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GSA's 125th Anniversary

2013 Section Meetings

Earth and Planetary Systems

Education and Public Policy

Climate-Environment-Hazards

Natural Resources

History of Earth and Life

Earth and Planetary Systems
Solid Earth, Planetary Systems, Surficial Systems

Natural Resources
Water, Energy, Minerals, Soils

LATEST RESEARCH

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The effects of precipitation gradients on river profile evolution on the Big Island of Hawai'i

Sediment dispersal in an evolving foreland: Detrital zircon geochronology from Upper Jurassic and lowermost Cretaceous strata, Alberta Basin, Canada

Latest Pleistocene history of pluvial Lake Franklin, northeastern Nevada, USA

Unprecedented erosion of the upper Texas coast: Response to accelerated sea-level rise and hurricane impacts

Late Cretaceous subduction of the continental basement of the Maya block (Rabinal Granite, central Guatemala): Tectonic implications for the geodynamic evolution of Central America

Terrestrial paleoenvironmental reconstructions indicate transient peak warming during the early Eocene climatic optimum

Timing of late Holocene paleoearthquakes on the Hurunui segment of the Hope fault: Implications for plate boundary strain release through South Island, New Zealand

How volcanoes work: A 25 year perspective

Sediment supply, base level, braiding, and bedrock river terrace formation: Arroyo Seco, California, USA

Effect of phase transitions on seismic properties of metapelites: A new high-temperature laboratory calibration

Tracking sedimentation from the historic A.D. 2011 Mississippi River flood in the deltaic wetlands of Louisiana, USA

Using repeating volcano-tectonic earthquakes to track post-eruptive activity in the conduit system at Redoubt Volcano, Alaska

Non-hotspot volcano chains produced by migration of shear-driven upwelling toward the East Pacific Rise

Paleo-mantle wedge preserved in the Sambagawa high-pressure metamorphic belt and the thickness of forearc continental crust

CO₂ sequestration in a UK North Sea analogue for geological carbon storage

How well do fossil assemblages of the Ediacara Biota tell time?

Environmental tolerance and range offset of Treptichnus pedum: Implications for the recognition of the Ediacaran-Cambrian boundary

Erosion-induced isostatic rebound triggers extension in low convergent mountain ranges

Controls on valley width in mountainous landscapes: The role of landsliding and implications for salmonid habitat

Pervasive aeolian activity along rover Curiosity's traverse in Gale Crater, Mars

Establishment of euxinic conditions in the Holocene Black Sea

Chemostratigraphy indicates a relatively complete Late Permian to Early Triassic sequence in the western United States

Recurrent liquefaction in Christchurch, New Zealand, during the Canterbury earthquake sequence

Exhumation history of the Andean broken foreland revisited

Instability of a lithospheric step beneath western North Island, New Zealand

Colorado River chronostratigraphy at Lee's Ferry, Arizona, and the Colorado Plateau bull's-eye of incision

Late Quaternary slip rates of the thrust faults in western Hexi Corridor (Northern Qilian Shan, China) and their implications for northeastward growth of the Tibetan Plateau

Examination of the interplay between glacial processes and exhumation in the Saint Elias Mountains, Alaska

Paleochannels, stream incision, erosion, topographic evolution, and alternative explanations of paleoaltimetry, Sierra Nevada, California

Atlas of alteration textures in volcanic glass from the ocean basins

Interpretation of gravity and magnetic data and development of two-dimensional cross-sectional models for the Border Ranges fault system, south-central Alaska

New thermochronometric constraints on the Tertiary landscape evolution of the central and eastern Grand Canyon, Arizona

Local stress sources in Western Europe lithosphere from geoid anomalies

A review of observations and models of dynamic topography

Land transformation by humans: A review [open access]

Causation and avoidance of catastrophic flooding along the Indus River, Pakistan [open access]

GSA members on climate change: Where, what, and ways forward? [open access]

2012 GSA Presidential Address: Where our deepest passions intersect the world’s compelling needs [open access]

Miocene rejuvenation of topographic relief in the southern Appalachians [open access]

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GSA’s 125th Anniversary Celebrates Advances in Geoscience as we look at our science, our societal impact, and our unique thought processes.

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Rocky Mountain - deadline: 19 Feb.
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NEW IN THE BOOKSTORE

Memoir 210:
Tectonics of the Southeastern Tibetan Plateau and Its Adjacent Foreland and California

Special Paper 493:
Recent Advances in North American Paleoseismology and Neotectonics East of the Rockies

Special Paper 491:
Geology and Geomorphology of Barbados: A Companion Text to Maps with Accompanying Cross Sections, Scale 1:10,000

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