Introduction: aspects of the geological evolution of the Eastern Mediterranean • Palaeotethys • Editor's introduction • Tectonics of the Mediterranean Cimmerides: nature and evolution of the western termination of Palaeo-Tethys • Evidence for a Late Triassic-Early Jurassic orogenic event in the Taurides • Facies and tectonic setting of the Upper Carboniferous rocks of northwestern Turkey • Stratigraphic evidence of Variscan and early Alpine tectonics in southern Turkey • Neotethys: the Levant • Editor's introduction • Evolution of a Mesozoic passive continental margin: Baër-Bassit (NW Syria) • Tectonic and sedimentary history of the NE African margin (Egypt-Libya) • The Hercynian geanticline of helez and the Late Palaeozoic history of the Levant • Permian-early Mesozoic tectonism and continental margin formation in Israel and its implications for the history of the Eastern Mediterranean • Evidence for Early- Middle Triassic faulting and possible rifting from the Helez Deep Borehole in the coastal plain of Israel • Emergence of Wadi Mujib (Central Jordan) during Lower Cenomanian time and its regional tectonic implications • The Arabian sub-plate during the Mesozoic • Ophiolites and volcanic activity near the western edge of the Arabian plate • Neotethys: Turkey • Editor's introduction •The extension of the Ionian trough into southwestern Turkey • The SW segment of the Antalya complex, Turkey as a Mesozoic-Tertiary Tethyan continental margin • Structural history of the Antalya Complex in the 'Isparta angle', Southwest Turkey • Miocene clastic sedimentation related to the emplacement of the Lycian Nappes and the Antalya Complex, SW Turkey • Role of the Eastern Mediterranean ophiolites (Turkey, Syria, Cyprus) in the history of the Neo-Tethys • Mylonitic ductile shear zones within tectonites and cumulates as evidence for an oceanic transform fault in the Antalya ophiolite, SW Turkey • Fossil and K-Ar data for the age of the Antalya Complex, SW Turkey • The Mesozoic organization of the Taurides: one or several ocean basins? • Tauric subduction (Malatya-Elazig provinces) and its bearing on tectonics of the Tethyan realm in Turkey • The Maden Complex, Se Turkey: evolution of a Neotethyan active margin • Rb-Sr geochronology of the Bitlis Massif, Avnik (Bingöl) area, SE Turkey • The Eastern Pontide volcano-sedimentary belt and associated massive sulphide deposits • HP/LT metamorphism and the structure of the Alanya Massif, Southern Turkey: an allochthonous composite tectonic sheet • he role of the Ankara Melange in the development of Anatolia (Turkey) • Basic and ultra basic rocks from the Ankara Melange, Turkey • Distribution and characteristics of the north-west Turkish Blueschists • Palaeo-tectonic evoultion of the Tuzgölü basin complex, Central Turkey: sedimentary record of a Neo-Tethyan closure • Geodynamic evolution of Turkey and Cyprus based on palaeomagnetic data • Neotethys: Greece and the Balkan • Editor's introduction • The significance of Crete for the evolution of the Eastern Mediterranean • Correlation of the Hellenides nappes in the south-east Aegean and their tectonic reconstruction • High-pressure rocks of Samos, Greece • High pressure metamorphism in Ghiaros Island, Cyclades, Greece • The significance of deformation associated with blueschist facies metamorphism on the Aegean island of Syros • The three metamorphic belts of the Hellenides: a review and a kinematic interpretation • Tectonic setting of the Mesozoic Pindos Basin of the Peloponnese, Greece • Origins and significance of rocks in an imbricate thrust zone beneath the Pindos ophiolite, northwestern Greece • Structural evolution of the Pelagonian zone in northwestern Macedonia, Greece • Pre-Neogene nappe structure and metamorphism of the North Sporades and the southern Pelion peninsula • Metamorphosed ophiolitic rocks from the Serbo-Macedonian Massif, near Lake Volvi, north-east Greece • Age constraints on the igneous and metamorphic evolution of the Hellenic-Dinaric ophiolites • A half-ridge transform model for the Hellenic-Dinaric ophiolites • Tectonic implications of palaeomagnetic results for the Carpatho-Balkan and adjacent areas • Neogene • Editor's introduction • Paleogeography and palinspastic reconstructions of the Neogene of the Mediterranean and Paraththys • Palaeomagnetic evidence of Miocene and Pliocene rotational deformations of the Aegean Area • Palaeomagnetic data from Tertiary units of the north Aegean zone • Tertiary to Quaternary evolution of volcanism in the Aegean region • Graben formation and associated seismicity in the Gulf of Korinth (Central Greece) • Tectonic evolution of the North Aegean trough • Subsidence history of the North Aegean Trough • Rotational mechanisms of active deformation in Greece and Iran • Listric normal faulting and the reconstruction of the synmetamorphic structural pile of the Cyclades • Neotectonic deformation patterns in the convex-northwards arc of the North Anatolian fault zone • The Western Arabia rift system • On the Neogene development of the Eastern Mediterranean basins • Pliocene lacustrine sediments in the volcanic succession of Almopias, Macedonia, Greece • Sapropelic layers in the NW Aegean Sea • A middle Miocene thermal event in northern Greece confirmed by coalification measurements • Neogene to Quaternary geodynamics of the area of the Ionian Sea and surrounding land masses