VMS Help FORTRAN, Data, Arrays  *Conan The Librarian (sorry for the slow response - running on an old VAX)

  An array is a group of contiguous storage locations associated with
  a single symbolic name, the array name.  The individual storage
  locations, called array elements, are referred to by a subscript
  appended to the array name.  An array can have from 1 to 7
  dimensions.  The Fortran statements that establish arrays are:
  type declaration statements, the DIMENSION statement, and the
  COMMON statement.

  The data type of an array is specified in the same way as the data
  type of a variable; either implicitly by the first letter of the
  name or explicitly by a type declaration statement.

1 - Declarators

  An array declarator specifies the symbolic name that identifies an
  array within a program unit and indicates the properties of the
  array.  It has the form:

     a(d[,d]...)   a is the name of the array
                   d specifies the bounds of the array in the form:

                   [dl:]du    dl is the lower bound
                              du is the upper bound

2 - Subscripts

  A subscript qualifies an array name.  A subscript is a list of
  expressions, called subscript expressions, enclosed in parentheses,
  that determine which element in the array is referred to.  The
  subscript is appended to the array name it qualifies.  A subscript
  has the form:

     (s[,s]...)     s is a subscript expression

  A one-dimensional array is stored with its first element in the
  first storage location and its last element in the last storage
  location of the sequence.  A multidimensional array is stored so
  that the leftmost subscripts vary most rapidly.