Introduction • Carbonate ramps 1973-1996: a historical review • Quaternary proximal foreland ramp and its continental fringe, Arabian Gulf, UAE • Carbonate ramps and the Pleistocene-Recent depositional systems of the Arabian Gulf • Carbonate -siliciclastic sedimentation on a high-energy, ocean-facing, tropical ramp, NE Brazil • Cool-water carbonate deposition on the West Shetland Shelf: a modern distally steepened ramp • Phanerozoic carbonate ramps from greenhouse, transitional and ice-house worlds: clues from field and modelling studies • Carbonate production and offshore transport on a Late Jurassic carbonate ramp (Kimmeridgian, Iberian basin, NE Spain): evidence from outcrops and computer modelling • A review of sediment distributions and processes in Oligo-Miocene ramps of Southern Italy and Malta (Mediterranean divide) • Facies architecture and geometry of a prograding carbonate ramp during the early stages of foreland basin evolution: Lower Eocene sequences, Sierra del Cadí, SE Pyrenees, Spain • Carbonate sedimentation during early foreland basin subsidence: the Eocene succession of the French Alps • Constructional dynamics for a Lower Cretaceous carbonate ramp (Gorbea Massif, N Iberia) • The middle Cretaceous carbonate ramps of the northern Sinai: sequence stratigraphy and facies distribution • Geometry and facies dynamics of Middle Jurassic carbonate ramp sandbodies, West-Central Portugal • Lower Triassic storm-dominated ramp sequence in northern Hungary: an example of evolution from homoclinal through distally steepened ramp to Middle Triassic flat-topped platform • Controls on development of Mid-Triassic ramps: examples from southern Hungary • Depositional Facies and Sequence Stratigraphy of a Lower Carboniferous bryozoan-crinoidal carbonate ramp in the Illinois Basin, mid-continent USA • Mud build-ups on a Middle Devonian carbonate ramp (Algerian Sahara) • Middle Devonian reef and mud mounds on a carbonate ramp: Mader Basin (eastern Anti-Atlas, Morocco) • Ramp facies and sequence stratigraphic models in an epeiric sea: the Upper Ordovician mixed carbonate/siliciclastic Glenwood and Platteville Formations, Wisconsin, USA • Index