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News From Monday, July 19, 2010
11:52:25 PM My Word: Rocky stance on serpentine status as state rock
Times-Standard - Eureka,CA,USA

Brandon Schwab is an associate professor of Geology at Humboldt State University, where he teaches mineralogy, petrology, and Earth resources. [more]

11:36:29 PM What It Will Take to Keep the Well Capped
Newsweek

Dave Rensink, a geologist who worked for the oil industry in the Gulf for nearly four decades, said he's not aware of a definitive test to determine whether ... [more]

8:57:15 PM A Geologist's Paradise and Nightmare
Our Amazing Planet

By OurAmazingPlanet Staff Big Bend National Park in southwestern Texas is alternatively known as a geologist's paradise and a geologist's nightmare: Sparse ... [more]

6:03:10 PM Quarries given licences to buy explosives
Daily Nation - Nairobi,Kenya

According to Mr Francis Kamau, a Mines and Geology official, what one requires to acquire a permit to buy the materials is a Form Four certificate with a ... [more]

4:58:19 PM AIR Updates US Hurricane Model
National Underwriter Property And Casualty Insurance News

The model also uses United States Geological Survey Land Use Land Cover data, published in 2007, to account for the directional effects of wind on locations ... [more]

2:39:42 PM Bravo Announces Corporate Appointments
MarketWatch - USA

Mr. MacDonald is a member of the Manex Resource Group of Companies and, in such capacity, since 2003 he has been the Project Geologist managing the .... [more]

2:19:03 PM Mexus Gold U.S. Announces Company Executed Agreement to Process
MarketWatch - USA

MarketWatch (press release) The initial shipment of 20 tons to a processing facility in Nevada will provide the geologists and engineers the material necessary to begin the process of ... [more]

2:14:42 PM Haiti's plight
Los Angeles Times - CA,USA

Six months after Haiti was ravaged by the fifth deadliest earthquake in history (according to the US Geological Survey), it's hard to find anybody involved ... [more]

1:54:19 PM Hana Mining Announces Appointment of Pat Donnelly, Former Mining Analyst,
MarketWatch - USA

MarketWatch (press release) Mr. Donnelly graduated with a B.Sc. in Geology (Honors) from the University of British Columbia and has a MBA from the University of Toronto. ... [more]

11:27:29 AM Talisman Energy of Canada to Start Drilling for Polish Shale Gas Next Year
Bloomberg

Poland's reserves of shale and tight gas may be as much as 3 trillion cubic meters, according to estimates by geologists and energy consultants, ... [more]

11:12:46 AM Physicists hunt for a trace of the elusive, invisible geoneutrino
Philadelphia Inquirer - Philadelphia,PA,USA

Geologist William McDonough of the University of Maryland had used meteorites to estimate the total energy coming from Earth's radioactive elements, ... [more]

10:44:56 AM Kabul faces severe water crisis
Guardian - UK

.... which just manages to support 6 million people today, will need six times more water by 2050, says the US Geological Survey report. ... [more]

9:12:49 AM Reversing Rapids: Where continents collide
Telegraph-Journal - Saint John,New Brunswick,Canada

SAINT JOHN - Harbour Passage is a popular place for joggers, walkers and bikers, but it's also a prime spot for geology buffs. ... [more]

8:38:19 AM African Queen Mines Commences Field Exploration at Rongo Gold Field Project
MarketWatch - USA

MarketWatch (press release) Overall project management is being provided to the Company by Senior Consulting Geologist Pete Siegfried (M.Sc., MAusIMM), a qualified person, .... [more]

8:31:41 AM Geology May Lead to Better Way of Finding Diamonds
Israel Diamond Portal - Ramat Gan,Israel

According to Professor Kevin Burke of the University of Houston, geologists have known for more than half a century that volcanic kimberlites containing ... [more]

8:16:18 AM 3.5-magnitude quake reported near The Geysers Sunday
Lake County News - Lakeport,CA,USA

The US Geological Survey reported that the quake occurred at 12:49 am two miles north of The Geysers, five miles west of Cobb and seven miles west northwest ... [more]

4:58:20 AM Scenarios for Gulf well...Aftershocks in Aleutians...Dealership moves
9&10 News - Cadillac,MI,USA

9&10 News The US Geological Survey says at least 11 of the temblors followed a powerful 6.7-magnitude earthquake that shook the remote area on Saturday. .... [more]

12:46:52 AM Scientists to create the most detailed map of California coastline ever
San Jose Mercury News - San Jose,CA,USA

San Jose Mercury News You can't monitor anything if you don't have a good starting point — and we don't have a good starting point," said Sam Johnson, a research geologist ... [more]

12:32:00 AM Ask Tom Why
Chicago Tribune - Chicago,IL,USA

Steven Dutch, Professor of Geology at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay, has painstakingly documented the nation's daily temperature extremes since 1995 ... [more]



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