Vertical coupling and decoupling in the lithosphere, J Grocott, K J W McCaffrey, G K Taylor and B Tikoff • Strain modelling, seismic anisotropy and coupling at strike-slip boundaries: applications in New Zealand and the San Andreas Fault, M K Savage, K M Fischer and C E Hall • Mantle-driven deformation of orogenic zones and clutch tectonics, B Tikoff, R Russo, C Teyssier and A Tommasi • Termination of strike-slip faults at convergence zones within continental transform boundaries: examples from the California Continental Borderland, M R Legg, M J Kamerling and R D Francis • Vertical-axis rotation of rigid crustal blocks driven by mantle flow, S Giorgis, M Markley and B Tikoff • Strain gradients in transpressional to transtensional attachment zones, C Teyssier and L Cruz • The role of crustal heterogeneity in controlling vertical coupling during Laramide shortening and the development of the Caribbean-North America transform boundary in southern Mexico: insights from analogue models, M Cerca, L Ferrari, M Bonini, G Corti and P Manetti • Distributed strike-slip faulting, block rotation, and possible intracrustal vertical decoupling in the convergent zone of SW Japan, O Fabbri, K Iwamura, S Matsunaga, G Coromina and Y Kanaori • Growth and demise of continental arcs and orogenic plateaux in the North American Cordillera: from Baja to British Columbia, D L Whitney, S R Paterson, K L Schmidt, A F Glazner and C F Kopf • Displacement transfer between thick- and thin-skinned décollement systems in the central North American Cordillera, W C McClelland, J S Oldow and J D Payne • The evolution of an exposed mid-lower crustal attachment zone in Fiordland, New Zealand, K A Klepeis and G L Clarke • Attachment formation during partitioning of oblique convergence in the Ketilidian Orogen, south Greenland, K J W McCaffrey, J Grocott, A A Garde and M A Hamilton • Lower Miocene deformation in the hanging wall of the Internal-External Zone boundary of the Betic Cordillera: deformation at the edges of vertical-axis rotation domains in oblique convergent margins, E Fernández-Fernández, A Jabaloy and F González-Lodeiro • Flow patterns during exhumation of the Sambagawa metamorphic rocks, SW Japan, caused by brittle-ductile, arc-parallel extension, T Takeshita and K Yagi • Transtensional deformation at the junction between the Okinawa trough back-arc basin and the SW Japan island arc, O Fabbri, P Monié and M Fournier • Isothermal decompression, partial melting and exhumation of deep continental crust, D L Whitney, C Teyssier and A K Fayon • Strain-rate-dependent rheology of partially molten rocks, J L Vigneresse and J P Burg •