The Journal of South American Earth Sciences provides an international medium for the publication of scientific work concerned with all aspects of the Earth Sciences in the South American continent: Mexico to Argentina and adjacent regions of the Caribbean, Central America and Antarctic Peninsula.Papers must have a regional appeal and should present work of more than local significance. Research papers dealing with the regional geology of South American cratons and mobile belts, within the following research fields:Economic geology, metallogenesis and hydrocarbon genesis and reservoirsGeophysics, geochemistry, volcanology, igneous and metamorphic petrologyTectonics, neo- and seismotectonics and geodynamic modelingGeomorphology, geological hazards and soil researchStratigraphy, sedimentology, structure and basin evolutionPaleontology, paleoecology, paleoclimatology and Quaternary geology

《南美洲地球科學雜志》提供了一個國際媒介，以出版有關南美洲大陸所有方面的地球科學的科學工作:從墨西哥到阿根廷以及加勒比、中美洲和南極半島的鄰近地區。論文必須具有地區性的吸引力，并且應該呈現出比地方性更有意義的作品。關于南美克拉通和活動帶區域地質的研究論文，研究領域如下:經濟地質、成礦及油氣成因與儲層地球物理學、地球化學、火山學、火成巖和變質巖學構造學、新地震構造學和地球動力學建模地貌、地質災害與土壤研究地層學、沉積學、構造與盆地演化古生物學、古生態學、古氣候學和第四紀地質學