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Search and Discovery Starts With You

AAPG members have built one of the world’s largest collections of timely, accessible geoscience research.

Jacqueline Berryman

7 August, 2026

Photograph of Wadi Hitan (Whale Valley), a 2025 UNESCO World Heritage Site, south of Cairo, Egypt containing the world’s greatest collection of Eocene Whale skeletons. The recognition of this site was spearheaded by volunteers John C. Dolson, Ahmed El- Barkooky, AAPG, EPEX, BP, IEOC, GUPCO, BG, Edison Gas, Shell, Apache and NSCE.

Among the more than 70 collections to peruse on the Datapages Archives, one of the most significant collections is the non-peer reviewed Search and Discovery online journal. The content is sourced from you. AAPG members and students from all the sections and regions submit up-to-date research in the form of…