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Pensoft Publishers South West China, Myanmar and Northern Vietnam contain one of the oldest exposed outcrops of limestone in the world. Within this area are thousands of caves and gorges. It is only recently that botanists have sought to explore the caves for plants. This exploration is yielding many new species new to science, that are known only from these habitats. The current study was published in the open access journal PhytoKeys. Kew botanist and nettle expert Alex Monro says,...
South West China, Myanmar and Northern Vietnam contain one of the oldest exposed outcrops of limestone in the world. Within this area are thousands of caves and gorges. It is only recently that botanists have sought to explore the caves for plants. This exploration is yielding many new species new to science, that are known only from these habitats. The current study was published in the open access journal PhytoKeys. Kew botanist and nettle expert Alex Monro says, "When my Chinese...
NEW YORK, September 17, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Collaboration makes over 225,000 maps available on-demand to help geoscientists quickly and accurately assess the opportunities and risks involved in oil & gas exploration Elsevier [http://www.elsevier.com ], a world-leading provider of scientific, technical, and medical information products and services, and SEPM [http://www.sepm.org ] (Society for Sedimentary Geology)...
FARMINGTON, Conn., July 17, 2012 /PRNewswire-iReach/ -- Global Information Inc. announces limited available registration remaining for two very important Shale Gas and Coal Methane conferences: (Photo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20120717/CG41638) Shale World 2012 30 July - 1 August 2012 | Hilton Hotel, Brisbane, Australia Shale gas exploitation is an increasingly important segment of the energy sector, and has the potential to greatly expand worldwide energy supply. However,...
RICHMOND, Va., July 13, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- James River Coal Company (NASDAQ: JRCC), will release its second quarter results for 2012 before the market opens on August 9, 2012. The Company will hold its quarterly conference call and webcast on the same day at 11:00 a.m. Eastern Time. The conference call will be open to the public. The toll free number is 877-340-2553. International callers please use 678-224-7860. The conference call can also be accessed via webcast on the James...
While scientists remain uncertain exactly how the mineral dolomite is formed, an international team of researchers say that they have discovered that the process can be facilitated by bacteria. According to a recent press release jointly issued Monday by the Cluster of Excellence "The Future Ocean" and GEOMAR | Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, the mineral is primarily formed in extreme ecosystems like lakes and lagoons with high salinity. The exact process behind dolomite's...
FARMINGTON, Conn., June 6, 2012 /PRNewswire-iReach/ -- Global Information Inc is delighted to announce two incredible early bird offers on 2012 Shale Gas and Coal Methane conferences: Shale World 2012 July 30 - August 1, 2012 - Brisbane, Australia - Shale World is Australia's leading shale gas conference in the industry. The two day strategic conference and workshop is a gateway to key international and local unconventional gas leaders; the exhibition will draw approximately 150...
HOUSTON, May 14, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Synthesis Energy Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: SYMX) ("SES") announced today that it has entered into an agreement with a large steel-making corporation in India for analysis of their high ash coal for potential use in SES' advanced fluidized-bed gasification technology in a number of planned coal gasification projects in India. The analysis will provide the necessary performance parameters of this high ash coal required to complete the preliminary...
RICHMOND, Va., April 23, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- James River Coal Company (NASDAQ: JRCC), will release its first quarter results for 2012 before the market opens on May 3, 2012. The Company will hold its quarterly conference call and webcast on the same day at 11:00 a.m. Eastern Time. The conference call will be open to the public. The toll free number is 877-340-2553. International callers please use 678-224-7860. The conference call can also be accessed via webcast on the James...
NEW YORK, April 2, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- New Geofacets SEPM content module delivers powerful, niche content into the hands of users to give them more confidence in their exploration decisions Elsevier [http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/homepage.cws_home ], a world-leading provider of scientific, technical, and medical information products and services, today announced that it is to integrate approximately 18,000 geological maps from SEPM (Society for...
Latest Sedimentary rocks Reference Libraries
The Flint Hills, known historically as Bluestern Pastures or Blue Stem Hills, are a group of hills located in eastern Kansas reaching into north central Oklahoma, extending from Marshall County and Washington County in Kansas in the north to Cowley County, Kansas and Osage and Kay counties in Oklahoma towards the south. The people of Oklahoma usually refer to the same geologic formation as the Osage Hills or “The Osage”. The Flint Hills are designated as a unique ecoregion due to it...
Celestite (SrSO4) is a mineral consisting of strontium sulfate. The mineral is also known as celestine and is named for its occasional delicate blue color. Celestite occurs as crystals, and also in compact massive and fibrous forms. It is mostly found in sedimentary rocks, often associated with the minerals gypsum, anhydrite, and halite. The mineral is found worldwide, usually in small quantities. Pale blue crystal specimens are found in Madagascar.
Chert is a fine-grained silica-rich cryptocrystalline sedimentary rock that may contain small fossils. It varies greatly in color from white to black, but most often manifests as gray, brown, grayish brown and light green to rusty red; its color is an expression of trace elements present in the rock, and both red and green are most often related to traces of iron (in its oxidized and reduced forms respectively). It outcrops as nodules in limestone, chalk, and dolostone formations as a...
In geology, a conglomerate is a rock consisting of other stones that have been cemented together. Conglomerates are sedimentary rocks consisting of subangular clasts and are thus differentiated from breccias, which consist of angular clasts. Both conglomerates and breccias are characterized by clasts larger than sand (>2 mm). There are two varieties of conglomerate, defined by texture: paraconglomerates and orthoconglomerates. Paraconglomerates are one of two varieties of conglomerate...
Dolomite is a mineral (formula CaMg(CO3)2) consisting of a calcium magnesium carbonate found in crystals and in beds as dolostone. A pure form of dolostone would be rare, however; it usually intergrades with limestone and is referred to as dolomitic limestone, or in old U. S. geologic literature as magnesian limestone. Dolomite has physical properties similar to those of the mineral calcite, but is less soluble in hydrochloric acid. There is uncertainty as to the cause of its formation,...
