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January (no. 1)
Syndepositional origin of potash evaporates: petrographic and fluid inclusion evidence
Tim K Lowenstein and Ronald J. Spencer

The roles of rifting and hydrothermal CaCl2 brines in the origin of jpotash evaporates: an hypothesis
Lawerence A Hardie

REVIEW: The changing atmosphere: Report of the Dahlem Workshop on the Changing Atmosphere: Berlin 1987, November 1-6: edited by F. S. Rowland and I. S. A. Isaksen
Heinrich D. Holland


February (no. 2)
Sedimentology and tectonic implications of ophiolite-derived clastics overlying the Jurassic Coast Range Ophiolite, northern California
A. H. F. Robertson

Solid-solution aqueous-solution equilibria: thermodynamic theory and representation
Pierre D. Glynn and Eric J. Reardon

COMMENT: Interpretation of K-Ar mineral dates from the Greenville orogenic belt
Michael A. Cosca, John F. Sutter, and Eric J. Essene

REPLY: Interpretation of K-Ar mineral dates from the Greenville orogenic belt
Susan L. Anderson

March (no. 3)
Stable isotopic systematics of the Bushveld Complex: II. Constraints on the hydrothermal process in layered intrusions
Craig M. Schiffries and Danny M. Rye

A mathematical model for manganese diagenesis in bioturbated sediments
Yves Gratton, Harry M. Edenborn, Norman Silverberg, and Bjorn Sundby

Ab-initio quantum mechanical calculations of water-rock interactions: adsorbtion and hydrolysis reactions
Antonio C. Lasaga and G. V. Gibbs

On the thermodynamic framework of solutions (with special reference to aqueous electrolyte solutions)
Thomas J, Wolery


April (no. 4)
Fold and thrust belts in sedimentary rocks. Part I: Typical examples
John Rodgers

Devonian plants from southern Quebec and northern New Hampshire and the age of the Connecticut Valley trough
Francis M. Hueber, Wallace A. Bothner, Norman L. Hatch Jr., Stanley C. Finney, and John N. Aleinikoff

Isotopic geochemistry of a mid-Proterozoic evaporite basin: Balmat, New York
Joseph F. Whelan, Robert O. Rye, William deLorraine, and Hiroshi Ohnmoto

Contact metamophism and partial melting of pelitic rocks in the aureole of the Laramie Anorthosite Complex, Morton Pass, Wyoming
James A. Grant and B. Ronald Frost


May (no. 5)
Geochemical self-organization. III: A mechano-chemical model of metamorphic differentiation
Thomas Dewars and Peter Ortoleva

U-Pb geochronologic constraints on the origin of a unique monazite-xenotime gneiss, Hudson Highlands, New York
John Aleinikoff and Richard I. Grauch

Relative importance of factors influencing fluvial soil loss at the global scale
Jonathan D. Phillips

Morphometric assessment of lithologic controls on drainage basin evolution in the Crawford Upland, south central Indiana
Jerry R. Miller, Dale F. Ritter, and R. Craig Kochel


June (no. 6)
Dissolution of recent platform carbonate sediments in marine pore fluids
Lynn M. Walter and Elizabeth A. Burton

Conduction model for the thermal evolution of the Cupsuptic aureole, Maine
James R. Bowers, Derrill M. Kerrick, and Kevin P. Furlong

Multivariable phase diagrams: an algorithm based on generalized thermodynamics
J. A. D. Connolly

Phase chemographies in Quaternary systems of seven phases, I: the five convex polytopes
James H. Stout

ERRATA: A hydrologic model for the formation of the giant oil sand deposits of the western Canada sedimentary basin
Grant Garven


September (no. 7)
Dolomitization front geometry, fluid flow patterns, and the origin of massive dolomite: the Triassic Latemar buildup, northern Italy
Edith Newton Wilson, Lawrence A Hardie, and Owen M. Phillips

Kaolinite dissolution at 25o, 60o, and 80oC
Susan A. Caroll and John V. Walther

The Ropes Creek assemblage: petrology, geochemistry, and tectonic setting of an ophiolitic thrust sheet in the southern Appalachians
Terry L. Spell and Gregory T. Norrell

COMMENT: Framboidal pyrite: early-diagenetic, late diagenetic, and hydrothermal occurrences from the Acton Vale Quarry, Cambro-Ordovician, Quebec
Charles S. Spirakis

REPLY: Framboidal pyrite: early-diagenetic, late diagenetic, and hydrothermal occurrences from the Acton Vale Quarry, Cambro-Ordovician, Quebec
G. P. Sassano and K. Schrijver

REVIEW: Observations and Interpretations of Hawaiian Volcanism and Seismicity, 1779-1955: by Thomas L. Wright and Takeo Jane Takahashi
Brian J. Skinner


October (no. 8)
Exhumation of high pressure pelitic schist, Lake Murray spillway, south Carolina: evidence for crustal extension during Alleghanian strike-slip faulting
Arthur W. Snoke and B. Ronald Frost

Sulfur sinks and organic carbon relationships in Cretaceous organic-rich carbonates: implications fro evaluation of oxygen-poor depositional environments
Amos Bein, Ahuva Almogi-Labin, and Eytan Sass

Fluid inclusion evidence for P-V-T-X evolution of hydrothermal solutions in late-Alpine gold-quartz veins at Brusson, Val D'Ayas, northwest Italian Alps
Larryn W. Diamond

Evidence for a major Middle Proterozoic, post-Grenvillian igneous event in western New England
Paul Karabinos and John N. Aleinikoff


November (no. 9)
Carbon isotope shifts in Pennsylvanian seas
Mordeckai Magaritz and William T. Holser

Mineral-fluid interactions in the Boardlands-Ohaaki geothermal system, New Zealand
Steven W. Lonker, John D. Fitz Gerald, Jeffry W. Hedenquist, and John L. Walshe

Estimating ancient sediment fluxes
Christopher N. Wold and William W. Hay

REVIEW: The Origin of Species Revisited: The Theories of Evolution and Abrupt appearance (2v.): by W. R. Bird
K. J. Hsü


December (no. 10)
Oxygen thermobarometry of abyssal spinel peridotites; the redox state and the C-O-H volatile composition of the Earth's sub oceanic Upper Mantle
L. Taras Bryndzia and Bernard J. Wood

Controls on C/S ratios in hemipelagic upwelling sediments
John W. Morse and Kay C. Emeis

40Ar/39Ar polyorogenic mineral age record within the southern Mauritanide orogen (M'Bout-Bakel regin) West Africa
R. D. Dallmeyer and J. P. Lecorche

Timing and characteristics of Paleozoic deformation and metamorphism in the Alabama Inner Piedmont
Steven A. Goldberg and Mark G. Stelenpohl

REVIEW: The Great Dying: by Kenneth Hsü
Steven Stanley


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