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Oral Traditions and Volcanic Eruptions in Australia

Deformation of Zealandia, Earth’s Hidden Continent, Linked to Forging of the Ring of Fire

GSA Presidential Address: A Call to Action

By Molly E. Hunt, GSA Science Communication Intern, Undergraduate Student Ohio State University...

How Nodules Stay on Top at the Bottom of the Sea

New Geology Articles Published Online Ahead of Print in January

Boulder, Colo., USA: Article topics and locations include a two-pronged kill mechanism at the end-Triassic mass extincti...

REE Mineral-Bearing Rocks Found in Eastern Mojave Desert

Academic Program Prioritization: An Existential Threat to Geoscience Departments

Dept. of Physics, Purdue University Fort Wayne, Fort Wayne, Indiana 46805, USA, drummond@pfw.edu

Recent Digital Technology Trends in Geoscience Teaching and Practice

Digital technology advances are rapidly altering the landscape of geoscience teaching and practice. Although geoscience...

Fate of the lower lithosphere during shallow-angle subduction: The Laramide example

Continental arc lower crust and underlying mantle wedge assemblages native to the Mojave Desert were dislodged, transpor...

Notable GSA Papers from 2019

In 2019, GSA published 9,500 pages in its journals and books. With that much content coming out, you might have missed a...

The Faint Young Sun Problem Revisited

Earth and Mars should have been frozen worlds in their early history because of lower solar luminosity but were not, whi...

Subduction Polarity in Ancient Arcs: A Call to Integrate Geology and Geophysics to Decipher the Mesozoic Tectonic History of the Northern Cordillera of North America

Recent syntheses of Cordillera tectonics contain contradictory views of subduction polarity in the late Mesozoic, and th...

The Role of Introductory Geoscience Courses in Preparing Teachers—And All Students—For the Future: Are We Making the Grade?

Introductory geoscience courses enroll hundreds of thousands of students a year, most of whom do not major in the geosci...

Deep Slab Collision during Miocene Subduction Causes Uplift along Crustal-Scale Reverse Faults in Fiordland, New Zealand

A new multidisciplinary project in southwest New Zealand that combines geological and geophysical data shows how and why...

Teaching for Earth Resilience: A Strategy for Increased Diversity and Equity

Geology Dept. and Environmental Science Program, Wittenberg University, Springfield, Ohio 45501, USA

The Larsen Ice Shelf System, Antarctica (LARISSA): Polar Systems Bound Together, Changing Fast

Climatic, cryospheric, and biologic changes taking place in the northern Antarctic Peninsula provide examples for how on...

Synoptic View of Lithospheric S-Wave Velocity Structure in the Southern United States: A Comparison of 3D Seismic Tomographic Models

The southern U.S. continental margin records a history spanning ca. 1.2 Ga, including two Wilson cycles. However, due to...

Landslides Triggered by Hurricane Maria: Assessment of an Extreme Event in Puerto Rico

Hurricane Maria hit the island of Puerto Rico on 20 September 2017 and triggered more than 40,000 landslides in at least...