Here, I am posing next to the elusive “Moby Dike”—the “white whale” of Columbia River flood basalt dikes. The dike is 9 m wide. What new experiences, opportunities, and collaborations did you gain as ...

The great basalt dike at Westkapelle had been started 500 years ago. The Germans had built pillboxes on it. Allied bombers had breached it.

The ground had dropped 10 inches (25 centimeters) as the basalt dike filled, but then it began to rise in a broad dome, indicating that magma was reinflating and repressurizing the magma chamber.

GSA’s dynamic online journal, Geosphere, posts articles online regularly. Topics this month include an analysis of geoscience job applications; Uturuncu volcano, Bolivia; Picture Gorge Basalt ...