Frontispiece
Ikuo Kushiro ............................................... xiv
Toward the Development of "Magmatology"
Ikuo Kushiro ................................................. 1
Nature and Climate Effects of Individual Tropospheric Aerosol
Particles
Mihály Pósfai and Peter R. Buseck ........................... 17
The Hellenic Subduction System: High-Pressure Metamorphism,
Exhumation, Normal Faulting, and Large-Scale Extension
Uwe Ring, Johannes Glodny, Thomas Will, and Stuart
Thomson ..................................................... 45
Orographic Controls on Climate and Paleoclimate of Asia:
Thermal and Mechanical Roles for the Tibetan Plateau
Peter Molnar, William R. Boos, and David S. Battisti ........ 77
Lessons Learned from the 2004 Sumatra-Andaman Megathrust
Rupture
Peter Shearer and Roland Bürgmann .......................... 103
Oceanic Island Basalts and Mantle Plumes: The Geochemical
Perspective
William M. White ........................................... 133
Isoscapes: Spatial Pattern in Isotopic Biogeochemistry
Gabriel J. Bowen ........................................... 161
The Origin(s) of Whales
Mark D. Uhen ............................................... 189
Frictional Melting Processes in Planetary Materials: From
Hypervelocity Impact to Earthquakes
John G. Spray .............................................. 221
The Late Devonian Gogo Formation Lagerstatte of Western
Australia: Exceptional Early Vertebrate Preservation and
Diversity
John A. Long and Kate Trinajstic ........................... 255
Booming Sand Dunes
Melany L. Hunt and Nathalie M. Vriend ...................... 281
The Formation of Martian River Valleys by Impacts
Owen B. Toon, Teresa Segura, and Kevin Zahnle .............. 303
The Miocene-to-Present Kinematic Evolution of the Eastern
Mediterranean and Middle East and Its Implications for
Dynamics
Xavier Le Pichon and Corne Kreemer ......................... 323
Oblique, High-Angle, Listric-Reverse Faulting and Associated
Development of Strain: The Wenchuan Earthquake of May 12,
2008, Sichuan, China
Pei-Zhen Zhang, Xue-ze Wen, Zheng-Kang Shen, and Jiu-hui
Chen ....................................................... 353
Composition, Structure, Dynamics, and Evolution of Saturn's
Rings
Larry W. Esposito .......................................... 383
Late Neogene Erosion of the Alps: A Climate Driver?
Sean D. Willett ............................................ 411
Length and Timescales of Rift Faulting and Magma Intrusion:
The Afar Rifting Cycle from 2005 to Present
Cynthia Ebinger, Atalay Ayele, Derek Keir, Julie
Rowland, Gezahegn Yirgu, Tim Wright, Manahloh Belachew,
and Ian Hamling ............................................ 439
Glacial Earthquakes in Greenland and Antarctica
Meredith Nettles and Göran Ekström ......................... 467
Forming Planetesimals in Solar and Extrasolar Nebulae
E. Chiang and A.N. Youdin .................................. 493
Placoderms (Armored Fish): Dominant Vertebrates
of the Devonian Period
Gavin С. Young ............................................. 523
The Lithosphere-Asthenosphere Boundary
Karen M. Fischer, Heather A. Ford, David L. Abt, and
Catherine A. Rychert ....................................... 551
Indexes
Cumulative Index of Contributing Authors, Volumes 28-38 ....... 577
Cumulative Index of Chapter Titles, Volumes 28-38 ............. 581
Errata
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