platform, South China
and Chang-Nian Li Qi-Rui Zhang, Xian-Hua Li, Lian-Jun Feng, Jing Huang, and
Biao Song
Geological Structure of an Arsenic-Contaminated Aqui-
fer at Sonargaon, Bangladesh
Muneki Mitamura, Harue Masuda, Taka-cki Itai, Takaharu NUMBER 5
Minowa, Teruyuki Maruoka, Kazi Matin Ahmed, Ashraf Ali
Seddique, Dipak Kumar Biswas, Shinji Nakaya, Kenji Uesugi,
and Minoru Kusakabe Articles
Geological Note Water and Sediment Discharge from Small Mountain-
ous Rivers, Taiwan: The Roles of Lithology, Episodic
Late Sinistral Shearing along Gondwana’s Paleo-Pacific Events, and Human Activities
S. J. Kao, and J. D. Milliman
Margin in the Ross Orogen, Antarctica: New Structure
and Age Data from the O’Brien Peak Area
Timothy Paulsen, John Encarnacion, Anne Grunow, Victor A. Dating the Oldest Greenstone in India: A 3.51-Ga Pre-
Valencia, and Christine Rasoazanamparany cise U-Pb SHRIMP Zircon Age for Dacitic Lava of the
Southern Iron Ore Group, Singhbhum Craton
Review Joydip Mukhopadhyay, N. J. Beukes, R. A. Armstrong, Udo
Zimmermann, Gautam Ghosh, and R. A. Medda
Erratum
Taphonomy and Sedimentology of Storm-Generated
Continental Shell Beds: A Case Example from the
Cretaceous Western Interior Basin
NUMBER 4 Eric M. Roberts, Leif Tapanila, and Brandon Mijal
Articles Evolution of Large Silicic Magma Systems: New U-Pb
Zircon Data on the NW Permian Athesian Volcanic
The Pulse of Calm Fan Deltas Group (Southern Alps, Italy)
Wonsuck Kim and Douglas J. Jerolmack M. Marocchi, C. Morelli, V. Mair, U. Klétzli, and G. M. Bargossi
Cretaceous-Tertiary Carbonate Platform Evolution and A Noncognate Relationship between Megacrysts and
the Age of the India-Asia Collision along the Ladakh Host Basalts from the Tuoyun Basin, Chinese Tian Shan
Himalaya (Northwest India) Bao-fu Han, Jian-bo Liu, and Lei Zhang
Owen R. Green, Michael P. Searle, Richard I. Corfield, and
Richard M. Corfield 39 Ar/*9Ar Ages from the Yozgat Batholith: Preliminary
Data on the Timing of Late Cretaceous Extension in the
On the Welding of Pyroclasts from Very Low-Viscosity Central Anatolian Crystalline Complex, Turkey
Magmas: Examples from Kimberlite Volcanoes Veysel Isik, Ching-Hua Lo, Cemal Génciioglu, and Serhat
R. J]. Brown, B. Buse, R. S. J. Sparks, and M. Field Demirel
Geological Note
Compositional and Geochemical Signatures for the
Sedimentary Evolution of the Middle Triassic-Lower
Jurassic Continental Redbeds from Western-Central Origin of Enigmatic Structures: Field and Geochemical
Mediterranean Alpine Chains Investigation of Columnar Joints in Sandstones, Island
Salvatore Critelli, Giovanni Mongelli, Francesco Perri, Agustin of Bute, Scotland
Martin-Algarra, Manuel Martin-Martin, Vincenzo Perrone, Roc- Grant M. Young
co Dominici, Maurizio Sonnino, and Mohamed Najib Zaghloul
Discussion and Reply
The Transformation of Nesquehonite to Hydromagne-
site in the System CaO-MgO-H,O-CO): An Experimen- SHRIMP Ages of Zircon in the Uppermost Tuff in Chat-
tal Spectroscopic Study tisgarh Basin in Central India Require ~500-Ma Adjust-
Laurence Hopkinson, Ken Rutt, and Gordon Cressey
Journal of Geology CONTENTS OF VOLUME 116
ment in Indian Proterozoic Stratigraphy: A Discussion tion into Magma?
A. Mukherjee and R. K. Ray I. N. Bindeman, C. K. Brooks, A. R. McBirney, and H. P. Taylor
SHRIMP Ages of Zircon in the Uppermost Tuff in Chat- Extrapolating Oceanic Age Distributions: Lessons from
tisgarh Basin in Central India Require ~500-Ma Adjust- the Pacific Region
ment in Indian Proterozoic Stratigraphy: A Reply David B. Rowley
S. Patranabis-Deb, M. E. Bickford, B. Hill, A. K. Chaudhuri, and
A. Basu Postcollisional Eastward Extrusion and Tectonic Exhu-
mation along the Eastern Tianshan Orogen, Central
Review Asia: Constraints from Dextral Strike-Slip Motion and
40 Ar/39A rG eochronological Evidence
Yu Wang, Jinyi Li, and Guihua Sun
NUMBER 6
Significance of Provenance Ages from the Chiapas
Massif Complex (Southeastern Mexico): Redefining
Articles
the Paleozoic Basement of the Maya Block and Its Evo-
lution in a Peri-Gondwanan Realm
Volcanic Tephra Bed Formation and Condensation
Bodo Weber, Victor A. Valencia, Peter Schaaf, Valerie Pompa-
Processes: A Review and Examination from Devonian Mera, and Joaquin Ruiz
Stratigraphic Sequences
Charles A. Ver Straeten Extension and Exhumation of the Hellenic Forearc
Ridge in Kythera
Cool-Climate or Warm-Spike Lateritic Bauxites at High A. E. Marsellos and W. S. F. Kidd
Latitudes?
Gregory ]. Retallack
Review
The Low-é!8O Late-Stage Ferrodiorite Magmas in the
Contents of Volume 116
Skaergaard Intrusion: Result of Liquid Immiscibility,
Thermal Metamorphism, or Meteoric Water Incorpora-
