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Science Has No Borders: A Journey from Rural China to International Geoscience

Prof. Hailiang Dong, China University of Geosciences–Beijing, 2025 Arthur L. Day Medal Awardee

Hazard Mitigation Policy Lessons from My Two-Year Congressional Science Fellowship

As natural disaster events become more frequent and costly, scientists play a critical role in ensuring that communities...

Wildfires Leave Lasting Risks: Improving Predictions of Hazardous Debris Flows in Burned Areas

Destructive landslides are more likely to occur after wildfires, but how does the hazard change as vegetation regrows? S...

Early Cretaceous uplift of the Hangay Mountains (central Mongolia): A consequence of lithospheric foundering following oroclinal bending

New study identifies oroclinal bending as the trigger for lithospheric foundering and surface uplift

How Landslides Happen Without Heavy Rainfall: Early Strong Runoff Coincides with Weak Geomaterials

In the common understanding, heavy rainfall is the primary trigger of landslides. However, to most people’s surprise, ma...

‘Serendipitous’ Discovery of Martian Ripple Marks Reveals an Ancient Sandstorm

The search for life on Mars involves the efforts of scientists from many different disciplines. An important aspect of t...

Laurentian Tectonics: A Celebration of the Life and Career of William A. Thomas

Insights into the Alleghanian thrust belt from a balanced cross section in the Bessemer transverse zone, southeastern United States

Iapetan-opening rift faults and detachments at the Pennsylvania salient and New York recess, Appalachian Plateau: Seismic reflection profiles and implications

Basin yoking: Mechanisms, examples, and significance from the Appalachian area of North America

A Late Mississippian synsedimentary fault system in an incised paleovalley: A re-examination of Thomas’ early work on the Hurricane Ridge syncline, southern West Virginia

The southern Appalachian Blount basin: An accretionary, not collisional, orogenic basin

New Research Highlights the Importance of Sublimation for the Rocky Mountain Snowpack

This past winter, the Rocky Mountains experienced a historic snow drought, a worrying development for the tens of millio...

Tower in Motion: Resonance Mode Analysis of Devils Tower, Wyoming, USA

Devils Tower, Wyoming, is a 265-m-high cylindrical rock tower of phonolite porphyry with deep cultural significance and...

New Discovery of Younger Ediacaran Biota

Researchers studying the soft-bodied Ediacaran biotas of the world generally accept that there are three distinct assemb...

Understanding “Snowball Earth” Extreme Climates

New research in Geology suggests an unexpected mechanism could have caused a global glaciation to last for 56 million ye...

Galena geochemistry as recorder of and pathfinder for volcanogenic massive sulfide deposits: A case study of the Keketale volcanogenic massive sulfide−type Pb-Zn deposit, Altai Mountains

Controls on magma dynamics and emplacement in shallow faulted sediments: Insights from the Cretaceous Armintza Sill (Basque-Cantabrian rift basin, western Pyrenees)