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Earthquake in the Gulf spotlights the Cretaceous shelf edge, the separation point of the Gulf of Mexico plate from North American plate.

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Explorer Regions and Sections

Celebrate the spirit of exploration at this year’s AAPG Rocky Mountain Section meeting, set June 11-13 in Billings, Mont. The hosts will be the Montana Geological Society.

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Explorer Emphasis Article

Awards given this year include Robert M. Mitchum who will receive the 2006 Sidney Powers Memorial Award. All told, 37 awards will be given at this years annual convention in Houston.

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Explorer Director’s Corner

Where can you have the opportunity, for about $80 per day for the price of admission, to choose from 465 technical talks, 415 posters, view state-of-the-art technology from around the world, and enjoy networking with top geoscientists and business leaders? It is the AAPG Annual Convention and Exhibition (ACE), scheduled for April 9-12 at the George R. Brown Convention Center in Houston.

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Explorer Regions and Sections

This year’s AAPG Section meeting schedule starts right after the convention in Houston -- and the first one is about as far away from Texas as you can get in the United States.

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Explorer Division Column EMD

The Energy Minerals Division is excited to present its technical program and activities for the upcoming AAPG Annual Convention in Houston April 9-12. EMD has a very attractive program and both EMD and AAPG members will be treated to a variety of technical sessions, short courses and a lignite field trip.

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Explorer Article

February sees the end of one tour while three more Distinguished Lecturers of AAPG start their tours around North America.

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Explorer Article

Is the work station killing geology? Well, of course not... but one successful geologist says there are some red flags that shouldn’t be ignored.

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Explorer Article

Arkoma Basin gas play. The next big thing? Explorers are scrambling to grab leases in the Arkoma Basin’s shale-gas play.

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Explorer Emphasis Article

Check out some of the major discoveries reported over the past year.

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Hot Items

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Carbon capture and sequestration reduces emissions, but it cannot work past cost barriers without the revenue opportunities provided by utilization and storage. 

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Explorer Historical Highlights

The Paris Basin offers times of both discoveries and failures, from its first well drilled near Normandy in the 1920s to today. 

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Nihal Darraj, carbon capture and storage researcher at Imperial College, London shares barriers to CCUS commercialization, including costs, technology, permitting and more. 

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Explorer Director’s Corner

Perhaps you did a double take pulling the April issue of EXPLORER from the mailbox. What is this? If you joined AAPG in the last 40 years, you’ve only known EXPLORER in its long-standing tabloid format. It worked well for many years as our advertisers – particularly seismic companies – loved the large format and the ability to display their data on a sweeping canvas. For readers, it was a little more awkward.

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