Md. Geologist Completes Sinkhole Study
14037
A geologist who spent four years traipsing in and around Frederick has mapped areas most likely to develop sinkholes &#151; depressions in the earth that appear suddenly, swallowing cars and homes.
618120
A well drilled 300 feet deep to study fluctuations in groundwater has proven extremely useful for monitoring major earthquakes around the world.
402123
Though there is no master tally of sinkholes, there is consensus that things are getting worse.
548654
DELTONA, Fla. - A sinkhole opened beneath a road in central Florida on Saturday, swallowing four lanes of pavement and forcing the evacuation of 20 homes.  Officials had been watching the hole since Monday after noticing collapsed asphalt on a street.
237970
Archaeologists think they've found a cave where John the Baptist baptized many of his followers &#151; basing their theory on thousands of shards from ritual jugs, a stone used for foot cleansing and wall carvings telling the story of the biblical preacher.
345758
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - New research findings may help refine the accepted models used by earth scientists over the past 30 years to describe the ways in which continents clash to form the Earth's landscape.
434593
GUATEMALA CITY, Feb. 23 -- A 330-foot-deep sinkhole killed two teenage siblings when it swallowed about a dozen homes early Friday and forced the evacuation of nearly 1,000 people in a crowded Guatemala City neighborhood.
573638
University of New Mexico researcher Barbara Cohen now knows for certain that the rock she found while trolling the barren Antarctica landscape is special.
66249
By Joe Bauman Deseret Morning News  An amazing new tool for dating ancient remains, a luminescence geochronology laboratory, has been installed at Utah State University.
618073
Adam Striegel, a 23-year-old senior at the University of Pittsburgh, went on a field trip this past spring to study rocks. This week, Striegel revels in the fame that comes with discovering the skull of a
704167
An American researcher on the trail of  the lost city of Atlantis has discovered evidence of man-made  structures submerged in the sea between Cyprus and Syria, a  member of his team said Saturday.
140355
A group of state, federal, and Bechtel/Parsons Brinckerhoff engineers issued a confidential report in 1997 which concluded that miles of Big Dig tunnel walls were waterproofed with products
159048
The National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration is opening access to natural resources data for mashup.
279079
A cracked rock called Escher is helping NASA scientists reconstruct the history of water on Mars. They say that the crater currently being explored by the Opportunity rover may have been shaped by a second
369447
Rescuers probed for buried victims in a 25-foot-deep mountain of mud and debris left by a mudslide in La Conchita, Calif.
146274
Researchers use X-ray scanners to create 3-D models of prehistoric creatures preserved inside rocks.
73746
Engineers hired to investigate the cause of September&#39;s massive Big Dig tunnel leak have discovered that the project is riddled with hundreds of leaks that are pouring millions of gallons of water into the $14.