geologist
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From a science standpoint, "the content of the documents is absolutely incredible", said Francois Kervyn, the museum geologist leading the project, describing decades of painstaking fieldwork carried out in largely unmapped regions.
From Barron's ● Jul. 3, 2026
“To a geologist, this is not at all surprising.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 25, 2026
Dr Bretwood Higman, an Alaskan geologist, who saw for himself the damage at Tracy Arm Fjord, said it was "a close call".
From BBC ● May 6, 2026
Toby and Daniel Rice are both Rice Investment operating partners, while their brothers Derek, a geologist, and Ryan, a petroleum reservoir engineer, work on the firm’s technical and administrative team, according to the presentation.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 27, 2026
A good case could be made that he was the most influential geologist of the twentieth century.
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
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The archive brings together surveys conducted by Belgian geologists as well as files from mining companies that operated in the vast African country before independence in 1960.
From Barron's ● Jul. 3, 2026
If that is the case, geologists may need to revisit environments that were previously dismissed as unlikely places to preserve evidence of ancient microbial ecosystems.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 26, 2026
More recently, however, geologists have identified a number of smaller secondary faults connected to the system.
From Science Daily ● May 19, 2026
Ever since British geologists extracted diamonds in the 1930s, the country's mineral wealth has rarely reached ordinary people.
From BBC ● May 17, 2026
Upon arrival he discovered that oil-company geologists, the only scientists in the area, believed the Beni was thick with the remains of an unknown civilization.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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