Available online at www.sciencedirect.com EARTH-SCIENCE science @joinecrs REVIEWS ELSEVIER Earth-Science Reviews 62 (2003) 399 www.elsevier.com/locate/earscirev Contents Volume 62, 2003 Research Papers Palaeoecology and evolution of marine hard substrate communities P.D. Taylor and M.A. Wilson Stable isotope geochemistry of ultrahigh pressure metamorphic rocks from the Dabie- Sulu orogen in \ China: implications for geodynamics and fluid regime Y.-F. Zheng, B. Fu, B. Gong and L. Li Benthic cyanobacteria and their influence on the sedimentary dynamics of peritidal depositional systems (siliciciastic, evaporitic salty, and evaporitic carbonatic) N. Noffke, G. Gerdes and T. Klenke Earth Reflections The dubious role of man in a questionable mass extinction A.J. van Loon Research Papers Transgressive deposits: a review of their variability A. Cattaneo and R.J. Steel Dating volcanic and related sediments by luminescence methods: a review M. Fattahi and S. Stokes Sediment gravity flow—the conceptual problems P. Dasgupta Shelf-margin deltas: their stratigraphic significance and relation to deepwater sands S.J. Porebski and R.J. Steel Multiple impacts across the Cretaceous—Tertiary boundary G. Keller, W. Stinnesbeck, T. Adatte and D. Stuben Source mantle heterogeneity and its role in the genesis of Late Archaean—Proterozoic (2.7—1.0 Ga) and Mesozoic (200 and 130 Ma) tholeiitic magmatism in the South American Platform M. lacumin, A. De Min, E.M. Piccirillo and G. Bellieni Contents Volume 62, 2003 t*)a -