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GSA Today - Vol. 20, 2010
December
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Geoinformatics: Transforming data to knowledge for geosciences
A. Krishna Sinha, Zaki Malik, Abdelmounaam Rezgui, Calvin G. Barnes, Kai Lin, Grant Heiken, William A. Thomas, Linda C. Gundersen, Robert Raskin, Ian Jackson, Peter Fox, Deborah McGuinness, Dogan Seber, and Herman Zimmerman
DOI: 10.1130/GSATG85A.1
November
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Tropical shoreline ice in the late Cambrian: Implications for Earth's climate between the Cambrian Explosion and the Great Ordovician Biodiversification Event
Anthony C. Runkel, Tyler J. Mackey, Clinton A. Cowan, David L. Fox
DOI: 10.1130/GSATG84A.1
October
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Caldera collapse: Perspectives from comparing Galápagos volcanoes, nuclear-test sinks, sandbox models, and volcanoes on Mars
Keith A. Howard
DOI: 10.1130/GSATG82A.1
September
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Subduction of the Chile Ridge: Upper mantle structure and flow
R.M. Russo, John C. VanDecar, Diana Comte, Victor I. Mocanu, Alejandro Gallego, Ruth E. Murdie
DOI: 10.1130/GSATG61A.1
August
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Structural analysis of three extensional detachment faults with data from the 2000 Space-Shuttle Radar Topography Mission
Jon E. Spencer
DOI: 10.1130/GSATG59A.1
July
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Resolving uplift of the northern Andes using de-trital zircon age signatures
Brian K. Horton, Mauricio Parra, Joel E. Saylor, Junsheng Nie, Andrés Mora, Vladimir Torres, Daniel F. Stockli, Manfred R. Strecker
DOI: 10.1130/GSATG76A.1
June
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Impacts of environmental change and human activity on microbial ecosystems on the Tibetan Plateau, NW China
Hailiang Dong, Hongchen Jiang, Bingsong Yu, Xingqi Liu
DOI: 10.1130/GSATG75A.1
April-May
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The digital revolution in geologic mapping
Steven J. Whitmeyer, Jeremy Nicoletti, Declan G. De Paor
DOI: 10.1130/GSATG70A.1
March
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Evaluating lateral compaction in deepwater fold and thrust belts: How much are we missing from “nature's sandbox”?
R.W.H. Butler, D.A. Paton
DOI: 10.1130/GSATG77A.1
February
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Rock to regolith conversion: Producing hospitable substrates for terrestrial ecosystems
Robert C. Graham, Ann M. Rossi, R. Hubbert
DOI: 10.1130/GSAT57A.1
ERRATUM: On pages 7 and 8 of this article, rates listed as mm yr−1 and mm k.y. yr−1 were inadvertently changed to m yr−1 and m k.y.−1 — please note that the correct measurement is millimeters, not meters. GSA Today regrets this error.
January
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Impact of erosion, sedimentation, and structural heritage on the structure and kinematics of orogenic wedges: Analog models and case studies
Jacques Malavieille
DOI: 10.1130/GSATG48A.1