Rock Chips Newsletter & Podcasts

Rock Chips is Alberta Geological Survey's quarterly newsletter. You can view the PDF or listen to podcasts of the individual articles. You will need version 9 of Adobe Reader to view the PDFs.

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Past Issues

Winter 2009

PDF	Podcasts
7 MB	Coming soon.

Fall 2009

PDF	Podcasts
12 MB		Geotourism in Alberta: The Alberta Geological Sign Project
		Saline-Aquifer Mapping Project

Summer 2009

PDF	Podcasts
8 MB		Metal Potential of the Crowsnest Volcanics
		The Career of Dr. Jozsef Toth
		Uranium Potential of Southern Alberta
		New Approach to Mapping the Bedrock Topography in the Edmonton-Calgary Corridor

Spring 2009

PDF	Podcasts
3 MB		GIS Information on Springs Now Available
		Underground Coal Gasification Potential in Alberta
		Metals Potential of Igneous Rocks in Alberta Associated with the Sweet Grass Hills Intrusives

Winter 2008

PDF	Podcasts
4 MB		AGS Begins Regional Saline-Aquifer Mapping in Alberta's Industrial Heartland
		AGS Helps Re-Open the Frank Slide Interpretive Centre
		New GIS data available
		Groundwater Program - Edmonton-Calgary Corridor
		An Interactive Map for the Turtle Mountain Monitoring Project

Fall 2008

PDF	Podcasts
4 MB		AGS Website Gets a Makeover and Stay Up-to-Date with AGS
		Surficial Mapping in the McLellan Area
		Geothermal Energy - New Opportunities for Alberta (Part 2 of 2)

Summer 2008

PDF	Podcasts
9 MB		Geothermal Energy - New Opportunities for Alberta (Part 1 of 2)
9 MB		Satellite-Based Mapping of Landslide Movements on Little Smoky River

Spring 2008

PDF	Podcasts
10 MB		The Digital Atlas of Alberta Geology - A New AGS Initiative
		Gas Shale in Alberta - Upper Colorado and Banff Shale Data Analysis
		AGS Releases GIS Datasets of the 1994 Geological Atlas of the Western Canada Sedimentary Basin

Last modified: January 28, 2010