Introduction • Subduction-related accretionary wedges (B-type subduction): Evaluation of exhumation mechanisms for coherent blueschists in western Baja California, Mexico • Ductile deformation and mass loss in the Franciscan Subduction Complex: implications for exhumation processes in accretionary wedges • Miocene high-pressure metamorphic rocks of Crete, Greece: rapid exhumation by buoyant escape • Oscillating modes of orogeny in the Southwest Pacific and the tectonic evolution of New Caledonia • Exhumation of the Sanbagawa blueschist belt, SW Japan by lateral flow and extrusion: evidence from structural kinematics and retrograde P-T-t paths • Collisional belts and intra-continental convergence (A-type subduction): Spatial and temporal variations in exhumation of the central Swiss Alps and implications for exhumation mechanisms • Exhumation of migmatites in two collapsed orogens: Canadian Cordillera and French Variscides • Diapiric ascent and cooling of a sillimanite gneiss revealed by 40Ar/39Ar thermochronology: the Kigluaik Mountains, Seward Peninsula, Alaska • Exposure of deep, dense rocks: interplay between erosion and sinking • Geological and geochronological constraints on the exhumation of a high-pressure metamorphic terrane, Oman • New insight into the dynamic development of the Southern Alps, New Zealand, from detailed thermochronological investigation of the Mataketake Range pegmatites • Exhumation history of orogenic highlands determined by detrital fission-track thermochronology • Lithospheric extension: divergent plate motions (rifting): Detachment faults in the Aegean core complex of Ios, Cyclades, Greece • Controls on pseudotachylyte formation during tectonic exhumation in the South Mountains metamorphic core complex, Arizona • Quantifying tectonic exhumation in an extensional orogen with thermochronology: examples from the southern Basin and Range Province