* Excerpt on the geology of Athens from: A Geological Companion to Greece and the Aegean by Michael and Reynold Higgins, Cornell University Press, 1996

* Michael and Reynold Higgins, A Geological Companion to Greece and the Aegean, Cornell University Press, ( 1996 ) ISBN 978-0-8014-3337-5

He is a Fellow and President of The Royal Academy of Engineering, a Fellow of the Royal Society, a Fellow of the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining, a Fellow of the Institute of Physics, a Fellow of the Institute of Petroleum, a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, a Companion of the Institute of Management, an Honorary Fellow of the Institution of Chemical Engineers, an Honorary Fellow of the Geological Society, an Honorary Fellow of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers and an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry.

In 2005, U. S. was the top producer of bentonite with almost one-third world share followed by China and Greece, reports the British Geological Survey.

Bulletin of the Geological Society of Greece XXV ( 2 ), 405-421.

* Committee of Economic Geology, Mineralogy and Geochemistry, Geological Society of Greece

The present edition of crystal data was written by J.D.H. Donnay, the Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Md. ( Part 2 ) ) and Werner Nowacki, University of Berne, Switzerland ( Part 1 ) ) with the collaboration of Gabrielle Donnay, U. S. Geological Survey, Washington, D. C..

This was expanded upon by Prime Minister Wilfrid Laurier, who established a Division of Anthropology within the Geological Survey in 1910.

Its length as measured by the United States Geological Survey is, and by steamboat measurement,.

Excavations were resumed at the Walcott Quarry by the Geological Survey of Canada under the persuasion of trilobite expert Harry Blackmore Whittington, and a new quarry, the Raymond, was established about 20 metres higher up Fossil Ridge.

Geological evidence suggests that at least part of the island was originally joined with present-day Scotland and Norway, now separated by millions of years of continental drift.

The hypothesis that the continents had once formed a single landmass before breaking apart and drifting to their present locations was first presented by Alfred Wegener to the German Geological Society on 6 January 1912.

Beaux demonstrated accuracy and patience as a scientific illustrator, creating drawings of fossils for Edward Drinker Cope, for a multi-volume report sponsored by the U. S. Geological Survey.

" Geological remains from the distant past can, and should, be explained by reference to geological processes now in operation and thus directly observable.

Its status as an official geological period was ratified in 2004 by the International Union of Geological Sciences ( IUGS ), making it the first new geological period declared in 120 years.

He was employed by the Geological Survey of Canada for fifteen years, where he came into his own as one of the most significant linguists in North America, the other being Leonard Bloomfield.

Boas kept working to secure a stable appointment for his student, and by his recommendation Sapir ended up being hired by the Canadian Geological Survey, who wanted him lead the institutionalization of anthropology in Canada.

Boundaries and names are established by the International Commission on Stratigraphy ( ICS ) of the International Union of Geological Sciences.

Greenland is believed by some geologists to have some of the world ’ s largest remaining oil resources: in 2001, the U. S. Geological Survey found that the waters off north-eastern Greenland ( north and south of the arctic circle ) could contain up to of oil and, in 2010, the British petrochemical company Cairns Oil reported " the first firm indications " of commercially viable oil deposits.

The effort to define GSSPs is conducted by the International Commission on Stratigraphy, a part of the International Union of Geological Sciences.

* Earthcache: A type of virtual-cache which is maintained by the Geological Society of America.

The table of geologic time spans presented here agrees with the dates and nomenclature set forth by the International Commission on Stratigraphy, and uses the standard color codes of the United States Geological Survey.

Before joining NASA as a member of the first group of scientist-astronauts in June 1965, he worked at the U. S. Geological Survey's Astrogeology Center at Flagstaff, Arizona, developing geological field techniques that would be used by the Apollo crews.

The 1, 290 original drawings made for the work were purchased by the Earl, and presented by him to the Geological Society of London.

