Geochronology: linking the isotopic record with petrology and textures—an introduction, D Vance, W Müller and I M Villa • Metamorphic monazite and the generation of P-T-t paths, G Foster and R R Parrish • Rare earth elements in zircon: a review of applications and case studies from the Outer Hebridean Lewisian Complex, NW Scotland, M J Whitehouse • Linking growth episodes of zircon and metamorphic textures to zircon chemistry: an example from the ultrahigh-temperature granulites of Rogaland (SW Norway), A Möller, P J O'Brien, A Kennedy and A Kröner • Improving precision of Sm–Nd garnet dating by H2SO4 leaching: a simple solution to the phosphate inclusion problem, R Anczkiewicz and M F Thirlwall • Oxygen isotope equilibrium between ultrahigh-pressure metamorphic minerals and its constraints on Sm–Nd and Rb–Sr chronometers, Y-F Zheng, Z-F Zhao, S G Li and B Gong • Integration of phase equilibria modelling and garnet Sm–Nd chronology for construction of P-T-t paths: examples from the Cordilleran Coast Plutonic Complex, USA, H H Stowell and D K Tinkham • Effect of metamorphic reaction history on the U-Pb dating of titanite, R L Romer and J Rötzler • Evidence from Rb–Sr microsampling geochronology for the timing of Alpine deformation in the Sonnblick Dome, SE Tauern Window, Austria, R A Cliff and S Meffan-Main • The use of dynamic reaction cell ICP mass spectrometry to facilitate Rb–Sr age determination, F Vanhaecke, G De Wannemacker, L Balcaen and L Moens • Natural constraints on metamorphic reaction rates, E F Baxter • Melt segregation rates in migmatites: review and critique of common approaches, L M Kriegsman and A I Nyström • Prograde and retrograde reactions, garnet zoning patterns, and accessory phase behaviour in SW Finland migmatites, with implications for geochronology, A I Nyström and L M Kriegsman • 40Ar/39Ar ages in mantle xenolith phlogopites: determining the ages of multiple lithospheric mantle events and diatreme ascent rates in southern Africa and Malaita, Solomon Islands, J-A Wartho and S P Kelley • Stacking fault-enhanced argon diffusion in naturally deformed muscovite, N Kramar, M Cosca, P-A Buffat and L P Baumgartner