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

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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
geosphere@geosociety.org
| Name | Institution | |
|---|---|---|
Andrea Hampel | Leibniz University Hannover | |
Christopher J. Spencer | Queen’s University |
