Sedimentary responses to forced regressions: an introduction • Concepts and Models • The falling stage systems tract: recognition and importance in sequence stratigraphic analysis • Aspects of the stratal architecture of forced regressive deposits • Palaezoic-Mesozoic • Carbonate megabreccias in a sequence stratigraphic context: evidence from the Cambrian of north Greenland • Shingled, sharp-based sandstones and stepwise forced regression during sea-elevel fall in a shallow basin, Upper Tirassic Gassum Formation, Denmark • The significance of Etive Formation in the development of the Brent system: a review of the likelihood of forced regression during progradation • Forced regressions: recognition, architecture and genesis in the Campanian of the Bighorn Basin, Wyoming • Style contrast between forced regressive and lowstand/transgressive wedges in the Campian of south-central Wyoming • Forward modelling of forced regressions: evidence for the genesis of attached and detached lowstand systems • Cenozoic • Tectonically enhanced forced regressions: examples from the growth folds in extensional and compressional settings, the Miocene of the Suez rift and the Eocene of the Pyranees • Recognition of forced regressions in cyclothemic strata: a Plio-Pleistocene case study from eastern North Island, New Zealand • 2000/Response of late Pliocene-Early Pleistocene mixed carbonate-clastic temperate-water systems to forced regressions: the Calcarenite di Gravina Formation, Puglia, SE Italy • Quaternary forced-regression deposits in the Adriatic Basin and the record of composite sea-level cycles • Depositional response to Quaternary fourth-order sea-level falls in the Latium margin (Tyrrhenian Sea, Italy) • Sequence stratigraphy and architecture of the late Pleistocene Lagniappe delta complex, northeast Gulf of Mexico • Seismic stratigraphy of the Gulf of Cadiz continental shelf: a model for late Quatenary very high-resolution sequence stratigraphy and response to sea-level fall • Along-strike variability of forced regressive deposits: late Quaternary, northern Peloponnesos, Greece • Index Principal authorsA. Guy Plint, University of Western Ontario, CanadaHenry W Posamentier, ARCO AR11, USAJon Ineson, Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland (GEUS), DenmarkLars Hamberg, Dansk Olie- & Naturgas A/S, DenmarkTina R Olsen, University of Bergen, NorwayRoy Fitzsimmons, Conoco Inc., USADonatella Mellere, Statoil , NorwayR. B. Ainsworth, Woodside Energy Ltd, AustraliaDouglas W. Haywick, University of South Alabama, USAMarcello Tropeano, Universita della Basilicata, ItalyFabio Trincardi, Istituto per la Geologia Marina, ItalyFrancesco L. Chiocci, University of Rome, ItalyV. Kolla, Elf Exploration Production, FranceF. J. Hernandez-Molina, Universidad de Cadiz (UCA), SpainLesley S. McMurray, BP Exploration Operating Company Ltd., UK