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GSA Today
Vol. 25 · No. 8
Connecting geology and Native American culture on the reservation of Acoma Pueblo, New Mexico, USA
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GSA Today
Vol. 25 · No. 8
Pleistocene relative sea levels in the Chesapeake Bay region and their implications for the next century
Today, relative sea-level rise (3.4 mm/yr) is faster in the Chesapeake Bay region than any other location on the Atlanti...
GSA Today
Vol. 25 · No. 7
A bird's-eye view of geology: The use of micro drones/UAVs in geologic fieldwork and education
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GSA Today
Vol. 25 · No. 7
Lithospheric thinning associated with formation of a metamorphic core complex and subsequent formation of the Iranian plateau
The formation of metamorphic core complexes is not well understood, which is why these large geological structures are s...
GSA Today
Vol. 25 · No. 6
Moving lithospheric modeling forward: Attributes of a community computer code
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GSA Today
Vol. 25 · No. 6
The evolution of end-member continental waters: The origin of acidity in southern Western Australia
The Yilgarn Craton of Western Australia hosts a regional acid saline groundwater system and hundreds of ephemeral saline...
GSA Today
Vol. 25 · No. 5
Strategies for Creating a Conspicuous, Effective, and Memorable Poster Presentation
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GSA Today
Vol. 25 · No. 5
The smart city develops on geology: Comparing Rome and Naples
A smart city is one that harmonizes with the geology of its territory and uses technology to develop sustainably. Until...
GSA Today
Vol. 25 · No. 3
The sinking city: Earthquakes increase flood hazard in Christchurch, New Zealand
Airborne light detection and ranging (LiDAR) data were acquired over the coastal city of Christchurch, New Zealand, prio...
GSA Today
Vol. 25 · No. 2
Next Generation Science Standards: A call to action for the geoscience community
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GSA Today
Vol. 25 · No. 2
Fossilized lithospheric deformation revealed by teleseismic shear wave splitting in eastern China
Global mantle convection significantly impacts the processes at Earth’s surface and has been used to gain insights on pl...
GSA Today
Vol. 25 · No. 1
Mapping the Planets—Geology Stakes Its Claim
Planetary geoscience had very little presence in GSA’s first century, but it has a long history in GSA publications. Beg...
GSA Today
Vol. 24 · No. 12
How scientometry is killing science
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GSA Today
Vol. 24 · No. 12
Dynamics of a large, restless, rhyolitic magma system at Laguna del Maule, southern Andes, Chile
Explosive eruptions of large-volume rhyolitic magma systems are common in the geologic record and pose a major potential...
GSA Today
Vol. 24 · No. 11
Evolution of Paleontology: Long-term gender trends in an earth-science discipline
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GSA Today
Vol. 24 · No. 11
Preexisting fractures and the formation of an iconic American landscape: Tuolumne Meadows, Yosemite National Park, USA
Tuolumne Meadows, in Yosemite National Park (USA), is a large sub-alpine meadow in the Sierra Nevada Mountains. Immediat...
GSA Today
Vol. 24 · No. 10
New insights into debris-flow hazards from an extraordinary event in the Colorado Front Range
Rainfall on 9–13 September 2013 triggered at least 1,138 debris flows in a 3430 km2 area of the Colorado Front Range. Th...

A cosmogenic view of erosion, relief generation, and the age of faulting in southern Africa
Southernmost Africa, with extensive upland geomorphic surfaces, deep canyons, and numerous faults, has long interested g...