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11:50:29 PM BP Blown out well should not be pressure tested. Chris Landau (geologist)
OpEdNews - USA

BP, do you not have a single geologist at your company that can tell you what that means? It means you can not seal this well. Pressure testing will only ... [more]

11:37:05 PM Nearly 1000 Small Quakes Follow 5.4 Magnitude Earthquake
KPSP Local 2

According to US Geological Survey data, hundreds upon hundreds of smaller magnitude quakes have hit the Borrego Springs and nearby communities since July 7, ... [more]

8:18:22 PM Dangerous Rip Currents Threaten Maine Swimmers
MPBN News - Portland,ME,USA

Officials with the Maine Geological Survey told the paper that any large beach can develop rip currents if conditions are right. ... [more]

8:18:01 PM LSU geologist's research reveals Earth's violent past
Tiger Weekly

"It is nothing comparing with some of the large-scale volcanic eruptions that happened in the geological past," he said. "Often these large events are known ... [more]

7:11:57 PM Robbert Fack
Telegraph.co.uk - London,England,UK

Working closely with geologists from the Dutch government and the oil companies, Fack learned which areas were believed to contain large amounts of oil and ... [more]

5:05:42 PM Earthquake Hits Chile's Coast
MyStateline.com - Rockford,IL,USA

The US Geological Survey says the magnitude 6.5 shaker was centered 61 miles north-northwest of the city of Temuco at a depth of just over 17 and a half ... [more]

4:54:02 PM After days of progress, BP freezes work in Gulf
BusinessWeek - USA

Roger N. Anderson, a marine geologist at Columbia University, said he believes BP and government scientists are just being very cautious and he's not ... [more]

4:50:20 PM Geology Fail: California Moves to Disown State Rock
Glob smacked

But geologists think the rock bill is dense, Malcolm Ross a retired geologist from the United States Geological Survey told The New York Times. ... [more]

3:49:07 PM Chicken Came Before the Egg: "Scientific Proof"
CBS News - USA

Even before Darwin, it was geologists who began to claim that the Earth is older than >6000 years. And modern geology stubbornly refuses to yield up its ... [more]

2:24:12 PM BP: Delay sets new cap plan back couple days
Motors ...

The decision was made after Allen met with federal officials, scientists and geologists. If the cap works, it will allow BP to stop the oil from leaking ... [more]

1:14:07 PM Where the oil is
Virginia Adds 49K New Voters in August

Ken Deffeyes, a retired Princeton geologist who once worked for Shell Oil and has written about the gulf, said, "The Mississippi Delta and the Niger Delta ... [more]

12:23:23 PM Lara Exploration Ltd.: Copper-Gold Targets Outlined at Curionopolis in ...
MarketWatch - USA

Lara's geologists have so far completed follow-up soil sampling and rock chip sampling over an area of approximately four kilometres by three kilometres on ... [more]

12:20:22 PM Vantex Enlisted the Services of Mr. Dale Hendrick as Consulting Geologist
MarketWatch - USA

He was Chief Geologist for Kerr Addison Mines and in 1986 commenced exploration for Kerr Addison, drilling several historic holes on the Dasserat Galloway ... [more]

10:55:12 AM Magnitude 6.5 quake hits central Chile coast
Reuters South Africa - Johannesburg,Gauteng,South Africa

SANTIAGO Chile, July 14 (Reuters) - A magnitude 6.5 earthquake hit near the coast of central Chile on Wednesday, the US Geological Survey said, ... [more]

9:47:14 AM Ordeal for geologist who dug too deep
Asia Times Online - Kowloon,Hong Kong

Whereas the American-Russian spy swap ended last Friday on the tarmac of an airport in Vienna, the ordeal of Chinese-American geologist Xue Feng, ... [more]

8:22:49 AM Earthquake strikes Indonesia
dinosaur

Jakarta, Jul 14: United States Geological Survey reported that an earth quake struck the Indonesian province of Papua. The earthquake with a magnitude of ... [more]

7:17:06 AM The Buzz: 'Geoblogosphere' atwitter about state rock
Fresno Bee (registration) - Fresno,CA,USA

Modesto Junior College geology professor Garry Hayes acknowledged in a news release that serpentine can be harmful in some forms, but called the fight a ... [more]

5:14:42 AM Oklahoma Geological Survey to host public program on shales
NewsOK.com - Oklahoma City,OK,USA

New imaging technologies can reveal and quantify details of shale microstructure. The workshop will focus on how these developments constrain transport ... [more]

5:13:16 AM Outcry as State Rock Toppled
The Bay Citizen

That is what geologist Garry Hayes, a professor of geology at Modesto Junior College is saying on his blog. There, he explains the significance of the stone ... [more]

4:19:33 AM California May Drop Rock, and Geologists Feel the Pain
New York Times - New York,NY,USA

By JENNIFER STEINHAUER LOS ANGELES — Empirically speaking, geologists are not a particularly irascible group. But those who make their living studying ... [more]

2:56:32 AM BP testing delayed on Gulf oil fix
The Associated Press

Later Tuesday, National Incident Commander Thad Allen met with the federal energy secretary and the head of the US geological survey and other scientists ... [more]

2:20:02 AM Fail Follow-up: Jindal's Berms Already Washing Away
Red, Green, and Blue - San Francisco,CA,USA

Robert S. Young, an authority on shoreline geology at Western Carolina University. His take: The White House has announced that this project is now moving ... [more]

12:17:45 AM GEOLOGIST- Senior Mine Geologist - Up to $140K
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Concentrate on the mining geology and grade control studies for existing and developing mining operations Australia wide as well as International exposure. ... [more]



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