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Introduction. <p>Plate stratigraphy and the fluctuating carbonate line.</p> <p>Preservation of cephalopod skeletons and carbonate dissolution on ancient Tethyan sea floors.</p> <p>Sedimentology of Palaeozoic pelagic limestones: the Devonian Griotte (Southern France) and Cephalopodenkalk (Germany).</p> <p>Deep-water limestones from the Devonian-Carboniferous of the Carnic Alps, Austria.</p> <p>Pelagic ooze-chalk-limestone transition ands its implications for marine stratigraphy.</p> <p>Some aspects of cementation in chalk.</p> <p>Diagenesis of Upper Cretaceous chalks from England, Northern Ireland and the North Sea.</p> <p>Maastrichian chalk of north-west W Europe - a pelagic shelf sediment.</p> <p>Magnesian-calcite nodules in the Ionian deep sea: an actualistic model for the formation of some nodular limestones.</p> <p>Origin of red nodular limestones (Ammonitico Rosso, Knollenkalke) in the Mediterranean Jurassic: a diagenetic model.</p> <p>Deposition and diagenesis of silica in marine sediments.</p> <p>Chertification of oceanic sediments.</p> <p>Petrography and diagenesis of deep-sea cherts from the central Atlantic.</p> <p>Formation of deep-sea chert: role of the sedimentary environment.</p> <p>Siliceous turbisites: bedded cherts as redeposited ocean ridge-derived sediments.</p> <p>Radiolarian cherts, pelagic limestones and igneous rocks in eugeosynclinal assemblages.</p> <p>Origin and fate of ferromenganoan active ridge sediments.</p> <p>Pelagic sediments in the Cretaceous and Tertiary history of the Troodos massif, Cyprus.</p> <p>Encrusting organisms in deep-sea manganese nodules</p>

<p>Kenneth Jinghwa Hsu Ph.D, M.A., born 28 June 1929, is a Chinese scientist, geologist, paleoclimatologist, oceanographer, government advisor, author, inventor and entrepreneur who was born in Nanjing, China. Hugh C. Jenkyns is the editor of Pelagic Sediments: On Land and Under the Sea, published by Wiley.

This first IAS Special Publication contains the oral presentations from a special symposium on pelagic sediments held in Zurich in 1973. The aim of the symposium was to bring together sea-borne researchers involved with the Deep Sea Drilling Project and land-locked researchers studying ancient sediments.

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