Among the many people whose comments and suggestions improved the new table in its early stages are the faculty of the Department of Geology of the University of Georgia, especially Drs. Michael F. Roden and Paul A. Schroeder, and Mr. Drew Mirante of the same department and Dr. Celeste M. Condit of the same university.

GSA's reviewers provided many insightful and useful comments that improved the table and its accompa­ny­ing manuscript. Geology Editor Ben A. van der Pluijm, Managing Editor Anika Burkard, and Copy Editor Mary C. Eberle of Wordrite all facilitated and enhanced the transition of the table to its published form. The National Science Foundation's Directorate for Under­graduate Education provided Grant DUE 02-03115 to support publication of the table as a large-format document in Geology. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.

GSA's publication division greatly enhanced dis­semina­tion of the table by promoting it in media releases to news outlets outside GSA. Alexandra Goho of Science News, Elizabeth Nadin of Earthscope, Amy Perry of Today's Science on File, Dr. Stephan Reebs of the Departement of Biology of the University of Moncton and writer for Natural History, Eric Levin of Discover, and many others wrote useful and occasionally flattering reports about the table.

Subsequent to publication of the table in Geology, Dr. Eric Essene of the University of Michigan, Dr. Joel Leventhal of the U.S. Geological Survey, Dr. Lawrence Grossman of the University of Chicago, and Dr. Johan Ingri of the Luleå University of Technology in Sweden provided insightful comments that improved the table in the transition from Version 4.6 to 4.7. Dr. Mark R. Leach of the Division of Chemistry of the University of Salford (UK) has also added insights about the hard-soft or A vs. B division of cations, and you're encouraged to visit his analysis of the HSAB principle and his his chemical thesaurus.

Reproduction of the table in GSA Maps and Chart Series was facilitated and overseen by GSA's editor of the Map and Cart Series, Dr. J. Douglas Walker of the University of Kansas, and the manuscript was improved by his comments and those of an anonymous reviewer. Revision regarding bacterial nutrients was aided by the helpful comments of Drs. Anne O. Summers and Samantha Joy of the University of Georgia.

All of the above are thanked for their help. The length of this list illustrates the extent to which no work in the sciences, even a single-authored document, is the work of just one person.

(links that still work)

• Emily Lakdawalla's blog on the Planetary Society website, June 2012.

SUN, Fenglong and ZHAO, Zhongwei, 2020. An inter­disciplinary perspective from the earth scientist’s periodic table: Similarity and connection between geochemistry and metallurgy. Engineering. 2020. 6(6), p. 707–715. 10.1016/j.eng.2020.04.002. — Open access

… and many others