Since its early years of publication, the GSA Bulletin has been an outlet for paleontologists who want their results to reach a broad scientific audience. During the first 40 years, paleontologic papers featured a wide variety of subjects, including systematics, biostratigraphy, correlation, and paleogeography. After the Journal of Paleontology and other specialized journals began publication, applied paleontology characterized many of the Bulletin articles. From about 1930 to 1960, a series of correlation papers on the Phanerozoic systems dominated the Bulletin. Systematic studies were generally published as Special Papers or Memoirs , starting in the 1930s. Beginning in the 1950s and continuing to the present, the GSA and the University of Kansas Press have produced 36 volumes of the Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology, arguably the most significant paleontologic enterprise of the century. In the past 20 years, the Bulletin has contained many papers in which paleontology was applied to solving general geologic and biologic problems. Doubtless, this trend will continue, in both the Bulletin and in Geology , for many years to come.

Abstract The Arctic scientific research station at Lake Peters, northeastern Alaska, epitomized scientific field studies in the north for nearly two decades after its founding in 1958. More than 80 scientists based at the station during the years of greatest activity conducted research in 20 scientific disciplines. Some of the more detailed projects involved: Pleistocene and bedrock geologic mapping, geomorphology, glaciology, meteorology, hydrology, physical and biological limnology, botany, archaeology, ichthyology, mycology and ecology. Lake Peters, one of the Neruokpuk Lakes, is a large, deep glacial lake, located in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in the northeastern Brooks Range. Lake Peters, adjoining Lake Schrader, and the surrounding country are ideally situated for research in various scientific disciplines probing the Arctic environment. Located in one of the more scenic parts of Alaska, the lakes and surrounding mountains also draw a number of visitors each year for recreational camping, hiking and mountain climbing. The facility was officially named the G. William Holmes Research Station in dedication ceremonies held at the station June 21, 1970. Holmes, a U.S. Geological Survey geologist who died during the winter of 1970, helped establish the station in 1958 and conducted early geological research in the area.

Abstract Cambrian through Middle Devonian fossilifer-ous rocks define three sets of depositional elements in Alaska: (1) a carbonate platform near the craton in the Porcupine Plateau and north of the northeast Brooks Range; (2) shale-chert-volcanic basins south and west of this platform in the Ogilvie Mountains, Yukon-Tanana upland, northeast Brooks Range, and probably along the Arctic coast; and (3) two linear segments of an outer carbonate platform-one trending westward from the southern Brooks Range to Seward Peninsula and St. Lawrence Island, and the other southwestward from the Yukon-Tanana upland to the lower Kuskokwim River. Early Paleozoic orogeny in the northeast Brooks Range is indicated by Silurian (430 m.y.) granite and a post-Cambrian unconformity within pre-Mississippian rocks. A thick wedge of Upper Devonian terrigenous clastic strata in the Brooks Range north and east of Upper Devonian carbonate beds indicates a Late Devonian orogeny farther north. The regional angular unconformity beneath Mississippian rocks and a Late Devonian granite mark the orogenic belt along the Arctic coast, northeast Brooks Range, and the northern Porcupine Plateau. Upper Devonian turbidite conglomerates also indicate uplift south of the Porcupine Plateau and in the Yukon-Tanana upland. Mississippian and Pennsylvanian carbonate beds lap northward and eastward from the Brooks Range across a platform of folded Precambrian(?) to Devonian rocks on the Arctic coast and the northern Porcupine Plateau. Permian uplift along the Arctic coast is indicated by the fact that coarse Permian clastic sediments were shed southward into the Brooks Range area. A regional unconformity beneath Permian quarfzose clastic beds indicates other uplifts in the Porcupine Pleateau and on part of the former carbonate platform on the upper Kuskokwim River. The Permian uplift on the Kuskokwim is bordered on the southeast by thick Mississippian and Permian volcanic rocks of the Alaska Range and on the northwest by Permian volcanic rocks and chert along the Yukon and lower Kuskokwim Rivers. Permian eugeosyn-clinal rocks may extend farther north, because Permian terrigenous clastic rocks in the Brooks Range grade southward info chert and argillite, and Permiani?) mafic intrusive rocks are present on St. Lawrence Island.