Foreword • Characterization of fluvial and Aeolian reservoirs: problems and approaches, C.P. North & D.J. Prosser • Fluvial Reservoirs • Tectonic controls upon drainage basin development, river channel migration and alluvial architecture: implications for hydrocarbon reservoir development and characterization, M.R. Leeder • Palaeosols and sandbody prediction in alluvial sequences, M.J. Kraus & T.M. Bown • Fluvial scour and incision: models for their influence on the development of realistic reservoir geometries, T. Salter • Quantitative regime modeling of fluvial depositional sequences: application to Holocene stratigraphy of humid-glacial braid-plains (Icelandic sandurs), J.K. Maizels • Outcrop data-base for the geological characterization of fluvial reservoirs: an example from distal fluvial fan deposits in the Loranca Basin, Spain, M.C. Cuevas Gozalo & A.W. Martinius • Dimensions and quality of reservoirs originating in low and high sinuosity channel system, Lower Cretaceous Travis Peak Formation, East Texas, USA, D.K. Davies, B.P.J. Williams & R.K. Vessell • The complex nature of a Hurassic multistory, alluvial sandstone body, Whitby, North Yorkshire, J. Alexander & R.L. Gawthorpe. • Reservoir characteristics of a braid-plain depositional system: the Upper Carboniferous Pennant Sandstone of South Wales, J.A. Jones & A.J. Hartley. • Cyclical discharge variation recorded in alluvial sediments; an example from the Devonian of southwest Ireland, S.B. Kelly • Aeolian Reservoirs • A review of Aeolian bounding surfaces, with examples from the Permian Minnelusa Formation, USA, S.G. Fryberger • Contrasting styles of fluvial-aeolian interaction at a downwind erg margin: Jurassic Kayenta-Navajo transition, northeastern Arizona, USA, R.D. Herries • Mixed aeolian sandsheet and fluvial deposits in the Tumblagooda Sandstone, Western Australia, N.H. Trewin • Identification and significance of Aeolian deposits within the dominantly fluvial Sherwood Sandstone Group of the East Irish Sea Basin, UK, G. Cowan • Structural and climatic controls on facies distribution in a mixed fluvial and Aeolian reservoir: the Triassic Sherwood Sandstone in the Irish Sea, N.S. Meadows & A. Beach • The Rough Gas Field: distribution of Permian Aeolian and non-aeolian reservoir facies and their impact of field development D. Ellis • Diagenesis of Triassic Sherwood Sandstone Group rocks, Preston, Lancashire, UK: a possible evaporate cement precursor to secondary porosity? G.T. George & J.K. Berry • Production evidence for geological heterogeneities in the Anschutz Ranch East Field, western USA, H. Lewis & G.D. Couples • Comparmentalization of an Aeolian sandstone by structural heterogeneities: Permo-Triassic Hopeman Sandstone, Moray firth, Scotland, H.E. Edwards A.D. Becker & J.A. Howell • Methods • Modelling fluid flow through geologically realistic media L.W. Lake & M.A. Malik • Permeability variation within Aeolian sandstones: a case study using core cut sub-parallel to slipface bedding, The Auk Field, Central North Sea, UK, D.J. Prosser & R. Maskall • Palaeomagnetic study and magnetostratigraphy of the Triassic Skagerrak Formation, Crawford Field, UK North Sea, D. Rey, P., P. Turner & A Yaliz. • Ground penetrating radar: application to sandbody geometry and heterogeneity studies, R.L. Gawthorpe, R.E.Ll. Collier, J. Alexander, J.S. Bridge & M.R. Leeder • Quantification of variability in laminated sediments: a role for the probe permeameter in improved reservoir characterization, R.W.M. Corbett & J.L. Jensen •