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Sherlock, S. C., Watts, L. M., Holdsworth, R. E. & Roberts, D. Dating fault reactivation by Ar/Ar laserprobe: an alternative view of apparently cogenetic mylonite–pseudotachylite asemblages 335

Xiao, W., Windley, B. F., Badarch, G., Sun, S., Li, J., Qin, K & Wang, Z. Palaeozoic accretionary and convergent tectonics of the southern Altaids: implications for the growth of Central Asia 339

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Hesselbo, S. P., Robinson, S. A. & Surlyk, F. Sea-level change and facies development across potential Triassic–Jurassic boundary horizons, SW Britain 365 GEOLOGICAL Mudge, D. C. & Jones, S. M. Palaeocene uplift and subsidence events in the Scotland–Shetland and North Sea region and their relationship to the Iceland plume 381

Martı´n, J. M., Braga, J. C., Aguirre, J. & Betzler, C. Contrasting models of temperate carbonate sedimentation in a small Mediterranean embayment: the Pliocene Carboneras Basin, SE Spain 387

Scott, A. C., Anderson, J. M. & Anderson, H. M. Evidence of plant–insect interactions in the Upper Triassic Molteno Formation of South Africa 401 SOCIETY Nomade, S., Renne, P. R. & Merkle, K. W. 40Ar/39Ar age constraints on deposition and cooling of the Bushveld Complex, South Africa 411

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Prendergast, M. D. The Bulawayan Supergroup: a late Archaean passive margin-related in the Zimbabwe craton 431

Fraser, G. L., Pattison, D. R. M. & Heaman, L. M. Age of the Ballachulish and Glencoe Igneous Complexes (Scottish Highlands), and paragenesis of zircon, monazite and baddeleyite in the Ballachulish Aureole 447

Martı´nez Catala´n, J. R., Ferna´dez-Sua´rez, J., Jenner, G. A., Belousova, E. & Dı´ez Montes Provenence constraints from detrital zircon U–Pb ages in the NW Iberian Massic: implications for Palaeozoic plate configuration and Variscan evolution 463

Meert, J. G. & Lieberman, B. S. A palaeomagnetic and palaeobiogeographical perspective on latest Neoproterozoic and early Cambrian tectonic events 477

Schro¨der, S., Schreiber, B. C., Amthor, J. E. & Matter, A. Stratigraphy and environmental conditions of the terminal Neoproterzoic– Cambrian Period in Oman: evidence from sulphur isotopes 489

Robertson, A. H. F., Ustao¨mer, T., Pickett, E. A., Collins, A. S., Andrew, T. & Dixon, J. E. Testing models of Late Palaeozoic–Early 161 Vol. Mesozoic orogeny in western Turkey: support for an evolving open-Tethys model 501

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