Preface • SCOTT, A. C. Coal and coal-bearing strata: recent advances and future prospects • MOORE, P. D. Ecological and hydrological aspects of peat formation • CL YMO, R. S. Rainwater-fed peat as a precursor of coal • ZIEGLER, A. M., RAYMOND, A. L., GIERLOWSKI, T. c., HORRELL, M. A., ROWLEY, D. B. & LOTTES, A. L. Coal, climate and terrestrial productivity: the Present and early Cretaceous compared • MCCABE, P. l. Facies studies of coal and coal-bearing strata • COLLINSON, M. E. & SCOTT, A. C. Implications of vegetational change through the geological record on models for coal-forming environments • CASAGRANDE, D. l. Sulphur in peat and coal • COHEN, A. D., SPACKMAN, W. & RAYMOND, R. Interpreting the characteristics of coal seams from chemical, physical and petrographic studies of peat deposits • TEICHMULLER, M. Recent advances in coalification studies and their application to geology • SPEARS, D. A. Mineral matter in coals, with special reference to the Pennine Coalfields • BARTRAM, K. M. Lycopod succession in coals: an example from the Low Barnsley Seam (Westphalian B), Yorkshire, England • FULTON, I. M. Genesis of the Warwickshire Thick Coal: a group oflong-residence histosols • HOBDAY, D. K. Gondwana coal basins of Australia and Africa: tectonic setting, depositionai systems and resources • LAND, D. H. & lONES, c. M. Coal geology and exploration of part of the Tertiary Kutei Basin in East Kalimantan, Indonesia • MURCHISON, D. G. Recent advances in organic petrology and organic geochemistry: an overview with some reference to 'oil from coal' • KHORASANI, G. K. Oil-prone coals of the Walloon Coal Measures (lurassic), Surat Basin, Australia • INDEX