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EDITORIAL INFORMATION

This volume was planned at a meeting in Seattle, Washington on May 17, 2003.

(Extracted from the preface).

GENERAL TABLE OF CONTENTS

-Preface by Raymond Jeanloz
-THREADS: A Life in Geochemistry. Karl K. Turekian.
-REFLECTIONS ON THE CONCEPTION, BIRTH, AND CHILDHOOD OF NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDICTION. Edward N. Lorenz.
-BINARY MINOR PLANETS. Derek C. Richardson, Kevin J. Walsh.
-MÖSSBAUER SPECTROSCOPY OF EARTH AND PLANETARY MATERIALS. M. Darby Dyar, David G. Agresti, Martha W. Schaefer, Christopher A. Grant, Elizabeth C. Sklute.
-PHANEROZOIC BIODIVERSITY MASS EXTINCTIONS. Richard K. Bambach.
-THE YARKOVSKY AND YORP EFFECTS: Implications for Asteroid Dynamics. William F. Bottke, Jr., David Vokrouhlický, David P. Rubincam, David Nesvorný.
-PLANETESIMALS TO BROWN DWARFS: What is a Planet? Gibor Basri, Michael E. Brown.
-HISTORY AND APPLICATIONS OF MASS-INDEPENDENT ISOTOPE EFFECTS. Mark H. Thiemens.
-SEISMIC TRIGGERING OF ERUPTIONS IN THE FAR FIELD: Volcanoes and Geysers. Michael Manga, Emily Brodsky.
-DYNAMICS OF LAKE ERUPTIONS AND POSSIBLE OCEAN ERUPTIONS. Youxue Zhang, George W. Kling.
-BED MATERIAL TRANSPORT AND THE MORPHOLOGY OF ALLUVIAL RIVER CHANNELS. Michael Church.
-EXPLAINING THE CAMBRIAN "EXPLOSION" OF ANIMALS. Charles R. Marshall.
-COSMIC DUST COLLECTION IN AEROGEL. Mark J. Burchell, Giles Graham, Anton Kearsley.
-USING THERMOCHRONOLOGY TO UNDERSTAND OROGENIC EROSION. Peter W. Reiners, Mark T. Brandon.
-HIGH-MG ANDESITES IN THE SETOUCHI VOLCANIC BELT, SOUTHWESTERN JAPAN: Analogy to Archean Magmatism and Continental Crust Formation? Yoshiyuki Tatsumi.
-HYDROGEN ISOTOPIC (D/H) COMPOSITION OF ORGANIC MATTER DURING DIAGENESIS AND THERMAL MATURATION. Arndt Schimmelmann, Alex L. Sessions, Maria Mastalerz.
-THE IMPORTANCE OF SECONDARY CRATERING TO AGE CONSTRAINTS ON PLANETARY SURFACES. Alfred S. McEwen, Edward B. Bierhaus.
-DATES AND RATES: Temporal Resolution in the Deep Time Stratigraphic Record. Douglas H. Erwin.
-EVIDENCE FOR ASEISMIC DEFORMATION RATE CHANGES PRIOR TO EARTHQUAKES. Evelyn A. Roeloffs.
-WATER, MELTING, AND THE DEEP EARTH H2O CYCLE. Marc M. Hirschmann.
-THE GENERAL CIRCULATION OF THE ATMOSPHERE. Tapio Schneider.
-Indexes.