EDITORIAL

LAJSBA: Our new reality

Starting with present issue, the new Latin American Journal of Sedimentology and Basin Analysis (LAJSBA) has born. This was announced by Matheos and Perillo (2004) as a way to expand the future and to achieve a larger integration among the Latin American researchers. During the last 11 years, AAS Revista was the main stream to express our scientific views but mostly concentrated in the work being done in Argentina. LAJSBA has arrived to provide a complete new spectrum of possibilities reaching also a much larger international community. However, we do not see LAJSBA as circumscribed to papers written by Latin American researchers but it is open to any specialist that would like to contribute to enhance our knowledge about Sedimentology and Basin Analysis.

LAJSBA is now edited in three languages (English, Spanish and Portuguese) and authors can freely select which language they prefer to submit their communication. There is a new and improved Editorial Board. I would like welcome also our new Associate Editor, Dr Dilce Rossetti, who has done an exceptional job in setting up all the Portuguese structure of our journal and web page.

This is our first step which is directed to have a fully electronic version of LAJSBA and to move into higher levels of international indexing.

On behalf of the Asociación Argentina de Sedimentología and LAJSBA Editorial Board, I would like to invite you to submit your work and profit of the much larger distribution that our journal will have in the near future.

As is now our preferred option, papers should be submitted through our web page http://www.sedimentologia.org.ar/aasrevista/index.htm where authors can obtain detailed information and instructions of how to prepare and submit their manuscripts.

Gerardo M. E. Perillo

Instituto Argentino de Oceanografía, CC 804, B800FWB Bahía Blanca, Argentina
Departamento de Geología, Universidad Nacional del Sur, San Juan 670, B8001ICN Bahía Blanca, Argentina
E-mail: perillo@criba.edu.ar