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- 1From:C: International Contemporary Art (Issue 150)"Overburden" -- Gabriela Escobar Ari, Asinnajaq, Patti Bailey qwnqwinxn, Randy Lee Cutler, Jim Holyoak and Darren Fleet, Tsema, Keith Langergraber, Sarah Nance, Tara Nicholson, Carol Wallace Oxygen Art Centre, Nelson, 1...
- 2From:Art Monthly (Issue 445)In author NK Jemisin's dystopian trilogy 'Broken Earth', 2015-17, precarious societies struggle to survive amid regular apocalyptic cycles and periodic extinctions. Having previously plundered the earth's...
- 3From:Natural History (Vol. 129, Issue 1)To most people, Charles Darwin (1809-1882) was a biologist: the co-discoverer of evolution by means of natural selection and the man who demoted humans to being the tip of just another branch of life's fruitful tree....
- 4From:Russian Life (Vol. 63, Issue 4)Half a century ago, the profession of geologist was both popular and revered in Russia, shrouded in a halo of romance and adventure. Indeed, it was not unusual for the lives of these explorers of subterranean mysteries...
- 5From:The American Poetry Review (Vol. 49, Issue 2)I remembered the sedimentologist Karen Kleinspehn saying to me in these same mountains, "You can't cope with this in an organized way, because the rocks aren't organized." --John McPhee, Assembling California...
- 6From:Legacy Magazine (Vol. 29, Issue 4)To be buried in the shadow of the Catoctin Mountains was the wish of Francis Scott Key. It was his beloved place, near his birth site and containing one of his homes. These mountains are the easternmost ridge of the...
- 7From:Mining Journal (Vol. 337, Issue 8645)Western Australia's Department of Mineral and Petroleum Resources has released the results of the latest research by the state's Geological Survey. The book, `The Geology of the Fortescue Group -- Pilbara Craton Western...
- 8From:Astronomy (Vol. 32, Issue 9)Geologists at the University of Utah announced that concretions in the widespread Navajo Sandstone formation resemble the hematite-rich "blueberries" discovered on Mars in Meridiani Planum. Writing in Nature (June...
- 9From:Science News (Vol. 169, Issue 17)In the summer of 2003, geologist Leslie A. Melim and two of her undergrads were exploring a 6-meter-by-12-m chamber deep within New Mexico's Carlsbad Caverns. As the team members were on their hands and knees conducting...
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- 11From:Alberta Report (Vol. 25, Issue 6)Calgary's Big Rock brewery takes its name from an 18,000-ton, 20-foot-high boulder that sits in the foothills five miles west of Okotoks (itself Blackfoot for "big rock"). The quartzite boulder and others like it form a...
- 12From:The Oil and Gas Journal (Vol. 92, Issue 6)The four sedimentary basins that are contained within Uruguay's boundaries have each been explored for oil and gas. The Norte basin, the Santa Lucia basin, the offshore-onshore Pelotas-Merin basin and the offshore Punta...
- 13From:The Oil and Gas Journal (Vol. 96, Issue 16)The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) estimated in 1995 that 1,412 tcf of technically recoverable natural gas remained to be discovered or developed in U.S. onshore areas. A significant part of that resource base, 114 tcf,...
- 14From:Tunnels & Tunnelling InternationalMore than 100 years in development, the complex geology at Peru's Olmos Trans-Andean tunnel site has thwarted multiple excavation attempts since the 1950's. The project route sits under the weight of 2,000m of complex...
- 15From:MEED Middle East Economic Digest (Vol. 53, Issue 45)Provision of palynology analysis for onshore well drilling....
- 16From:Economist Intelligence Unit: Country Profile: SwitzerlandMore than half of Switzerland is covered by the Alpine massif, which extends from west to east. The Jura mountains form a spine along its northern flank, and the Alps carve a climatic and hydrological division between...
- 17From:The Economist (Vol. 370, Issue 8368)RICHARD FORTEY is the Raymond Chandler of science writing. His prose is angelic (no slumming here, though), and his phrases well-turned. Veins of quartz are frozen lightning; the rocky layers of the Alps are badly...
- 18From:Geographical (Vol. 71, Issue 2)Retracing the steps of T.E. Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, led to the conclusion that his greatness owed as much to weakness as to strength. Few Lawrence scholars have ever tried to look at him with objectivity. At least...
- 19From:The Oil and Gas Journal (Vol. 94, Issue 32)The Islip axis, a geological formation in south central England, holds 900,000 cubic feet per day of natural gas at the town of Twyford. The gas could be extracted and used for electricity that could be sold to small,...
- 20From:Earth (Vol. 6, Issue 2)Satellite photographs and radar signals allow geologists to view earthly craters, rivers, and mountains from unique angles. Photographs shot from above the planet can be used to evaluate the effects of wind erosion,...