Books review in this article:Framework, Facies and Oil‐Trapping Characteristics of the Upper Continental Margin,Ed. by A. H. Bouma, G. T. Moore and J. M. ColemanGeological and Geophysical Investigations of Con‐ tinental Margins (AAPG Memoir 29), Ed. Joel s. Watkins, Lucien Montadert, and Patricia W. Dickerson.Geochemistry, by A. H. Brown