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The First Rubellite Locality in the United States

January 31st, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in Geology.com

A new issue of The-Vug.com quarterly magazine has an article titled: “The First Rubellite Locality in the United States” by Vandall King and Angie Teixeira.

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Can the Sun and Moon Trigger Faults?

January 28th, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in Geology.com

UC Berkeley professors believe that minute stress changes caused by the gravitational attraction of the sun and moon trigger deep tremors along the San Andreas fault.

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Activity at Turrialba Volcano

January 28th, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in Geology.com

“Turrialba volcano, located in central Costa Rica, emits a translucent plume of volcanic gases in this natural-color satellite image. According to the Red Sismológica Nacional (Costa Rican National Seismological Network) activity at the volcano increased markedly on January 4, 2010. Strong, long-lasting volcanic tremors were accompanied by gas plumes over the volcano, and emissions of

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Venezuela Heavy Oil

January 27th, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in Geology.com

A USGS assessment reports that the Orinoco Oil Belt of Venezuela contains a mean volume of 513 billion barrels of technically recoverable heavy oil, making it one of the largest recoverable oil accumulations in the world.

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Instrumentation & Controls Engineers at J. Ray McDermott Middle East Inc.

January 26th, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in Jobs in UAE

Experience: 8 to 15 years Must have Instrumentation design experience in oil and gas or petrochemical industry related to field instruments & control systems. Offshore experience preferred. Qualification: BE, BS or equivalent in the relevant discipline Work location: Dubai Jobs in UAE | Jobs in Abu Dhabi | Jobs in Dubai

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Mountaintop Removal Mining – A Report to Congress

January 26th, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in Geology.com

“Surface coal mining in the mountainous areas of Appalachia—often called “mountaintop mining”—generates controversy, in part because of its scale and the post-mining appearance of the land. Yet there is limited public access to information on the size, location, and life span of these operations, or on how the land can be expected to look afterward.

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Higher Oil Production Forecasts for North Dakota

January 26th, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in Geology.com

The Bakken Formation and the Three Forks-Sanish are expected to yield a lot more oil in the next few years and that will help North Dakota produce 300,000 to 400,000 barrels a day by mid-2011.

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Haiti: Survivor Crawls Out of Hotel Rubble After 11 Days

January 24th, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in Geology.com

Here is an amazing story about a man who survived for 11 days in the rubble of a collapsed hotel in Haiti – and worked to pull himself from the rubble.

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Farmers in Colombia Sue BP

January 23rd, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in Geology.com

In the late 1990’s, BP built the OCENSA pipeline across a portion of Colombia. Today, Colombian farmers are suing BP because their real estate and the ground water beneath it were damaged..

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Haiti Earthquake: Landslides and Liquefaction

January 19th, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in Geology.com

Dave Petley comments on the incidence of landslides and liquefaction associated with the recent earthquake in Haiti.

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