GSA Today Pub Date : 2024-09-12 DOI: 10.1130/2024.0070(02)

Daniel Sturmer, Garrett S. Vice, Stuart S. Sumida, Michelle Mary

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Google Earth Engine Web Applications for Investigating and Teaching Fundamental Geoscience Concepts 谷歌地球引擎网络应用程序用于调查和教授基本地球科学概念

GSA Today Pub Date : 2024-06-04 DOI: 10.1130/gsatg588a.1

A. Hoxey, Michael Taylor, J. D. Walker, Diane Kamola

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The Drakensberg Mountains: Southern Africa’s Barrier of Spears 德拉肯斯堡山脉南部非洲的长矛屏障

GSA Today Pub Date : 2024-06-01 DOI: 10.1130/gsatg114gh.1

Lon Abbott, Terri Cook

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Retraversing the Highs and Lows of Cenozoic Sea Levels 重新穿越新生代海平面的高低起伏

GSA Today Pub Date : 2024-04-01 DOI: 10.1130/gsatgg593a.1

Bilal Haq, James Ogg

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Facilitating the Critical Mineral Future: Valorization of Kaolin Mining Waste Through Partnerships 促进关键矿物的未来：通过伙伴关系实现高岭土采矿废料的价值评估

GSA Today Pub Date : 2024-04-01 DOI: 10.1130/gsatg599gw.1

Paul Schroeder, W. Elliott, Yuanzhi Tang, Lee Lemke

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Beast Quake (Taylor’s Version): Analysis of Seismic Signals Recorded during Two Taylor Swift Concerts in Seattle, July 2023 野兽地震（泰勒版本）：2023 年 7 月泰勒-斯威夫特在西雅图两场演唱会期间记录的地震信号分析

GSA Today Pub Date : 2024-03-01 DOI: 10.1130/gsatg589a.1

Jacqueline Caplan-Auerbach, Kyla Marczewski, Gavin Bullock

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Align: A User-Friendly App for Numerical Stratigraphic Correlation Align：一款用户友好型数值地层关联应用程序

GSA Today Pub Date : 2024-02-01 DOI: 10.1130/gsatg575a.1

Cedric Hagen, Jessica Creveling, Peter Huybers

{"title":"Align: A User-Friendly App for Numerical Stratigraphic Correlation","authors":"Cedric Hagen, Jessica Creveling, Peter Huybers","doi":"10.1130/gsatg575a.1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1130/gsatg575a.1","url":null,"abstract":"Stratigraphic correlation underpins all understanding of Earth’s history, yet few geoscientists have access to, or expertise in, numerical codes that can generate reproducible, optimal (in a least-squares framework) alignments between two stratigraphic time-series data sets. Here we introduce Align, a user-friendly computer app that makes accessible a published dynamic time warping (DTW) algorithm that, in a minute or less, catalogs a library of alignments between two time-series data sets by systematically exploring assumptions about the temporal overlap and relative sedimentation rates between the two stratigraphic sections. The Align app, written in the free, open-source R programming language, utilizes a graphical user interface (e.g., drop-down menus for data upload and sliding bars for parameter exploration) such that no coding is required. In addition to generating alignment libraries, a user can employ Align to visualize, explore, and cull each alignment library according to thresholds on Pearson’s correlation coefficient and/or temporal overlap. Here we demonstrate Align with time-series records of carbonate stable carbon isotope composition, though Align can, in principle, align any two quantitative stratigraphic time-series data sets.","PeriodicalId":35784,"journal":{"name":"GSA Today","volume":"29 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139686209","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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The First Geologists? 第一批地质学家？

GSA Today Pub Date : 2024-02-01 DOI: 10.1130/gsatg581a.1

Jon Spencer

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Feeling Relieved: Creating a Positive Bathroom Field Culture in the Geosciences 感觉如释重负：在地球科学领域创建积极的浴室文化

GSA Today Pub Date : 2024-02-01 DOI: 10.1130/gsatg574gw.1

Mo Snyder, Merilie Reynolds

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The First Geologists? 第一批地质学家？

GSA Today Pub Date : 2024-02-01 DOI: 10.1130/gsatg581a.1

Jon Spencer