Geoscience Reports 28:4 (Fall 1999).
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EDITOR'S ANGLE

    From July 22-27 Drs. Jim Gibson, Nahor Neves de Souza, Jr., Elaine Kennedy and Prof. Carlos Steger (acting director of the GRI Branch Office in South America) traveled with Dr. Harold Coffin through northern Oregon and southeastern and central Washington to study the Columbia River flood basalt. Dr. de Souza, a Seventh-day Adventist geologist from Instituto Advenstista de Ensino in Sao Paulo, Brazil, has been studying the Parana flood basalt of Brazil. The structure, texture and cooling processes associated with the basalt flows has been a primary area of research for him over the past 10 years. We gained much information during our field excursion, and we would like to express our appreciation to Nahor for all of his efforts to educate us. He saw several structures in the field for the first time; so we know that the trip was also a special blessing to him.
    Much of the information in the feature article of this issue of Geoscience Reports comes from a lecture Dr. de Souza gave Sunday morning, July 25, in Yakima, WA. It is included to some extent as supplementary information to the Geoscience Reports, Special Issue 23 & 24. We hope the additional details will be beneficial to all of the SDA earth-science teachers, and especially those teachers who attended the GRI field conference in the Pacific Northwest in 1998.