Earth Explorer Archive
Fall/Winter 2009
- Exploring Beneath the La Rioja Valley Basin:
Understanding an important sedimentary basin in Argentina - Hunting for a Lost Ship:
Geophysics helps focus search for Dutch slave ship wrecked off the Cape in 1766 - Detecting Deeper Deposits of Uranium:
New radon emanometry tool helps to delineate buried uranium mineralization - Rare Earth:
Exploration techniques for rare earth element deposits - Deconstructing Plate Tectonics:
Looking back in geological time and re-creating
continental drift - Discovery at the Bingham Canyon Mine:
Fresh rendering of old drill data leads to new discovery