Article history: Carbon-rich meteorites, car Received 26 October 2007 Received in revised form 7 March 2008 Accepted 11 March 2008 Available online 20 March 2008 Editor: R.D. van der Hilst

Caves have been used in the ancient past as shelter or habitat by many organisms (including humans). Since antiquity, humans have explored caves for the minerals they contain and sometimes for ceremonial purposes. Over the past century, caves have become the target of increasing exploration, scientific research, and recreation. The use of caves on extraterrestrial bodies for human habitation ha...

Fred McLaughlin graduated with an M.S. degree in geology and geophysics from the University of Wyoming. He is the manager of the Regional Geology, Hydrology, and Mineral Resources Group at the Wyoming State Geological Survey. His research interests include investigating the interacGeochemical analysis of Atlantic Rim water, Carbon County, Wyoming: New applications for characterizing coalbed nat...

BETWEEN SOUTH AFRICA AND WESTERN AUSTRALIA. B. M. Simonson 1 , D. Y. Sumner 2 , N. J. Beukes 3 , S. Hassler 4 , I. Kohl 5 , S. Jones-Zimberlin 1 , S. Johnson 1 , A. Scally 1 , and J. Gutzmer 3 , 1 Geology Dept., Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH 44074 USA ([email protected]), 2 Geology Dept., Univ. of California, Davis, CA 95616 USA, 3 Dept. of Geology, Univ. of Johannesburg, Auckland Park 2006 S...

Proceedings of GeoComputation ‘97 & SIRC ‘97 Effective mineral exploration requires a detailed knowledge of the factors and processes which result in the formation of economic deposits. To apply this knowledge, a sound three-dimensional understanding of the geology and structure of a region is required. In most cases, surface geology can be mapped with a high degree of accuracy, however, the ge...

FOR MERIDIANI JAROSITE FORMATION. J. P. Greenwood 1 , M. S. Gilmore 1 , R. E. Blake 2 , A. M. Martini 3 , M. Gomes 1 , S. Tracy 3 , M. D. Dyar 4 , J. A. Gilmore 5 , and J. Varekamp 1 , 1 Dept. of Earth & Environmental Sciences, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT 06459, 2 Dept. of Geology & Geophysics, Kline Geology Laboratory, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520, 3 Dept. of Geology, Amherst C...

Several disciplines like Environmental Toxicology, Epidemiology, Public Health and Geology have been the basis of the development of Medical Geology in Uruguay during the last decade. The knowledge and performance in environmental and health issues have been improved by joining similar aims research teams and experts from different institutions to face environmental problems dealing with the po...

This report summarizes the major findings of a United States Geological Survey (USGS)-funded project entitled the "West-Central Florida Coastal Studies Project" and managed by the USGS Center for Coastal Geology and Regional Marine Studies in St. Petersburg, FL. USGS scientists from Woods Hole and Menlo Park were involved as well. This project was a co-operative five-year venture with scientist...

A project is underway to map die indoor radon potential for New York State at the township level. Through a detector distribution program the New York State Department of Health has a database of over 36,000 basement screening measurements. The address field for the indoor measurement data is being linked to latitude and longitude coordinates using data files containing coordinate information. ...

Two fundamental problems for extraterrestrial intelligences (ETIs) attempting to establish interstellar communication are timing and energy consumption. Humanity’s study of exoplanets via their transit across the host star highlights a means of solving both problems. An ETI ’A’ can communicate with ETI ’B’ if B is observing transiting planets in A’s star system, either by building structures to...