As a result they figure the field contains about 500 million barrels in several geologic intervals.
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Later observations by the Viking spacecraft suggested the geologic features were likely carved by water.
Oil sands are naturally occurring geologic formations that contain a mixture of water, sand, and bitumen.
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They are significantly farther along in the laborious documentation and geologic study process to begin digging.
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Lewis was the sole bidder on the Olmos Block, named after the geologic formation straddling the border.
Friday's quake is the strongest earthquake in recorded history to hit Japan, according to U.S. Geologic Survey records.
By consolidating GOM operations, ChevronTexaco will be able to reduce operating costs while leveraging Unocal's proprietary geologic data.
The graphic above shows suitability of sites for advanced coal power plants using geologic storage for carbon emissions.
When a geologic condition allows the matter to get buried the methane becomes trapped -hence we have natural gas underground today.
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The geologic trend targeted in the Niobrara shale is the same as the Eagle Ford shale, a thousand miles south.
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By the 1960s, scientists had developed a theory called plate tectonics explaining the locations of volcanoes and other large-scale geologic features.
It ran around on two legs 180 million years ago, at the height of the geologic period known as the Jurassic.
Layered rock and layered polar deposits on Mars may also preserve a comparable record of that planet's geologic and environmental history.
Chevron determined the best place would be the Dupuy Formation, a geologic layer a mile beneath Barrow that contains a saline aquifer.
Neither is significant compared to the known global variations in temperature over geologic time, though any cooling still contradicts the AGW hypothesis.
For Chevron, the deepwater Gulf of Mexico has become one of its top three areas of geologic focus around the world.
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And as they move, intense geologic activity occurs at the plate edges.
Hairpin turns snake like isobars on a geologic survey through terraced vineyards that produce the local vintages, like the sweet dessert wine, Banyuls.
To get your head around geologic time, repeat this mantra: Stegosaurus was as far in the past for Tyrannosaurus Rex as T.
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Unknown to most, the United States has an operating deep permanent geologic repository for nuclear waste, called the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant, or WIPP.
Diversa is perhaps best known for having contracted with Yellowstone National Park to plumb the DNA of the microorganisms that live in geologic formations there.
Along with maps came drilling reports steeped in arcane geologic detail.
Any interchange between the two, if it were possible, would have happened already in geologic time, measured in tens of millions of years, not in recent history.
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Geologic history shows that over a LONG time period that sea level changes by about 65 feet (20 m) for each degree C of change in the ocean.
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On a geologic time scale, the two events occurred at virtually the same moment, according to new and more precise dating results that they reported in the journal Science.
Which makes sense, considering that it's the stuff that coal is made of (lignite coal is soft brown coal formed from geologic pressures on forests that died millions of years ago).
Indeed, there's geologic evidence from the rover and from NASA's Mars orbiters that there may once have been a large lake and streams within the basin that Curiosity is driving around in now.
This is Puente Hills Landfill trash as geologic feature, so full of 60 years' worth of decomposing garbage that the methane it produces is pumped into generators that provide enough power for 70, 000 homes.
Each well drilled, whether a hit or a miss, a discovery or a dry hole, adds to the geologic knowledge the company has with which to interpret its now vast array of seismic data.
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