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• n  a science that deals with the history of the earth as recorded in rocks

• Iraqis like Isam al-Rawi, a Baghdad University geology professor and Sunni politician, kept their guns close and loaded.
• Rather, physics, geology, economics, psychology, even the arts all overlap in a kind of meta-system, with the principles of one touching those of the others.
• While studying for a final exam in structural geology at Colorado School of Mines last year, Graduate Student George Rouse, 33, was struck by a strange geological coincidence .

News & Articles

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• Scariest Atomic-Waste Burial Plan Has French Villages Up in Arms
  Deep under rolling green farmlands in northeastern France, scientists study clay geology to see if it can safely house the country’s deadliest nuclear waste. Above ground, some people in the village of Bure are saying: Non!
  June 14, 2013 - Bloomberg
• Side-Impact Tectonics Created Colombia's Strange Geology
  A car crash-like collision between tectonic plates offshore of Colombia helps explain the region's unusual geology, a new study finds.
  June 12, 2013 - LiveScience.com via Yahoo! News
• Texas Tech University professor receives geology award
  George Asquith, a Texas Tech professor of geology and former Joe Pevehouse chair, was presented with the Harrison Schmitt Award, given by the American Association of Petroleum Geologists.
  June 11, 2013 - Lubbock Avalanche-Journal

Quotes

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• David Hicks in The Age
  He's interested in ecology or geology or zoology, that's what he'll hopefully be looking at,Mr Hicks said.
• Dick Durbin in Guardian Unlimited
  Downstate Illinois has the coal, the geology and the commitment needed to make this project a success,said Sen. Richard Durbin, D-Ill., who had lobbied the Energy Department and the industry alliance on the issue.
• Dai Qing in Sydney Morning Herald
  There have been many basic problems with the geology and local circumstances that just weren't anticipated,said Dai Qing - a Beijing environmental activist long critical of government policy - of the Olympics water project. "The...