Ophiolites in Earth history: introduction, Y Dilek and P T Robinson • Ophiolite pulses, mantle plumes and orogeny, Y Dilek • Arc-trench rollback and forearc accretion: 1. A collision-induced mantle flow model for Tethyan ophiolites, M F J Flower and Y Dilek • Arc-trench rollback and forearc accretion: 2. A model template for ophiolites in Albania, Cyprus, and Oman, Y Dilek and M F J Flower • Melt migration in ophiolites: the message from Alpine-Apennine peridotites and implications for embryonic ocean basins, O. Muntener and G. B. Piccardo • Petrology and evolution of the Brezovica ultramafic massif, Serbia, B A Bazylev, S Karamata and G S Zakariadze • Triassic mid-ocean ridge basalts from the Argolis Peninsula (Greece): new constraints for the early oceanization phases of the Neo-Tethyan Pindon basin, E Saccani, E Padoa and A Photiades • Structural and micro-structural analysis of a palaeo-transform fault zone in the Neyriz ophiolite, Iran, K Sarkarinejad • Stratigraphic and sedimentological constraints on the age and tectonic evolution of the Neotethyan ophiolites along the Yarlung Tsangpo suture Zone, Tibet, J C Aitchison, A M Davis, A V Abrajevitch, J R Ali, J Liu, H Luo, I R C McDermid and S V Ziabrev • Yarlung Zangbo ophiolites (Southern Tibet) revisited: geodynamic implications from the mineral record, R Hebert, F Huot, C Wang and Z Liu • Geochemical and geochronological constraints on the origin and emplacement of the Yarlung Zangbo ophiolites, Southern Tibet, J Malpas, M-F. Zhou, P T Robinson and P H Reynolds • Tectonic implications of boninite, arc tholeiite, and MORB magma types in the Josephine Ophiolite, California-Oregon, G D Harper • Forearc extension and sea-floor spreading in the Thetford Mines Ophiolite complex, J M Schroetter, P Page, J H Bedard, A Tremblay and V Becu • Cr-spinel compositions, metadunite petrology, and the petrotectonic history of Blue Ridge ophiolites, Southern Appalachian orogen, USA, L A Raymond, S E Swanson, A B Love and J F Allan • Multi-stage evolution of the Tertiary Mineoka ophiolite, Japan: new geochemical and age constraints, N Hirano, Y Ogawa, K Saito, T Yoshida, H Sato and H Taniguchi • The nature of faulting and deformation in the Mineoka Ophiolite, NW Pacific Rim, A Takahashi, Y Ogawa, Y Ohta and N Hirano • Oxygen Isotope and chemical studies on the origin of large plagiogranite bodies in Northern Oman, and their relationship to the overlying massive sulphide deposits, D S Stakes and H P Taylor Jr. • Ophiolites and global geochemical cycles: implications for the isotopic evolution of seawater, R T Gregory • Hydrothermal circulation and metamorphism in crustal gabbroic rocks of the Bay of Islands ophiolite complex, Newfoundland, Canada: evidence from mineral and oxygen isotope geochemistry, E Giguere, R Hebert, G Beaudoin, J H Bedard and A Berclaz • Ophiolites as faithful records of the oxygen isotope ratio of ancient seawater: the Solund-Stavfjord Ophiolite Complex as a late Ordovician example, K Muehlenbachs, H Furnes, H C Fonneland and B Hellevang • Bioalteration recorded in ophiolitic pillow lavas, H Furnes and K Muehlenbachs • What constitutes 'emplacement' of an ophiolite?: mechanisms and relationship to subduction initiation and formation of metamorphic soles, J Wakabayashi and Y Dilek • Ophiolite obduntion and the Samail Ophiolite: the behaviour of the underlying margin, R T Gregory and D R Gray • Subduction zone polarity in the Oman Mountains: implications for ophiolite emplacement, M P Searle, C J Warren, D J Waters and R R Parrish • Geodynamic patterns of ophiolites and marginal basins in the Indonesian and New Guinea regions, R Harris • Forearc ophiolites: a view from the western Pacific, J Milsom • Tethyan and Cordilleran-type ophiolites of eastern Australia: implications for the evolution of the Tasmanides, C V Spaggiari, D R Gray and D A Foster • Ophiolites in China: their distribution, ages and tectonic settings, Q Zhang, Y Wang, G Q Zhou, Q Qian and P T Robinson • Mineral chemistry of ultramafic massifs in the southern Uralides orogenic belt (Russia) and the petrogenesis of the Lower Palaeozoic ophiolites of the Uralian Ocean, P Spadea, A Zanetti and R Vannuci • Petrological diversity and origin of ophiolites in Japan and far East Russia with emphasis on depleted harzburgite, A Ishiwatari, S D Sokolov and S V Vysotskiy • Ophiolites in accretionary complexes along the Early Cretaceous margin of NE Asia: age, composition, and geodynamic diversity, S D Sokolov, M V Luchitskaya, S A Silantyev, O L Morozov, A V Ganelin, B A Bazlev, A B Osipenko, S A Palandzhyan and I R Kravchenko-Berezhnoy • Rocas Verdes ophiolites, southernmost South America: remnants of progressive stages of development of oceanic-type crust in a continental margin back-arc basin, C R Stern and M J De Wit • Proterozoic ophiolites of the Arabian Shield and their significance in Precambrian tectonics, Y Dilek and Z Ahmed •