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GSA Today
Vol. 26 · No. 10
The geology of Cuba: A brief overview and synthesis
Cuba is the largest island in the Greater Antilles, and its geology records three important episodes: (1) the Jurassic b...
GSA Today
Vol. 26 · No. 9
Tectonics and crustal evolution
The continental crust is the archive of Earth’s history. Its rock units record events that are heterogeneous in time wit...
GSA Today
Vol. 26 · No. 8
Geologic training for America's astronauts
NASA astronauts are smart, highly motivated, intensely curious, and intellectually fearless. As pilots, scientists, and...
GSA Today
Vol. 26 · No. 8
Virtual Rocks
Three-dimensional digital models of geological objects are relatively easy to create and geolocate on virtual globes suc...
GSA Today
Vol. 26 · No. 7
The development and evolution of the William Smith 1815 geological map from a digital perspective
William Smith’s 1815 geological map of England and Wales is a masterpiece; the map differs from all other contemporaneou...
GSA Today
Vol. 26 · No. 6
Dynamics and legacy of 4.8 ka rock avalanche that dammed Zion Canyon, Utah, USA
The Sentinel rock avalanche blocked the mouth of Zion Canyon, Utah, USA, over a distance of 3.3 km and created a large l...
GSA Today
Vol. 26 · No. 5
The effects of soil on the taste of wine
The conventional wisdom of vintners is that alkalinity, and thus less sour and more rounded taste, are enhanced in wine...
GSA Today
Vol. 26 · No. 3
Building a coalition of concerned stakeholders to guide watershed decisions
[Table: Table of Contents Acknowledgments References Cited Search GoogleScholar for JMH Cockbur...]
GSA Today
Vol. 26 · No. 3
The “Anthropocene” epoch: Scientific decision or political statement?
The proposal for the “Anthropocene” epoch as a formal unit of the geologic time scale has received extensive attention i...
GSA Today
Vol. 26 · No. 2
The 2014–2015 Pāhoa lava flow crisis at Kīlauea Volcano, Hawai’i: Disaster avoided and lessons learned
Lava flow crises are nothing new on the Island of Hawai‘i, where their destructive force has been demonstrated repeatedl...
GSA Today
Vol. 25 · No. 12
Who will build the 21st century? Addressing critical demographic gaps in the geosciences
[Table: Table of Contents Introduction Recent Progress Increasing Capacity Self-Identification & Com...]
GSA Today
Vol. 25 · No. 12
Imaging spectroscopy of geological samples and outcrops: Novel insights from microns to meters
Imaging spectroscopy is a powerful, non-destructive mineralogic tool that provides insights into a variety of geological...
GSA Today
Vol. 25 · No. 11
We need to talk: Facilitating communication between field-based geoscience and cyberinfrastructure communities
[Table: Table of Contents A Unique Opportunity for Cyberinfrastructure Bringing Cyberinfrastructure ...]
GSA Today
Vol. 25 · No. 11
Dismemberment and northward migration of the Cordilleran orogen: Baja-BC resolved
Paleomagnetic results indicate that much of the North American Cordillera migrated more than 1000 km northward during th...
GSA Today
Vol. 25 · No. 10
Introductory geology: Is there a common language?
[Table: Table of Contents Methods Results Discussion Acknowledgments References Cited Search Goog...]
GSA Today
Vol. 25 · No. 10
North American coral recovery after the end-Triassic mass extinction, New York Canyon, Nevada, USA
A Triassic-Jurassic (T/J) mass extinction boundary is well represented stratigraphically in west-central Nevada, USA, ne...
GSA Today
Vol. 25 · No. 9
The Snowmastodon Project: Cutting-edge science on the blade of a bulldozer
[Table: Table of Contents First a Discovery, Then Digging Like Mad Next, a Wobble, and then the Fini...]
GSA Today
Vol. 25 · No. 9
Aeromagnetic Discovery of a Baltimore Gneiss Dome in the Piedmont of Northwestern Delaware and Southeastern Pennsylvania
In the central Appalachian Piedmont the “basement complex” is an assemblage of 1,100- to 1,300-m.y.-old gneisses, migmat...