Gondwana and Tethys

Contents: Introduction / M.G. Audley-Charles & A. Hallam; Gravity Glide and Plate Tectonics / N.J. Price, G.D. Price & S.L. Price; Lithospheric Stress, Deformation, and Tectonic Cycles: The Disruption of Pangaea and the Closure of Tethys / J.F. Dewey; Basement and Cover Rock History in Western Tethys: HT-LP Metamorphism Associated with Extensional Rifting of Gondwana / R. Hall; Holocene Serial Folding in the Zagros / C.D. Mann & C. Vita-Finzi; Gondwana and the Evolution of the Indian Ocean / D.H. Tarling; Evolution of the Southern Margin of Tethys (North Australian Region) from Early Permian to Late Cretaceous / M.G. Audley-Charles; Origin and Assembly of South-East Asian Continental Terranes / I. Metcalfe; Origin and Assembly of the Tethyside Orogenic Collage at the Expense of Gondwanaland / A.M.C. Sengor; Lower Palaeozoic Facies and Faunas Around Gondwana / L.R.M. Cocks & R.A. Fortey; Fossil Plants as Indicators of Late Palaeozoic Plate Positions / W.G. Chaloner & G.T. Creber; The Nature, Extent, and Subsequent Dispersal of the Permian Tethys / J.B. Waterhouse; Unexpected Microfaunal Communities Within the Triassic Tethys / E. Kristan-Tollmann; Structure and Palaeogeography of the Western Tethys During the Jurassic: Tests Based on Ammonite Palaeobiogeography / J. Thierry; Middle Jurassic Ammonite Biogeography Supports Ambi-Tethyan Origin of Tibet / G.E.G. Westermann; Mesozoic Turkey as Part of Europe / D.V. Ager; The Trans-Pacific Spread of Equatorial Shallow-Marine Benthos in the Cretaceous / P. W. Skelton; Gondwana, Tethys, and Terrestrial Vertebrates During the Mesozoic and Cainozoic / J.-C. Rage; Tectonics From Fossils? Analysis of Reef-Coral and Sea-Urchin Distributions from Late Cretaceous to Recent, Using a New Method / B.R. Rosen & A.B. Smith; Phytogeography of the Eastern End of Tethys / T.C. Whitmore