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Why GSA Membership is Important to Me

The thing I value most about my GSA membership is… social media training for scientists. I especially appreciate that
GSA is actively providing science communication skill building
… that it has allowed me to grow a network of colleagues, friends, for their members! These free workshops give scientists a chance
and everything in between. to develop their communication skills, which can empower them
to share their science outside of the scientific community, thereby
GSA meetings give me the opportunity to engage with new, helping to build public trust in science (and scientists) and improv-
exciting science while reconnecting with friends and colleagues, ing general science literacy.
meeting new people, and forming new collaborations. GSA has
also allowed me to share my science and science communication
work with a broad audience through talks, poster presentations, Wendy Bohon
and informal discussions. Senior Science Communication Specialist,
Incorporated Research Institutions for
Additionally, GSA has provided me with the opportunity to give Seismology (IRIS)
back to my GSA community in various ways, including chairing GSA member since 2002
sessions, serving on the ad hoc ethics community, and facilitating

MEMOIR 217

Regional Geology of Mount Diablo, California: Its Tectonic
Evolution on the North America Plate Boundary
Regional Geology of
Memoir 217
Mount Diablo, California
Edited by Raymond Sullivan, Doris Sloan, Jeffrey R. Unruh,
and David P. Schwartz
Its Tectonic Evolution on the North America Plate Boundary Mount Diablo and the geology of the Central California Coast Ranges are the
subject of a volume celebrating the Northern California Geological Society’s
75th anniversary. The breadth of research illustrates the complex Meso-
zoic to Cenozoic tectonic evolution of the plate boundary. Recent fault-
ing and folding along the eastern edge of the San Andreas system
49 wedge complex faulted against Cretaceous and Cenozoic forearc
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have exposed in the mountain a core of Franciscan accretionary
$ $ strata. The Memoir includes papers on structure, stratigraphy,
tephrochronology, zircon provenance studies, apatite ssion track
analyses, and foraminifera and calcareous plankton assemblages
tied to Cenozoic climate events. Chapters also address the history
of geologic work in the area and the resource development of oil and
gas, mercury, coal, and sand, and road aggregate.
MWR217, 472 p. + insert, ISBN 9780813712178
list price $70.00 | member price $49.00
Edited by Raymond Sullivan, Doris Sloan, Jeffrey R. Unruh, and David P . Schwartz

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