Origin and evolution of the Ontong Java Plateau: introduction, J G Fitton, J J Mahoney, P J Wallace and A D Saunders • Motion of the Ontong Java Plateau in the hot-spot frame of reference: 122 Ma – Present, L W Kroenke, P Wessel and A Sterling • Modelled palaeolatitudes for the Louisville hot spot and the Ontong Java Plateau, M Antretter, P Riisager, S Hall, X Zhao and B Steinberger • Early Cretaceous Pacific palaeomagnetic pole from Ontong Java Plateau basement rocks, P Riisager, S Hall, M Antretter and X Zhao • Rock magnetic results from Ocean Drilling Program Leg 192: implications for Ontong Java Plateau emplacement and tectonics of the Pacific, X Zhao, M Antretter, P Riisager and S Hall • The geology of north and central Malaita, Solomon Islands: the thickest and most accessible part of the world's largest (Ontong Java) ocean plateau, M G Petterson • Lower Cretaceous planktonic foraminiferal and nannofossil biostratigraphy of Ontong Java Plateau sites from DSDP Leg 30 and ODP Leg 192, P J Sikora and J A Bergen • Calcareous nannofossils from ODP Leg 192, Ontong Java Plateau, J A Bergen • Pin-pricking the elephant: evidence on the origin of the Ontong Java Plateau from Pb-Sr-Hf-Nd isotopic characteristics of ODP Leg 192 basalts, M L G Tejada, J J Mahoney, P R Castillo, S P Ingle, H C Sheth and D Weis • Origin and evolution of magmas on the Ontong Java Plateau, J G Fitton and M Godard • Partial melting below the Ontong Java Plateau, C Herzberg • Experimental petrology of basement lavas from Ocean Drilling Program Leg 192: implications for differentiation processes in Ontong Java Plateau magmas, T Sano and S Yamashita • LIP magma petrogenesis from source to surface: platinum-group element evidence from Ontong Java Plateau basalts recovered during ODP Legs 130 and 192, W J Chazey III and C R Neal • Volatiles in submarine basaltic glasses from the Ontong Java Plateau (ODP Leg 192): implications for magmatic processes and source region compositions, J Roberge, R V White and P J Wallace • Lower-temperature alteration of submarine basalts from the Ontong Java Plateau, N R Banerjee, J Honnorez and K Muehlenbachs • Accretionary-lapilli-bearing pyroclastic rocks at ODP Leg 192 Site 1184: a record of subaerial phreatomagmatic eruptions on the Ontong Java Plateau, T Thordarson • Phreatomagmatic eruptions on the Ontong Java Plateau: chemical and isotopic relationship to Ontong Java Plateau basalts, R V White, P R Castillo, C R Neal, J G Fitton and M Godard • Phreatomagmatic eruptions on the Ontong Java Plateau: an Aptian 40Ar/39Ar age for volcaniclastic rocks at ODP Site 1184, L M Chambers, M S Pringle and J G Fitton • Compositional variability in lavas from the Ontong Java Plateau: results from basalt clasts within the volcaniclastic succession at Ocean Drilling Program Site 1184, J T Shafer, C R Neal and P R Castillo • Geochemistry of Cretaceous volcaniclastic sediments in the Nauru and East Mariana Basins provides insights into the mantle sources of giant oceanic plateaus, P R Castillo •