Current issues and new developments in deformation mechanisms, rheology and tectonics, S De Meer, M R Drury, J H P De Bresser and G M Pennock • Compaction experiments on wet calcite powder at room temperature: evidence for operation of intergranular pressure solution, X Zhang, J Salemans, C J Peach and C J Spiers • Numerical modeling of pressure solution in sandstone, rate limiting processes and the effect of clays, E Gundersen, D K Dysthe, F Renard, K Bjorlykke and B Jamtveit • Compaction creep of quartz-muscovite mixtures at 500 oC: Preliminary results on the influence of muscovite on pressure solution, A R Niemeijer and C J Spiers • In situ experimental study of roughness development at a stressed solid/fluid interface, B Den Brok, J Morel and M Zahid • Fluid-assisted large strains in a crustal-scale decollement (Hercynian Belt of South Brittany, France), F Le Hebel, D Gapais, S Fourcade and R Capdevila • The origin of fibrous veins: constraints from geochemistry, M A Elburg, P D Bons, J Foden and C W Passchier • Effects of stress on the anisotropic development of permeability during mechanical compaction of porous sandstones, W Zhu, L G J Montesi and TF Wong • The numerical simulation of microstructure, M W Jessell and P D Bons • Dominance of microstructural processes and their effect on microstructural development: Insights from numerical modelling of dynamic recrystallization, S Piazolo, P D Bons, M W Jessell, L Evans and C W Passchier • Dynamic recrystallization of quartz: correlation between natural and experimental conditions, M Stipp, H Stunitz, R Heilbronner and S M Schmid • The effect of static annealing on microstructures and crystallographic preferred orientations of quartzites experimentally deformed in axial compression and shear, R Heilbronner and J Tullis • Textures and microstructures of naturally deformed amphibolites from the northern Cascades, NW USA: methodology and megional aspects, B Leiss, H R Groger, K Ullemeyer and H Lebit • Quantitative texture analysis of glaucophanite deformed under eclogite facies conditions (Sesia-Lanzo Zone, Western Alps): comparison between X-ray and neutron diffraction analysis, M Zucali, D Chateigner, M Dugnani, L Lutterotti and B Ouladdiaf • Stress and deformation in subduction zones - insight from the record of exhumed metamorphic rocks, B Stockhert • Non-linear feedback loops in the rheology of cooling-crystallising felsic magma and heating-melting felsic rock, J L Vigneresse • Do calcite rocks obey the power-law creep equation? B Evans and J Renner • On estimating the strength of calcite rocks under natural conditions, J H P De Bresser, B Evans and J Renner • The influence of dynamic recrystallization on the grain size distribution and rheological behaviour of Carrara marble deformed in axial compression, J H Ter Heege, J H P De Bresser and C J Spiers • Deformation of the continental lithospere: insights from brittle-ductile transition, J-P Brun • Evidence for steady fault-accommodated strain in the High Himalaya: progressive fault rotation of the southern Tibet detachment system in NW Bhutan, G Wiesmayr, M A Edwards, M Meyer, W S F Kidd, D Leber, H Hausler and D Wangda • Strain localization by fracturing and reaction weakening - A mechanism for initiating exhumation of subcontinental mantle beneath rifted margins, M R Handy and H Stunitz •