An introduction to the series (K.J. Hsü). Dedication to W.A. Van Den Bold (P.P. McLaughlin Jr., B. Sen Gupta). Preface to the volume (P. Mann). List of contributors. Part A: Tectonic Setting of Caribbean Basins. Caribbean sedimentary basins: classification and tectonic setting from Jurassic to present (P. Mann). New constraints on the late cretaceous/tertiary plate tectonic evolution of the Caribbean (R.D. Müller et al.). Part B: Jurassic-Recent Basins of the Northern Caribbean, The Gulf of Mexico, and Mexico Related to Rifting Between North and South America. Jurassic-early Cretaceous tectono-paleogeographic evolution of the Southeastern Gulf of Mexico (G.L. Marton, R.T. Buffler). The exposed passive margin of North America in Western Cuba (A. Pszczólkowski). Stratigraphic evidence for northwest to southeast tectonic transport of Jurassic terranes in Central Mexico and the Caribbean (Western Cuba) (E.A. Pessagno Jr. et al.). Cretaceous carbonate biostratigraphy and environments in Honduras (R.W. Scott, R.C. Finch). The structural evolution of the Southern Great Bahama Bank, Southern Bahamas (J.L. Masaferro, G.P. Eberli). Part C: Cenozoic Basins of the Northern Caribbean Related to Arc, Collisional and Strike-Slip Activity. Deformational history of Roatan Island: implications for the origin of the Tela Basin (H.G. Avé Lallemant, M.B. Gordon). The southern flank of the Tela Basin, Republic of Honduras (W.I. Manton, R.S. Manton). Cretaceous microfaunas of the Blue Mountains, Jamaica, and of the northern and central basement complexes of Hispaniola (H. Montgomery, E.A. Pessagno Jr.). Cenozoic El Mamey Belt of Northern Hispaniola: a sedimentary record of subduction, collisional, and strike-slip events within the North America-Caribbean plate boundary zone (R. de Zoeten, P. Mann). Tectonic and eustatic controls on Neogene clastic and evaporitic deposition in the Enriquillo Basin, Dominican Republic (P. Mann et al.). Evolution of the Neogene Kingshill basin of St. Croix, US Virgin Islands (I. Gill et al.). Part D: Cenozoic Basins of the Eastern Caribbean and Lesser Antilles Arc System. Review of the tectonic controls and sedimentary patterns in late Neogene piggyback basins on the Barbados Ridge complex (P. Huyghe et al.). Tectonic evolution of the Grenada basin (D.E. Bird et al.). Part E: Jurassic-Recent Basins of the Southern Caribbean. Sequence stratigraphy of the Eastern Venezuelan basin (J. Di Croce et al.). Structure of the Gulf of Paria pull-apart basin (Eastern Venezuela-Trinidad) (J.F. Flinch et al.). Structural and sedimentary development of a Neogene transpressional plate boundary between the Caribbean and South America plates in Trinidad and the Gulf of Paria (S.E. Babb, P. Mann). Part F: Mesozoic-Recent Igneous Basement and Overlying Basins of the Central Caribbean. New insights on the formation of the Caribbean basalt province revealed by multichannel seismic images of volcanic structures in the Venezuelan Basin (J. Diebold, N. Driscoll). Tectonic and stratigraphic development of the Eastern Caribbean: new constraints from multichannel seismic data (N. Driscoll, J. Diebold). Neogene intraplate deformation of the Caribbean plate at the Beata Ridge (A. Mauffret, S. Leroy).