This Special Publication, in memory and celebration of the workof Professor Mike Coward, is about the deformation of the continentallithosphere. The collected papers discuss geometry, structuralprinciples, processes and problems in a wide range of tectonicsettings and thereby reflect the breadth of Coward's interests.They encompass the evolution of Precambrian basement gneissterrains, the geometry and evolution of thrust systems, basementinvolvement and structural inheritance in basins, syn-orogenicextension, salt tectonics, the implication of structural evolutionon hydrocarbon prospectivity and structural controls on mineralization.Examples are drawn from the Lewisian and Moine Thrust Belt ofNW Scotland, the Italian Apennines, NW Himalayas, the Cyclades,Oman, Zagros Mountains, Colombian Cordillera, Carpathians, NorthSea, offshore Brazil, regional studies of the Irumide Belt (centralAfrica), Taurus Mountains (Turkey), greater South America, andfrom the Witwatersrand Basin of South Africa and the AntlerOrogeny of SW USA.
