coastal mountain range

(Geological Society of America) Geology articles cover the minute to the grand, from calcite-producing earthworms, skeletal metazoans and mineral discoveries, to Earth's highest coastal mountain range, a newly discovered extension of the Nile deep-sea fan and a Canadian impact crater and mark important events in time, from a 9-degree warming in Greenland only 14,700 years ago to Africa's Middle Stone Age.

GSA Today goes farther back in time to analyze the formation and closure of the Rheic Ocean.