AMERICAN JOURNAL OF SCIENCE

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January 2014; 314 (1)

THIS AND THE SUBSEQUENT ISSUES HONOR THE DISTINGUISHED SCIENTIST BOR-MING JAHN ON THE OCCASION OF HIS RETIREMENT FROM ACADEMIA SINICA IN 2010

Part I

Preface. J. Gregory Shellnutt, Kuo-Lung Wang, William L. Griffin, and Sun-Lin Chung. Am Sci January 2014 314:ix-xiv

Foreword. Am J Sci January 2014 314:xv-xvii

 Tao Wang, Bor-ming Jahn, Victor P. Kovach, Ying Tong, Simon A. Wilde, Da-wei Hong, Shan Li, and Ekaterina B. Salnikova. Mesozoic intraplate granitic magmatism in the Altai accretionary orogen, NW China: Implications for the orogenic architecture and crustal growth. Am J Sci January 2014 314:1-42; doi:10.2475/01.2014.01

Bo Wang, Dominique Cluzel, Bor-ming Jahn, Liangshu Shu, Yan Chen, Yazhong Zhai, Yannick Branquet, Luc Barbanson, and Stanislas Sizaret. Late Paleozoic pre- and syn-kinematic plutons of the Kangguer–Huangshan Shear zone: Inference on the tectonic evolution of the eastern Chinese north Tianshan. Am J Sci January 2014 314:43-79; doi:10.2475/01.2014.02

Ying Tong, Tao Wang, Bor-ming Jahn, Min Sun, Da-Wei Hong, and Jian-Feng Gao. Post-accretionary permian granitoids in the Chinese Altai orogen: Geochronology, petrogenesis and tectonic implications. Am J Sci January 2014 314:80-109; doi:10.2475/01.2014.03

Wei Dan, Xian-Hua Li, Qiang Wang, Xuan-Ce Wang, and Yu Liu. Neoproterozoic S-type granites in the Alxa Block, westernmost North China and tectonic implications: In situ zircon U-Pb-Hf-O isotopic and geochemical constraints. Am J Sci January 2014 314:110-153; doi:10.2475/01.2014.04

L. S. Shu, B. M. Jahn, J. Charvet, M. Santosh, B. Wang, X. S. Xu, and S. Y. Jiang. Early Paleozoic depositional environment and intraplate tectono-magmatism in the Cathaysia Block (South China): Evidence from stratigraphic, structural, geochemical and geochronological investigations. Am J Sci January 2014 314:154-186; doi:10.2475/01.2014.05

Kong-Yang Zhu, Zheng-Xiang Li, Xi-Sheng Xu, and Simon A. Wilde. A Mesozoic Andean-type orogenic cycle in southeastern China as recorded by granitoid evolution Am J Sci January 2014 314:187-234; doi:10.2475/01.2014.06

Zhiqiang Wang, Bin Chen, and Xinghua Ma. Petrogenesis of the Late Mesozoic Guposhan composite plutons from the Nanling Range, South China: Implications for W-SN mineralization. Am J Sci January 2014 314:235-277; doi:10.2475/01.2014.07

Wei-Hua Yao, Zheng-Xiang Li, Wu-Xian Li, Xian-Hua Li, and Jin-Hui Yang. From Rodinia to Gondwanaland: A tale of detrital zircon provenance analyses from the southern Nanhua Basin, South China. Am J Sci January 2014 314:278-313; doi:10.2475/01.2014.08

Xun Wei, Yi-Gang Xu, Yue-Xing Feng, and Jian-Xin Zhao. Plume-lithosphere interaction in the generation of the Tarim large igneous province, NW China: Geochronological and geochemical constraints. Am J Sci January 2014 314:314-356; doi:10.2475/01.2014.09

Yi-Xiang Chen, Yong-Fei Zheng, Long Li, and Ren-Xu Chen. Fluid-rock interaction and geochemical transport during protolith emplacement and continental collision: A tale from Qinglongshan ultrahigh-pressure metamorphic rocks in the Sulu orogeny. Am J Sci January 2014 314:357-399; doi:10.2475/01.2014.10

