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Editorial
Executive Editor
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In 2009 the Journal enters its 50th year of publication – our "golden anniversary"! This is certainly good cause for celebration and we will be doing just that in various ways throughout the year.
Volume 1 was published in February 1960. The very first paper by P.J. Wyllie and O.F. Tuttle on "The system CaO-CO2-H2O and the origin of carbonatites" [J.Petrology 1:1-46] provided an idea for a special symposium at the 2009 Goldschmidt conference "Challenges to Our Volatile