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February 1996 Table of Contents Volume 41 - Number 2
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    COMMENT

    Robert D. Hatcher Jr. - Where Have We Been? Where Are We Going? What'll We Do When We Get There?

    NEWS NOTES

    Janice O. Childress - Academy advocates new R&D funding strategy ... New theories on continental drift ... New groundwater & soil contamination database ... Exploring for groundwater in Botswana ... Bureau of Mines closes its doors ... Diamonds: Wyoming's best friend ... Oceanites begins Antarctic Site Inventory Project ... Cloudy with a chance of ozone ... A touch of LA -- in Reading, Pa. ... Minority access & participation ... Science standards for all students ... Recalibrating global diversity trends ... Stanford creates Ocean Margins Initiative

    POLITICAL SCENE

    David Applegate and Murray Hitzman - White House, Congress Rethink National Earthquake Strategy

    1995 GEOSCIENCE HIGHLIGHTS

    OUTLOOK
    National Research Council * Craig M. Schiffries
    Education Reform and the Geosciences * Luther S. Williams
    K-12 Education * B.J. Brunkhorst
    Geoscience Information * Barbara E. Haner
    International Geoscience Activities * John A. Reinemund
    SURFICIAL STUDIES
    Planetary Geology * James R. Zimbelman
    Meteoritics * Harry Y. McSween Jr.
    Quaternary Science and Geomorphology * Allen James & Steve Colman
    Caves * Harvey DuChene
    Soil Science * H.H. Cheng
    Mapping * Raymond A. Byrnes
    PALEOBIOLOGY
    Micropaleontology * Martin B. Lagoe
    Palynology * Reed Wicander & Jan Jansonius
    Paleobotany * Leo J. Hickey
    Invertebrate Paleontology * David J. Bottjer
    Vertebrate Paleontology * Kenneth D. Rose & Hans-Dieter Sues
    RESOURCES
    Exploration Geophysics * William H. Dragoset
    Exploration Geochemistry * John E. Gray
    Petroleum Geochemistry * Barry Katz
    Hydrogeology * Thomas E. Reilly
    Geothermal Energy * Patrick R.L. Browne
    Oil and Gas * M.K. Horn
    Coal * James C. Hower & James R. Staub
    Metals and Mining * Douglas Silver
    Aggregate * Ken Nelson
    ENVIRONMENTAL AND ENGINEERING GEOLOGY
    Environmental Hydrogeology * R.G. Slayback
    Biogeochemistry * William H. Schlesinger & J. Patrick Megonigal
    Paleoclimatology * Wallace S. Broecker
    Remote Sensing * Farouk El-Baz
    Satellites and Remote Sensing * Ernest D. Paylor II & Miriam Baltuck
    Engineering Geology * Susan Steele Weir
    OCEANOGRAPHY
    Marine geology * Donn S. Gorsline
    Sea-Level Change * David G. Aubrey
    SOLID EARTH
    Earthquake Seismology * Goran Ekstrom
    Mantle and Core Studies * Guy Masters & Adam M. Dziewonski
    Structual Geology and Tectonics * Carol Simpson
    Volcanology * Stanley N. Williams
    Sequence Stratigraphy * Peter J. McCabe & Keith W. Shanley
    ROCKS AND MINERALS
    Mineral Chemistry * Charles Shearer
    Igneous Petrology * Attila Kilinc
    Metamorphic Petrology * Gray E. Bebout
    Carbonates * Charles Kerans, Robert K. Goldhammer, & Jay L. Banner
    Clastic Sedimentology * Michael H. Gardner
    Clays * Ray E. Ferrell Jr.
    See the related press release describing the February issue.

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