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Episodic burial and exhumation in NE Brazil after opening of the South Atlantic

Integration of macrofossil biostratigraphy and magnetostratigraphy for the Pacific Coast Upper Cretaceous (Campanian–Maastrichtian) of North America and implications for correlation with the Western Interior and Tethys

Neogene block rotation in central Iran: Evidence from paleomagnetic data

Evidence for middle Eocene and younger land emergence in central Panama: Implications for Isthmus closure

The initiation of submarine slope failure and the emplacement of mass transport complexes in salt-related minibasins: A three-dimensional seismic-reflection case study from the Santos Basin, offshore Brazil

Discriminating rapid exhumation from syndepositional volcanism using detrital zircon double dating: Implications for the tectonic history of the Eastern Cordillera, Colombia

Detecting hydrate and fluid flow from bottom simulating reflector depth anomalies

Onset of North Atlantic Deep Water production coincident with inception of the Cenozoic global cooling trend

A 2400 yr Mesoamerican rainfall reconstruction links climate and cultural change

Seismic constraints on the water flux delivered to the deep Earth by subduction

Global decline in ocean ventilation, oxygenation, and productivity during the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum: Implications for the benthic extinction

Splay faults imaged by fluid-driven aftershocks of the 2004 Mw 9.2 Sumatra-Andaman earthquake

Magnetic stripes of a transitional continental rift in Afar

Climate warming in the latest Permian and the Permian–Triassic mass extinction

New insights into Archean granite-greenstone architecture through joint gravity and magnetic inversion

Rhenium-osmium isotope systematics and platinum group element concentrations in oceanic crust

Burgess shale–type biotas were not entirely burrowed away

Gas hydrate pingoes: Deep seafloor evidence of focused fluid flow on continental margins

Cretaceous forest composition and productivity inferred from a global fossil wood database

Boron- and magnesium-rich marine brines at the origin of giant unconformity-related uranium deposits: δ¹¹B evidence from Mg-tourmalines

CO₂-depleted warm air venting from chrysotile milling waste (Thetford Mines, Canada): Evidence for in-situ carbon capture from the atmosphere

Spatiotemporal analysis of channel wall erosion in ephemeral torrents using tree roots—An example from the Patagonian Andes

U-Pb zircon dating evidence for a Pleistocene Sarasvati River and capture of the Yamuna River

3.8 Ga zircons sampled by Neogene ignimbrite eruptions in Central Anatolia

The origin of intracellular structures in Ediacaran metazoan embryos

Near-tropical Early Eocene terrestrial temperatures at the Australo-Antarctic margin, western Tasmania

Energetics of normal earthquakes on dip-slip faults

Sea-level fall, carbonate production, rainy days: How do they relate? Insight from Triassic carbonate platforms (Western Tethys, Southern Alps, Italy)

Splay fault slip during the M_w 8.8 2010 Maule Chile earthquake

Lithostratigraphy from downhole logs in Hole AND-1B, Antarctica

Foundering lithosphere imaged with magnetotelluric data beneath Yosemite National Park, California

LaDiCaoz and LiDARimager—MATLAB GUIs for LiDAR data handling and lateral displacement measurement

Eocene–Early Miocene paleotopography of the Sierra Nevada–Great Basin–Nevadaplano based on widespread ash-flow tuffs and paleovalleys

Inflation rates, rifts, and bands in a p hoehoe sheet flow

Miocene magmatism in the Bodie Hills volcanic field, California and Nevada: A long-lived eruptive center in the southern segment of the ancestral Cascades arc

Structural relationships in the eastern syntaxis of the St. Elias orogen, Alaska

Crustal structure and signatures of recent tectonism as influenced by ancient terranes in the western United States

Chlorite-smectite clay minerals and fault behavior: New evidence from the San Andreas Fault Observatory at Depth (SAFOD) core

Multi-timescale mechanical coupling between the San Jacinto fault and the San Andreas fault, southern California

Transient fluvial incision and active surface uplift in the Woodlark Rift of eastern Papua New Guinea

Chalcedony vein horizons and clastic dikes in the White River Group as products of diagenetically driven deformation

Why did the Southern Gulf of California rupture so rapidly?—Oblique divergence across hot, weak lithosphere along a tectonically active margin [open access]

Unique geologic insights from “non-unique” gravity and magnetic interpretation [open access]

Enhancing Participation of Two-Year College Faculty in The Geological Society of America [open access]

Speciation collapse and invasive species dynamics during the Late Devonian “Mass Extinction” [open access]

The Importance of the Global Professoriate in the Geosciences—The Students We Are Teaching, and Learn from, Today May Represent the Last Great Hope [open access]

An Astrophysicist Looks at Global Warming [open access]

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Students & Early Career Scientists

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The 2 ka Eruption of Misti Volcano, Southern Peru—The Most Recent Plinian Eruption of Arequipa’s Iconic Volcano

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Analogs for Planetary Exploration

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A Vibrant Earth: Through the Lens

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