| Ch. 1 | | Taupo Volcanic Zone and Central Volcanic Region: Backarc Structures of North Island, New Zealand by J. W. Cole and D. J. Darby and T. A. Stern | | |
| Ch. 2 | | The Southern Havre Trough: Geological Structure and Magma Petrogenesis of an Active Backarc Rift Complex by J. A. Gamble and I. C. Wright | | |
| Ch. 3 | | The Geology of the Lau Basin by James W. Hawkins, Jr. | | |
| Ch. 4 | | The North Fiji Basin: Geology, Structure, and Geodynamic Evolution by Jean-Marie Auzende and Bernard Pelletier and Jean-Philippe Eissen | | |
| Ch. 5 | | Tectonics, Magmatism, and Evolution of the New Hebrides Backarc Troughs (Southwest Pacific) by Patrick Maillet and Etienne Ruellan and Martine Gerard and Alain Person and Herve Bellon and Joseph Cotten and Jean-Louis Joron and Setsuya Nakada and Richard C. Price | | |
| Ch. 6 | | Geology of the Mariana Trough by Patricia Fryer | | |
| Ch. 7 | | Tectonic Framework of the East Scotia Sea by Peter F. Barker | | |
| Ch. 8 | | Bransfield Strait, Antarctic Peninsula: Active Extension behind a Dead Arc by Lawrence A. Lawver and Randall A. Keller and Martin R. Fisk and Jorge A. Strelin | | |
| Ch. 9 | | Structural and Kinematic Evolutions of the Okinawa Trough Backarc Basin by Jean-Claude Sibuet and Shu-Kun Hsu and Chuen-Tien Shyu and Char-Shine Liu | | |
| Ch. 10 | | Shikoku Basin and Its Margins by Kazuo Kobayashi and Shigeru Kasuga and Kyoko Okino | | |
| Ch. 11 | | Opening Tectonics of the Japan Sea by Kensaku Tamaki | | |
| Ch. 12 | | Kuril (South Okhotsk) Backarc Basin by Helios S. Gnibidenko and Thomas W. C. Hilde and Elena V. Gretskaya and Andrey A. Andreyev | | |
| Ch. 13 | | Hydrothermal Activity Related to Arc-Backarc Magmatism in the Western Pacific by Jun-ichiro Ishibashi and Tetsuro Urabe | | |
| Ch. 14 | | Tectonic and Magmatic Controls on Backarc Basin Sedimentation: The Mariana Region Reexamined by Kathleen M. Marsaglia and Kathleen A. Devaney | | |
| | | Index | | |