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GSA Field Guide: Geological Field Trips in Southern Idaho, Eastern Oregon, and Northern Nevada provides complete coverage and detailed guides to localities for the nine field trips of the 2004 Geological Society of America Cordilleran and Rocky Mountain Sections joint meeting in Boise, Idaho. Several chapters provide detailed road logs and guides, review recent research, or include new chemistry, geochronology, or radiocarbon age data.
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An Earth Scientist's Periodic Table of the Elements and Their Ions is a new periodic table designed to con-textualize trends in the natural sciences. The table acknowledges that most natural matter occurs in charged form as ions rather than in elemental form, resulting in a completely rearranged table. As a practical result, many trends in mineralogy, seawater chemistry, soil chemistry, the chemistry of earth's crust and mantle, the chemistry of sediments, and nutrient chemistry become apparent in ways that are not recognizable on conventional, elementally constructed, periodic tables.
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Penrose Conference

Secular Variation in Tectonics and Allied Fields
St. George, UT, Oct. 22-28.
Application Deadline: July 1.
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Which of these is a back-arc basin?

A. The Aegean Sea

B. The Mediterranean Sea

C. The Persian Gulf

D. The Red Sea

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2004 Annual Meeting

Nov. 7-10, Denver

This year's meeting in Denver is shaping up to be an outstanding overview of hot research in both new and traditional areas of the earth sciences. With eight Pardee Keynote Symposia, more than 140 Topical Sessions, and a wide range of open discipline sessions, the meeting will have something for every interest in the earth sciences.

• Everything you need to know
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• Online registration is open. Register by July 13 for the best price with our new "Earlybird" registration rate.
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• Help send a student to the meeting .
  donate to the student travel fund!
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• Abstract submission deadline is July 13.
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Annual meeting technical programs continue to grow and diversify because you make it happen! Invite a colleague (from your discipline or an allied science) to submit an abstract. GSA makes it easy. Just download a draft e-mail message with live links, written for people unfamiliar with GSA and its annual meeting, and tailor it for your use.
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Planning a business meeting, reception, or another event at the Annual Meeting in Denver this November? The Event Space Request System is now online.
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Campus Reps = Free Breakfast, What a Match!
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Special Opportunity for Annual Meeting Attendees ...
Tour In-Situ Inc. facilities
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Looking Ahead: Science at the 2004 Annual Meeting
Last (but not least!) in our four-part series highlighting Pardee Keynote Symposia, are these exciting sessions. Each of these two symposia will feature an ancillary evening discussion forum. [ view all keynote symposia ]

Pre-Mesozoic Impacts: Their Effect on Ocean Geochemistry, Magnetic Polarity, Climate Change, and Organic Evolution [ summary & image ]

Seeing Mars with New Eyes: Active Missions, Science Results, and Geoscience Education [ summary & image ]

Resources

Biogeosciences.org Launches
This site, bridging the earth and life sciences, went online June 8, 2004.
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Check out a new collection of paleontology links, photos, teaching materials, and more, from the University of California Museum of Paleontology, et. al. The site, is aimed at everyone from fossil enthusiasts to science professionals.
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Especially for Students

GSA has started a travel fund for students who wish to attend the GSA Annual Meeting!
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A Pot of Gold for Students Interested in Hydro Careers
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Communicating the Value of Geoscience

Government Affairs

House Appropriations Chairman Young Unveils 302(b) Allocations For Appropriations Subcommittees
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GSA In The News

Press Releases Issued by GSA

• June Geology Highlights (May 25)
• biogeosciences.org Launches (June 8)

Selected Press Releases Received by GSA

• U.S.A.'s Built-up Surfaces Equal Ohio in Area (June 14)
• Ralph J. Cicerone Nominated to Be Next National Academy of Sciences President (June 15)
• University of Maryland Makes Landsat Data Available Free to the World (June 16)

Fun with Geoscience Trivia

1. What type of igneous rock is an essexite?
2. Who, in 1715, suggested the age of the Earth could be calculated using the concentration of salt in the ocean as a measure?
3. What term is given for all the materials that exist between fresh rock and the atmosphere?