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GSA Today
Vol. 23 · No. 6
Model for the eruption of the Old Faithful geyser, Yellowstone National Park
A physical model of the Old Faithful geyser successfully replicates the eruption interval for the years 2000–2011. It is...
GSA Today
Vol. 23 · No. 4
How good do natural hazard assessments need to be?
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GSA Today
Vol. 23 · No. 3
Chronostratigraphy and geochronology: A proposed realignment
We propose a realignment of the terms geochronology and chronostratigraphy that brings them broadly into line with curre...
GSA Today
Vol. 23 · No. 2
Miocene rejuvenation of topographic relief in the southern Appalachians
Conventional wisdom holds that the southern Appalachian Mountains have not experienced a significant phase of tectonic f...
GSA Today
Vol. 23 · No. 1
GSA members on climate change: Where, what, and ways forward?
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GSA Today
Vol. 23 · No. 1
Causation and avoidance of catastrophic flooding along the Indus River, Pakistan
The catastrophic flood of 2010 along the Indus River began in July with unusually intense but not unprecedented rainfall...
GSA Today
Vol. 22 · No. 12
Land transformation by humans: A review
In recent decades, changes that human activities have wrought in Earth’s life support system have worried many people. T...
GSA Today
Vol. 22 · No. 11
The evolution of creationism
For centuries, natural philosophers, their scientific successors, and theologians alike sought to explain the physical a...
GSA Today
Vol. 22 · No. 10
Rebuilding Tohoku: A joint geophysical and economic framework for hazard mitigation
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GSA Today
Vol. 22 · No. 10
Open-source archive of active faults for northwest South America
We present a publicly available database of active structures for the northern Andes based on the literature, our own fi...
GSA Today
Vol. 22 · No. 9
Future volcanism at Yellowstone caldera: Insights from geochemistry of young volcanic units and monitoring of volcanic unrest
In order to understand possible future scenarios of intracaldera volcanism at Yellowstone, we provide new insights on th...
GSA Today
Vol. 22 · No. 8
Updating the Debate on Model Complexity
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GSA Today
Vol. 22 · No. 8
Deep-water polygonal fault systems as terrestrial analogs for large-scale Martian polygonal terrains
Discovery of giant polygonal terrains on Mars has prompted a 30-year debate over how they formed. The prevailing hypothe...
GSA Today
Vol. 22 · No. 7
Is the Anthropocene an issue of stratigraphy or pop culture?
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GSA Today
Vol. 22 · No. 7
Buckling an orogen: The Cantabrian Orocline
The Paleozoic Variscan orogeny was a large-scale collisional event that involved amalgamation of multiple continents and...
GSA Today
Vol. 22 · No. 6
Wave-cut or water-table platforms of rocky coasts and rivers?
Despite evidence that weathering plays a role in forming intertidal, estuarine, and fluvial rock platforms, many publica...
GSA Today
Vol. 22 · No. 4
An open-source software environment for visualizing and refining plate tectonic reconstructions using high-resolution geological and geophysical data sets
We describe a powerful method to explore spatio-temporal relationships within geological and geophysical data sets by an...
GSA Today
Vol. 22 · No. 3
Detrital zircon facies of Cordilleran terranes in western North America
Paleozoic–Mesozoic basins in Cordilleran terranes of western North America contain detrital zircon U-Pb age distribution...