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DECEMBER 2017 | VOLUME 27, NUMBER 12                                SCIENCE

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                                                                    Erratum: The In Memoriam section of the Nov. 2017 issue of GSA Today (p. 22)
                                                                    listed Jon C. Avent of Lopez Island, Washington, USA, as deceased. This is not the
                                                                    case, and GSA deeply regrets this error.
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