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          Petroleum Resources: A View to the FutureAmidst news reports that the world might soon hit its peak oil supply, 
          two U.S. Geological Survey experts describe why determining how much 
          oil and gas remain to be tapped is a task that is far from clear and 
          easy.
 Thomas S. Ahlbrandt and Peter J. McCabe
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      | Domestic 
        Natural Gas: The Coming Methane Economy We will soon pass from an economy 
        that primarily uses carbon-based fuels to one that primarily uses hydrogen-based 
        fuels. What will hold us over during the transition?
 William L. Fisher
 |  Coming 
    Soon... December: Mid-ocean ridges
 January: Research 
    at the poles
 February: Geology underground
 
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 Students: Read our special 
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 | newsandview.html  November 27
 Inspectors armed with 
  geophysics
 November 22
 Governments agree to stop conflict diamonds
 November 15
 Plants mop arsenic
 November 8
 Debating 
  evidence for early life
 November 4
 Huge Alaska 
  quake making waves
 November 1
 Natural 
  disasters strike in Italy
 
 Webextras 
  Archive
 News Notes
  Rivers 
  of gold Evolution opponents score in Georgia
 Many quakes, one theory
 Pipeline proposal promises new life for the Dead Sea
 Dinosaurs' world up in flames
 Inorganic oil: Much ado about nothing?
 
 Comment
 A 
  New Solution to the Uncertain Fate of a Geologists Library
 What 
  will become of the libraries of retired geologists?
 George D. Klein
 
 Political Scene
 Homeland Security, 
  Broadly Defined
 How 
  much will a federal Department of Homeland Security affect the geosciences?
 David Applegate
 
 Geophenomena
 Glacial 
  valley avalanche in Russia
 China's air needs a chimney sweep
 
 
  Energy 
  and Resources Coalbed Methane
 Talk is increasing on coalbed methane as the future of U.S. natural gas.
 Lisa M. Pinsker
 
 
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    | cover  ON 
THE COVER Photo montage created by Mark Shaver. Image sources are, clockwise 
from left: traffic in Detroit, Ohio (AGI files); The Suncor Energy Inc. oil sands 
plant near Fort McMurray, Alberta, Canada (Mika Madunicky/Alberta Energy and Utilities 
Board); OPEC President Rilwanu Lukman before a Sept. 19 OPEC meeting in Japan 
(Koji Sasahara/Associated Press); the Hibernia Platform on the Grand Banks (from 
Hibernia Management and Development Inc.); the oil tanker Polar Endeavour on its 
way to Port of Valdez, Alaska, in July (Associated Press/Phillips Alaska Inc.); 
an Amtrac from the U.S. Marines Second Division Feb. 24, 1991, near the Saudi-Kuwait 
border prior to the start of the ground war against Iraq. (Associated Press/Sakayuki 
Mikami).
 
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