| 1996 Geoscience Highlights
|
February 1997 |
Table of Contents |
Volume 42 |
Number 2 |
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COMMENT
Probing the Planets
T. Huntress Jr.
NEWS AND FEATURES
NEWS NOTES
Janice O. Childress Science "season" in Antarctica ... USGS
studies hormones in fish ... Seeing through coastal fog ... Lakes
in Death Valley -- no mirage ... Field camps in jeopardy ...
Early birds rise from China fossil beds ... Looking forward from
the past ... Fiscal support drops for university R&D facilities
... Leg 170 drills off Costa Rica ... Advanced tiltmeters aid oil
exploration
POLITICAL SCENE
David Applegate Carl Sagan's Legacy: Making Science
Popular
1996 GEOSCIENCE HIGHLIGHTS
OUTLOOK
Basic Research * Ian MacGregor
Board on Earth Sciences and Resources * Craig M.
Schiffries
Geoscience Education * Luther S. Williams
Earth Science Education Reform * Marilyn J. Suiter &
Charles G. Groat
Geoscience Information * Nancy Blair
Professional Registration * Robert G. Corbett
SURFICIAL STUDIES
Planetary Geology * James R. Zimbelman
Meteoritics Edward * R.D. Scott
Quaternary Science and Geomorphology * Bruce L.
Rhoads
Glaciology * John T. Andrews
Caves and Karst * Harvey R. DuChene
Soil Science * H.H. Cheng
Mapping Applications * John A. Kelmelis
PALEOBIOLOGY
Micropaleontology * R. Mark Leckie
Palynology * Jan Jansonius
Paleobotany * Leo J. Hickey
Invertebrate Paleontology * David J. Bottjer
Vertebrate Paleontology * Kenneth D. Rose & Hans-Dieter
Sues
RESOURCES
Exploration Geophysics * Kay Dautenhahn Wyatt
Exploration Geochemistry * Karen D. Kelley
Petroleum Geochemistry * Barry Katz
Hydrogeology * Thomas E. Reilly & William M.
Alley
Geothermal Energy * Patrick R.L. Browne
Oil and Gas * M.K. Horn
Petroleum Engineering * Peter Gaffney
Coal * James R. Staub and James C. Hower
Metals and Mining * Robert R. Beebe
Aggregate * Ken Nelson
ENVIRONMENTAL AND ENGINEERING GEOLOGY
Environmental Geoscience * Tanya Furman
Biogeochemistry * William H. Schlesinger
Paleoclimate Modeling * Eric J. Barron
Satellites and Remote Sensing * Earnest D. Paylor II &
Timothy L. Gubbels
Engineering Geology * Eldon M. Gath
ROCKS AND MINERALS
Mineral Chemistry * Charles K. Shearer
Mineral Physics * Russell J. Hemley
Igneous Petrology * Attila Kilinc
Metamorphic Petrology * Tracy Rushmer
Carbonates * Charles Kerans
Clastic Sedimentology * Christopher Paola
Clays * Ray E. Ferrell Jr.
SOLID EARTH
Earthquake Seismology * Gregory C. Beroza
Structural Geology and Tectonics * Carol
Simpson
Volcanology * Stanley N. Williams
Sequence Stratigraphy * Keith W. Shanley & Peter J.
McCabe
Continental Drilling * Grant Heiken, Dennis L. Nielson, &
Roland P. Lawrence
Low-Temperature Isotope Geochemistry * Jay L. Banner
Mantle and Core Studies * Guy Masters & Adam M.
Dziewonski
OCEANOGRAPHY
Marine Geology * Donn S. Gorsline
See the related press release describing the February issue.
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