Dedication • Introduction: Southern hemisphere palaeobathymetry • Southern hemisphere Miocene bottom water circulation: a palaeobathymetric analysis • A model of early to middle Miocene deep ocean circulation for the Atlantic and Indian oceans • Mid-Cretaceous radiolarian zonation for the North Atlantic - an example of oceanographically controlled evolutionary processes in the marine biosphere? • Low-latitude Plio-Pleistocene temporal abundance variations in the radiolarian • Cycladophora davisiana Ehrenberg: stratigraphic and palaeoceanographic significance • Intra-interglacial cold events: an Eemian-Holocene comparison • Two 30,000 year high-resolution grayvalue time-series from the Santa Barbara Basin and the Guaymas Basin • Equatorial Western Atlantic Ocean circulation changes linked to the Heinrich events: deep-sea evidence from the Amazon Fan • Timing of the late Quaternary Amazon Fan Complex mass-transport deposits • Mineralogy and geochemistry of Bay of Bengal deep sea fan sediments, ODP Leg 116: evidence for an Indian subcontinent contribution to distal fan sedimentation • Structure and tectonics of intermediate spread oceanic crust drilled at DSDP/ODP Holes 504B and 896A, Costa Rica Rift • Sediment accumulation rates from deep tow profiler records and DSDP Leg 70 cores over the Galapagos spreading centre • Sedimentary evidence relating to the tectonic evolution of the Lau Basin, SW Pacific, from ODP Sites 834-839 (ODP Leg 135) • Hydrothermal inputs at ODP Sites 836,837,838 and 839 in relation to Eastern Lau Spreading Centre propagation in the Lau Basin, southwest Pacific • Collision-related break up of a carbonate platform (Eratosthenes Seamount) and mud volcanism on the Mediterranean Ridge: preliminary synthesis and implications of tectonic results of ODP Leg 160 in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea • Rare earth element anomalies in the Nankai Accretionary Prism, Japan • Application of FMS images in the Ocean Drilling Program: an overview • A statistical study of hydraulic piston coring, ODP Legs 101-149 • Index