Preface • Regional Synthesis Late Devonian and Dinantian basin evolution in northern England and North Wales, R L Gawthorpe, P Gutteridge and M R Leeder • Evidence against crustal stretching, north-south tension and Hercynian collision, forming British Carboniferous basins, R S Haszeldine • Ireland • Role of the Dingle Bay Lineament in the evolution of the Old Red Sandstone of south-west Ireland, S P Todd • Intra-Dinantian tectonic activity on the Curlew Fault, north-west Ireland, M E Philcox, G D Sevastopulo and C V MacDermot • The mid-Dinantian unconformity at Navan, Ireland, M E Philcox • The style and timing of the Dinantian syn-sedimentary tectonics in the eastern part of the Dublin Basin, Ireland, S C Nolan • Subsidence history of the South Munster Basin, Ireland, D Naylor, G D Sevastopulo and A G Sleeman • Some thoughts on the subsidence and evolution of the Muster Basin, southern Ireland C A Price • Tectonic controls and sedimentary response in the Devonian-Carboniferous Munster and South Munster basins, south-west Ireland, E A Williams, M L F Bamford, M A Cooper, H E Edwards, M Ford, G G Grant, I A J MacCarthy, A M McAfee and M J O?Sullivan • Scotland• The interplay of sedimentation, volcanicity and tectonics in the Passage Group(Arnsbergian, E2 to Westphalian A) in the Midland Valley of Scotland, W A Read • England • The relative roles of tectonism and eustacy in the deposition of the Urswick Limestone in south Cumbria and north Lancashire, A D Horbury • Controls on carbonate sedimentation in a Brigabtian intrashelf basin (Derbyshire), P Gutteridge • Modelling the role of differential compaction and tectonics upon Westphalian facies architecture in the Northumberland Basin, R E Ll Collier • Evidence of syn-depositional tectonic activity in the Westphalian A and B of West Yorkshire, J R A Giles • Sedimentary and tectonic evolution of the Northumberland Basin, M R Leeder, D Fairhead, A Lee, G Stuart, H Cleemey, B El-Haddaheh and C Green • Wales • Tectonics and sedimentation of the late Dinantian limestones in South West Wales, A T S Ramsay • The influence of contemporaneous tectonic activity on Westphalian sedimentation in the South Wales Coalfield, J Jones • Index