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I had an active gparted window open, then opened nautilus. As a result, nautilus did not list the other partitions on the computer. Once I closed gparted and restarted nautilus, the other partitions showed up normally.

Obviously gparted placed some kind of lock on reading the partitions. I am wondering how this works and what is involved in this.

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GParted uses various utilities to lock partitions to prevent damage that can be caused if partitions are auto-mounted while GParted is running.

For the exact details, see the gparted invocation script source code.

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