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GSA Today
Vol. 32 · No. 7
Shallow-Water versus Deep-Water: Stratigraphic Geometries in the Organic-Rich Shale/Mudstone Debate
In the central Williston basin, USA, the Bakken Formation and overlying lower Lodgepole Formation both have fine-grained...
GSA Today
Vol. 32 · No. 6
Three Major Failed Rifts in Central North America: Similarities and Differences
The North American craton preserves nearly two billion years of geologic history, including three major rifts that faile...
GSA Today
Vol. 32 · No. 5
Rapid Sediment Re-Deposition May Limit Carbon Release during Catastrophic Thermokarst Lake Drainage
Bureau of Economic Geology, Jackson School of Geosciences, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas 78712, USA
GSA Today
Vol. 32 · No. 5
What’s Soil Got to Do with Climate Change?
Soils are the foundation of life on land and represent one of the largest global carbon (C) reservoirs. Because of the v...
GSA Today
Vol. 32 · No. 3
The Mw 5.1, 9 August 2020, Sparta Earthquake, North Carolina: The First Documented Seismic Surface Rupture in the Eastern United States
At 8:07 a.m. EDT on 9 Aug. 2020 a Mw 5.1 earthquake located ~3 km south of Sparta, North Carolina, USA, shook much of th...
GSA Today
Vol. 32 · No. 2
Analysis of Skills Sought by Employers of Bachelors-Level Geoscientists
Dept. of Geological Sciences, Central Washington University, Ellensburg, Washington 98926, USA
GSA Today
Vol. 32 · No. 2
Learning from the COVID-19 Pandemic: How Faculty Experiences Can Prepare Us for Future System-Wide Disruption
Science Education Resource Center, Carleton College, Northfield, Minnesota 55057, USA
GSA Today
Vol. 32 · No. 2
Continental Magmatism and Uplift as the Primary Driver for First-Order Oceanic ⁸⁷Sr/⁸⁶Sr Variability with Implications for Global Climate and Atmospheric Oxygenation
Oceans cover 70% of Earth’s surface, setting it apart from the other terrestrial planets in the solar system, but the me...
GSA Today
Vol. 32 · No. 1
Print Your Compass: Using 3D Printed Geological Compasses for Teaching and Research Purposes
Lyon Geology Laboratory—Earth, Planets and Environment (LGL-TPE), Université Lyon 1, ENS de Lyon, CNRS, UMR 5276, Villeu...
GSA Today
Vol. 32 · No. 1
Discovery of an Entrapped Early Permian (ca. 299 Ma) Peri-Gondwanic Sliver in the Cretaceous Shyok Suture of Northern Ladakh, India: Diverse Implications
In a significant breakthrough, we report the first discovery of twenty-six genera and thirty-five species of Early Permi...
Mapping Critical Minerals from the Sky
Critical mineral resources titanium, zirconium, and rare earth elements occur in placer deposits over vast parts of the...
The Origin and Tectonic Significance of the Basin and Range–Rio Grande Rift Boundary in Southern New Mexico, USA
Cenozoic extension in the western United States occurred within two iconic domains: the Basin and Range and Rio Grande r...
Virtual Outcrops in a Pocket: The Smartphone as a Fully Equipped Photogrammetric Data Acquisition Tool
Since the advent of affordable consumer-grade cameras over a century ago, photographic images have been the standard med...
GSA Today
Vol. 31 · No. 8
Active Uplift of Southern Tibet Revealed
North of the Himalayas is the Tibetan plateau—the largest physiographic feature on Earth related to intercontinental col...
GSA Today
Vol. 31 · No. 7
’Taters versus Sliders: Evidence for a Long-Lived History of Strike-Slip Displacement along the Canadian Arctic Transform System (CATS)
Recent field-based studies indicate that the northern margin of North America is best interpreted as a tectonic boundary...
GSA Today
Vol. 31 · No. 6
Seeing What You Know: How Researchers’ Backgrounds Have Shaped the Mima Mound Controversy
As the boundaries of science are pushed toward infinity, so has the ever-widening divide among ever-deepening discipline...
GSA Today
Vol. 31 · No. 6
Recruiting to Geosciences through Campus Partnerships
Dept. of Geological & Atmospheric Sciences, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa 50011, USA
GSA Today
Vol. 31 · No. 6
Jurassic to Neogene Quantitative Crustal Thickness Estimates in Southern Tibet
Recent empirical calibrations of Sr/Y and La/Yb from intermediate igneous rocks as proxies of crustal thickness yield di...