Paleogene plate tectonic evolution of the Arabian and Eastern Somali basins, J Y Royer, A K Chaubey, J Dyment, G C Bhattacharya, K Srinivas, V Yatheesh and T Ramprasad • Seismic stratigraphy and correlation of major regional unconformities in the northern Arabian Sea, C Gaedicke, A Prexl, H U Schluter, H Meyer, H Roeser and P D Clift • Tectonic geomorphology of the Gulf of Oman Basin, E Uchupi, S A Swift and D A Ross • Paleogene magnetic isochrons and palaeo-propagators in the Arabian and Eastern Somali basins, Northwest Indian Ocean, A K Chaubey, J Dyment, G C Bhattacharya, J Y Royer, K Srinivas and V Yatheesh • Constraints on India-Eurasia collision in the Arabian Sea region taken from the Indus Group, Ladakh Himalaya, India, P D Clift, A Carter, M Krol and E Kirby • Basalt and peridotite recovered from Murray Ridge: are they of supra-subduction origin? K P Burgath, U Von Rad, W Van Der Linden, M Block, A A Khan H Roeser and W Weiss • Gas hydrates acting as cap rock to fluid discharge in the Makran accretionary prism? G Delisle and U Berner • A summary of the geology of the Iranian Makran, G J H McCall • The geometry of structures in the Zagros cover rocks and its neotectonic implications, Y Sattarzadeh and J W Cosgrove • Quaternary sedimentation on the Makran margin: turbidity current-hemipelagic interaction in an active slope-apron system, D A V Stow, A R Tabrez and M A Prins • A brief history of the Indus River, P D Clift • Seismic stratigraphy of the offshore Indus Basin, T Daley and Z Alam • Sequence stratigraphy of the southern Kirthar Fold Belt and Middle Indus Basin, Pakistan, J D Smewing, J Warbuton, T Daley, P Copestake and N Ul-Haq • Quaternary climatic changes over southern Arabia and the Thar Desert, India, K W Glennie, A K Singhvi, N Lancaster and J T Teller • Calcareous cyst-producing dinoflagellates: ecology and aspects of cyst preservation in a highly productive oceanic region, I Wendler, K A F Zonneveld and H Willems • Centennial-millennial scale monsoon variations off Somalia over the last 35 ka, S J A Jung, K Ivanova, G J Reichart, G R Davies, G Ganssen, D Kroon and J E V Hinte • Monsoon-driven export fluxes and early diagenesis of particulate nitrogen and its delta15N across the Somalia margin, G J A Brummer, H T Kloosterhuis and W Helder • Late Quaternary highstand deposits of the southern Arabian Gulf: a record of sea level and climate change, A H Williams and G M Walkden • Varves, turbidites and cycles in upper Holocene sediments (Makran Slope, northern Arabian Sea), U Von Rad, W Van Der Linden, A A Khan, W H Berger, D Rammlmair and U Treppke • Periodical breakdown of the Arabian Sea oxygen minimum zone caused by deep convective mixing, G J Reichart, J Nortier, G Versteegh and W J Zachariasse • Formation of varve-like laminae off Pakistan: decoding five years of sedimentation, A Luckge, L Reinhardt, H Andruleit, H Dose-Rolinski, U Von Rad, H Schulz and U Treppke • On the evolution of the oxygen minimum zone in the Arabian Sea during the Holocene and its relation to the South Asian Monsoon, M Staubwasser and P Dulski • Discovery of the Toba Ash (c. 70 ka) in a high-resolution core recovering millennial monsoonal variability off Pakistan, U Von Rad, K P Burgath, M Pervaz and H Schulz • The seasonal vertical distribution of living planktic foraminifera in the NW Arabian Sea, F J C Peeters and G J A Brummer • Planktic foraminifera, particle flux and oceanic productivity off Pakistan, NE Arabian Sea: modern analogues and application to the palaeoclimatic record, H Schulz, U Von Rad and V Ittekkot •