Meng-Xi Huang, Jian-Jun Yang, Roger Powell, and Xuanxue Mo. High-pressure metamorphism of serpentinized chromitite at Luobusha (southern Tibet). Am J Sci January 2014 314:400-433; doi:10.2475/01.2014.11

Part II

Foreword. Am J Sci February 2014 314:vii-ix

 W. L. Griffin, N. J. Pearson, T. Andersen, S. E. Jackson, S. Y. O'Reilly, and M. Zhang. Sources of cratonic metasomatic fluids: In situ LA-MC-ICPMS analysis of Sr, Nd, Hf and Pb isotopes in Lima from the Jagersfontein Kimberlite. Am J Sci February 2014 314:435-461; doi:10.2475/02.2014.01

M. Eyal, A. N. Zanvilevich, B. A. Litvinovsky, B. M. Jahn, Ye. Vapnik, and Y. Be'eri-Shlevin. The Katherina Ring Complex (Sinai Peninsula, Egypt): Sequence of emplacement and petrogenesis. Am J Sci February 2014 314:462-507; doi:10.2475/02.2014.02

Xiaochun Liu, Bor-ming Jahn, Yue Zhao, Jian Liu, and Liudong Ren. Geochemistry and geochronology of Mesoproterozoic basement rocks from the Eastern Amery Ice Shelf and southwestern Prydz Bay, East Antarctica: Implications for a long-lived magmatic accretion in a continental arc. Am J Sci February 2014 314:508-547; doi:10.2475/02.2014.03

Fu-Yuan Wu, Wei-Qiang Ji, Jian-Gang Wang, Chuan-Zhou Liu, Sun-Lin Chung, and Peter D. Clift. Zircon U–Pb and Hf isotopic constraints on the onset time of India-Asia collision. Am J Sci February 2014 314:548-579; doi:10.2475/02.2014.04

Keda Cai, Min Sun, Wenjiao Xiao, M. M. Buslov, Chao Yuan, Guochun Zhao, and Xiaoping Long. Zircon U-Pb geochronology and Hf isotopic composition of granitiods in Russian Altai Mountain, Central Asian Orogenic Belt. Am J Sci February 2014 314:580-612; doi:10.2475/02.2014.05

J. Dostal, J. V. Owen, O. Gerel, J. D. Keppie, R. Corney, J. G. Shellnutt, and A. Macrae. The 186 Ma Dashibalbar alkaline granitoid pluton in the north-Gobi Rift of central Mongolia: Evidence for melting of Neoproterozoic basement above a plume. Am J Sci February 2014 314:613-648; doi:10.2475/02.2014.06

Ru Y. Zhang, Ching-Hua Lo, Xuan-Hua Li, Sun-Ling Chung, Tran Tuan Anh, and Tran Van Tri. U-Pb dating and tectonic implication of ophiolite and metabasite from the Song Ma suture zone, northern Vietnam. Am J Sci February 2014 314:649-678; doi:10.2475/02.2014.07

Li'na Lin, Wenjiao Xiao, Bo Wan, Brian F. Windley, Songjian Ao, Chunming Han, Jianyun Feng, Ji'en Zhang, and Zhiyong Zhang. Geochronologic and geochemical evidence for persistence of south-dipping subduction to late Permian time, Langshan area, Inner Mongolia (China): Significance for termination of accretionary orogenesis in the southern Altaids. Am J Sci February 2014 314:679-703; doi:10.2475/02.2014.08

Bor-ming Jahn, Masako Usuki, Tadashi Usuki, and Sun-Lin Chung. Generation of Cenozoic granitoids in Hokkaido (Japan): Constraints from zircon geochronology, Sr-Nd-Hf isotopic and geochemical analyses, and implications for crustal growth. Am J Sci February 2014 314:704-750; doi:10.2475/02.2014.09