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As 2016 comes to a close, AIPG would like to wish its members, partners and other industry professionals a safe and happy holiday season. As we reflect on the past year for the industry, we would like to provide the readers of AIPG eNews a look at the most accessed articles from the year. Our regular publication will resume Tuesday, Jan. 10.
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MIT News
From Feb. 2: The dark-colored hydrocarbon solid known as kerogen gives rise to the fuels that power many of our daily activities: Petroleum is the source of gasoline and diesel fuels, and natural gas is used for cooking, heating and increasingly for producing electricity. And yet, kerogen's basic internal structure has remained poorly understood — until now.
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UPI
From May 10: The southeastern United States isn't known for its seismic activity, but the region does experience the odd earthquake.
A new study — published in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth — offers an explanation for the phenomenon.
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Forbes
From March 22: For years scientists at the University of Texas have been planning an expedition to drill directly into Chicxulub crater, what many believe is "ground zero" for the mass extinction event 66 million years ago. Now, we are weeks away from drilling to determine what lies beneath the surface of an asteroid impact crater large enough to drive dinosaurs and most life on the planet to extinction.
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The Stanford Daily
From Feb. 9: Two Stanford geologists are disputing the decade-old explanation of the large amount of coal accumulated during the Carboniferous Period. Associate Professor Kevin Boyce and Postdoctorate Research Fellow Matthew Nelsen collaborated with scientists across the country to release a paper this past month in which they propose a new understanding of coal development.
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Scientific American
From Aug. 16: People have been clawing valuable minerals like iron and gold out of the ground for millennia. And for much of the stuff that touches our lives today — from the europium, terbium and yttrium that help illuminate the screen you are reading to the copper in the wires that power it — we increasingly depend on elements from the depths of the Earth. But finding new deposits gets harder every year and mines are steadily growing larger, more expensive and more environmentally destructive. The ocean floor teems with mineral treasures, but extracting them could jeopardize an unexplored alien world.
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Phys.org
From March 22: Geologists from the University of Sydney and the California Institute of Technology have solved the mystery of how Australia's highest mountain — Mount Kosciuszko — and surrounding Alps came to exist. Most of the world's mountain belts are the result of two continents colliding (e.g. the Himalayas) or volcanism. The mountains of Australia's Eastern highlands — stretching from north-eastern Queensland to western Victoria — are an exception. Until now no one knew how they formed.
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The Science Explorer
From May 17: In a first, geologists have compiled a set of global observations of the movement of the Earth's mantle — the 3,000-kilometer-thick layer of hot silicate rocks between the crust and the core. To their surprise, it looks very different from predictions made by geologists over the past 30 years.
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The Washington Post
From May 10: The crystal blue waters of the Gulf of Mexico hide evidence left by an ancient killer.
It's a "Crater of Doom" more than 100 miles across, left behind by the gigantic chunk of space rock that crash-landed here 66 million years ago. The impact was 2 million times more explosive than the most powerful man-made bomb ever detonated. It would have sparked earthquakes, triggered tsunamis, turned the Earth warm as a greenhouse and then cold as an icebox. The cataclysm is thought to be responsible for the deaths of some 75 percent of all Earth's species, including all the non-avian dinosaurs. After weeks of drilling into this prehistoric crime scene, scientists have finally uncovered the rocks that saw it happen.
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Phys.org
From Nov. 15: Saint Louis University researchers report new information about conditions that can cause the Earth's tectonic plates to sink into the Earth. In a paper published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) Saint Louis University researchers report new information about conditions that can cause the Earth's tectonic plates to sink into the earth.
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NASA
From June 28: Scientists have discovered an unexpected mineral in a rock sample at Gale Crater on Mars, a finding that may alter our understanding of how the planet evolved. NASA's Mars Science Laboratory rover, Curiosity, has been exploring sedimentary rocks within Gale Crater since landing in August 2012. In July 2015, the rover collected powder drilled from rock at a location named "Buckskin." Analyzing data from an X-ray diffraction instrument on the rover that identifies minerals, scientists detected significant amounts of a silica mineral called tridymite.
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