Geology News - November 2007
Geology articles, earth science news and blogs from around the world. Stories are archived monthly. All links are to external sites and linking does not mean the site or opinions are endorsed by AGS. If links are broken, it is because the news source has removed it from its website.
November 30, 2007
QE II will be undergoing groundwater surveying
Between Dec. 1 and March 31, low-flying aircraft will be travelling in straight lines crossing the roadway as part of a groundwater survey by Alberta Environment and the Alberta Geological Survey.
November 26, 2007
Carbon dioxide could be injected into earth
Researchers at the University of Leeds have a potential solution to the world's climate change problem: pump all that harmful carbon dioxide being produced down into the earth.
Petrified velvet worms from 425 million years ago reveal true ecology of distant past
University of Leicester Geologist Dr Mark Purnell, with Canadian colleagues, reported a new, exceptionally preserved deposit of fossils in 425 million year old Silurian rocks in Ontario.
November 22, 2007
Fossil pushes hooved presence back by 4 mn yrs
This is the first record of mammals from the time of dinosaurs. Dinosaur eggshells and other fossils were also discovered. The horizon has immense significance.
November 21, 2007
Scientists find fossil of biggest bug everA gigantic fossil claw of a 390 million-year-old sea scorpion, found recently in Germany, showed that the creature is the biggest bug known.
November 19, 2007
Inferior quality sand used for construction in India
The Karnataka Lokayukta, Justice Santosh N Hegde, warned the government and people of rampant illegal earth excavation in government lands with the purpose of extracting filtered and low quality sand, for construction purpose.
November 18, 2007
The wandering rocks of Death Valley
There's an area in the northwest section of Death Valley called the Racetrack where, inexplicably, rocks as big as microwave ovens go zipping across the desiccated mud for distances of more than half a mile.
November 13, 2007
University of Texas gains access to research vessel
The National Science Foundation launched its new seismic research vessel, available for use by the University of Texas and other universities in Galveston.
Alberta Geological Survey Bulletin 55 documents several historic drillholes, which map the Athabasca Unconformity on North American Gem Inc.'s Western Basin Property, between 10 m and 95 m from surface.
Making geology sexy
As a man on a mission to make geology sexy, Dr Iain Stewart isn't doing too badly. Far from hiding away in the dusty confines of academia, the Scottish-born scientist is fast becoming the poster boy for geo-chic, tagged as the "thinking women's crumpet" and amassing an adoring legion of female fans.
November 12, 2007
Quest for an oil sands partner
The Calgary-based exploration company released results from an independent evaluation confirming its Axe Lake property in northwestern Saskatchewan contains a substantial in-situ oil sands discovery.
November 11, 2007
Road cost unclear despite state's latest figures
The Alaska Department of Transportation does not know how much the Juneau access road will actually cost because the technical information on the route's geology is incomplete. The study finds 38 active rockfall hazards that could shut down access.
November 10, 2007
Mammals could have originated in India
The latest issue of Science Magazine carries an article suggesting early mammals could have originated out of India based on the discovery of a 66-million-year-old tooth in central India.
November 8, 2007
Coastal geology tracks prehistoric people
The team retrieved core samples of marine sediment from Bonavista and Trinity Bay, as well as Placentia Bay, to figure out if and how climate change affected the lives of Newfoundland’s prehistoric people.
Mexico to face tropical ills
A Geology Institute scientist said global warning could even affect plant and animal vital functions, such as reproduction, migration or flowering.
Yellowstone 'supervolcano' rising, but eruption not in forecast
The department of Geology and Geophysics at the University of Utah has been studying the upward movement of the Yellowstone caldera floor, which has moved almost 3 inches a year for the past three years.
Geologists at the University of Illinois report new measurements of rock samples from a submarine volcano in the Caribbean that link the rate at which magma is produced beneath subduction zone volcanoes to the rate at which tectonic plates converge in this plate tectonic setting.
November 7, 2007
DGS releases Kent County geological formations map
The Delaware Geological Survey (DGS) has released a new geological map on the geology of Kent County. It is the second in a series of three county-wide geological maps showing geological formations found at the land surface.
New oil sands project lands on the horizon
Petrobank Energy and Resources Ltd. purchased the rights to explore 23,000 acres of land in the Clearwater River area of northwestern Saskatchewan in the October land sale, smack dab in the middle of Oil sands Quest's 36-square-mile exploration area.
November 6, 2007
Scientist confirms Cambrian fossils in Vindhyas
Latest research findings about the presence of Cambrian fossils in the Vindhya mountains has put to rest the controversy thrown up by some Indian scientists who refused to believe 1998 findings.
November 5, 2007
Edmonton’s link to the Nobel Peace Prize
Stefan Bachu of the Alberta Geological Survey is honoured as a Nobel Laureate.
Solving Amoruso's geological puzzle
Listening to EnCana Corp.'s conference call dealing with its Amoruso natural gas acquisition in Texas, it was clear analysts are struggling to wrap their heads around the field's complicated and potentially challenging geology.
November 1, 2007
The most beautiful planetary maps everIn partnership with NASA between 1971 and 1998, the United States Geological Survey created planetary maps with colours correlating to geological materials and phenomena.
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