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GSA Today
Vol. 27 · No. 6
The High Plains Aquifer: Can We Make It Last?
Nearly a third of the United States’ irrigated crops depend on one massive but dwindling water source: the High Plains a...
GSA Today
Vol. 27 · No. 6
Color Vision Deficiency and the Geosciences
Color Vision Deficiency (CVD) is a common workplace disability. People with CVD read our papers and are most likely in a...
GSA Today
Vol. 27 · No. 6
Increasing Undergraduate Interest to Learn Geoscience with GPS-based Augmented Reality Field Trips on Students’ Own Smartphones
Field trips are a reliable method for attracting students into geoscience, yet for many high-enrollment college introduc...
GSA Today
Vol. 27 · No. 5
Diverse Students Can be Attracted to Geoscience
Many challenges facing humanity require geoscience expertise, yet the geoscientists addressing these challenges are pred...
GSA Today
Vol. 27 · No. 5
Increased Land Subsidence and Sea-Level Rise are Submerging Egypt's Nile Delta Coastal Margin
Egypt’s Nile delta, only ~1 m above mean sea level at the Mediterranean coast, is subject to uneven rates of submergence...
GSA Newsroom
May 2017
New Geology Articles Published Online Ahead of Print in February
Boulder, Colo., USA: Several new articles were published online ahead of print for Geology in February. Topics include s...
GSA Today
Vol. 27 · No. 3
Quaternary Rupture of a Crustal Fault beneath Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
The seismic potential of crustal faults within the forearc of the northern Cascadia subduction zone in British Columbia...
GSA Today
Vol. 27 · No. 3
Zealandia: Earth's Hidden Continent
A 4.9 Mkm2 region of the southwest Pacific Ocean is made up of continental crust. The region has elevated bathymetry rel...
GSA Today
Vol. 27 · No. 2
Impact of seismic image quality on fault interpretation uncertainty
Uncertainty in the geological interpretation of a seismic image is affected by image quality. Using quantitative image a...
GSA Today
Vol. 27 · No. 2
Late Miocene Uplift of the Tian Shan and Altai and Reorganization of Central Asia Climate
The timing of high surface topography and the corresponding climatic impacts of the many high ranges north of the Tibeta...
GSA Today
Vol. 27 · No. 1
Connecting the Next Generation of Science Journalists with Scientists in Action
Planetary Science Institute, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, 8800 Greenbelt Road, Greenbelt, Maryland 20771, USA
GSA Today
Vol. 27 · No. 1
The Gulf of Mexico and Canada Basin: Genetic Siblings on Either Side of North America
The Gulf of Mexico and Canada Basin are small oceans located in back-arc settings of the Paleo-Pacific Ocean, at the nor...
GSA Today
Vol. 26 · No. 12
Physical Experiments of Tectonic Deformation and Processes: Building a Strong Community
The recent revolution in the analysis of physical experiments of tectonic processes has provided new quantitative tools...
A Novel Plate Tectonic Scenario for the Genesis and Sealing of Some Major Mesozoic Oil Fields
Recent research reveals evidence of a major event of global plate motion during the Jurassic, with a magnitude and tempo...
GSA Today
Vol. 26 · No. 11
The Latest Ediacaran Wormworld Fauna: Setting the Ecological Stage for the Cambrian Explosion
As signposted by the fossil record, the early Cambrian period chronicles the appearance and evolutionary diversification...
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...