I know the feeling. Link to abstract. After weighing the cost vs. benefits it was decided that belonging to the GSA would gain the most bang for the buck. With all the reading I do their publications filled any time I had left. The list of journals that I would like to subscribe/read is impossibly long. And this business of only remembering a percentage of what you read is very annoying!

Untangling the rocks in the western half of the U.S. will continue to provide employment to geologists for many years!

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(By the way, I hate it that so many papers in the areas of planetary science and geology are not easily avaiable to the dreaded "non-subscribers". It is like they are screaming at me: "YOU CAN'T HANDLE THE TRUTH". Good, I feel better now.)

I know you are a person who takes his physics seriously, but isn't it said that most great discoveries aren't discovered with "Eureka!" but with, "Hmmm, that's funny." Big Don