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Scientists set to rock the world

Posted March 09, 2007 7:29 AM

From BBC News | Science/Nature | UK Edition:

The world's geologists are to bring together all their maps, producing the first truly global resource on rocks. Known as the OneGeology project, it will pool existing knowledge about what lies under our feet, and present it through one web portal. Led by the British Geological Survey (BGS), the effort calls on scientists from more than 55 nations. It hopes to be able to display searchable rock data for the entire Earth down to the scale of 1:1,000,000.

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03/11/2007 5:38 PM

I laud this project. I would also like BGS and others to consider the potential value for doing something similar for Hydrological Data and for minerals and coal.

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