Introduction • Simplification of the Southwest Pacific Neogene arcs: inherited complexity and control by a retreating pole of rotation • The kinematics of backarc basins, examples from the Tyrrhenian, Aegean & Japan seas • Petrology of Ordovician and Silurian sediments in the Western Irish Caledonides: tracers of short-lived Ordovician continent-arc collision orogeny and the evolution of the Laurentian Appalachiann/ Caledonian margin • Regional geochemistry, terrane analysis and metallogeny in the British Caledonides • Taconian seismogenic deformation in Appalalchian orogen and the North American craton • Thermal and mechanical models for the structural and metamorphic evolution of the Zanskar High Himalaya • Separate episodes of eclogite and blueschist facies metamorphism in the Aegean metamorphic core complex of Ios, Cyclades, Greece • The Northern Sacramento mountains, southwest United Sates, part I: structural profile through a crustal extensional system • The Northern Sacramento mountains, southwest United States, part II: exhumation history and detachment faulting • Evolution and development of the Levant (Dead Sea Rift) Transform System: a historical-chronological review of a structural controversy • The Lithospheric structure of the Kenya Rift as revealed by wide-angle seismic measurements • Style, timing and distribution of tectonic deformation across the Exmouth Plateau, northwest Australia, determining from stratal architecture and quantitative basin modelling • Structural and magmatic segmentation of the teriary east Greenland volcanic rifted margin • Index