Non-volcanic rifted margins, continental break-up and the onset of seafloor spreading: some outstanding questions • Propagation of continental break-up in the south-western South China Sea • Nature of the continent-ocean transition on the non-volcanic rifted margin of the central Great Australian Bight • Development of the continental margins of the Labrador Sea – a review • The role of syn-rift magmatism in the rift-to-drift evolution of the west Iberia continental margin: geophysical observations • Subsidence, deformation, and thermal and mechanical evolution of the Mesozoic south-alpine rifted margin: an analogue for Atlantic-type margins • Petrochemistry of serpentinized peridotite from the Iberia Abyssal Plain (ODP Leg 173): its character intermediate between sub-oceanic and sub-continental upper mantle • Petrology and geochemistry of exhumed peridotites and gabbros at non-volcanic margins: ODP Leg 173 west Iberia ocean-continent transition zone • The evolution of amphibolites from Site 1067, ODP Leg 173 (Iberia Abyssal Plain): Jurassic rifting to the Pyrenean collision; Palaeomagnetic and rock magnetic results from serpentized peridotites beneath the Iberia Abyssal Plain • The Steinmann Trinity revisited: mantle exhumation and magmatism along an ocean-continent transition: the Platta nappe, eastern Switzerland • The role of lower crust and continental upper mantle during formation of non-volcanic passive continental margins: evidence from the Alps • A tale of two kinds of normal fault: the importance of strain weakening in fault development • Evidence for seismogenic normal faults at shallow dips in continental rifts • Deformation fabrics of faulted rocks, and some syntectonic stress estimates from active Woodlark Basin detachment zone (ODP Leg 180); Evolution of Miocene-Recent Woodlark Rift Basin, SW Pacific, inferred from sediments drilled during OLP Leg 180 • 40Ar/39Ar ages of fallout tephra layers and volcaniclastic deposits in the sedimentary succession of western Woodlark Basin, Papua New Guinea: the marine record of Miocene-Pleistocene volcanism • Micropalaeontological and palaeomagnetic approaches to stratigraphic anomalies in rift basins: ODP site 1109, Woodlark Basin • The role of detachment faulting in the formation of an ocean-continent transition: insights from the Iberia Abyssal Plain • Rifting along non-volcanic passive margins: stratigraphic and seismic evidence from the Mesozoic successions of the Alps and western Iberia • Tectonic evolution of the north-western Red Sea – Gulf of the Suez rift system • Transfer zones normal and oblique to rift trend: examples from the Perth Basin, western Australia • Patterns of extension and magmatism along the continent-ocean boundary, South China margin • Geodynamic models of continental extension and the formation of non-volcanic rifted continental margins • Anomalous melt production after continental break-up in the southern Iberia Abyssal Plain • Serpentinization and magmatism during extension at non-volcanic margins - the effect of initial lithospheric structure • Index. Principal authors: G Boillot, Geosciences Azur, France. P Huchon, Ecole Normale superieure & CNRS, France. J Sayers, Australian Geological Survey Organisation, Australia. J A Chalmers, Geological Survey of Denmark & Greenland, Denmark. R B Whitmarsh, Southampton Oceanography Centre, UK. G Bertotti, Vrije Universiteit, Netherlands. A B E Natsue, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan. R Hebert, Universite Laval, Canada. V Gardien, CNRS & UCB, France. X Zhao, University of California, USA. L Desmurs, ETH-Zentrum, Switzerland. O Muntener, ETH-Zurich, Switzerland. W R Buck, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Colombia University, USA. G A Abers, Boston University, USA. S Roller, Universitat Freiburg, Germany. A H F Robertson, University of Edinburgh, UK. K S Lackschewitz, Universitat Bremen, Germany. J M Resig, University of Hawaii, USA. G Manatscahl, Universite Louis Pasteur, France. R C L Wilson, The Open University, UK. S M Khalil, Royal Holoway University of London, UK. T Song, Curtin University, Australia. P D Clift, Woods Hole Oceanographic Insitution, USA. J C Bowling, University of Alabama, USA. T A Minshull, University of Southampton, UK. M Perez-Guissinye, Geomar FZ, Germany.