CONTENTS
On behalf of Editorial Board 5
I.F. GLUMOV, A.I. GLUMOV, YU. B.KAZMIN. V.M. YUBKO. Mineral resources of the international sector of the seafloor in the World Ocean 11
R. KOTLINSKY. Activity of the joint agency "Interoceanmetal" in the framework of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea 28
M.I. GASIK. Iron manganese concretions of the World Ocean: jurisdiction, geology, geochemistry, and metallurgy 34
YU.A. NEFEDOV, L.I. ANELOK, S.N. KILESSO, E.V. KRYUKOV. Physical and metallurgical properties of ocean concretions 51
E.F. SHNYUKOV, A.P. ZIBOROV. Exploitation of mineral resources in the Black Sea — a frontier brake through in mining activity 56
E.F. SHNYUKOV, V.I. STAROSTENKO, O.M. RUSAKOV. R.I. KUTAS. Deep nature of gas plumes in the Western Black Sea as inferred from geophysical studies 70
N.I. EVDOSHCHUK. Oil and gas presence of the Azov — Black Sea region 82
E.E.SHNYUKOVA. I.B. SHCHERBAKOV. Petrography of pyroclastic and volcanogenic-sedimentary rocks from the Foros Nose of the Black Sea continental slope 87
P.S. DIMITROV, D.P. DIMITROV, D.P. SOLAKOV, V.D. PEICHEV. The newest geological history of the Black Sea and problem about deluse 102
V.M. PESHKOV. Recurrence of marine coasts dynamics 111
V.P. KOBOLEV. Yu.P. OROVETSKY. Hot belts of the Earth 123
M.I. LEBID. Seismicity of Indonesia (relevance to the Earthquake on 26th December, 2004) 149
Evgeny Fedorovich Shnyukov (on the occasion of 75th birthday) 161
Starostenko Vitaly Ivanovich — 70 years old 172
