September Geology and GSA Today media highlights
5th Sep 2005, 13:27 GMT
The September issue of Geology includes: evidence linking northern California's Lovejoy basalt to Yellowstone hotspot lava outpouring; ecological history of coral reefs in Belize and implications for saving coral reefs worldwide; evidence dating the Chicxulub impact to the Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary; comprehensive climate simulation of the end-Permian and implications for mass extinction; and fossil packrat middens reveal a Younger Dryas cold period in the Grand Canyon. GSA TODAY's science article addresses topography of the Sierra Nevadas.