Preface • A personal scientific appreciation of the father of ‘contourites’, I.N. McCave • Bottom currents, contourites and deep-sea sediment drifts: current state-of-the-art, D.A.V. Stow, J.C. Faugeres, J.A. Howe, C.J. Pudsey & A.R. Viana • Contourites of the Nova Scotian continental rise and the HEBBLE area, I.N. McCave, R.C. Chandler, S.A. Swift & B.E. Tucholke • The Greater Antilles Outer Ridge: development of a distal sedimentary drift by deposition of fine-grained contourites, B.E. Tucholke • The Lofoten Drift, Norwegian Sea, J.S. Laberg, T.O. Vorren & S.M. Knutsen • Sediment drifts and contourite sedimentation in the northeastern Rockall Trough and Faroe-Shetland channel, North Atlantic Ocean, J.A. Howe, M.S. Stoker, D.A.V. Stow & M.C. Akhurst • Late Quaternary glacigenic contourite, debris flow and turbidite process interaction in the Fraroe-Shetland channel, NW European continental margin, M.C. Arkhurst, D.A.V. Stow & M.S. Stoker • Wave-form sheeted contourite drift on the Barra Fan, NW UK continental margin, P.C. Knutz, E.J.W.Jones, J.A. Howe, T.J.C. Van Weering, D.A.V. Stow • Holocene contourite sand sheet on the Barra Fan slope, NW Hebridean margin, D.A.V. Stow, J.E. & R. Holes • Muddy contourites in the Baltic Sea: an example of a shallow-water contourite system, V. Sivkov, V. Gorbatskiy, A. Kulshov & Y. Zhurov • Faro-Albufeira drift complex, northern Gulf of Cadiz, D.A.V. Stow, J.C. Faugeres, E. Gothier, M.Cremer, E. Llave, F.J. Hernandex-Molina, L. Somoza & V. Del-Diaz • The Ceuta Drift, Alboran Sea, southern Mediterranean, G. Ercilla, J. Baraza, B. Alonso, F. Estada, D. Casas & M. Farran • The Sicilian gateway: anatomy of the deep-water connection between East and West Mediterranean basins, M.S. Reeder, G. Rothwell & D.A.V. Stow • Sediment drifts of the Corsica Channel, northern Tyrrhenian Sea, M. Roveri • The Vama contourite fan in the south Frazilian basin, J.C. Faugeres, S. Zaragosi, M.L. Mezerais & L. Masse • The Columbia channel-Levee system: a fan drift in the southern Brazil Basin, J.C. Faugeres, A.F. Lima, L. Masse & S. Zaragosi • Contour currents, sediment drifts and abyssal erosion on the northeastern continental margin off Bazil, P.O. Fomes & A.R. Viana • Evidence of bottom current influence on the Neogene to Quaternary sedimentation along the northern Campos slope SW Atlantic Margin, A.R. Viana, C.M. Hercos, W. De Almeida JR, J.L.C. Magalhases & S.B. De Andrade • Upper slope sands: late Quaternary shallow-water sandy contourites of Campos Basin, SW Atlantic Margin, A.R. Viana, W. De Almeida JR. & C.W. De Almeida • Contourites on the Agulhas Plateau, SW Indian Ocean: indications for the evolution of currents since Palaeogene times, G. Uenzelmann-Neben • The Weddel Sea: contourites and hemipelagites at the northern margin of the Weddell Gyre , C.J. Pudsey • The southern Weddell Sea: combined contourite-turbidite sedimentation at the southeastern margin of the Weddell Gyre, K.H. Michels, G. Kuhn, C.D. Hillenbrand, B. Diekmann, D.K. Futterer, H. Grobe &G. Uenzelmann-Neben • Mixed biosiliceous-terrigenous sedimentation under the Antarctic Circumpolar Current, Scotia Sea, C.J. Pudsey & J.A. Howe • Contourite sedimentation in the Falkland Trough, western South Atlantic, A.P. Cunningham, J.A. Howe & P.F. Barker • Sediment drifts and deep-sea channel system, Antarctic Peninsula Pacific Margin, M. Rebesco, C.J. Pudsey, M. Canals, A. Camerlenghi, P.F. Barker, F. Estrade & A. Giorgetti • Current controlled deposition on the Wilkes Lane continental rise, Antarctica, C. Escutia, C.H. Nelson, G.D. Acton, S.L. Eittreim, A.K. Cooper, D.A. Warnke & J.M. Jaramillo • Eastern New Zealand drifts, Miocene-Recent, L. Carter & I.N. McCave • Neogene contourites, Miura-Boso forearc basin, SE Japan, D.A.V. Stow, Y. Ogawa, I.T. Lee & K. Mitsuzawa • Kuroshio Current-influenced sandy contourites from the Plio-Pleistocene Kazusa forearc basin, Boso Peninsula, Japan, M. Ito • Ordovician carbonate contourite drifts in Hunan and Gansu Provinces, China, S. Luo, Z. Gao, Y. He & D.A.V. Stow • Fossil contourites: type example from an Oligocene palaeoslope system, Cyprus, D.AV. Stow, G. Kahler & M. Reeder • Index •