Palaeozoic Amalgamation of Central Europe: an introduction and synthesis of new results from recent geological and geophysical investigations, J A Winchester, T C Pharaoh and J Verniers • Accretion of first Gondwana-derived terranes at the margin of Baltica, Z Belka, P Valverde-Vaquero, W Dorr, H Ahrendt, K Wemmer, W Franke and J Schafer • Key Lower Palaeozoic faunas from near the Trans-European Suture Zone, L R M Cocks • The Cambrian to mid Devonian basin development and deformation history of Eastern Avalonia, east of the Midlands Microcraton: new data and a review, J Verniers, T C Pharaoh, L Andre, T Debacker, W De Vos, M Everaerts, A Herbosch, J Samuelsson, M Sintubin and M Vecoli • Timing of the Avalonia - Baltica plate convergence as inferred from palaeogeographic and stratigraphic data of chitinozoan assemblages in west Pomerania, northern Poland, J Samuelsson, M Vecoli, W S Bednarczyk and J Verniers • Chitinozoa and Nd isotope stratigraphy of the Ordovician rocks in the Ebbe Anticline, NW Germany, J Samuelsson, A Gerdes, L Koch, T Servais and J Verniers • New 40Ar/39Ar ages from the West Sudetes (NE Bohemian Massif): constraints on the Variscan polyphase tectonothermal development, D Marheine, V Kachlik, H Maluski, F Patocka and A Zelanzniewicz • Palaeozoic terrane amalgamation in Central Europe: a REE and Sm-Nd isotope study of the pre-Variscan Basement, NE Bohemian Massif, Q G Crowley, H Timmermann, S R Noble and J G Holland • The Marianske Lazne Complex, NW Bohemian Massif: development and destruction of an early Palaeozoic seaway, Q G Crowley, P A Floyd, V Stedra, J A Winchester, V Kachlik and J G Holland • Sleza Ophiolite:geochemical features and relationship to Lower Palaeozoic rift magmatism in the Bohemian Massif, P A Floyd, R Kryza, Q G Crowley, J A Winchester and M A Wahed • Coronitic metagabbros of the Marianske Lazne Complex and Tepla Crystalline Unit: inferences for the tectonometamorphic evolution of the western margin of the Tepla-Barrandian Unit, Bohemian Massif, V Stedra, V Kachlik and R Kryza • Collage tectonics in the northeasternmost part of the Variscan Belt: the Sudetes, Bohemian Massif, P Aleksandrowski and S Mazur • Structure and Evolution of the Bohemian Arc, W Franke and A Zelanzniewicz • Seismic refraction evidence for crustal structure in the central part of the Trans-European Suture Zone in Poland, M Grad, A Guterch and S Mazur • Basement structure in the Southern North Sea, offshore Denmark based on seismic interpretation, M Scheck, H Thybo, A Lassen, T Abramovitz and M Laigle • A compressional wedge model for the Lower Palaeozoic Anglo-Brabant Belt (Belgium) based on potential field data, M Sintubin and M Everaerts •