As a contribution to the aims of SAMC Thematic Volumes and Proceedings of project meetings have been published and are being edited with collections of papers addressing specific issues within the framework of IGCP Project 381:

• Proceedings of the Second Annual Conference of IGCP Project 381 (SAMC II), held in conjunction with the 13th Colloquium of African Micropalaeontology and the 3rd Colloquium on the Stratigraphy and Palaeogeography of the South Atlantic, Yaoundé, Cameroon, 8-13 March 1997. A collection of papers has been published as a Special Issue of Africa Geoscience Review, Vol. 4, Nos. 3 & 4, 1997.

• The Oil and Gas Habitats of the South Atlantic (eds.: N.R. Cameron, R.H. Bate and V.S. Clure), Geological Society Special Publication No. 153, 474 pp., London (July 1999).

Geological Society Publishing House, Unit 7 Brassmill Enterprise Centre, Brassmill Lane, Bath BA1 3JN, UK (Tel: 01225 445046. Fax: 01225 442836). The book may be ordered from the on-line bookshop: http://bookshop.geolsoc.org.uk This Symposium Volume, published as a contribution to IGCP Project 381, contains the papers presented at the meeting held at the Geological Society, London, 24-26 February 1997.

• Mesozoic Biogeographical Patterns in the South Atlantic (eds.: Eduardo A. M. Koutsoukos, Peter Bengtson, Ivan de Klasz and David Batten), to be published as a double Special Issue of Cretaceous Research (vol. 21/1-2), with publication anticipated during March or at the beginning of April 2000.

• Mesozoic Palaeontology and Stratigraphy of South America and the South Atlantic (eds.: Eduardo A. M. Koutsoukos and Peter Bengtson), to be published as a thematic issue of the Journal of South American Earth Sciences. Proceedings of the 2nd European Meeting on the Palaeontology and Stratigraphy of South America and the Regional Meeting of IGCP 381 "South Atlantic Mesozoic Correlations", 2-4 September 1997, Heidelberg, Germany.

During the past year most of the manuscripts for the proceedings of the 1997 joint Regional Meeting of IGCP 381 and the Second European Meeting on the Palaeontology and Stratigraphy of South America in Heidelberg were received by the editors P. Bengtson and E.A.M. Koutsoukos and sent out for review. At the time of writing (September 1999), 3 manuscripts are ready for publication, one is being reviewed, 7 are being revised after reviewing and 6 are still to be submitted (of which 3 are uncertain). The volume is expected to appear in mid 2000.

• Petroleum Systems of the South Atlantic Margins (eds.: M.R. Mello and B.J. Katz), to be published as an AAPG Memoir, will comprise contributions from the AAPG/ABGP Joint Hedberg Research Symposium on Petroleum Systems of the South Atlantic Margins, held 16-19 November 1997 in Rio de Janeiro.