Elements: An International Magazine of Mineralogy, Geochemistry, and Petrology

Elements is published bimonthly by the collective efforts of 18 mineralogy, geochemistry, and petrology societies. Every issue explores a theme of broad and current interest in the mineral sciences. Elements also presents regular features like a calendar of events, short course announcements, awards, conference reports, policy news, as well as news of the Societies. Elements publishes invited peer-reviewed papers for its thematic collection of papers. Topics of interest can be proposed to the editors who will review every proposal submitted. Sponsoring societies: Mineralogical Society of America, The Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland, the Mineralogical Association of Canada, the Geochemical Society, The Clay Minerals Society, the European Association of Geochemistry, the International Association of GeoChemistry, the Société Française de Minéralogie et de Cristallographie, the Association of Applied Geochemists, the Deutsche Mineralogische Gesellschaft, the Società Italiana di Mineralogia e Petrologia, the International Association of Geoanalysts, the Polskie Towarzystwo Mineralogiczne (Mineralogical Society of Poland), the Sociedad Española de Mineralogía (Spanish Mineralogical Society), the Swiss Society of Mineralogy and Petrology, the Meteoritical Society, and the Japan Association of Mineralogical Sciences. ISSN 1811-5209 Elements (Print) ISSN 1811-5217 Elements (online) © Mineralogical Society of America