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Downloaded from http://jgs.lyellcollection.org/ by guest on September 28, 2021 Volume 169 • Part 4 • JULY 2012 • ISSN 0016-7649 JOURNAL OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY JULY Volume 169, Part 4, July 2012 2012 Research Articles FALKINGHAM, P.L., BATES, K.T. & MANNION, P.D. Temporal and palaeoenvironmental distribution of manus- and pes-dominated sauropod trackways 365 ZAFFARANA, C.B. & SOMOZA, R. Paleomagnetism and 40Ar/39Ar dating from Lower Jurassic rocks in Gastre, central Patagonia: further data to explore tectonomagmatic events associated with the break-up of Gondwana 371 RILEY, T.R., FLOWERDEW, M.J. & WHITEHOUSE, M.J. U–Pb ion-microprobe zircon geochronology from the basement inliers of eastern Graham Land, Antarctic Peninsula 381 Journal of the Geological Society of Journal LIU, A.G., MCILROY, D., MATTHEWS, J.J. & BRASIER, M.D. A new assemblage of juvenile Ediacaran fronds JOURNAL OF THE from the Drook Formation, Newfoundland 395 WELFORD, J.K., SHANNON, P.M., o’rEILLY, B.M. & HALL, J. Comparison of lithosphere structure across the Orphan Basin–Flemish Cap and Irish Atlantic conjugate continental margins from constrained 3D gravity inversions 405 SCHOFIELD, N., HEATON, L., HOLFORD, S.P., ARCHER, S.G., JACKSON, C.A.-L. & JOLLEY, D.W. Seismic imaging of ‘broken bridges’: linking seismic to outcrop-scale investigations of intrusive magma lobes 421 SOUCHE, A., BEYSSAC, O. & ANDERSEN, T.B. Thermal structure of supra-detachment basins: a case study of GEOLOGICAL the Devonian basins of western Norway 427 RASMUSSEN, S.L. & SURLYK, F. Facies and ichnology of an Upper Cretaceous chalk contourite drift complex, eastern Denmark, and the validity of contourite facies models 435 GERNIGON, L. & BRÖNNER, M. Late Palaeozoic architecture and evolution of the southwestern Barents Sea: insights from a new generation of aeromagnetic data 449 SOCIETY BROGI, A., CAPEZZUOLI, E., BURACCHI, E. & BRANCA, M. Tectonic control on travertine and calcareous tufa deposition in a low-temperature geothermal system (Sarteano, Central Italy) 461 BASTESEN, E. & ROTEVATN, A. Evolution and structural style of relay zones in layered limestone–shale sequences: insights from the Hammam Faraun Fault Block, Suez rift, Egypt 477 SEARLE, M.P., WHITEHOUSE, M.J., ROBB, L.J., GHANI, A.A., HUTCHISON, C.S., SONE, M., NG, S.W.-P., ROSELEE, M.H., CHUNG, S.-L. & OLIVER, G.J.H. Tectonic evolution of the Sibumasu–Indochina terrane collision zone in Thailand and Malaysia: constraints from new U–Pb zircon chronology of SE Asian tin granitoids 489 Vol. 169 Vol. Pt 4 . pp. 365–500 pp. Geological Society Internet site: www.geolsoc.org.uk JGS online submission: http://jgs.allentrack.net Abstracted and/or indexed in Current Contents, Science Citation Index, GeoArchive, GeoRef, Geobase, Petroleum Abstracts, Geological Abstracts and Mineralogical Abstracts. Published by the Geological Society of London Cover image: Recumbent folds generated during sediment slumping around the Dead Sea Basin. Photo: Ian Alsop Published by The Geological Society.

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