Preface • Extensional tectonics in the Jeanne d' Arc Basin, offshore Newfoundland: Implications for the timing of break-up between Grand Banks and Iberia, N W Driscoll, J R Hogg, N Christie-Blick & G D Karner • Sequence strati graphic response to Aptian-Albian rifting in conjugate margin basins: a comparison of the Jeanne d' Arc Basin, offshore Newfoundland, and the Porcupine Basin, offshore Ireland, I K Sinclair • Early Tertiary evolution and sequence stratigraphy of the Faeroe-Shetland Basin: implications for hydrocarbon prospectivity, C C Ebdon, P G Granger, H Johnson & A M Evans • The formation of passive margins: constraints from the crus tal structure and segmentation of the deep Galicia margin, Spain, G Boillot, M O Beslier, C M Krawczyk, D Rappin, & T J Reston • Detachment tectonics during Atlantic rifting: analysis and interpretation of the S reflection, the west Galicia margin, T J Reston, C M Krawczyk, & H-J Hoffmann • Seismic investigation of the Faeroe basalts and their substratum, L Kiorboe & S A Petersen • Seismic stratigraphy of the Bill Bailey and Lousy Bank area: implications for subsidence history, K V Anneste, J-P Henriet, J Posewang & F Theilen • Effect of Eocene-Miocene compression structures on bottom-water currents in the Faeroe-Rockall area, M S Andersen & L O Boldreel • The relationship between the distribution of Tertiary sediments, tectonic processes and deep-water circulation around the Faeroe Islands, L O Boldreel & M S Andersen • The influence of glacigenic sedimentation on slope-apron development on the continental margin off Northwest Britain, M S Stoker • Petrography and biostratigraphy of Palaeogene volcaniclastic sediments dredged from the Faeroes shelf, R W Aagstein & C Heilmann-Clausen • Evolution of a major oceanographic pathway: the equatorial Atlantic, E J W Jones, S C Cande & F Spathopoulos • Tertiary compression structures in the Faeroe-Rockall area, M S Andersen & L O Boldreel • Plio-Pleistocene radiolarian biostratigraphy and palaeoceanography of the North Atlantic, S K Haslett • The tephrochronology and radiocarbon dating of North Atlantic, late Quaternary sediments: an example from the St Kilda Basin, J B Hunt, N G T Fannin, P G Hill & J D Peacock • Tertiary structuration and erosion of the Inner Moray Firth, K Thomson & R P Hillis • Palaeobathymetric reconstruction on a gridded database: the northern North Atlantic and southern Greenland-Iceland-Norwegian Sea, C N Wold • Index