Description:Content: Vitrinite reflectance as maturity parameter : petrographic and molecular characterization and its applications to basin modeling / P.K. Mukhopadhyay -- Need for standardization of vitrinite reflectance measurements / K.F. DeVanney and R.W. Stanton -- Presence of remanent cell structure in vitrinite and its influence on reflectance properties / D.F. Bensley and J.C. Crelling -- Corpohuminite from Canadian Paleozoic source rocks : petrology and reflectance properties / L.D. Stasiuk, F. Goodarzi, and M.G. Fowler -- Iso-rank variation of vitrinite reflectance and fluorescence intensity / J.C. Quick -- Petrographic and geochemical anomalies detected in Spanish Jurassic jet / I. Suárez-Ruiz, M.J. Iglesias, A. Jiménez, F. Laggoun-Défarge, and J.G. Prado -- Reflectance suppression in some cretaceous coals from Alberta, Canada / Thomas Gentzis and Fariborz Goodarzi -- Coalification reactions of vitrinite derived from coalified wood : transformations to rank of bituminous coal / Patrick G. Hatcher, Kurt A. Wenzel, and George D. Cody -- Flash pyrolysis-gas chromatography-mass spectrometry of lower kittanning vitrinites : changes in distributions of polyaromatic hydrocarbons as a function of coal rank / Michael A. Kruge and David F. Bensley -- Molecular characterization of vitrinite maturation as revealed by flash pyrolysis methods / H. Veld, J.W. de Leeuw, J.S. Sinninghe Damsté, and W.J.J. Fermont -- Influence of pressure on pyrolysis of coal / R.J. Hill, P.D. Jenden, Y.C. Tang, S.C. Teerman, and I.R. Kaplan -- Evolution of vitrinite ultrafine structures during artificial thermal maturation / F. Laggoun-Défarge, E. Lallier-Vergès, I. Suárez-Ruiz, N. Cohaut, A. Jiménez Bautista, P. Landais, and J.G. Prado -- Pyrolysis-carbon-isotope method : alternative to vitrinite reflectance as kerogen maturity indicator / William M. Sackett, Zhenxi Li, and John S. Compton -- Calculation of vitrinite reflectance from thermal histories and peak temperatures : a comparison of methods / Charles E. Barker and Mark J. Pawlewicz -- Measured versus predicted vitrinite reflectance from Scotian basin wells : implications for predicting hydrocarbon generation-migration / P.K. Mukhopadhyay, J.A. Wade, and M.A. Williamson -- Apatite fission track thermochronology integrated with vitrinite reflectance : a review / D. Arne and M. Zentilli -- Paleoheat flux reconstruction from thermal indicators / He Wei, Malvin Bjorøy, and Elen Roaldset.