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News From Saturday, July 17, 2010
11:58:54 PM Longer Appalachian Trail
BBC News - E,UK

I meet the planners of this new "international" AT - most of them geologists - at a gathering beside an ice-cold lake in northern Maine. ... [more]

7:20:51 PM 4.3 quake hits northwest Haiti, no damage reported
USA Today - McLean,VA,United States

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — The US Geological Survey reports a light, magnitude-4.3 earthquake struck northwest Haiti. The tremor shook the sea-floor 15 ... [more]

6:00:49 PM Junior gold and rare earths explorers attract the Mercenary Geologist
Mineweb

Mercenary Geologist Mickey Fulp picks winners in the junior resource sector based on three criteria: share structure, people and projects. ... [more]

5:38:49 PM Bad news for Afghanistan
The News - International - Pakistan

By Rizwan Asghar Revelations by the Pentagon and the US Geological Survey that Afghanistan contains vast riches in untapped mineral deposits is not very ... [more]

4:48:41 PM Down under: N.H. approaches halfway mark in mapping
Hampton Union - Hampton,NH,USA

"We interpret where these ice positions were as the glacier melted through the area," said John Brooks, a Meredith geologist who is mapping the Holderness ... [more]

3:51:20 PM Down under: NH approaches halfway mark in mapping
Foster's Daily Democrat - Dover,NH,USA

Geologists are mapping all or parts of 21 towns this summer. Geologists nationwide have been working on the maps since 1992, when a joint program between ... [more]

3:43:05 PM Magnitude 3.6 quake rattles Mid-Atlantic
Mountaineers

The Maryland Geological Survey's website says the strongest confirmed tremor centered in Maryland before this one was a 3.1 quake recorded in 1978 in ... [more]

11:38:20 AM Geology! Rocks at West Virginia's State Parks in 2010
Huntington News Net - Huntington,WV,USA

South Charleston, WV (HNN) – “Geology underlies it all.” That's the theme of a summer program at West Virginia State Parks that invites visitors to learn ... [more]

10:17:45 AM Soon, Google to 'predict your desires'
Economic Times - India

.... San Francisco in January sent ripples through Twitter 10 minutes before a news alert from the US Geological Survey alerted the professional news media. ... [more]

8:48:14 AM Nation/world news briefs: Radical cleric added to blacklist
Detroit Free Press - Detroit,MI,USA

The quake happened at 5:04 am and was centered in the Rockville, Md., area, said Randy Baldwin, a geophysicist with US Geological Survey's National ... [more]

8:09:51 AM Globetrotting geologist who loves a hot tub
Thanet Times, Isle of Thanet Gazette (thisiskent.co.uk) - Margate,England,UK

LEADER John Gilbey took over in Canterbury City Council's hot seat three years ago after travelling the world as a geologist and mining expert. ... [more]

7:19:01 AM Sinkhole plug sinks, leaving residents in limbo
Brandon News and Tribune - Tampa,FL,USA

.... which represents the condominium homeowners' association, said engineers are trying to determine "what the geology looks like underneath the hole to see ... [more]

5:00:04 AM 3.6 quake rattles mid-Atlantic
Los Angeles Times - CA,USA

.... Friday's 5 am quake was felt by as many as 3 million people in the mid-Atlantic region, according to the United States Geological Survey. ... [more]

4:10:04 AM Energy Secretary Emerges to Take a Commanding Role in Effort to Corral Well
New York Times - New York,NY,USA

By JOHN M. BRODER WASHINGTON — Energy Secretary Steven Chu may hold a Nobel Prize in physics, but he has no training in geology, seismology or oil well ... [more]

2:30:53 AM Some in York County report feeling DC earthquake
York Daily Record

People in Shrewsbury, the City of York and Dillsburg reported to the US Geological Survey that they felt the quake, according the survey's website. .... [more]

2:04:20 AM Earthquake rumbles through Gaithersburg
Business Gazette - Gaithersburg,MD,USA

"Geologists can find abundant faults in the eastern part of our country," Ebel said. "The question is not where are the faults, but where are the faults ... [more]

12:50:58 AM Mine Geologist
Collie Mail

An opportunity has arisen for a Mine Geologist to work one of their underground gold operations based in Kalgoorlie. The mine uses longhaul stoping methods ... [more]

12:38:11 AM Amid BP Well Progress, Energy Secretary Chu Finds a Central Role
Wall Street Journal - USA

For the past week, Chu has been pushing scientists for information about the geology of the Gulf of Mexico sea floor near the broken Macondo well, .... [more]



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