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September 17, 2015 

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September 14, 2015 

Attention News Subscribers On September 18, 2015, Geology.com will begin publishing news items on the right side of its homepage instead of on its news page. We will publish more news items, more frequently, as we become aware of them – instead of just once per day. Visiting our homepage will give you access to

September 7, 2015 

Seas Around the World Have Risen an Average of Nearly 3 Inches Since 1992NASA NASA’s Worried That Greenland’s Melting Could Speed UpThe Washington Post This Is Denali, Up Close and SpectacularNational Geographic Appalachian Basin Gas Pipeline Expansion ProjectsNational Geographic The World’s First Clean Oil Sands ProjectMining.com What Are Oil Sands?Geology.com The Lowest Gasoline Prices in

July 20, 2015 

Using Radio Waves to Stimulate Oil Sands Extraction !Mining.com What Are Oil Sands ?Geology.com Why Saudi Arabia Makes So Much Money on OilTime.com New Orleans Needs Data on the Water Below the CityTheLensNOLA.com Wiring Up an Undersea VolcanoPBS NEWSHOUR Ignore the NY Ban – File a Permit to Frack with Propane GelIthaca Journal With Cheap

July 13, 2015 

Uses of CopperUSGS Fact Sheet on Geology.com Sediment-Hosted Stratabound Copper Deposit ModelUnited States Geological Survey Natural Gas Opposition Has Shifted to TransportationOil and Gas Journal The Looming Copper Supply CrunchMining.com Robot Inspects Alaska Pipelies Saving Millions of DollarsAlaska Dispatch News The Camera that Fixed HubbleNASA/JPL on

May 20, 2015 

U.S. Female Geoscience Enrollments Level OffAmerican Geosciences Institute Greenland’s Glaciers are Accelerating So Fast, They Have Stretch MarksSlate Smokehole Cave (Kentucky): Speleothems and TroglobitesCaving News What Are Troglobites ?Geology.com Just 38 Miles Apart, One Texas Oil Town Is Still Booming and the Other Is DeadBloomberg Business Salgar, Colombia LandslideThe Landslide Blog BASE Jumpers Dean Potter

March 27, 2015 

Where Do Bears Live in North America ?Geology.com Nearly 17% of US Coal Production is UneconomicMining.com NASA Detects Aurora and Mysterious Dust Cloud Around MarsNASA Fracking for Natural Gas Thousands of Feet Below the Ohio RiverThe Intelligencer / Wheeling News-Register Some California Farmers Are Selling Water Back to the StateSan Francisco CBS Local One of

November 26, 2014 

New View of Jupiter’s Moon EuropaNASA Life on Europa ?Geology.com The Unknown CrocodilesThe Conversation Video: Earthquake Risk in Vermont & in Your StateBurlington Free Press Black Seadevil Caught on Camera at a Depth of 1900 FeetUSA Today Video: Underwater Vehicle Maps Beneath Antarctic IceNational Science Foundation Volcanic Activity at ShishaldinAlaska Volcano Observatory Satellite Image of

November 25, 2014 

Lonsdaleite: The Impact DiamondPhys.org Popigai Crater: The World’s Largest Diamond Deposit?Geology.com My Other Office is on MarsThe Conversation Clone a Wooly Mammoth ?NBC News Robot Discovers that Antarctic Ice is Thicker Than We ThoughtChristian Science Monitor Alaska Eruptions Can Cause Trans-Atlantic ChaosThe

November 17, 2014 

The Saidmarreh Landslide (Iran)Geology.com The Markagunt Gravity Slide (Utah)Arstechnica.com Kentucky Landslide InventoryKentucky Geological Survey A Strong Magnetic Field Shaped the Early Solar SystemMIT News Alaska Shows No Signs of Rising Arctic MethaneNASA Eruption Begins at Alaska’s Pavlof VolcanoAlaska Volcano Observatory House Passes Keystone Pipeline LegislationPhilly.com U.S. Shale Production Climbing in a Price

Rare Earth Element Demand and Uses 

Rare earth element demand ignited with the wide-spread sale of color television sets in the United States in the 1960s. Since then rare earths have been defined by near-monopolies on production, use in technology and price

What Is A Caldera? 

Calderas are some of the most spectacular features on Earth. They are large volcanic craters that form by two different methods: 1) an explosive volcanic eruption; or, 2) collapse of surface rock into an empty magma

Corundum 

Corundum is the third hardest mineral. It has a history of being used as an abrasive and it is the mineral of ruby and

What is LNG? 

LNG or liquefied natural gas is natural gas that has been temporarily converted into a liquid. This is done to save space – 610 cubic feet of natural gas can be converted into a single cubic foot of LNG. Converting natural gas into LNG makes it easier to store and easier to transport where pipelines

Topos and Aerials with Property Boundaries 

MyTopo is now offering large-format topo maps, aerial photos and satellite images printed with property lines *. Now you can print customized maps and images with land parcels for most parts of the United States . Land boundaries provide valuable info for many people, from realtors to hunters to land surveyors and government agencies. Create

Sliding Rocks of Racetrack Playa 

One of the most interesting mysteries of Death Valley National Park is the sliding rocks at Racetrack Playa. These rocks can be found on the floor of the playa with long trails behind them. Somehow these rocks slide across the playa, cutting a furrow in the sediment as they

Uses of Gold 

Of all the minerals mined from the Earth, none is more useful than gold. Its usefulness is derived from a diversity of special properties. Gold conducts electricity, does not tarnish, is very easy to work, can be drawn into wire, can be hammered into thin sheets, alloys with many other metals, can be melted and

Olivine 

Olivine is the name of a group of rock-forming minerals of Earth’s crust. It is usually found in mafic and ultramafic igneous rocks. It is also found in Earth’s mantle and in some meteorites. Although it is not often used in industry, gem-quality specimens are cut into a gemstone known as

The Next Energy Game Changer 

As natural gas from shale becomes a global energy “game changer,” oil and gas researchers are working to develop new technologies to produce natural gas from methane hydrate

Another New Use for Helium 

Helium has the lowest density and lowest specific heat of all nonflammable substances. It is a rare natural gas byproduct that can be produced in just a few parts of the world with unusual geologic conditions. Now another use could begin to consume this rare gas at a rapid