Glacial Soil Laboratories

Gowest Reports New Soil Anomalies Indicate the Frankfield East Gold Deposit May Be Part of Larger Gold-Hosting System.
Marketwire Canada; 11/12/2009; 1365 words; ...Ontario. Phase 1 of the soil sampling program...samples analyzed using soil gas hydrocarbon (SGH) techniques by Activation Laboratories Ltd ("Actlabs...analyzing samples of glacial till at the Frankfield...of semi-impermeable glacial till that are present...

Golden Hope Tests for Extensions to Its Bellechasse (Timmins) Gold Deposit.
Marketwire Canada; 11/10/2009; 1001 words; ...completed a collection of soil samples in a program of soil gas hydrocarbon geochemistry...company has used the Activation Laboratories Ltd soil gas hydrocarbon technique...metres below surface through glacial overburden or bedrock, or...

Mars Rover operators preparing for "dress rehearsal" to get trapped robot out of soft sand
Pasadena Star-News; 9/5/2009; 779 words; ...hubcaps in a soft, fluffy soil near the Martian site named...team at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory finally sends signals to move...underneath." That softer soil has been difficult to navigate...out. It will be an "almost glacial process," Callas said...

A tiny frozen microbe may hold clues to extraterrestrial life.
NewsRx Health & Science; 7/5/2009; 740 words; ...trapped more than three kilometres under glacial ice in Greenland for over 120 000 years...ultramicrobacteria are dominant in many soil and marine environments. Most life on...commonly used in sterilization of fluids in laboratories and hospitals. If there are other ultra...

Research on paleolimnology discussed by A. Fourmont and co-researchers.
Journal of Mathematics; 3/24/2009; 792 words; ...Since the end of the Last Glacial Maximum, hydrology in...the catchment rocks and soils, and of the lacustrine...distinguished since the Late Glacial: (1) 13.7-7...Paleolimnology (Contrasted Late Glacial and Holocene hydrology...CNRS ISTO Tours 6113, Laboratory Geol Environmental Aquat...