GSA Bulletin

Current Issue

Overview

The GSA Bulletin is the Society's premier scholarly journal, published continuously since 1890. Its first editor was William John (WJ) McGee, who was responsible for establishing much of its original style and format. Fully refereed, each bimonthly issue is now online-only and includes 50 papers focusing on the most definitive, timely, and classic-style research in all earth-science disciplines.

Scope

The Bulletin welcomes most contributions that are data-rich, mature studies of broad interest (i.e., of interest to more than one sub-discipline of earth science) and of lasting, archival quality. These include (but are not limited to) studies related to tectonics, structural geology, geochemistry, geophysics, hydrogeology, marine geology, paleoclimatology, planetary geology, quaternary geology/geomorphology, sedimentary geology, stratigraphy, and volcanology. The journal is committed to further developing both the scope of its content and its international profile so that it publishes the most current earth science research that will be of wide interest to geoscientists.

Types of Articles

  • Research Articles are presentations of data sets, experimental results, theoretical analyses, or numerical simulations. These thoroughly documented papers should use the scientific method in reaching conclusions and have immediate, far-reaching implications or advance the understanding of a problem or question related to a sub-discipline of the earth sciences. Although no rigid page limit is in place, authors are expected to provide concise text and illustrations that use page space efficiently.
  • Invited Review Articles, either scholarly or pedagogical, facilitate communication among scientists from a broad range of disciplines through discussion of recent papers of interest or important advances in a particular field or fields.
  • Comments and Replies provide a forum in which published papers can be discussed.

Contact

Questions?
gsab@geosociety.org

Kelly Finefrock, Managing Editor
tel: +1-303-357-1022

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

Mihai Ducea
University of Arizona, University of Bucharest

Troy Rasbury
SUNY Stony Brook

Lu Wang
Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan

Board of Associate Editors

2024–2026

  • Jean H. Bédard
    Geological Survey of Canada
  • Yue Cai
    Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
  • Bradley Cramer
    University of Iowa
  • Peter Eichhubl
    University of Texas–Austin
  • Ashley Gumsley
    University of Silesia in Katowice
  • Gregory Henkes
    Stony Brook University
  • Fangyang Hu
    Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
  • John Jansen
    Czech Academy of Sciences
  • Steven J. Jaret
    City University of New York, KBCC
  • Zheng-Xiang Li
    Curtin University
  • Rajat Mazumder
    German University of Technology in Oman
  • Stefano Mazzoli
    University of Naples ‘Federico II’
  • Gary S. Michelfelder
    Missouri State University
  • Catherine Mottram
    University of Portsmouth
  • Michael Ort
    Northern Arizona University
  • Daniel Peppe
    Baylor University
  • Brian Pratt
    University of Saskatchewan
  • Wolf Uwe Reimold
    University of Brasília
  • Nancy Riggs
    Northern Arizona University
  • Dylan Rood
    Imperial College London
  • Miao Sang
    Chinese Academy of Sciences
  • Dongfang Song
    Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
  • Francis J. Sousa
    Oregon State University
  • Enrico Tavarnelli
    Università di Siena
  • Petru Urdea
    West University of Timişoara
  • Cees R. van Staal
    Geological Survey of Canada
  • Junpeng Wang
    China University of Geosciences, Wuhan
  • Alex Whittaker
    Imperial College of London
  • Yun-Chuan Zeng
    China University of Geosciences, Beijing

2025–2027

  • Feng Cheng
    Peking University
  • William Guenthner
    University of Illinois
  • Hongping He
    Chinese Academy of Sciences
  • Xiangyun Hu
    China University of Geosciences, Wuhan
  • Christian Koeberl
    University of Vienna
  • Tim Kusky
    China University of Geosciences
  • Pengfei Li
    Chinese Academy of Sciences
  • Yongjiang Liu
    Ocean University of China
  • Peter Luffi
    Geological Institute of Romania
  • Ryan Mathur
    Juniata College
  • Zhikun Ren
    Institute of Geology, China Earthquake Administration
  • Karel Schulmann
    University of Strasbourg
  • Reimar Seltmann
    Natural History Museum, London
  • John Waldron
    University of Alberta
  • Zhen Yan
    Institute of Geology, Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences
  • Changqing Yin
    Sun Yat-sen University
  • Jiyuan Yin
    Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences
  • Junmeng Zhao
    Tibet University
  • Laishi Zhao
    China University of Geosciences
  • Xixi Zhao
    State Key Laboratory of Marine Geology
  • Haibo Zou
    Auburn University

2026–2028

  • Emilie Bowman
    University of Cambridge
  • Razvan Caracas
    Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris
  • Hao Deng
    China University of Geosciences (Wuhan)
  • Vlad-Victor Ene
    University of Bucharest
  • Emmanuel Gabet
    San Jose State University
  • Liviu Giosan
    Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
  • Erik Gulbranson
    Gustavus Adolphus College
  • Nicholas W. Hayman
    Oklahoma Geological Survey
  • Ganqing Jiang
    University of Nevada, Las Vegas
  • Shan Li
    University of Chinese Academy of Sciences
  • Jing Liu-Zeng
    Tianjin University
  • Réka Lukács
    HUN-REN Research Centre for Astronomy and Earth Sciences
  • Anlin Ma
    Nanjing University
  • Massimo Mattei
    University Roma TRE
  • Zhen Qiu
    Research Institute of Petroleum Exploration & Development, PetroChina
  • Pablo Rossel
    Universidad Nacional Andres Bello
  • Christen D. Shelton
    Rogers State University
  • Michael Elliot Smith
    Northern Arizona University
  • Gary Solar
    Buffalo State University
  • Antoine Triantafyllou
    Lyon Geology Laboratory: Earth, Planets, Environment
  • Youwei Wang
    Chinese Academy of Sciences
  • Tao Yang
    China University of Geosciences, Beijing
  • Alessandro Zanazzi
    Utah Valley University