Geosphere

Current Issue

Geosphere is GSA's ambitious, online-only publication that addresses the growing need for timely publication of data-driven research results, including those that cannot be addressed by traditional formats. The journal's rigorously peer-reviewed, high-quality research papers target an international audience in all geoscience fields.

Geosphere's broad scope and flexible format encourages extensive use of color, animations, interactivity, and oversize figures (maps, cross sections, etc.), and provides easy access to digital data such as GIS databases and modeling results.

Scope and Content Types

Geosphere publishes papers which are fundamental and complete data-driven primary research contributions within the purview of the geosciences. As such, they include:

  • Research Articles
    • Research across the broad sweep of the geosciences;
    • Research at the intersection between the human culture(s) and the geosciences, and including geological education, justice, equity, diversity and inclusion in the geosciences, geoheritage, archæological geology, geologically informed land use, and other topics pertinent to geoscientists;
  • Software Contributions to be utilized for publishing new software, Web services, ontologies, and such, that will be made freely available to the scientific and educational communities; and
  • Comments and Replies to provide a forum in which published papers can be discussed.

Themed Issues

Geosphere encourages themed issues with papers joined in collections devoted to the same topic or region that span multiple issues of the journal.

Explore Themed Issues
Propose a Themed Issue and Read Guidelines

Access

Geosphere is a 100% open access journal. Papers are published under the CC-BY-NC license.

Contact

Questions?
geosphere@geosociety.org

Gina Harlow, Managing Editor
tel: +1-303-357-1095

Jordan Osborne, Associate Editor
tel: +1-303-357-1032

Mailing Address
The Geological Society of America
Publications Department
3300 Penrose Place
PO Box 9140
Boulder, CO 80301-9140
tel: +1-303-357-1000
fax: +1-303-357-1070

Science Editors

David E. Fastovsky
University of Rhode Island

Andrea Hampel
Leibniz University Hannover

Christopher J. Spencer
Queen’s University

Associate Editors

  • Valerio Acocella
    Università Roma Tre
  • Urbi Basu
    New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology
  • Steven Binnie
    University of Cologne
  • Cathy Busby
    University of California, Davis
  • Wentao Cao
    State University of New York at Fredonia
  • Cinzia Cervato
    Iowa State University
  • Eric H. Christiansen
    Brigham Young University
  • Roman A. DiBiase
    Pennsylvania State University
  • Fabian Duque
    Unaffiliated, USA
  • Carl N. Drummond
    Purdue University Fort Wayne
  • Andrea Fildani
    The Deep Time Institute
  • Robert S. Hildebrand
    Hbrand Geosciences
  • Gregory D. Hoke
    Syracuse University
  • Mark E. Holland
    West Texas A&M University
  • Jose M. Hurtado
    University of Texas at El Paso
  • Giampiero Iaffaldano
    University of Parma
  • Craig H. Jones
    University of Colorado
  • Todd LaMaskin
    University of North Carolina at Wilmington
  • Nick Lang
    Mercyhurst University
  • Zhiyang Li
    Texas A&M International University
  • Julie Libarkin
    Michigan State University
  • Jan Marie Lindsay
    The University of Auckland
  • Gianreto Manatschal
    Institute Physique du Globe/
    Ecole et Observatoir des Sciences de la Terre/ University of Strasbourg - CNRS
  • Rajat Mazumder
    German University of Technology in Oman and National Institute of Advanced Studies (NIAS), Bengaluru
  • Francesco Mazzarini
    Instituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia
  • Terry L. Pavlis
    University of Texas at El Paso
  • Anthony E. Rathburn
    California State University, Bakersfield
  • Jason W. Ricketts
    University of Texas at El Paso
  • Nancy Riggs
    Northern Arizona University
  • Julie Roberge
    ESIA-Ticoman, Instituto Politecnico Nacional (IPN)
  • Joel Saylor
    University of British Columbia
  • Xiaoming Shen
    National Institute of Natural Hazards, Ministry of Emergency Management of China
  • John Singleton
    Colorado State University
  • James A. Spotila
    Virginia Tech
  • Lawrence Tanner
    Le Moyne College
  • Barbara J. Tewksbury
    Hamilton College
  • Wei Wang
    China University of Geosciences, Wuhan
  • Xuan-Ce Wang
    Yunnan University
  • Alan Whittington
    University of Texas at San Antonio
  • Michael L. Williams
    University of Massachusetts
  • Brian J. Yanites
    Indiana University
  • Jiyuan Yin
    Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences
  • Huaiyu Yuan
    Macquarie University
  • Andrew V. Zuza
    University of Nevada, Reno