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What's the attraction? Oil -- and lots of it. Libya's combination of enormous oil fields and large areas that are only lightly explored attract international investors.

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A deadly combination of depressed oil prices and serious internal strife haven't slowed down companies busy drilling and developing some of the most prospective acreage in the world in deep waters offshore West Africa.

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Best technical presentations at an AAPG annual meeting for both students and members have been announced for the recent conference in San Antonio.

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Earthquakes in the center of the country. It's a great story, but whether true or not, a big question remains: Could it happen again today?

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The use of 3-D seismic and subsurface geology applications in Wyoming's Jonah Field should result in enormous savings in drilling costs, a consulting geologist recently told members of the Rocky Mountain Association of Geologists.

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Amos M. Nur swayed from a rope ladder on a rugged cliff by the Sea of Galilee. Nur, a 1998-99 AAPG Distinguished Lecturer, came to this remote location to pursue a 2,000-year-old mystery.

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How do colleges and universities deal with the ups and downs of geoscience-intensive industries and provide the best possible education for their students?

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This month's column is part two of a two-part series on magnetotelluries.

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The Betic hinterland, in the westernmost Mediterranean, constitutes a unique example of a stack of metamorphic units. Using a three-dimensional model for the crustal structure of the Betics-Rif area this talk will address the role of crustal flow simultaneously to upper-crustal low-angle faulting in the origin and evolution of the topography.

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