During the summer of 1925 Bloomfield worked as Assistant Ethnologist with the Geological Survey of Canada in the Canadian Department of Mines, undertaking linguistic field work on Plains Cree ; this position was arranged by Edward Sapir, who was then Chief of the Division of Anthropology, Victoria Museum, Geological Survey of Canada, Canadian Department of Mines.

* C. Michael Lesher ( Geology )-Recipient of 2007 Duncan Derry Medal of the Mineral Deposits Division of the Geological Association of Canada

* Dr. J. Michael Scott, 1959, author, senior scientist with the U. S. Geological Survey, and distinguished emeritus professor

It is named after Sylvester Higgins, Michigan's first chief of the topographical department of the Michigan Geological Survey.

The 9900 acre ( 40 km² ) lake is known for its deep, clear waters and is named after Sylvester Higgins, Michigan's first chief of the topographical department of the Michigan Geological Survey.

It was discovered in 1984 by A. Higgins of the Geological Survey of Greenland.

in Geological Sciences from Cornell University in 1978 and his Ph. D. in Astronomy ( Planetary Studies ) from the same institution in 1981, where he worked closely with Carl Sagan.

The Volcanic Explosivity Index ( VEI ) was devised by Chris Newhall of the U. S. Geological Survey and Stephen Self at the University of Hawaii in 1982 to provide a relative measure of the explosiveness of volcanic eruptions.

Geological Society of America & University of Kansas Press, Lawrence, Kansas, 1955, xviii-E122.

* Geological information and several microscopic images University of North Dakota

From September 1983 to February 1984, Gary S. Chafetz, an American journalist and author, led an expedition — sponsored by Harvard University, The National Geographic Society, the Egyptian Geological Survey and Mining Authority, and the Ligabue Research Institute — that searched for the Lost Army of Cambyses.

Today, the city remains an important distribution hub for companies such as Nestlé Purina PetCare and Walgreens, and is home to Lowell Observatory, The U. S. Naval Observatory, the United States Geological Survey Flagstaff Station and Northern Arizona University.

of Geological Sciences, Brock University, 1973.

The city is home to the University of Balochistan established in 1974, Balochistan University of Information Technology, Engineering and Management Sciences, ( BUITAMS ) Sardar Bahadur Khan Women's University, Bolan Medical College, Agricultural institute, the Geological Survey of Pakistan, the Sandeman Library and many government and private colleges.

The Research Park, located in southern Champaign and backed by the University of Illinois, is home to many companies including iCyt ( a biotechnology company ), the Illinois Natural History Survey, the Illinois State Geological Survey, the Illinois State Water Survey, Yahoo !, the National Center for Supercomputing Applications, Science Applications International Corporation, State Farm Research Center, Riverglass Inc. and Tekion ( a fuel cell company ).

The Geological Museum at the University of Wyoming is open to the public and houses more than 50, 000 catalogued mineral, rock, and fossil specimens, including a dinosaur exhibit.

In 1876 Dr Barrois was appointed a collaborateur to the French Geological Survey, and a professor of geology in the University of Lille in 1877.

It is on display in the University of Wyoming Geological Museum.

Department of Geological Sciences, San Diego State University, 31 Mar.

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* Home site of the many volumes of the Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology, a site sponsored by both The Paleontological Institute at the University of Kansas and the Geological Society of America.

She was the first woman to earn a Ph. D. from Johns Hopkins University ( 1893 ) and, in 1894, the first woman elected to the Geological Society of America.

It would also be an acute embarrassment for the isotope experts at the Israel Geological Survey and professor Yuval Goren of Tel Aviv University, who spent many days on the stand defending scientific tests they said showed the items must be fakes.

The U. S. Geological Survey, NOAA Fisheries, and the University of Rhode Island are investigating this phenomenon as they have been spotted in 2004 in Georges Bank.

The U. S. Geological Survey, University of Utah and National Park Service scientists with the Yellowstone Volcano Observatory maintain that they " see no evidence that another such cataclysmic eruption will occur at Yellowstone in the foreseeable future.