Journal of the Virtual Explorer

2010 marks the tenth anniversary of the Means Volume, the first online publication of a significant microstructural work that took full advantage of the electronic medium. The Science of Microstructures will similarly teach and inspire, leading the reader to the cutting edge of microstructural research.

Intending authors should immediately contact one of the editors with a title and list of contributors.

Papers focus on the importance of microstructure for answering geological questions in any setting, including e.g., microstructures of metamorphism, migmatisation and anatexis.

Italy is home to a great variety of geological environments.

In this 10th Anniversary Volume of the Journal of the Virtual Explorer we celebrate this diversity, by providing an up-to-date account of the geological evolution of Italy through time, with review papers from the fields of tectonics, petrology, volcanology, structural geology, geochronology, stratigraphy, sedimentology and palaeontology.

This field guide describes outcrops that are critical for the evolution of new concepts on extreme crustal thinning, mantle exhumation, continental breakup and initial seafloor spreading.

General Contributions submitted to the journal for publication in 2010.

The Editors invite contributions that do not pertain to special issues. In particular, we seek papers that use the benefits of electronic medium in conveying geoscience concepts via visualizations, simulations and animations. For author instructions and reviewing policies, see http://www.virtualexplorer.com.au/pages/publish/.