Introduction, Roger W. Macqueen and Dale A Leckie • Regional Setting, Evolution, and Depositional Cycles of the Western Canada Foreland Basin, Dale A Leckie and David G. Smith • Siliciclastic Sequence Development in Foreland Basins, with Examples from the Western Canada Foreland Basin, Macomb T. Jervey • Tectonics and Structure of the Western Canada Foreland Basin, Peter R Fermor and Ian W. Moffat • Relationship of the Stratigraphy of the Western Canada Foreland Basin to Cordilleran Tectonics: Insights from Geodynamic Models, Glen S. Stockmal, Douglas J. Cant, and J. Sebastian Bell • Early Surface and Subsurface Investigations of the Western Canada Sedimentary Basin, J. W. Porter • Conventional Hydrocarbon Reserves of the Western Canada F oreland Basin, J. W. Porter • Western Canada Foreland Basin Oil and Gas Plays, J. E. Barclay and David G. Smith • Lithology and Diagenesis of Sandstones in the Western Canada Foreland Basin, Dan Potocki and Ian Hutcheon • Thermal History of the Cordilleran Foreland Basin in Western Canada: A Review, Kirk G. Osadetz, F. Walter Jones, Jacek A Majorowicz, David E. Pearson and Laverne D. Stasiuk • Petroleum Systems in the Foreland Basin of Western Canada, S. Creaney and J. Allan • Petroleum in the Zagros Basin: A Late Tertiary Foreland Basin Overprinted onto the Outer Edge of a Vast Hydrocarbon-Rich Paleozoic- Mesozoic Passive-Margin Shelf, Z. R Beydoun, M. W. Hughes Clarke, and R Stoneley • Petroleum Geology of the Eastern Venezuela Foreland Basin, R N. Erlich and S. F. Barrett • The North Slope Foreland Basin, Alaska, Kenneth J. Bird and Cornelius M. Molenaar • Structural and Stratigraphic Evolution and Hydrocarbon Distribution, Rocky Mountain Foreland, Robbie Gries, J. C. Dolson, and R G. H. Raynolds • Ouachita Foredeep Basins: Regional Paleogeography and Habitat of Hydrocarbons, Lawrence D. Meckel, Jr., David G. Smith, and Leon A. Wells • Summary and Conclusions, Roger W. Macqueen and Dale A. Leckie • Index