July 2011 in GSA Today: Clinker geochronology

06/28/11 ( Geological Society of America ) July's GSA Today science article authors Peter W. Reiners of the University of Arizona and colleagues have developed and successfully carried out a novel, extraordinary technique for learning how efficiently river channels cut and increase local topographic relief: They have used the exposure of "clinker" deposits in combination with highly refined dating ...

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August 2011 Geology highlights

07/06/11 ( Geological Society of America ) Topics in the August Geology include banded iron formations, the San Andreas fault, the Jan. 12, 2010, Haiti earthquake, a shorter "dead interval" for marine organisms after the end-Permian mass extinction, fossil reef framework-forming cold-water corals, the Holocene sea-level history for the U.S. Atlantic coast, digital image correlation and the 1980 Mount St ...

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Lithosphere highlights: New research posted July 7

07/08/11 ( Geological Society of America ) Highlights for articles published online July 7, 2011, are provided below. Keywords include: Coast Mountains batholith, Anderson Reservoir, Canada, Alaska, Chugach terrane, Valdez Group, Basin and Range province, and Sierra Nevada.

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