Preface • Mineralization, hydrocarbons and diagenesis • JOHNSTON, J. D., COLLER, D., MILLAR, G. & CRITCHLEY, M. F. Basement structural controls on Carboniferous-hosted base metal mineral deposits in Ireland • SHEARLEY, E., REDMOND, P., KING, M. & GOOD MAN, R. Geological controls on mineralization and dolomitization of the Lisheen Zn-Pb-Ag Deposit, Co. Tipperary, Ireland • HOLLIS, C. & W ALKDEN, G. The use of burial diagenetic calcite cements to determine the controls upon hydrocarbon emplacement and mineralization on a carbonate platform, Derbyshire, England • VEALE, C. & PARNELL, J. Metal-organic interactions in the Dinantian Solway Basin, UK: inferences for oil migration studies • Carbonate buildups and Waulsortian mud-mounds • PICKARD, N. A. H. Evidence for microbial influence on the development of Lower Carboniferous buildups •AHR, W. M. & STANTON, R. J. JR. Constituent composition of Early Mississippian carbonate buildups and their level-bottom equivalents, Sacramento Mountains, New Mexico • KIRKBY, K. C. & HUNT, D. Episodic growth of a Waulsortian buildup: the Lower Carboniferous Muleshoe Mound, Sacramento Mountains, New Mexico, USA • JEFFERY, D. L. & STANTON, R. J. JR. Biotic gradients on a homoclinal ramp: the Alamogordo Member of the Lake Valley Formation, Lower Mississippian, New Mexico, USA • SOMERVILLE, 1. D., STROGEN, P., JONES, G. LL. & SOMERVILLE, H. E. A. Late Visean buildups at Kingscourt, Ireland: possible precursors for Upper Carboniferous bioherms • RODRIGUEZ, S. Development of coral reef-facies during the Visean at Los Santos de Maimona, SW Spain • Siliciclastic rocks • MORENO, c., SIERRA, S. & SAEZ, R. Evidence for catastrophism at the FamennianDinantian boundary in the Iberian Pyrite Belt • MAGUIRE, K., THOMPSON, J. & GOWLAND, S. Dinantian depositional environments along the northern margin of the Solway Basin • GRAHAM, J. R. Dinantian river systems and coastal zone sedimentation in northwest Ireland • Carbonate platforms and ramps • RIZZI, G. & BRAITHWAITE, c. J. R. Cyclic emersion surfaces and channels within Dinantian limestones hosting the giant Navan Zn-Pb deposit, Ireland • HORBURY, A. D. & ADAMS, A. E. Microfacies associations in Asbian carbonates: an example from the Urswick Limestone Formation of the southern Lake District, northern England