Frontispiece
Margaret Galland Kivelson ................................... xii
The Rest of the Solar System
Margaret Galland Kivelson ..................................... 1
Abrupt Climate Changes: How Freshening of the Northern
Atlantic Affects the Thermohaline and Wind-Driven Oceanic
Circulations
Marcelo Barreiro, Alexey Fedorov, Ronald Pacanowski, and
S. George Philander .......................................... 33
Geodynamic Significance of Seismic Anisotropy of the Upper
Mantle: New Insights from Laboratory Studies
Shun-ichiro Karato, Haemyeong Jung, Ikuo Katayama, and
Philip Skemer ................................................ 59
The History and Nature of Wind Erosion in Deserts
Andrew S. Goudie ............................................. 97
Groundwater Age and Groundwater Age Dating
Craig M. Bethke and Thomas M. Johnson ....................... 121
Diffusion in Solid Silicates: A Tool to Track Timescales of
Processes Comes of Age
Sumit Chakrahorty ........................................... 153
Spacecraft Observations of the Martian Atmosphere
Michael D. Smith ............................................ 191
Crinoid Ecological Morphology
Tomasz K. Baumiller ......................................... 221
Oceanic Euxinia in Earth History: Causes and Consequences
Katja M. Meyer and Lee R. Kump .............................. 251
The Basement of the Central Andes: The Arequipa and Related
Terranes
Victor A. Ramos ............................................. 289
Modeling the Dynamics of Subducting Slabs
Magali I. Billen ............................................ 325
Geology and Evolution of the Southern Dead Sea Fault with
Emphasis on Subsurface Structure
Zvi Ben-Avraham, Zvi Garfunkel, and Michael Lazar ........... 357
The Redox State of Earths Mantle
Daniel J. Frost and Catherine A. McCammon ................... 389
The Seismic Structure and Dynamics of the Mantle Wedge
Douglas A. Wiens, James A. Conder, and Ulrich H. Faul ....... 421
The Iron Isotope Fingerprints of Redox and Biogeochemical
Cycling in the Modern and Ancient Earth
Clark M. Johnson, Brian L. Beard, and Eric E. Roden ......... 457
The Cordilleran Ribbon Continent of North America
Stephen T. Johnston ......................................... 495
Rheology of the Lower Crust and Upper Mantle: Evidence from
Rock Mechanics, Geodesy, and Field Observations
Roland Bürgmann and Georg Dresen ............................ 531
The Postperovskite Transition
Sang-Heon Shim .............................................. 569
Coastal Impacts Due to Sea-Level Rise
Duncan M. FitzGerald, Michael S. Fenster, Britt A. Argow,
and Ilya V. Buynevich ....................................... 601
Indexes
Cumulative Index of Contributing Authors, Volumes 26-36 ....... 649
Cumulative Index of Chapter Titles, Volumes 26-36 ............. 653
Errata
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