Reading Sheet for GSA Today Paper

 

 

This is the first "scientific" journal paper we have read this semester. Its style is quite different from what you have read before.

Be patient and give your self ample time to read this paper. It will probably take two readings. I find two reading the norm for such papers.

 

1. What did humans do to the Vermont landscape in the past two hundred years and how did the landscape respond?

 

 

 

 

2. What are the two main geologic records the authors investigate?

 

 

 

  1. What was the climate doing in the northeast during periods of increased hillslope erosion identified by the authors?

 

 

 

4. Why did I bother writing this paper? What is the paper's purpose?

 

 

 

4. List five terms from the reading that you did not understand. Use the dictionary of geologic terms to figure out their definition (it’s on the corner computers upstairs in the lab, I think under useful Geo programs).

 

 

 

 

 

 

5. Write a question that occurred to you while reading the paper...what would you like to know more about?