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StraboTools: A Mobile App for Quantifying Fabric in Geology
Quantification of field observations is an essential step in making them reproducible and shareable, but field geologist...
GSA Today
Vol. 30 · No. 7
Reply: 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
Dept. of Geological Sciences, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, New Mexico 88003, USA
GSA Today
Vol. 30 · No. 7
Individual Development Plans (IDPs): An Underutilized Advising Tool in the Geosciences
Department of Earth Sciences, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, Honolulu, Hawai‘i 96822, USA, deborahe@hawaii.edu
GSA Today
Vol. 30 · No. 7
Assembling Laurentia—Integrated Theme Sessions on Tectonic Turning Points
The North American continent records the evolution of tectonic processes and tectonic environments from the earliest Arc...
GSA Today
Vol. 30 · No. 7
Comment: 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
British Columbia Geological Survey, P.O. Box 933 Stn Prov Govt, Victoria, British Colunbia, V8W 9N3, Canada
GSA Today
Vol. 30 · No. 6
Geoscience Videos and Animations: How to Make Them with Your Students, and How to Use Them in the Classroom
We are in the midst of a “tectonic shift” in the way that undergraduate students want to learn. They will attend lecture...
GSA Today
Vol. 30 · No. 6
Seeing Like a Geologist: How Expertise and Context Impact Frame-of-Reference Judgments
Northern Illinois University, Dept. of Geology and Environmental Geosciences, Davis Hall 312, Normal Road, DeKalb, Illin...
GSA Today
Vol. 30 · No. 6
Visualization and Sharing of 3D Digital Outcrop Models to Promote Open Science
High-resolution 3D data sets, such as digital outcrop models (DOMs), are increasingly being used by geoscientists to sup...
GSA Today
Vol. 30 · No. 5
A Guide to Graduate School Admissions in the Geosciences
While information on pursuing graduate studies is widely available from both web sources and faculty advisers, many pros...
GSA Today
Vol. 30 · No. 5
Remnants and Rates of Metamorphic Decarbonation in Continental Arcs
Metamorphic decarbonation in magmatic arcs remains a challenge to impose in models of the geologic carbon cycle. Crustal...
GSA Today
Vol. 30 · No. 3
¡Cuba! River Water Chemistry Reveals Rapid Chemical Weathering, the Echo of Uplift, and the Promise of More Sustainable Agriculture
For the first time in more than half a century, a joint Cuban/American science team has worked together to quantify the...
GSA Today
Vol. 30 · No. 1
Academic Program Prioritization: An Existential Threat to Geoscience Departments
Dept. of Physics, Purdue University Fort Wayne, Fort Wayne, Indiana 46805, USA, drummond@pfw.edu
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Vol. 30 · No. 1
Recent Digital Technology Trends in Geoscience Teaching and Practice
Digital technology advances are rapidly altering the landscape of geoscience teaching and practice. Although geoscience...
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Vol. 30 · No. 1
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...
GSA Today
Vol. 29 · No. 12
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...
GSA Today
Vol. 29 · No. 11
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...
GSA Today
Vol. 29 · No. 10
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...
GSA Today
Vol. 29 · No. 9
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...