Introduction to the development, evolution and petroleum geology of the Wessex Basin • Hydrocarbon Habitat:The exploration history and controls on hydrocarbon prospectivity in the Wessex Basins, Southern England, UK • The tectono-stratigraphic development and exploration history of the Weald and Wessex Basins, Southern England • The geological history of the Wessex Basin: a review of new information from oil exploration • Stratigraphic Synthesis: The lithostratigraphy and biostratigraphy of the latest Triassic to earliest Cretaceous of the English Channel and its adjacent areas • A proposed latest Triassic to earliest Cretaceous microfossil biozonation for the English Channel and its adjacent areas • Sequence palynology in the Wessex basin: the Lower Jurassic strata (Sinemurian to Pliensbachian stages) of the Dorset Coast, England • Regional Studies: Regional uplift in the English Channel: quantification using sonic velocity data • Multiple heating episodes in the Wessex Basin: implications for geological evolution and hydrocarbon generation • Erosion, subsidence and sedimentation response to the Early Cretaceous uplift of the Wessex Basin and adjacent offshore areas • Structural Studies: Influence of salt on the structural evolution of the Channel Basin • Inversion tectonics in the Lyme Bay–West Dorset area of the Wessex Basin • The structural development of the Central Channel High: constraints from section restoration • Fault distribution analysis: an example from Kimmeridge Bay, Dorset, UK • Kinematics and geometry of the Watchet–Cothelstone–Hatch Fault System: implications for the structural history of the Wessex Basin and adjacent areas • Sedimentological Advances: Tectonic accentuation of sequence boundaries: evidence from the Lower Cretaceous of southern England • The Basal Wealden of Mupe Bay: a new model • Towards an integrated study of the depositional environment of the Bencliff Grit (Upper Jurassic) of Dorset • Petroleum Geochemistry:Biodegradation of oils in the Wessex Basin: a complication of correlation • The Mupe Bay Oil Seep: a deiled organic geochemical study of a controversial outcrop • Oil Field Case Histories • Reservoir architecture of the upper Sherwood Sandstone, Wytch Farm Field, southern England • The Kimmeridge Oil Field: an enigma demystified