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Hidden Magma Pools Pose Eruption Risks That We Can’t Yet Detect
Boulder, Colo., USA: Volcanologists’ ability to estimate eruption risks is largely reliant on knowing where pools of mag...
Curiosity Rover Explores Stratigraphy of Gale Crater: Finds Multiple Transitions between Drier and Wetter Climates
Boulder, Colo., USA: Gale Crater’s central sedimentary mound (Aeolis Mons or, informally, Mount Sharp) is a 5.5-km-tall...
Meeting of the Midcontinent: Geosciences from Canada to Mexico
Boulder, Colo., USA: The Geological Society of America’s North-Central Section and South-Central Section will each hold...
New GSA Bulletin Articles Published Online Ahead of Print in March
Boulder, Colo., USA: The Geological Society of America regularly publishes articles online ahead of print. For March, GS...
Articles for Geosphere Posted Online in March
Boulder, Colo., USA: GSA’s dynamic online journal, Geosphere, posts articles online regularly. Locations studied this mo...
Architecture of Eolian Successions under Icehouse and Greenhouse Conditions
Boulder, Colo., USA: Anthropogenic climate change is one of the foremost scientific and societal challenges. In part, ou...
Rare fossilized algae, discovered unexpectedly, fill in evolutionary gaps
Boulder, Colo., USA: When geobiology graduate student Katie Maloney trekked into the mountains of Canada’s remote Yukon...
Arctic methane release due to melting ice is likely to happen again
Boulder, Colo., USA: Beneath the cold, dark depths of the Arctic ocean sit vast reserves of methane. These stores rest i...
Advancing knowledge in the geosciences to understand Earth’s past, present, and future: 70th Annual Meeting of GSA’s Southeastern Section
Boulder, Colo., USA: The 2021 Geological Society of America Southeastern Section Meeting will be hosted by Auburn Univer...
56th Annual Meeting of GSA’s Northeastern Section: Lithosphere, Hydrosphere, Anthroposphere
Boulder, Colo., USA: The Geological Society of America’s Northeastern Section will meet online on 14–15 March. The meeti...
Current Issue Articles for Geosphere Posted Online in February
Boulder, Colo., USA: GSA’s dynamic online journal, Geosphere, posts articles online regularly. Topics for articles poste...
New GSA Bulletin Articles Published Ahead of Print in February
Boulder, Colo., USA: Several articles were published online ahead of print for GSA Bulletin in February. Topics include...
GSA Bulletin Articles Published Ahead of Print in January
Boulder, Colo., USA: Sixteen articles were published online ahead of print for GSA Bulletin in January. Topics include i...
New Geology Articles Published Online Ahead of Print in January
Boulder, Colo., USA: Eleven new articles were published ahead of print for Geology in January 2021. The include new mode...
Experiments show the record of early life could be full of “false positives”
Boulder, Colo., USA: For most of Earth’s history, life was limited to the microscopic realm, with bacteria occupying nea...
Deep-Sea Plastic Accumulations by Turbidity Currents: NW South China Sea
Boulder, Colo., USA: Benthic plastic litter is a main source of pollutants in oceans, but how it disperses is largely un...
Insights into the Yellowstone Hotspot
Boulder, Colo., USA: The Yellowstone hotspot is well known for generating supereruptions in the geologic past that are f...
Update on The Geological Society of America’s 2020 Annual Meeting
GSA 2020 Connects Online: An online meeting experience slated for 26–30 October 2020