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11:36:51 PM Mount St. Helens 30th Anniversary Marks 30 Years of Scientific Discovery
Epoch Times - New York,NY,USA

(Steve Schillling/The US Geological Survey via Getty Images) Thirty years ago today, at 8:32 am, the bulging flank of Washington's Mount St. Helens slid ... [more]

11:11:41 PM The Anthropocene Debate: Marking Humanity's Impact
WorldChanging - USA

The Holocene — or “wholly recent” epoch — is what geologists call the 11000 years or so since the end of the last ice age. As epochs go, the Holocene is ... [more]

9:33:58 PM Local geologist lost his life doing what he loved
Southtown Star

By Casey Cora on May 18, 2010 3:25 PM | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0) Thirty years ago today, David Johnston, a young geologist from Oak Lawn ... [more]

8:58:53 PM Strength of New Madrid quakes less than thought, scientist says
Scripps News - Washington,DC,USA

That's the conclusion of a US Geological Survey scientist who has spent years studying the legendary series of quakes that largely defined the perceived ... [more]

8:09:44 PM Submit questions for Mount St. Helens live Q&A
Seattle Times - Seattle,WA,USA

Swanson has been a member of the UW faculty since 1994 and teaches courses in introductory geology, environmental geology, glacial geology, ... [more]

7:14:35 PM Geologists discover potential oil field in south of Homyel region
Belorusskie Novosti

Geologists have discovered signs of an oil field in the south of the Homyel region, Yaraslaw Hrybik, deputy director general of RUP Belhealohiya, ... [more]

7:08:39 PM Small earthquake felt on the Big Island last night
Honolulu Star-Bulletin

The United States Geological Survey said the earthquake was located about a third of a mile below the surface. It was felt in Hilo, Captain Cook, ... [more]

6:55:47 PM Planet Gore
National Review Online - USA

Manzi doesn't bother to identify who the professor, geologist, and astronaut who Levin cites are, so allow me. The associate professor of astrophysics is ... [more]

6:28:44 PM The Subduction Zone - A Metaphor for the Evolving Media Landscape
Cable360.net

For the skeptical reader, historical evidence to support the viability of this metaphor can be easily found in the current geology of our own environment: ... [more]

4:57:24 PM Hwy 94 remains open as river recedes
Fulton Sun - MO, USA

The US Geological Survey predicted Saturday the Missouri River at Jefferson City would crest at 2 am Sunday at 27.7 feet. It crested at 1 am at 27.56 feet ... [more]

4:13:01 PM Pictures: America's Ten Most Dangerous Volcanoes
National Geographic

"You could look at that as a system that exhausted itself," said William Scott, a geologist at the USGS Cascades Volcano Observatory in Vancouver, .... [more]

3:17:42 PM Indonesia's West Java hit by quake
Daily News & Analysis - Mumbai,India

The United States Geological Survey recorded a magnitude 5.4 quake 69 miles (111 km) south-south west of the West Java city of Bandung. [more]

2:19:42 PM Amarillo Commissions Initial 43-101 Resource Estimate on the Butia
MarketWatch - USA

MarketWatch (press release) Geology: The Butia prospect is hosted within the neo-Proterozoic Lavras do Sul granitic complex. This complex is 10km by 10km in area and consists of a ... [more]

2:01:40 PM Gaps in knowledge still make it difficult to forecast eruptions
msnbc.com - USA

"It was a very big and decently well-monitored eruption," said Seth Moran, a volcano seismologist with the US Geological Survey. "But time has marched on, ... [more]

1:14:54 PM Chief Geologist - Hong Kong
news.careerstructure.com - London,UK

Having recently won a number of exciting and high profile projects they currently have a requirement for a Chief Geologist to join their team based out of ... [more]

10:56:08 AM Bacterial growth could reveal Earth's origins
Oneindia

Washington, May 18 (ANI): For years, geologists have analyzed modern microbial mats to decipher how cells functioned as far back as 3 billion years. ... [more]

10:40:31 AM Rattling around The Geysers reported Monday
Lake County News - Lakeport,CA,USA

Two more quakes were recorded by 6:30 pm The US Geological Survey reported that it received shakes reports on the 3.1-magnitude quake from San Jacinto and ... [more]

9:21:01 AM Stimac looks forward
Daily Eastern News - Charleston,IL,USA

The Honors College will welcome Dr. John Stimac, chair of the geology department, as its new dean on July 1. Stimac was named dean of the Honors College on ... [more]

6:21:57 AM The next big eruption: Will we have warning?
Seattle Times - Seattle,WA,USA

Dan Dzurisin, of the US Geological Survey, works his way through snow toward an ice-encrusted antenna near Mount St. Helens, steaming eight miles in the ... [more]

5:35:27 AM Volcanology advances helped save many lives
Longview Daily News

Courtesy photo Cascade Volcano Observatory geologist Dan Dzurisin says the 1980 Mount St. Helens eruption the foundation for predicting when volcanoes might ... [more]

4:31:22 AM Stream designated as Swingle Creek in honor of AU professor
Opelika Auburn News

.... unnamed stream that runs through the upper fisheries research station in north Auburn is now designated by the US Geological Survey as Swingle Creek. ... [more]

3:02:40 AM GOP Stands by its Man BP
Burnt Orange Report - Austin,TX,USA

A geologist has provided horrifying graphs that BP, Rick Perry and Greg Abbott don't want us to know about. An eddy spinning off of the Loop current ... [more]

1:53:12 AM BC geology teacher to get work visa after all
Bakersfield Californian - Bakersfield,CA,USA

BY JORGE BARRIENTOS, Californian staff writer The Bakersfield College geology professor from Canada who has been fighting college officials to pay for an ... [more]



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