Shear zones - an introduction and overview, G I Alsop and R E Holdsworth • Shear zones in the upper mantle: Evidence from alpine- and ophiolite-type periodotite massifs, A H Dijkstra, M R Drury, R L M Vissers, J Newman and H L M Van Roermund • Instability and localization of deformation in lower crust granulites, Minas fault zone, Nova Scotia, Canada, J C White • Microstructural evolution in a mylonitic quartz simple shear zone: the significant roles of dauphine twinning and misorientation, G E Lloyd • The application of GIS to unravel patterns of deformation in high grade terrains: a case study of indentor tectonics from west Greenland, S Piazolo,G I Alsop, B Moller, B Nielsen and J A M Van Gool • Rheology of a two-phase material with applications to partially molten rocks, plastic deformation and saturated soils, J L Vigneresse • A comparison of structural data and seismic images for low-angle normal faults in the Northern Apennines (Central Italy): constraints on activity, C Collettini and M R Barchi • Shear deformation of pelitic rocks in a large-scale natural fault, E Casciello, M Cesarano and J W Cosgrove • Insights from the Ocean Drilling Program on shear and fluid-flow at the mega-faults between actively converging plates, A Maltman and P Vannucchi • Contrasting styles of fluid-rock interaction within the West Fissure Zone in northern Chile, C Janssen, V Luders and A Hoffmann-Rothe • Ductile shearing, hydrous fluid channelling and high pressure metamorphism along the basement-cover contact on Sikinos, Cyclades, Greece, S Gupta and M J Bickle • Shear zone folds: records of flow perturbation or structural inheritance? G I Alsop and R E Holdsworth • Geometric and kinematic analysis of a transpression terrane boundary: Minas fault system, Nova Scotia, Canada, E A MacInnes and J C White • Development of local orthorhombic fabrics within a simple-shear dominated sinistral transpression zone: the Arronches sheared gneisses (Iberian Massif, Portugal), M F Pereira and J B Silva • Deformation in a complex crustal-scale shear zone: Errabiddy Shear Zone, Western Australia, S A Occhipinti and S M Reddy • Strain and vorticity analysis of transpressional high-strain zones from the Virginia Piedmont, USA, C M Bailey, B E Francis and E E Fahrney • Constraints on kinematics and strain from feldspar porphyroclast populations, S Giorgis and B Tikoff • Strain removal within the Hercynian Shear Belt of central Brittany (Western France): Methodology and tectonic implications, C Gumiaux, J P Brun and D Gapais • Strain and deformation history in a syntectonic pluton. The case of the Roses granodiorite (Cap de Creus, Eastern Pyrenees), J Carreras, E Druguet, A Griera and J Soldevila • Shear zones and metamorphic signature of subducted continental crust as tracers of the evolution of the Corsica/Northern Apennine orogenic system, G Molli and R Tribuzio • Crenulation-slip development in a Caledonian shear zone in NW Ireland: evidence for a multi-stage movement history, D M Chew, J S Daly, M J Flowerdew, M Kennedy and L M Page • Brittle-ductile shear zone evolution and fault initiation in limestones, Monte Cugnone (Lucania), southern Apennines, Italy, S Mazzoli, C Invernizzi, L Marchegiani, L Mattioni and G Cello •