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PE ELL, Wash. _ Last December's big storms left Highway 6 in bad shape. A logged slope above the highway cracked and gave way, destroying one home, damaging another and blocking the road. The state Department of Transportation (DOT) spent $3.3 million and three months cleaning up the mess from the landslide, eventually hauling away 10,000 truckloads of debris from the road that links this southwest Washington town to the coast. For DOT geologists, the slide exemplified their frustration...

Richview Resources Inc. (TSX: RVR)("Richview") is pleased to announce the commencement of its 2008 summer work program on the Company's 100% -owned Thierry Mine Property, adjacent to Pickle Lake, ON. The intensive work program includes excavation, geological mapping, prospecting and geochemical sampling. Richview recently completed its 2007 winter drill program, and began its 2008 summer drill program. Diamond drilling by Forage Orbit Garant Drilling ("Orbit") commenced on May 29, 2008, and...

By Hal Bernton and Justin Mayo, Seattle Times Jul. 14--PE ELL, Lewis County -- Last December's big storms left Highway 6 in bad shape. A logged slope above the highway cracked and gave way, destroying one home, damaging another and blocking the road. The state Department of Transportation (DOT) spent $3.3 million and three months cleaning up the mess from the landslide, eventually hauling away 10,000 truckloads of debris from the road that links this southwest Washington town to the coast....

Interactive Exploration Solutions, Inc. (INEXS(TM)), a relational geological and geophysical interpretation consulting company, recently appointed Hector J. Sepulveda as Vice President of Business Development. INEXS President Craig Davis said that the addition of Sepulveda would ensure INEXS continued, exponential growth trajectory, which is slated to increase by 50 percent this year. Sepulveda brings to INEXS a quarter century of energy industry knowledge and skill, including global...

TORONTO, June 18, 2008 (PRIME NEWSWIRE) -- Sierra Gold Corporation (Pink Sheets:SGCP) today announced that newly hired geologist, Joseph Kamara, has begun work on the hard rock gold deposit in preparation for a drill program. Mr. Kamara, a seasoned West African geologist, will plan a program to further define and develop the hard rock gold reserves. The investigation will include trenching, geochemical surveys and geological mapping. The hard rock gold reserves would be in addition to the...

Geologists at the University of Illinois have confirmed the discovery of Earth's inner, innermost core, and have created a three-dimensional model that describes the seismic anisotropy and texturing of iron crystals within the inner core. "For many years, we have been like blind men touching different parts of an elephant," said U. of I. geologist Xiaodong Song. "Now, for the fist time, we have a sense of the entire elephant, and see what the inner core of Earth really looks like." Using both...

RALEIGH, N.C. -- In North Carolina, global warming isn't a future worry. It's already lapping ashore. Nags Head Mayor Renee Cahoon sees all the proof of climate change she needs at the end of Old Oregon Inlet Road. The street once led to rows of oceanfront houses. Now it ends suddenly in bulldozed piles of sand. Some beach erosion occurs naturally, and development near the ocean tends to make it worse. But some scientists think erosion has grown more pronounced in recent years as the sea...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- Scientists found fossilized depressions and footprints in Alaska's Denali National Park and Preserve in what is believed to be the first evidence of prehistoric wading birds probing for food, a geologist said on Friday.The tracks and the feeding marks found in rocks formed from freshwater sediments were 65 million to 70 million years old, said Phil Brease, a geologist at Denali National Park.Such evidence of prehistoric birds' feeding behavior is difficult to find because...

SEATTLE -- The sheer rock fin emerging in Mount St. Helens' crater lost about a third of its northern face recently, but because lava keeps pushing to the surface, the height remained the same Thursday - around 330 feet. A burst of seismic activity at the mountain Sunday night likely corresponded to the collapse. "Certainly a big piece fell off - something like 65,000 cubic yards," said geologist Dan Dzurisin at the Cascades Volcano Observatory in Vancouver, Wash., about 50 miles...

If the skies are clear as forecast, volcano watchers who turn out for the reopening of the Johnston Ridge Observatory on Friday will get a spectacular view of a hulking slab of rock that's rapidly growing in Mount St. Helens' crater.It's jutting up from one of seven lobes of fresh volcanic rock that have been pushing their way through the surface of the crater since October 2004.The fin-shaped mass is about 300 feet tall and growing 4 feet to 5 feet a day, though it occasionally loses height...