Introduction to predictive stratigraphic analysis / C. Blaine Cecil and N. Terence Edgar -- Carboniferous paleocontinental reconstructions / Christopher R. Scotese -- Global cyclostratigraphy / M.A. Perlmutter and M.D. Matthews -- Paleomagnetism and carboniferous climate / N.D. Opdyke and V.J. DiVenere -- Relative effects of tectonism, eustasy, paleoclimate, and paleo-oceanography on Atlantic passive-margin sedimentation / C. Wylie Poag -- Pennsylvanian vegetation and soils / Gregory J. Retallack -- Geochemical variations in Pennsylvanian black shales may reflect changes in climate conditions / Raymond M. Coveney, Jr. -- Chemical and mineral variations in Pennsylvanian black shales-- depositional and diagenetic indicators in marine evaporite cycles, Hermosa Formation, Paradox Basin, Utah / Gene Whitney [and others] -- Contributions of dependent and independent paleontological data to predictive stratigraphic analysis / Christopher G. Maples and Ronald R. West -- Tectonic framework of the Appalachian Basin / Robert C. Milici -- Carboniferous paleoclimates, sedimentation, and stratigraphy / C. Blaine Cecil [and others] -- Applications of coal palynology to biostratigraphic and paleoecologic analyses of Pennsylvanian coal beds / Cortland F. Eble -- Diverse factors controlling sedimentation in the Northern Appalachians during the Pennsylvanian / Viktoras W. Skema and Leonard J. Lentz -- Significance of midcontinent Pennsylvanian cyclothems to deciphering global Pennsylvanian stratigraphy / Philip H. Heckel -- Pennsylvanian cyclic deposition, Paradox Basin, Southerwestern Colorado and Southeastern Utah / A.C. Huffman, Jr., S.M. Condon, and K.J. Franczyk -- Pennsylvanian and early Permian paleogeography of Northwestern Colorado and Northeastern Utah / Samuel Y. Johnson, Marjorie A. Chan, and Edith H. Konopka -- Cyclostratigraphic correlation of Desmoinesian-Lower Missourian Shelf carbonates (Horquilla Limestone) of the Pedregosa Basin with midcontinent cyclothems / W. Marc Connelly -- Evidence of climate change in the lower and middle carboniferous shallow-water carbonate rocks of arctic Alaska, New Mexico, and Arizona / Augustus K. Armstrong and Bernard L. Mamet -- Climatic influence on basin sedimentation-- application to the Ouachita Basin / C. Blaine Cecil and N. Terence Edgar -- Cyclic eolian sedimentation-- a climatic response / Thomas C. Ahlbrandt -- Paleoclimatic and sea-level effects on a range of metallic mineral-deposit types / Eric R. Force -- Petroleum resource evaluation in the predictive stratigraphic analysis program / W. Lynn Watney and John A. French -- Use of a general circulation model to simulate paleoclimates and evaluate economic resources / George T. Moore [and others].