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Nature
Jules Verne would have dug this plan: drill into the sea floor, through kilometers of the planet's rocky crust to penetrate the denser underlying mantle. It is one of geology's classic quests, conceived almost 60 years ago, at the peak of the plate-tectonics revolution. Since then, many have attempted it and failed. But an expedition starting this month is taking up the challenge once again.
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The Washington Post
Early morning on Dec. 3, southern Italy woke up to see a remarkable display — Mount Etna, Sicily's tallest peak and active volcano, was erupting after two years of silence. Scientists say it was among the most violent eruptions from the volcano in the past two decades. The intense eruption exploded from Etna's Voragine crater, and lofted ash 10,000 feet into the sky. The whole thing lasted less than an hour, according to Italy's national institute of volcanology. The lava fountain reached heights of close to a mile.
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The Times of India
Dams and irrigation significantly increase evapotranspiration, an effect that increases the loss of freshwater to the atmosphere, thereby reducing the water available for humans, societies and ecosystems on land, a new study has found.
The study shows that dams and irrigation considerably raise the global human consumption of freshwater by increasing evapotranspiration — evaporation and plant transpiration from the Earth's land and ocean surface to the atmosphere.
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AIPG
The 2016 membership dues are available to pay online. Annual membership dues are due and payable Jan. 1 in accordance with the bylaws. 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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| Dec. 9 |
AIPG New England Aquifers: Elusive and Complex Conference |
Marlborough, Massachusetts |
| Dec. 16 |
AIPG New England Aquifers: Elusive and Complex Conference |
Glastonbury, Connecticut |
| March 21-24, 2016 |
118th National Western Mining Conference & Expo |
Denver |
| April 5-6, 2016 |
AIPG Water Resources Unplugged Conference |
Orlando, Florida |
| June 14-15, 2016 |
6th Annual AIPG Michigan Section Technical Workshop — Environmental Risk Management: Why, When, Where and How |
Roscommon County, Michigan |
| Sept. 10-13, 2016 |
AIPG 2016 National Conference |
Santa Fe, New Mexico |
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NBC News
Ever since Pluto was just nine pixels wide in pictures taken 740,000 miles ahead of the New Horizons probe, we've been getting better and better shots of the dwarf planet. Each new set of images has revealed new details, and now NASA is releasing the highest-resolution pictures ever taken by the spacecraft during its brief but historic flyby of Pluto. "These new images give us a breathtaking, super-high resolution window into Pluto's geology," said Alan Stern, principal investigator for the New Horizons mission.
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Phys.org
Excavation of two quarries in Wales by a UCL-led team of archaeologists and geologists has confirmed they are sources of Stonehenge's "bluestones" — and shed light on how they were quarried and transported. New research by the team presents detailed evidence of prehistoric quarrying in the Preseli hills in Pembrokeshire, helping to answer long-standing questions about why, when and how Stonehenge was built.
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KOMO-TV via WGME-TV
A sunset happens every day but you need specific conditions for nature to put on a show-stopper. Yet when those conditions come together, it's 30 minutes of sheer beauty rarely matched anywhere else. But what if you knew ahead of time the upcoming sunset was going to be worthy of a drive to your favorite vista point? That's exactly the project three meteorologists in Pennsylvania have undertaken, with promising results. They've created a sunset forecast weather model that aims to show where the most vivid sunsets could be expected across the nation for that night.
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The San Diego Union-Tribune
Researchers at San Diego State University have developed software that gauges the health of coral reefs by analyzing the ecosystem's aesthetic appeal. It's based on the belief that, in general, the healthiest reefs are the prettiest ones.
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San Antonio Business Journal
The rolling hills just south of San Antonio may have more than triple the amount of uranium than previously believed but prices for the radioactive ore may need to move much higher before any new mining takes place.
The U.S. Geological Survey released a report stating that geologists had previously identified 60 million pounds of uranium oxide under the rolling South Texas plains but now believe there may be an additional 200 million pounds of reserves.
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Gizmodo
Every geologist needs a field hat to protect them from scorching sun and drenching rain, but a really lucky geologist will have a trusty dog. Meet the adventurous dogs who trekked across north Alaska and the geologists who explored with them.
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Nature World News
Some tarantulas sport a striking blue hue instead of the usual brown or black, huge, hairy spider exterior. However, unlike many other colorful animals, the arachnids get their cobalt-colored fuzz from tiny, multilayered nanostructures in their hairs, rather than pigments, a recent study reveals.
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