Midcontinent Geoscience

About the Journal

ATTENTION: Midcontinent Geoscience is currently pausing submissions due to staff turnovers.  We intend to resume accepting submissions and publication as soon as possible in 2026.  Thank you for your understanding.

Midcontinent Geoscience is an open-access, peer-reviewed publication of the Kansas Geological Survey. The journal publishes original research on a broad array of geoscience topics, with an emphasis on the midcontinent region of the United States, including the Great Plains and Central Lowland provinces.

Benefits to authors:

• Free for authors
• No page or color figure charges
• Online, open-access publishing
• Author retains full copyright
• No limits on pages, figures, or tables
• Professional editing by the KGS technical editor
• Pages crawled daily by internet search engines for quick visibility

We are now accepting submissions for the next volume of Midcontinent Geoscience.

As of January 2020, Midcontinent Geoscience replaced the previous Kansas Geological Survey geoscience journal, Current Research in Earth Sciences.