1. Transformation of a magmatic arc and an orogenic root during oblique collision and it’s consequences for the evolution of the European Variscides (Mid-German Crystalline Rise)

   • O. Oncken

   ORIGINAL PAPER Pages: 2 - 20

2. The evolution of a late-Variscan high-T/low-P region: the southeastern margin of the Bohemian massif

   • S. Büttner
   • J. H. Kruhl

   ORIGINAL PAPER Pages: 21 - 38

3. Gravitational orogenic collapse vs plate-boundary stresses: a numerical modelling approach to the Permo-Carboniferous evolution of Central Europe

   • Andreas Henk

   ORIGINAL PAPER Pages: 39 - 55

4. Strain localization mechanisms in deep-seated layered rocks

   • U. Altenberger

   ORIGINAL PAPER Pages: 56 - 68

5. ⁴⁰Ar/³⁹Ar ages of detrital white mica from Upper Austroalpine units in the Eastern Alps, Austria: Evidence for Cadomian and contrasting Variscan sources

   • R. Handler
   • R. D. Dallmeyer
   • F. Neubauer

   ORIGINAL PAPER Pages: 69 - 80

6. Geochemistry and petrogenesis of Sikait leucogranite, Egypt: an example of S-type granite in a metapelitic sequence

   • F. H. Mohamed
   • M. A. Hassanen

   ORIGINAL PAPER Pages: 81 - 92

7. Seismic observations at an overstep of the western North Anatolian Fault (Abant–Sapanca region, Turkey)

   • J. Neugebauer
   • M. Löffler
   • A. Yatman

   ORIGINAL PAPER Pages: 93 - 102

8. Microstructures of deformed grains in the augen gneisses of southern Menderes Massif (western Turkey) and their tectonic significance

   • E. Bozkurt
   • R. G. Park

   ORIGINAL PAPER Pages: 103 - 119

9. A Mid Cretaceous origin for the Galápagos hotspot: volcanological, petrological and geochemical evidence from Costa Rican oceanic crustal segments

   • F. Hauff
   • K. Hoernle
   • R. Werner

   ORIGINAL PAPER Pages: 141 - 155

10. Elastic-wave velocities for porous media with power-law distribution of pore sizes

    • M. Kupková
    • M. Kupka

    ORIGINAL PAPER Pages: 156 - 159

11. Marine diversity and sea-level changes: numerical tests for association using Early Jurassic bivalves

    • Christopher A. McRoberts
    • Martin Aberhan

    ORIGINAL PAPER Pages: 160 - 167

12. Post-Variscan sedimentary record of the SW margin of the Bohemian massif: a review

    • B. Schröder
    • H. Ahrendt
    • K. Wemmer

    ORIGINAL PAPER Pages: 178 - 184

13. Neogene fault activity and morphogenesis in the basement area north of the KTB drill site (Fichtelgebirge and Steinwald)

    • A. Peterek
    • B. Schröder

    ORIGINAL PAPER Pages: 185 - 190

14. The late-and post-Variscan tectonic evolution of the Western Border fault zone of the Bohemian massif (WBZ)

    • A. Peterek
    • H. Rauche
    • E. Bankwitz

    ORIGINAL PAPER Pages: 191 - 202

15. The Cretaceous and younger thermal history of the KTB site (Germany): apatite fission-track data from the Vorbohrung

    • D. A. Coyle
    • G. A. Wagner
    • P. Van den Haute

    ORIGINAL PAPER Pages: 203 - 209

16. Fission-track dating of the western border of the Bohemian massif: thermochronology and tectonic implications

    • E. Hejl
    • D. Coyle
    • G. A. Wagner

    ORIGINAL PAPER Pages: 210 - 219