Part A: metamorphic reactions - kinetics and mass transfer, T. Nishiyama and G.W. Fisher; sandstone petrology in relation to tectonics, F. Kumon and K.M. Yu; evaporite and desert environment, Y. Watanabe and A. Motamed. Part B: reconstruction of the Palaeo-Asian Ocean, R.G. Coleman; Quaternary environmental changes, E.H. Juvigne. Part C: siliceous, phosphatic and glauconitic sediments of the Tertiary and Mesozoic, A. Lijima et al. Part D: circum-Pacific ophiolites, A. Ishiwatari et al.