**Meet the editor**

Professor Evgenii Vitalievich Sharkov was born on October 25, 1937, in Leningrad (Saint Petersburg), USSR. He received his PhD degree from the Leningrad State University and DSc degree from the USSR Academy of Sciences (Moscow). Currently, he is working at the Institute of Geology of Ore Deposits, Petrography, Mineralogy, and Geochemistry (IGEM), Russian Acade-

my of Sciences (Moscow), and is a lecturer at the Russian State Geological Prospecting University (RSGPU-MGRI), Moscow. He conducts research in igneous petrology and tectonics and has published about 620 papers in the field of Precambrian geology and petrology, layered intrusions, LIPs, evolution of tectonomagmatic processes throughout the Earth's history, and so on. He is an academician of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences, a fellow of the Russian Petrographic Committee, and a member of the Russian Mineralogical Society, Geochemical Society (GS), and IAVCEI.

Contents

**Preface VII**

Derbeko Inna

Gao and Chunlin Li

Yasuto Itoh

Chapter 1 **Seismological Implication to the Tectonic Evolution of the Lützow-Holm Bay Region (East Antarctica) 1**

Chapter 2 **Tectonic Insight in the Southwest Gondwana Boundary Based on Anisotropy of Magnetic Susceptibility 13**

Chapter 4 **A Discussion on the Detachment Structural Deformation and Its**

Arzadún Guadalupe, Tomezzoli Renata Nela, Tickyj Hugo, Cristallini

**Influence on Pore Structure Evolution in Shale on the Western**

Mingliang Liang, Zongxiu Wang, Linyan Zhang, Huijun Li, Wanli

Boris Dyachkov, Marina Mizernaya, Oksana Kuzmina, Natalia

**Basin: Tectonic Processes on an Active Margin Governed by the**

Chapter 6 **Post-Opening Deformation History of the Japan Sea Back-Arc**

Masaki Kanao and Vladimir D. Suvorov

Ernesto Osvaldo and Gallo Leandro Cesar

Chapter 3 **Bureya-Jiamusi Superterrane: Tectonic and Geodynamic Processes in Late Mesozoic - Cenozoic 33**

**of the Xuefeng Mountain, South China 47**

Chapter 5 **Tectonics and Metallogeny of East Kazakhstan 67**

Zimanovskaya and Tatiana Oitseva

**Mode of Plate Convergence 85**
