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Deep within the Earth are two huge, mysterious blobs. They are about 1,500 kilometers (932 miles) below the planet's surface. One sits beneath Africa. The other lies under the Pacific Ocean. Now, a team of mineralogists has found new clues to what makes up the blobs — and possibly what caused them.
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Quartz
By the time Dietmar Mueller arrived at the University of Texas as a graduate student in the mid-1980s, scientists had already long embraced a once-astonishing idea: that the continents on which all human history has unfolded, rather than fixtures of constancy, were orphans of a former grand supercontinent called Pangaea. Showered with awards, the pioneers of this theory — plate tectonics — had by and large dispersed in search of the next big challenge. Three decades later, Mueller, now at the University of Sydney, is part of a new upheaval in tectonics, this time ignited by advances in computing power.
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Scientists in Japan, Russia and America discovered four new elements that have been added to the periodic table, completing its seventh row, according to the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry. The discoverers are invited to suggest permanent names and symbols for the new elements, according to an IUPAC statement on Dec. 30.
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The 2016 membership dues are available to pay online. Annual membership dues are due and payable Jan. 1 in accordance with the bylaws. Members that have not paid as of Feb. 15 will be suspended. An additional $20 (late fee) is required for payments received after Feb. 15.
You are encouraged to login to the AIPG Member portion of the website to pay your dues for 2016. Paying online helps save on printing and postage costs. Call if you have any questions 303-412-6205. Click on MEMBER LOGIN to pay dues, make a donation and purchase insignia items. Your login is your email and the system has you setup your password if you haven't already. You must login to pay dues, search the directory or make changes to your record.
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The 2016 AIPG "Water Resources Unplugged: A Multi-Dimensional Workshop" Planning Committee is soliciting abstracts, session proposals and panel discussion topics on the latest approaches, practices, processes, techniques,
case studies, modeling, research, regulatory and legislative development in all aspects of Water Resource Availability, Sustainability and Planning including the special topics of Springs Protection and Management Strategies and Oil and Gas Hydraulic Fracturing (fracking) Practices and Potential Impacts. To have your abstract considered for a presentation, please go to follow the "Read More" link to submit an abstract online by Jan. 11.
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The AIPG California Section Newsletter — January 2016
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Nominations for awards, accompanied by a supporting statement should be sent via mail (to AIPG, 12000 Washington Street, Thornton, Colorado 80241-3134), fax (303-253-9220), or email by Jan. 15 to the AIPG National Headquarters. National awards include the Ben H. Parker Memorial Medal, the Martin Van Couvering Memorial Award, the John T. Galey, Sr. Memorial Public Service Award, Honorary Membership, and the Outstanding Achievement Award. (Click on award to go to the awards description.) Click here for AIPG National Awards Nomination Form in pdf.
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118th National Western Mining Conference & Expo |
Denver |
| April 5-6 |
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The Associated Press via Contra Costa Times
Last year's devastating landslide in Oso was no outlier, according to a new study from the University of Washington.
The landslide wiped out a neighborhood north of Seattle and left 43 people dead when it roared down a hillside above the north fork of the Stillaguamish River. It was the deadliest landslide in U.S. history. In a novel method, university geologists used radiocarbon dating of trees and branches buried in earlier slides as well as a review of erosion characteristics to map the history of landslides in the area.
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The Washington Post
Warm and cold segments contained within the same storms have generated every conceivable form of severe weather in the central United States over the past week, from blizzard conditions to deadly tornadoes. The weather pattern that triggered these outbreaks featured two very important components: an unusually intense Bermuda high that pushed into the Southeast, and an intense dip in the jet stream — or trough — containing a core of very cold air and rapidly spinning winds.
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Crazy Engineers
The discovery of a new type of "hydrothermal vent system" has helped explain the long observed disconnect between the theoretical rate at which the Earth's crust is cooling at seafloor spreading ridge flanks and actual observations. Scientists have always predicted more number of certain locations on the Earth's crust than the known mechanisms, to fully explain the current rate of cooling of Earth's interior, and this newly invented hydrothermal vent system may well be the answer.
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The New York Times
More than a century has passed since explorers raced to plant their flags at the bottom of the world, and for decades to come this continent is supposed to be protected as a scientific preserve, shielded from intrusions like military activities and mining. But an array of countries are rushing to assert greater influence here, with an eye not just toward the day those protective treaties expire, but also for the strategic and commercial opportunities that exist right now.
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The Chronicle Journal
The "distinctive" qualities of a potential deposit of graphite that may turn out as good or better than the synthetic variety, likely formed long before anyone was around to dream of lithium batteries or golf-club shafts, an expert suggests. In a recent research paper presented to a meeting of British Columbia geologists, Lakehead University Prof. Andrew Conly said the Hearst-area find is unique in the world because it "required an unusual combination of geological factors approximately one billion years ago."
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KUCW-TV
According to the Utah Geological Survey, the north arm of the Great Salt Lake has reached a record low.
This low is a whole foot lower than the previous record, with the water at an elevation of 4,191 feet last month. Cory Angeroth, a hydrologist with the U.S. Geological Survey, explains that the low water levels expose the lake bed allowing wind to kick up a lot of dust.
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Walla Walla Union-Bulletin
It has been more than four months since the New Horizons spacecraft had its close encounter with the (dwarf) planet Pluto. We are now in the data downlink phase. The spacecraft transmits the stored data to NASA's Deep Space Network of antenna stations here on Earth. With less than 10 percent of the data downloaded so far, what have we learned? Here are just three examples.
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