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12/01/2008
Picking up the pieces of the Canadian fireball meteor (Scientific American)
Dozens of remnants of the meteor that lit up Canadian skies last month have turned up in western Canada, according to a researcher leading the hunt. Alan Hildebrand, a professor of geology and geophysics at the University of Calgary, told ScientificAmerican.com today that around 50 pieces of the object have now been found, the largest of which weighs roughly 28.5 pounds (13 kilograms). The ...
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12/02/2008
A new picture of the early earth (International Herald Tribune)
Analysis of crystals embedded in old Australian rocks has painted a picture of early Earth "completely inconsistent" with previous accepted thought. Geologists now almost universally agree that early Earth was a pretty placid place, with both land and oceans, as depicted in a painting.
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12/02/2008
A New Picture of the Early Earth (New York Times)
Geologists now think the planet soon became a cool place of land, seas and perhaps even life.
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12/02/2008
New evidence suggests new view of Earth history (Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune)
Turns out, the young planet wasn't hell on Earth. It became cool and watery early in its geologic evolution.
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12/02/2008
Gems from past preserved by professor (Seguin Gazette-Enterprise)
Since 1973, Evelyn Streng has been in charge of the A.M. and Alma Fiedler Memorial Museum on the campus of Texas Lutheran University.
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12/02/2008
New book explores the Chatham Islands (Scoop.co.nz)
A comprehensive account of the human and natural history of the Chatham Islands will be published by Canterbury University Press this month.
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12/01/2008
Offbeat atlases map architecture, art, and whimsy (The Christian Science Monitor)
New books spark outside-the-box thinking through imaginative graphics.
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12/01/2008
December Geosphere media highlights (EurekAlert!)
( Geological Society of America ) The December Geosphere, the Geological Society of America's e-journal, is now online. Topics include detailed data integration from multiple fields, including tectonics, oceanography, sedimentology and paleontology, to study the southwestern US climate 17 million years ago to 6 million years ago, sedimentation in a piggyback basin, Angel Lake orthogneiss in the ...
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12/02/2008
BLM defers contested leases (Casper Star-Tribune)
GREEN RIVER -- Federal officials have withdrawn most of the parcels in a popular recreation area near the Flaming Gorge Reservoir in southwest Wyoming that were to be offered in a competitive oil and gas sale today in Cheyenne.
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11/29/2008
Geo Facts (Sunday Observer)
Scientists from the universities of Leicester and Cambridge and from the British Geological Survey have published new research in the journal Geology this month (November) shedding new light on a 500-million year old mystery.
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| Bartleby.com: Sir Charles Lyell - Includes etexts of scientific papers, Cofrhigeorama - Provides historical information on geology, mineralogy, petrology and other Earth sciences. In French and English.The Great Devonian Controversy - A review of the book by Martin Rudwick about this 19th century geological controversy.GSA History of Geology Division - Web site includes organization information, as well as several papers on important geologists and their work.HESS: History of the Earth Sciences Society - International society devoted to the history of earth sciences. Site has information about the organization and its journal, Earth Sciences History.Lord Kelvin and the Age of the Earth - Mathematical details of Lord Kelvin's young earth calculation, from a course in applied fourier analysis. In PDF format. [PDF]No Stone Unturned: The First 150 years of the Geological Survey of Canada - Describes the approval of the geological survey department, which was originally created to find coal ore and later for map making. Page describes the later success in finding other sources of minerals. Local animal and plants species were also recorded.Out of Print Geology Books for sale - Also including books on paleontology, mineralogy, mining, explorations, early surveys, volcanology, seismology and meteoritics.
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