By Paul Weimer
July 2011: The ritual changing of the guard at AAPG leadership – but this year will perhaps bring more change than usual.
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Explorer President’s Column
01 July, 2011
The collective hurrah you may have heard coming from northeast Oklahoma around mid-April was the AAPG staff thankful that another successful annual meeting was behind them.
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Explorer Director’s Corner
01 July, 2011
By Marty Hewitt
Ethics and professionalism are relevant – regardless of your career stage or geography.
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Explorer Division Column DPA
01 July, 2011
By Bob Hardage
As has been emphasized in the three preceding articles of this series, when a shear (S) wave propagates through a rock unit that has aligned vertical fractures, it splits into two S waves – a fast-S (S1) mode and a slow-S (S2) mode.
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Explorer Geophysical Corner
01 July, 2011
By David Curtiss
One casualty of the November 2010 elections was climate change legislation.
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Explorer Policy Watch
01 July, 2011
By Peter Newman
A winning strategy: When geologist Don Todd was told that Indonesia had a lot of oil in the ground, he knew immediately what his next career move would be.
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Explorer Historical Highlights
01 July, 2011
By Michael McWalter
It is a little over 25 years since the Iagifu 2-X well drilled by Niugini Gulf Oil discovered Papua New Guinea’s first commercial oil field – the Kutubu field, which was put into production in 1992 by Chevron Niugini Pty Ltd. after they acquired the assets of Gulf Oil.
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Fold and Thrust Belts,
Compressional Systems,
Structural Traps,
Engineering,
Drilling,
Clastics,
Sedimentology and Stratigraphy,
Transgressive Deposits,
Business and Economics,
Resource Estimation,
Economics,
Carbonates,
Carbonate Reefs
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Explorer Regions and Sections
01 July, 2011
By Natalie Adams
Nearly $500,000 in donations and pledges came into the AAPG Foundation in May as individuals and corporations join together to show their support.
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Explorer Foundation Update
01 July, 2011