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High Plains Aquifer: Water Level Changes

December 27th, 2011 | Comments Off | Posted in Geology.com

“ Water -level declines began in parts of the High Plains aquifer soon after the beginning of substantial irrigation with groundwater in the aquifer area.

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Fighting Wildfires with Air Tankers

June 22nd, 2011 | Comments Off | Posted in Geology.com

Planes dropping liquid fire retardant one of the key weapons for fighting hundreds of wildfires in the southwestern United States.

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Post-Wildfire Flooding and Debris Flow Hazard Mitigation

June 21st, 2011 | Comments Off | Posted in Geology.com

In response to the many wildfires in the southwestern United States, the Arizona Geological Survey has a collection of online resources related to post- wildfire flooding and debris flow hazards.

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Hunting Obsidian

June 20th, 2011 | Comments Off | Posted in Geology.com

Jessica Ball has a new blog post about hunting obsidian in the Santa Fe National Forest. It includes a link to the rules for low-impact, casual rock collecting on National Forest lands

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Why is the Colorado Plateau Rising?

May 2nd, 2011 | Comments Off | Posted in Geology.com

“A team of scientists led by Rice University has figured out why the Colorado Plateau – a 130,000-square-mile region that straddles Colorado, Utah, Arizona and New Mexico – is rising even while parts of its lower crust appear to be falling.” Quoted from the Rice University press release.

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New Mexico Educator Publication

June 1st, 2010 | Comments Off | Posted in Geology.com

The New Mexico Bureau of Geology and Mineral Resources recently made its teacher publication, “Lite Geology,” available online. This issue features “planetary geology”.

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Worldwide Petroglyph Photo Collection

July 29th, 2009 | Comments Off | Posted in Geology.com

A collection of petroglyph photos from Arizona, British Columbia, California, Chile, Hawaii, India, Mexico, Namibia, Nevada, New Mexico, Norway, Ontario, Russia, Spain, Sweden, Utah, Virgin Islands, Washington.img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Geologycom/~4/glzVFcLLU3s” height=”1″ width=”1″/

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Worldwide Petroglyph Photo Collection

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