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- What is Shale?
- Google Will Host a Geoscience Education Conference
- Mountain Pass Mine to Reopen
- $5.00 Gasoline
- Earthquake Swarm Near Guy, Arkansas
- Predicting Avalanches with Technology
- Indian Rocket Explodes After Launch
- More Lobbying for an Oil Sands Pipeline
- Alaska Natural Gas Pipeline “Not Economical”
| Posted: 27 Dec 2010 09:15 PM PST Shale is a fine-grained sedimentary rock that forms from the compaction of silt and clay-size mineral particles that we commonly call “mud”. Today, black organic shales are yielding more natural gas than geologists could ever have imagined. |
| Google Will Host a Geoscience Education Conference Posted: 27 Dec 2010 05:39 PM PST Google is getting involved in geoscience education as they host an invitation only conference titled: “Google Earth: Visualizing the Possibilities for Geoscience Education and Research”. If you have not tried Google Earth, it is a free download that you can use to explore the Earth in satellite view. |
| Posted: 27 Dec 2010 05:30 PM PST The MolyCorp rare earth element mine at Mountain Pass, California has reopened. They hope to begin construction of a rare earth manufacturing facility on the same site next month. |
| Posted: 27 Dec 2010 02:00 PM PST John Hofmeister, former president of Shell Oil, believes that the price of regular gasoline could rise to $5.00 per gallon by 2012. Graph at right from the Energy Information Administration. |
| Earthquake Swarm Near Guy, Arkansas Posted: 27 Dec 2010 01:49 PM PST During the past three months over 500 small earthquakes have shaken the area around Guy, Arkansas. These earthquakes have been blamed on drilling the Fayetteville Shale, wastewater injection wells and natural processes. Which is it? |
| Predicting Avalanches with Technology Posted: 27 Dec 2010 01:46 PM PST Deep slab avalanches are difficult to predict and very dangerous. Researchers are working on methods to predict them. |
| Indian Rocket Explodes After Launch Posted: 27 Dec 2010 01:29 PM PST An unmanned rocket launched from the Sriharikota Space Center in India on Christmas Day exploded shortly after liftoff. It was carrying a communications satellite. |
| More Lobbying for an Oil Sands Pipeline Posted: 27 Dec 2010 10:36 AM PST At least 30 members of the United States House of Representatives have contacted Secretary of State Hillary Clinton urging her to support the proposed Keystone XL pipeline that will carry crude oil from the oil sands mines in Alberta, Canada to refineries on the Gulf of Mexico coastline. |
| Alaska Natural Gas Pipeline “Not Economical” Posted: 27 Dec 2010 10:18 AM PST Analysts at the Energy Information Administration say that “increased capital costs and lower natural gas prices make it uneconomical” to construct a new pipeline to bring natural gas from Alaska to the lower 48 states. |
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