The St Louis Business Journal (Free subscription) | 03/09/2008
Nearby businesses and residents may notice generator noise from equipment and may see lights on the Mississippi River next week.
Beasiswa Indonesia Scholarship (Free subscription) | 12 hours ago
Beasiswa PhD to Study the Auckland Volcanic Field The School of Geography, Geology and Environmental Science at the University of Auckland, New Zealand, invites applications from outstanding students to fill three fully-funded 3-yr PhD positions to study the Auckland Volcanic Field, North Island, New Zealand. These PhD research projects form key components of a major, [...] For details and more daily-updated...
The Daily Reckoning Australia (Free subscription) | 03/09/2008
My journey began in mid-July, when I flew west to Vancouver via Air Canada. I spent a week there, attending the Agora Financial Investment Symposium...
Water Dissolves Water (Free subscription) | 31/08/2008
I just finished reading (actually, re-reading) John McPhee's Basin and Range . The book, first published in 1980, is basically a series of reprints of articles that had previously appeared in The New Yorker . As a geology undergraduate at the time, the articles were extremely gratifying, lending an aura of much-needed glamour to the science and an almost "rock-star" persona to the geologists working...
LAist (Free subscription) | 29/08/2008
Crossing the campus from your Econ lecture to your Geology lab can be a pain in the ass, especially when time is tight and you're navigating a sea of student bodies plugged into iPods and hunched over text messages. For some, the solution is as easy as the four wheels of a skateboard. But at Cal State Fullertion, if you're on wheels after October 6th, it's going to cost you. The campus has moved to...
Inbox Robot: Swiss Reinsurance News (Free subscription) | 29/08/2008
Ben Myers is a novelist, poet and journalist. The many peaks of mountains in literature Geology's most awesome features continue to stir the imagination ...
The Guardian Books Blog (Free subscription) | 29/08/2008
Geology's most awesome features continue to stir the imagination to great heights
Hindu (Free subscription) | 29/08/2008
Visakhapatnam: The Andhra Pradesh Pollution Control Board has appointed a senior professor of the Department of Geology of AU N. Subba Rao, as a member of its Consent for Establishment Committee. The committee would scrutinise the ...
Hindu (Free subscription) | 29/08/2008
VISAKHAPATNAM: Contractors, appointed by the Navy to execute its various construction projects, will no longer enjoy the immunity of non-production of royalty bills when demanded by the Department of Mines and Geology. In response to an ...
Somervell County Salon (Free subscription) | 28/08/2008
Very interesting. Fr om the Beaumont Texas Enterprise The field course takes geology and earth science majors to geologically significant sites in the central U.S. Travel is an essent.......
Hindu (Free subscription) | 28/08/2008
Vigilance Wing of Mines and Geology Department seeks details from VPT
People Daily (Free subscription) | 28/08/2008
At least 20 new basins of oil and gas, mostly located in eastern part of Indonesia were found and the country now has 87 basins in which 67 on the map previously released by the association in 1985, according to local media on Thursday. Experts of geology have discovered at least 20 new basins which are similar in the previous mapping, the Indonesian Business daily quoted secretary general of Indonesian...
Waldo Jaquith (Free subscription) | 27/08/2008
Here’s a fascinating observation: ancient Eurasian civilizations tended strongly to cluster along the boundaries of tectonic plates. Why? Nobody knows, but people are tossing on hypothesizes. (Via Metafilter)
Progressive Bloggers (Free subscription) | 26/08/2008
New research has revealed something surprising: 13 out of 15 great ancient civilizations- from the Greeks to the Israelites - constructed their cities and empires on top of active tectonic plates. This put them at greater risk of earthquakes, volcanoes, tsunamis and other forms of geological unpleasantness. Nobody is really sure why ancient people were so [...]
Mirabilis.ca (Free subscription) | 26/08/2008
From sciencemag.org: Did Rumbling Give Rise to Rome? Looking for a recipe for a great civilization? How about: Take people, add water, and shake very, very vigorously. Earthquake-prone areas along the edges of tectonic plates were far more likely to give birth to great ancient civilizations than less dynamic landscapes, according to a new study. Researchers [...]
