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January (no. 1)
Contact metamorphism surrounding the Alta stock: finite element model simulation of heat- and 18O/16O mass-transport during prograde metamorphism
Stephen J. Cook, John R. Bowman, and Craig B. Forster

Deformational structures associated with gravitational block gliding: examples from sedimentary olistoliths in the Kalvåg Melange, western Norway
Øyvind Steen and Arild Andresen

Humans as geological agents and the question of scale
Jonathan D. Phillips


February (no. 2)
Geologic tests of hypotheses for large coastwise displacements- a critique illustrated by the Baja British Columbia controversy
Darrel S. Cowan, Mark T. Brandon, and John I. Garver

Exotic nappes in external parts of orogenic belts
John Rodgers

A peri-Gondwanan arc-back arc complex in Iapetus: early-mid Ordovician evolution of the Exploits Group, Newfoundland
Brian H. O'Brien, H. Scott Swinden, Greg R. Dunning, S. Henry Williams, and Felicity H. C. O'Brien


March (no. 3)
Introduction to the James Dwight Dana Issue

James Dwight Dana and the emergence of professional geology in the United States
Julie R. Newell

James Dwight Dana's old tectonics-global contraction under divine direction
Robert H. Dott, Jr.

At Vulcan's shoulder: James Dwight Dana and the beginnings of planetary volcanology
James H. Natland

James Dwight Dana and the Taconic controversy
John Rodgers


April (no. 4)
Paleo-hydrogeology of late Proterozoic units of southeastern Canadian Cordillera
Bruce E. Nesbitt and Karlis Muehlenbachs

Pseudomorphic replacement in tropical weathering: evidence, geochemical consequences, and kinetic-rheological origin
Daniel Nahon and Enrique Merino

Geochemistry of Iapetus volcanic rocks, Quebec Appalachians: Nd, Sr isotopic compositions
V. Olive, R. Hébert, D. Vermette, and M. Loubet

Discussion: Compositional variations in metamorphosed sediments of the Littleton Formation, New Hampshire
Jay J. Ague

Book Review: The Origin and Evolution of Birds; by Alan Feduccia
Alan H. Brush


May (no. 5)
Carbonate precipitation and oxygen stratification in late Archean seawater as deduced from facies and stratigraphy of the Gamohaan and Frisco formations, Transvaal Supergroup, South Africa
Dawn Y. Sumner

Chronology of Paleozoic metamorphism and deformation in the Blue Ridge Thrust Complex, North Carolina and Tennessee
S. A. Goldberg and R. D. Dallmeyer

Petrological and geochemical characteristics of the Bolton Igneous Group, southern Québec Appalachians
B. Mélançon, R. Hébert, R. Laurent, and J. Dostal


June (no. 6)
A geologic history of the north-central Appalachians. Part 1. Orogenesis from the Mesoproterozoic through the Taconic orogeny
Rodger T. Faill

Pyrite formation in an anoxic estuarine basin
Richard T. Wilkin and H. L. Barnes

Granite intrusion along strike-slip zones in experiment and nature
Teresa Román-Berdiel, Denis Gapais, and Jean-Pierre Brun


September (no. 7)
Grain-scale stable isotope disequilibrium during fluid-rock interaction. 1: Series approximations for advective-dispersive transport and first-order kinetic mineral-fluid exchange
R. Abart and R. Sperb

Grain-scale stable isotope disequilibrium during fluid-rock interaction. 2: An example from the Penninic-Austroalpine tectonic contact in eastern Switzerland
H. Eppel and R. Abart

A geologic history of the north-central Appalachians, Part 2: The Appalachian basin from the Silurian through the Carboniferous
Rodger T. Faill

A note on the terrane concept, based on an introduction to the Terrane '97 Conference, Christchurch, New Zealand, February, 1997
D. S. Coombs


October (no. 8)
Modeling chemical mass transfer in geochemical processes: Thermodynamic relations, conditions of equilibria, and numerical algorithms
Igor K. Karpov, Konstantin V. Chudnenko, and Dmitri A. Kulik

Pyrrhotite leaching in acid mixtures of HCl and H2SO4
Allen R. Pratt, and H. Wayne Nesbitt

Interlayer cation effects on the hydration state of smectite
Javier Cuadros

Landscape development as indicated by basin morphology and the magnetic polarity of cave sediments, Crawford Upland, south-central Indiana
Patrick P. Pease and Basil Gomez


November (no. 9)
Orogenic concepts-Application and definition: Lachlan Fold Belt, Eastern Australia
David R. Gray and David A. Foster

Dolomitization of the Cambrian carbonate platform, southern Canadian Rocky Mountains: Dolomite front geometry, fluid inclusion geochemistry, isotopic signature, and hydrogeologic modelling studies
Qinjun Yao and Robert V. Demicco


December (no. 10)
Inverse modeling of annealing of fission tracks in apatite 1: A controlled random search method
Sean D. Willett

Inverse modeling of annealing of fission tracks in apatite 2: Application to the thermal history of the Peace River Arch region, western Canada sedimentary basin
Sean D. Willett, Dale R. Issler, Christopher Beaumont, Ray A. Donelick, and Alexander M. Grist

Comment and Reply on: Feldspar dissolution at 25oC and low pH
Comment: John V. Walther; Reply: S. L. Brantley and L. L. Stillings


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