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 the latest version of Adobe Reader to view the PDFs.

View our archived issues of Rock Chips.

2.5 MB PDF

• Read the spring 2012 issue of Rock Chips

• Bulletin 65, The Northern Alberta Kimberlite Province: The First 20 Years
• ERCB/AGS Geomodelling Workshop Draws Experts from Across North America
• Committee of Provincial and Territorial Geologists Inaugural Medalist Lecture

8.5 MB PDF

• Read the winter 2011 issue of Rock Chips

• Oil Sands Surveillance and Monitoring Project
• In Memoriam: Andre Lytviak
• Mineral Core Research Facility Revitalization Project Update

9 MB PDF

• Read the fall 2011 issue of Rock Chips

• CanGeoRef Launched
• Alberta Geological Survey and Alberta Environment Release the Edmonton-Calgary Corridor Groundwater Atlas
• Meet Our Staff: Christopher Banks, Geologist

8 MB PDF

• Read the summer 2011 issue of Rock Chips

• New Approaches to Surficial Geology Mapping in Northern Alberta
• Where in Alberta is AGS this Summer?
• Dr. Mark Fenton Receives Sage Award

7 MB PDF

• Read the spring 2011 issue of Rock Chips

• Induced Seismicity Project & Alberta Seismic Stations Pick Up Japan Earthquake
• Central Geological Survey of Taiwan Visits the AGS Turtle Mountain Monitoring Project Team
• What is Shale Gas?

15 MB PDF

• Read the winter 2010 issue of Rock Chips

• Mapping the Belly River Group in Alberta: Contributions to a New Digital Geological Atlas of Alberta
• New Alberta Provincial Geologist Named
• Alberta's Provincial Geologist: History of the Title and Role

11 MB PDF

• Read the fall 2010 issue of Rock Chips

• New Bedrock Topography and Sediment Thickness Maps
• Dr. Mark Fenton Awarded 2010 Provincial Geologists Medal
• Committee of Provincial and Territorial Geologists Fieldtrip
• Oil Sands Cap Rock Integrity Project
• The Career of Fran Hein

8 MB PDF

• Read the summer 2010 issue of Rock Chips

• Characterization of the Edmonton-Calgary Corridor Waterscape
• The Career of Henry Marshall Tory
• Mineral Core Revitalization Project

8 MB PDF

• Read the spring 2010 issue of Rock Chips

• Metallic Mineral and Diamond Potential of Alberta Summary
• The Story of Albertosaurus
• Preliminary Investigation of Potash Potential in Alberta
• Documenting Seismicity in Alberta

7 MB PDF

• Read the Winter 2009 issue of Rock Chips

• New Web Content for Geological Hazards
• Peace River Urban Geology and Landslide Project
• Water Sampling in the Edmonton-Calgary Corridor
• The Career of Joseph Burr Tyrrell

23 MB PDF

• Read the Fall 2009 issue of Rock Chips

• Geotourism in Alberta: The Alberta Geological Sign Project
• Saline-Aquifer Mapping Project
• The Career of Dr. Robert Farvolden
• Sand and Gravel Mapping Using Airborne Electromagnetic Techniques, Animation and 3-D Visualization

8 MB PDF

• Read the Summer 2009 issue of Rock Chips

• 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

3 MB PDF

• Read the spring 2009 issue of Rock Chips

• 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

4 MB PDF

• Read the winter 2008 issue of Rock Chips

• 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
• Interactive Map for the Turtle Mountain Monitoring Project

4 MB PDF

• Read the fall 2008 issue of Rock Chips

• 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)

9 MB PDF

• Read the summer 2008 issue of Rock Chips

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

10 MB PDF

• Read the spring 2008 issue of Rock Chips

• 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