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On terrestrial planets and moons of our solar system cores reveal details about a geological structure's formation, content, and history. The strategy for the search for life is focused first on finding water which serves as a universal solvent, and identifying the rocks which such solvent act upon to release the constituent salts, minerals, ferrites, and organic compounds and chemicals necessary for life. Dielectric spectroscopy measures the dielectric properties of a medium as a function of frequency. Reflection measurements in the frequency range from 300 kHz to 300 MHz were carried out using RF and microwave network analyzers interrogating SansEC Sensors placed on clean geological core samples. These were conducted to prove the concept feasibility of a new geology instrument useful in the field and laboratory. The results show that unique complex frequency spectra can be acquired for a variety of rock core samples. Using a combination of dielectric spectroscopy and computer simulation techniques the magnitude and phase information of the frequency spectra can be converted to dielectric spectra. These low-frequency dielectric properties of natural rock are unique, easily determined and useful in characterizing geology.
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AIPG Student Scholarship applications for undergraduate and graduate are due Feb. 15.
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The AIPG Northeast Section Newsletter — Winter 2017
The AIPG California Section Newsletter — January 2017
The AIPG Texas Section Newsletter — January 2017
The AIPG Michigan Section Newsletter — January 2017
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How geology has shaped our history, provides present day resources and prepares us for tomorrow's challenges.
Sept. 23-26, in Nashville, Tennessee.
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600 Marriott Drive
Nashville, TN 37214
(615) 889-9300 | (888) 228-9290
Call for Abstracts is now open! Submit by May 1.
Book your group rate for American Institute of Professional Geologists.
Marriott hotel(s) offering your special group rate: Nashville Airport Marriott for $149 per night
Sept. 22-27. The last day to book is Sept. 1.
Just for fun, check out this YouTube video about geology in Tennessee.
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Hosted by the AIPG National and the AIPG Wisconsin Section, in cooperation with the AIPG Minnesota Section, Wisconsin DNR and Wisconsin Industrial Sand Association.
Holiday Inn Eau Claire South
4751 Owen Ayers Court
Eau Claire, Wisconsin 54701
More details coming soon.
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Event |
More Information |
| Feb. 19-22 |
2017 SME Annual Conference & Expo CMA
119th National Western Mining Conference |
Denver |
| March 11-18 |
KY Section-AIPG technical short course: "Modern Carbonate Analogs for the Geologic Record" |
San Salvador Island, Bahamas |
| April 18-19 |
GA Section presents 7th Conference on Innovative Environmental Assessment and Remediation Technology |
Kennesaw, Georgia |
| May 12 |
AIPG's Aggregate Sand Mining Life Cycle Workshop |
Eau Claire, Wisconsin |
| June 13-14 |
7th Annual Michigan Section Technical Workshop |
Roscommon County, Michigan |
| June 24 |
AIPG National Executive Committee Meeting, AIPG Headquarters Offices |
Thornton, Colorado |
| Sept. 23 |
AIPG National Executive Committee Meeting, Marriott Hotel |
Nashville, Tennessee |
| Sept. 23-26 |
AIPG 2017 National Annual Conference |
Nashville, Tennessee |
| June 16-21, 2018 |
Resources for Future Generations: Energy — Minerals — Water — Earth |
Call for Sessions flyer
Conference Brochure |
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The University of Chicago
Tiny microbes play a big role in cycling carbon and other key elements through our air, water, soil and sediment. Not only do microbes capture and release carbon, contributing to a cycle that is central to life on Earth, they also release compounds that can change existing minerals and form new ones — in turn shaping the geology of the world around us. Researchers who study these processes have discovered that the types of carbon "food" sources available significantly affect these microbial communities.
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American Geophysical Union via ScienceDaily
Glaciologists have uncovered large valleys in the ocean floor beneath some of the massive glaciers flowing into the Amundsen Sea in West Antarctica. Carved by earlier advances of ice during colder periods, the troughs enable warm, salty water to reach the undersides of glaciers, fueling their increasingly rapid retreat.
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The Weather Channel
Multiple moderate earthquakes struck central Italy the afternoon of Jan. 18, shaking many of the same towns that were devastated by a pair of devastating tremors last year. The U.S. Geological Survey said four earthquakes of magnitude 5.1 or higher were located near the town of Amatrice, the first of which struck at 10:25 a.m. local time (4:25 a.m. EST). The largest tremor was a 5.7, which was reported 3 miles west-southwest of Amatrice at 11:14 a.m. local time. Preliminary reports showed all of the quakes had a depth of 6.2 miles.
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The Arctic
Professors and students at Novosibirsk State University will try to find out how the geological formation of Siberia and the adjacent Arctic areas proceeded a billion years ago and earlier, TASS reported. While adding to knowledge of the Earth, the study will also help, in the future, to substantiate Russia's Arctic shelf expansion bid, Dmitry Metyolkin, head of the General and Regional Geology Department at NSU and a researcher at the Institute of Oil and Gas Geology and Geophysics of the Russian Academy of Sciences' Siberian Branch, told TASS.
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UPI
A fiery nighttime eruption of the Colima, Mexico, volcano shot ash and smoke over 6,500 feet into the air and could be heard 50 miles away, officials said. The eruption, on Jan. 18, on the 12,000-foot mountain was the third major eruption this year. The mountain, one of 14 active volcanoes in Mexico, is on the country's west coast, between Colima and Jalisco states, 300 miles west of the capital, Mexico City.
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The Telegraph
ne might be forgiven for thinking there is only a smattering of volcanoes across our planet. But according to the National Museum of Natural History's Global Volcanism Program, there are some 1,509 volcanoes on the planet to have erupted at some point in the last 11,500 years, otherwise known as the Holocene period, the current geological epoch and one used to define today's volcanic population.
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U.S. Geological Survey
The U.S. Geological Survey is near the midpoint of a complex undertaking to survey the quality of the nation's largest drinking-water resource. From 2012 – 2023, the USGS is assessing groundwater throughout the country through extensive sampling. The latest results from five regional aquifers became available Jan. 19.
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Phys.org
The deep-sea sonar search for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 may not have found the plane but will reveal more about how land beneath the Indian Ocean formed over millions of years and where oil fields could lie. National geoscience agency Geoscience Australia will soon release detailed sonar mapping of 120,000 square kilometers (46,000 square miles) of seabed that was searched for the wreckage of the Boeing 777 that vanished with 239 passengers and crew on March 8, 2014.
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Smithsonian.com
In December 2015, Japan's Akatsuki Venus Climate Orbiter finally started beaming back images of Venus. Its epic journey included wandering off course around the sun for half a decade before entering orbit around the solar system's second planet. But the data so far has been worth the wait. During its first month of orbit the craft caught images of a large, stationary bow-shaped wave in the upper atmosphere of the planet.
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Phys.org
A fatty molecule thought to be unique to flowering plants has turned up in bacteria skimmed from the Adriatic Sea. The surprising finding solves a 20-year-old paleontological mystery and could affect how scientists interpret the presence of this molecule in the ecological record. Where once it suggested the presence of land and flowering plants, it could indicate marine or freshwater-dwelling bacteria instead.
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