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Top AIPG eNews Articles of 2019
As 2019 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 continue our look back at the most accessed articles from the year. Our regular publication will resume Tuesday, Jan. 7.
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ScienceAlert
From Oct. 22:
Hurricanes are one thing. Earthquakes are another. But these hazardous events aren't mutually exclusive, and sometimes one can even feed the other.
In a new study, scientists have identified what they say is a new geophysical phenomenon entirely unknown to science — a hybrid entity where powerful storms such as hurricanes trigger seismic episodes that can rumble for hours or even days.
The findings are reported in Geophysical Research Letters.
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Newsweek
From Aug. 13: Researchers have produced a new estimate for the origin of Earth's plate tectonics. Although there is broad consensus that plate tectonics have played a significant role in our planet's geology during the last billion years or so, when exactly this process emerged and how it has evolved through time are two of the most significant and hotly debated questions in Earth sciences today, according to a study published in the journal Nature.
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Phys.org
From July 23: Groundwater may be out of sight, but for more than 100 million Americans who rely on it for their lives and livelihoods it's anything but out of mind. Unfortunately, wells are going dry and scientists are just beginning to understand the complex landscape of groundwater use. Now, researchers have published the first comprehensive account of groundwater wells across the contiguous United States.
They analyzed data from nearly 12 million wells throughout the country in records stretching back decades. Their findings appear in the journal Nature Sustainability.
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Geological Soceity of America via ScienceDaily
From Dec. 3: When — and how — Earth's surface evolved from a hot, primordial mush into a rocky planet continually resurfaced by plate tectonics remain some of the biggest unanswered questions in earth science research. Now a new study suggests this earthly transition may in fact have been triggered by extra-terrestrial impacts.
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CBC
From June 18: Three hundred kilometers below the surface of the moon lurks something massive — and scientists aren't completely sure what it is. According to a study published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters, the mass sits below the moon's South Pole-Aitken basin (SPA), a huge, oval-shaped impact crater on the far side of the moon that is 2,000 kilometers wide and several kilometers deep. The SPA is also the oldest basin on the moon, formed four billion years ago when something slammed into the celestial body.
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| Jan. 29-30, 2020
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6th Annual Well Site Automation 2020 |
Houston |
| Feb. 8, 2020
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AIPG Arizona Section Event — Tucson, Gem, Mineral & Fossil Showcase |
Tucson, Arizona |
| Feb. 25-26, 2020
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7th Annual Cost-Effective Artificial Lift Strategies Permian Basin 2020 |
Houston |
| Feb. 27, 2020
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Beyond the Theoretical: What's Working for PFAS Management? |
Middleton, Wisconsin |
| March 20-22, 2020
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GSA Southeastern and Northeastern Sections Annual Meeting — Geoscience Careers for New Geoscience Graduates |
Reston, Virginia |
| April 6-10, 2020
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AAG Annual Meeting |
Denver |
| April 7-8, 2020
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AIPG Georgia Section 9th Innovative Environmental Assessment and Remediation Technology |
Contact Ron Wallace |
| April 20-24, 2020
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The 16th Sinkhole Conference |
San Juan, Puerto Rico |
| April 30, 2020
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The 2020 Western South Dakota Hydrology Conferencee |
Rapid City, South Dakota |
| May 12-24, 2020
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Geological Society of Nevada 2020 Symposium |
Contact Eric Struhsacker |
| Oct. 3-6, 2020
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2020 AIPG National Annual Conference |
Sacramento, California |
National Geographic
From May 21: Kicking off the new year with a bang, China made history in early January by landing the first-ever spacecraft on the far side of the moon. Now, results from that mission suggest another bombshell: the first signs of lunar mantle material available for scientific study.
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Geological Society of America via ScienceDaily
From May 28: Earth is bombarded every year by rocky debris, but the rate of incoming meteorites can change over time. Finding enough meteorites scattered on the planet's surface can be challenging, especially if you are interested in reconstructing how frequently they land. Now, researchers have uncovered a wealth of well-preserved meteorites that allowed them to reconstruct the rate of falling meteorites over the past 2 million years.
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BBC
From March 26: Scientists say they have discovered a "stunning" trove of thousands of fossils on a river bank in China.
The fossils are estimated to be about 518 million years old, and are particularly unusual because the soft body tissue of many creatures, including their skin, eyes and internal organs, have been "exquisitely" well preserved.
Palaeontologists have called the findings "mind-blowing" — especially because more than half the fossils are previously undiscovered species.
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Astronomy
From Oct. 15: Mars was a very different place as a young planet. Liquid water dotted the Red Planet's landscape with lakes and rivers. But the planet's climate changed drastically in the past few billion years. Today, scientists see the remains of the planet's bodies of water in dried-up river channels and salts left in its rocks.
Now, new data from the Curiosity rover show that the planet’s waters were evaporating about 3.5 billion years ago.
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University of Cologne via Phys.org
From July 30: A new study spearheaded by Earth scientists at the University of Cologne's Institute of Geology and Mineralogy has constrained the age of the moon to approximately 50 million years after the formation of the solar system. After the formation of the solar system, 4.56 billion years ago, the moon formed approximately 4.51 billion years ago. The new study has thus determined that the moon is significantly older than previously believed — earlier research had estimated the moon to have formed approximately 150 million years after solar system's formation.
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