Preface• COOK, P.J., SHERGOLD, J.H., BURNETT, W.C. & RIGGS, S.R. Phosphorite Research: a historical overview • McCLELLAN, G.H. & VAN KAUWENBERGH, S.J. Mineralogy of Sedimentary apatites • LUCAS, J., EL FALEH, E.M. & PREVOT, L. Experimental study of the substitution of Ca by Sr and Ba in synthetic apatites • NATHAN, Y. Humic substances in phosphorites: occurrence, characterization and Significance • O’BRIEN, G.W., MILNES, A.R., VEEH, H.H., HEGGIE, D.T., RIGGS, S.R., CULLEN, D.J., MARSHALL, J.F. & COOK, P.J. Sedimentation dynamics and redox iron-cycling: Controlling factors for the apatite-glauconite association on the East Australian Continental margin • HEGGIE, D.T., SKYRING, G.W., O’BRIEN, G.W. REIMERS, C., HERCZEG, A., MORIARTY, D.J.W., BURNETT, W.C., & MILNES, A.R. Organic carbon cycling and Modern phosphorite formation on the East Australian continental margin: an overview• McARTHUR, J.M., & HERCZEG, A. Diagenetic stability of the isotopic composition of Phosphate-oxygen: palaeoenvironmental implications • BALSON, P.C. Episodes of phosphogenesis and phosphorite concretion formation in the North Sea Tertiary • VAN KAUWENBERGH, S.J. & McCLELLAN, G.H. Comparative geology and Mineralogy of the southeastern United States and Togo phosphorites • LAMBOY, M. Microbial mediation in phosphatogenesis: new data from the Cretaceous Phosphatic chalks of northern France • LEWY, Z. Pebbly phosphate and granular phosphorite (Late Cretaceous, southern Israel) And their bearing on phosphatization processes • NTHAN, Y., SOUDRY, D. & AVIGOUR, A. Geological significance of carbonate Substitution in apatites: Israeli phosphorites as an example • ABED, A.M. & FAKHOURI, K. Role of microbial processes in the genesis of Jordanian Upper Cretaceous phosphorites • GLENN, C.R. Depositional sequences of the Duwi, Sibaiya and Phosphate Formations, Egypt: phosphogenesis and glauconitization in a Late Cretaceous epeiric sea • ZANIN, YU. N., ZVEREV, K.V. & SOLOTCHINA, E.P. Clay minerals phosphorite Genesis in the Upper Cretaceous of the northern Siberian Platform • FOLLMI, K.B. Condensation and phosphogenesis: example of the Helvetic mid-Cretaceous (northern Tethyan margin) • ILYIN, A.V. & HEINSALU, H.N. Early Ordovician shelly phosphorites of the Baltic Basin • HOWARD, P.F. The distribution of phosphatic facies in the Georgia, Wiso and Daly River Basins, Northern Australia• DONNELLY, T.H., SHERGOLD, J.H., SOUTHGATE, P.N. & BARNES, C.J. Events Leading to global phosphogenesis around the Proterozoic/Cambrian boundary• BRASIER, M.D. Phosphogenic events and skeletal preservation across the Precambrian- Cambrian boundary interval • CHOUDHURI, R. Two decades of phosphorite investigations in India &bull SISODIA, M.S. & CHAUHAN, D.S. The influence of magmesium ions during the Formation of stromatolitic phosphorites of Udaipur, Rajasthan, India &bull ; Index