《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

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