LEG-124 OF THE OCEAN DRILLING PROGRAM

Leg 124 of the Ocean Drilling Program drilled five sites in the Sulu and Celebes Seas (Figure 1). The papers presented in this issue provide an overview of some of the preliminary results of the shipboard science. They represent a team effort, and all are co‐authored by the entire scientific party. Our objectives were to determine the age and origin of these basins, and their stratigraphic histories, as indicators of the complex tectonic and paleoceanographic events that have affected the western Pacific region during the Cenozoic. Numerous competing hypotheses have been put forward to explain the array of marginal basins and island arcs in the western Pacific, and these basins are all potential recorders of the complex history of the western Pacific history. Copyright 1990 by the American Geophysical Union.