1. Editorial

   • G. Wörner
   • M. Štemprok

   EditorialNotes Pages: 433 - 433

2. Tribute to Adolf Seilacher

   Laudatio Pages: 435 - 436

3. Latest precambrian (Cadomian) zircon ages, Nd isotopic systematics and P-T evolution of granitoid orthogneisses of the Erzgebirge, Saxony and Czech Republic

   • A. Kröner
   • A. P. Willner
   • R. Bergner

   Original Paper Pages: 437 - 456

4. U-Pb and Pb-Pb zircon dating of the older orthogneiss suite in the Silvretta nappe, eastern Alps: Cadomian magmatism in the upper Austro-Alpine realm

   • Bernhard Müller
   • Urs Stefan Klötzli
   • Markus Flisch

   Original Paper Pages: 457 - 465

5. U-Pb data on zircons for the thermal peak of metamorphism in the Variscan Odenwald, Germany

   • W. A. Todt
   • U. Altenberger
   • J. F. von Raumer

   Original Paper Pages: 466 - 472

6. Eclogites with a short-lived granulite facies overprint in the Moldanubian Zone, Czech Republic: petrology, geochemistry and diffusion modelling of garnet zoning

   • Patrick J. O'Brien
   • Stranislav Vrána

   Original Paper Pages: 473 - 488

7. Garnet pyroxenite and eclogite in the Bohemian Massif: geochemical evidence for Variscan recycling of subducted lithosphere

   • L. G. Medaris Jr
   • B. L. Beard
   • Z. Mísâr

   Original Paper Pages: 489 - 505

8. Granitoids in the Rozvadov Pluton, Western Bohemia and Oberpfalz

   • Karel Breiter
   • Wolfgang Siebel

   Original Paper Pages: 506 - 519

9. Sr-Nd isotopic constraints on the petrogenesis of the Central Bohemian Pluton, Czech Republic

   • Vojtěch Janoušek
   • Graeme Rogers
   • D. R. Bowes

   Original Paper Pages: 520 - 534

10. Diagenesis of Upper Carboniferous rocks in the Ouachita foreland shelf in mid-continent USA: an overview of widespread effects of a Variscan-equivalent orogeny

    • A. W. Walton
    • K. M. Wojcik
    • C. E. Barker

    Original Paper Pages: 535 - 551

11. Geochronology and geochemistry of eclogites from the Mariánské Lázně Complex, Czech Republic: Implications for Variscan orogenesis

    • Brian L. Beard
    • L. Gordon Medaris Jr
    • Lee R. Riciputi

    Original Paper Pages: 552 - 567

12. The age of the Kagenfels granite (northern Vosges) and its bearing on the intrusion scheme of late Variscan granitoids

    • J. C. Hess
    • H. J. Lippolt
    • B. Kober

    Original Paper Pages: 568 - 577

13. Late Variscan exhumation histories of the southern Rhenohercynian Zone and western Mid-German Crystalline Rise: results from thermal modeling

    • A. Henk

    Original Paper Pages: 578 - 590

14. Long-term deformation and fluid-enhanced mass transport in a Variscan peridotite shear zone in the Ivrea Zone, northern Italy: a microtextural, petrological and geochemical study of a reactivated shear zone

    • U. Altenberger

    Original Paper Pages: 591 - 606

15. Tectonic and lithological constraints on the evolution of the Karoo graben of northern Malawi (East Africa)

    • U. Ring

    Original Paper Pages: 607 - 625

16. Heartbeat of a mountain: diagnosing the age of depositional events in the Karoo (Gondwana) Basin from the pulse of the Cape Orogen

    • J. P. le Roux

    Original Paper Pages: 626 - 635

17. Evidence for a Neoproterozoic carbonate ramp on the northern edge of the Central African craton: relations with late Proterozoic intracratonic troughs

    • Philippe Alvarez

    Original Paper Pages: 636 - 648

18. Extensional deformation along the late Precambrian-Cambrian Baltoscandian passive margin: the Sarektjåkkå Nappe, Swedish Caledonides

    • Olaf M. Svenningsen

    Original Paper Pages: 649 - 664

19. Distribution of clay minerals in surface sediments from the eastern Barents and south-western Kara seas

    • D. Nürnberg
    • M. A. Levitan
    • E. S. Shelekhova

    Original Paper Pages: 665 - 682