Environment & Geology

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Geotimes March 2004 Sara Pratt	A Fresh Angle on Oil Drilling Now, horizontal drilling seems more relevant than ever. With the ongoing debate about opening up more of Alaska's North Slope to oil exploration, the discussion often turns to new technologies that may have the potential to make oil extraction more efficient, more cost effective and more environmentally sound.
Geotimes March 2004	Dinosaurs in the cold, dark Antarctic Washington, DC -- Paleontologists recently unearthed two Antarctic dinosaurs' skeletons, representing two new species from very different time periods on the southern continent.
Geotimes March 2004 Megan Sever	Extinction debate continues Did the Chicxulub impact off the Yucatan coast in Mexico kill the dinosaurs 65 million years ago?
Geotimes March 2004	Earth science education in Texas The Texas State Board of Education voted last Friday to redesignate earth science courses from an elective status to a core credit option to satisfy a science requirement in the state's high schools.
Geotimes March 2004 Nakada & Eichelberger	Looking Into a Volcano: Drilling Unzen Geologists have long wanted to peer inside a volcano. Although we have good evidence from extinct and eroded volcanoes of their inner structure, we know little about the conditions in and near active volcanic conduits.
Geotimes March 2004 Goff &. Heikoop	Valles Caldera Scientific Drilling In the heart of the Jemez volcanic field in northern New Mexico lies the 22-kilometer Valles caldera -- a beautiful example of a resurgent caldera.
Geotimes March 2004 Naomi Lubick	University losses at home and abroad Two universities announced the effective closure of their geology research departments in January. The University of Connecticut (UConn) and the University of Basel in Switzerland, cited budget problems among other concerns in announcing the changes.
Geotimes March 2004	Creationism in a national park Rangers in Grand Canyon National Park teach visitors that the Colorado River eroded the 2-billion-year-old sedimentary rocks to form the canyon roughly 6 million years ago. The park's Web site describes the Grand Canyo
Geotimes March 2004 Naomi Lubick	Seismic premonitions While most seismologists tend to steer clear of the word "prediction," several international teams are working toward that "holy grail" of seismology. One such team released a forecast in January, saying that an earthquake of at least magnitude 6.4 would occur in Southern California before Sept. 5, 2004.
Geotimes March 2004	New language for geologic time The Stratigraphy Commission of the Geological Society of London (GSL) is calling for a drastic and controversial overhaul of the Stratigraphic Guide, the internationally agreed upon standards for the field of stratigraphy.
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