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Students embark on moonlight hike
Staff WriterOne by one, hikers made their way up the path with only moonlight guiding them to the Anza-Borrego Desert State Park wind caves Friday evening. The group of more than 30 was mostly made up of Imperial Valley College and San Diego State University-...Tags: Landforms, Jose Serrano, Students, Mini, Caves and Caverns
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Michele Ochs: Geologist's Life Takes Shape
Valley Women WriterIf you have heard Michele Ochs speak in public, it has probably had something to do with geology. This might not be surprising if you know her. What you may not know is that she is the only female licensed professional geologist in Imperial County. That...Tags: Science, Science and Technology
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River-rafting trips go with the flow in the West
Despite the drought that plagued Southern California last winter, river rafters can still get their paddles wet: Parts of Northern California and other Western states got the rain and snow that missed SoCal. California's Kings, Kern, Kaweah, Merced...
Tags: Science and Technology, Travel, Canoeing and Kayaking, Los Angeles International Airport, Sports
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READER SUBMITTED: Geology Walk In Manchester
ManchesterOn Saturday, May 25, the Manchester Land Conservation Trust sponsored a free geology walk in the Case Mountain Recreation Area. Geologist Gary Robbins described the rock formations and the forces that brought them about to a group of 22 hikers who...Tags: Land Resources
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Oklahoma earthquakes linked to injection wells
HOUSTON -- Oklahoma’s largest-recorded earthquake was triggered by injection wells used by the oil and gas industry, according to a report released this week. The Tuesday report in the geoscience journal Geology is the latest scientific evidence...
Tags: Interior Policy, Politics, Netherlands, Jared Lee Loughner, Earthquakes
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Bright Minds: Debra Buczkowski, planetary science
When Debra Buczkowski was 7, in 1976, NASA’s Viking space probes were landing on Mars and sending images of the red planet back to Earth as part of their $1 billion mission. “I realized that no matter where I went on this planet, I couldn&...
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Report fails to settle concerns over oil spill risk to Ogallala Aquifer
The question of how an oil spill from the proposed Keystone XL pipeline might affect the Ogallala aquifer was raised again this month, in a report the U.S. State Department will use to help it decide whether to approve or reject the controversial project....Tags: Business Enterprises, Kinder Morgan Incorporated, Upstream Oil and Gas Activities, Engineering, Water
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Floating In A Cosmic Shooting Gallery
The Hartford CourantSometimes, it's comforting to know that none of us are really in charge. There but for the grace of the great roulette wheel in the sky go I. I refer to the planetary stray bullets called asteroids, one of which streaked into the Russian atmosphere...Tags: World War II (1939-1945), University of Connecticut, Tour Operations Industry, Explosions, Emergency Incidents
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New Western Md. map could mark turn in geology research
The last statewide map of Maryland geology, published in 1968, is out of print. Online versions of it are marked with a disclaimer that it's too imprecise for anything but "historical and illustrative purposes." But a push to drill for Marcellus shale...Tags: Mining, Martin O'Malley, Towson University, Environmental Issues, Water
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Minnesotans pay a price for crop fertilizer at faucet
HASTINGS, Minn. - Debbie Carlson can laugh at the irony: She's the wife of a well digger who can't find good water for his own family. Like one out of three wells in Dakota County, hers is so contaminated with nitrates she won't let anyone drink from it...Tags: Landforms, Glaciers, Environmental Issues, Agricultural Research and Technology, Water
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Neil Shubin on 'The Universe Within'
As sure as an automobile could not have been built by even the most enterprising Neanderthal, the appearance of humans on Earth could not have occurred without the myriad of developments that began with the birth of the universe, and continued with the...
Tags: Fossils, Biology, Science and Technology, Chemical Industry, Paleontology
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