Precambrian Research “ a. Pa ER Precambrian Research 138 (2005) 319-320 www.elsevier.com/locate/precamres Contents Vol. 138 Integrated stratigraphy of the upper Neoproterozoic succession in Yunnan Province of South China: Re-evaluation of global correlation and carbon cycle H. Kimura, K. Azmy, M. Yamamuro, J. Zhi-Wen and J.V. Cizdziel Tectonics of the Neoproterozoic Southern Granulite Terrain, South India B. Cenki and L.M. Kriegsman Archean calc-alkaline lamprophyres of Wawa, Ontario, Canada: Unconventional diamondiferous volcaniclastic rocks N. Lefebvre, M. Kopylova and K. Kivi Seafloor hydrothermal fluids, Ben Nevis area, Abitibi Greenstone Belt: Implications for Archean (~2.7 Ga) seawater properties L. Weiershauser and E.T.C. Spooner The Shishkhid ophiolite, northern Mongolia: A key to the reconstruction of a Neoproterozoic island-arc system in central Asia A. Kuzmichev, A. Kroner, E. Hegner, L. Dunyi and W. Yusheng The origin of early Archean banded iron formations and of continental crust, Isua, southern West Greenland A. Polat and R. Frei Discussion Comment on “A geochronological and geochemical study of rocks from Gjelsvikfjella, Dronnng Maud Land, Antarctica implications for Mesoproterozoic correlations and assembly of Gondwana” W. Bauer and J. Jacobs Book review Precambrian Ophiolites and Related Rocks B. Windley Proterozoic mafic dykes as monitors of HP granulite facies metamorphism in the Grenville Front Tectonic Zone (western Quebec) J. Martignole and J.-E. Martelat Combined micro-Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) spectroscopy and micro-Raman spectroscopy of Proterozoic acritarchs: A new approach to Palaeobiology C.P. Marshall, E.J. Javaux, A.H. Knoll and M.R. Walter Spinel composition as a petrogenetic indicator of the mantle section in the Neoproterozoic Bou Azzer ophiolite, Anti-Atlas, Morocco A.H. Ahmed, S. Arai, Y.M. Abdel-Aziz and A. Rahimi doi: 10.1016/S0301-9268(05 )00097-5 320 Contents Vol. 138 Provenance record of the Jack Hills metasedimentary belt: Source of the Earth’s oldest zircons S.J. Dunn, A.A. Nemchin, PRA. Cawood and R.T. Pidgeon Facies architecture and sequence-stratigraphic features of the Tumbiana Formation in the Pilbara Craton, northwestern Australia: Implications for depositional environments of oxygenic stroma- tolites during the Late Archean R. Sakurai, M. Ito,¥ .U eno, K. Kitajima and S. Maruyama Suspected microbial mat-related crack-like sedimentary structures in the Palaeoproterozoic Magaliesberg Formation sandstones, South Africa M. Parizot, PG. Eriksson,T . Aifa, S. Sarkar, S. Banerjee, O. Catuneanu,W . Altermann, A.J. Bumby, E.M. Bordy, J.L.van Rooy and A.J. Boshoff Neoproterozoic—Early Paleozoic gravitational tectonic collapse in the southern part of the Arabian- Nubian Shield: The Bulbul Belt of southern Ethiopia L.Tsige and M.G. Abdelsalam Contents of Volume 138 e e e e e e a a e e nee