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By Gerald Mallmann formerly of the Shoreland Lutheran High School, Somers, Wisconsin. Gerald is now retired and working on earth science text book.

Alan V. Morgan,
Department of Earth Sciences,
University of Waterloo,
Waterloo, ON
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Chris Gilboy (Secretary, EdGEO National Committee)

Ron Benson, Helena High School, Helena, MT

This article is reprinted from the November 1994 issue of our sister publication Chem 13 News produced for high school chemistry teachers by the Chemistry Department of the University of Waterloo.

Tritium, a radioisotope of hydrogen with the gross atomic mass of 3.014, is considered an important and versatile radioisotope among twenty five hundred radioisotopes discovered mainly by nuclear transmutation reactions during the last sixty years. A radioisotope can be depicted by its atomic number or chemical symbol and by its mass number that indicates the total number of protons and neutrons in the nucleus of the radioisotope. Thus tritium can be depicted as hydrogen-3.

National Drillers Buyers Guide, November 1996
(Richard B. Wells)

The recent discovery of prolific limestone mounds in the Lodgepole Formation beneath Dickinson, North Dakota, has started one of the most exciting domestic exploration plays in several years. These features, called Waulsortian Mounds can be found on the surface in central Montana and in the subsurface of Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba. They may also be present elsewhere around the flanks of the basin.

And so the Spring Issue of another Wat On Earth rolls around again. Like most other Ontario universities our department has lost faculty and staff due to the cutbacks in the Provincial budget. Waterloo lost 140 faculty and 200 staff to "early retirements" as many senior members decided to head out into the great pasture before something less attractive appears on the horizon. This fall will see us with four less faculty and four less staff members.

David Eden

For my eight-month work term in the Co-op Geological Engineering programme at the University of Waterloo, I was employed by ISS International Limited in South Africa. ISS (originally standing for "Integrated Seismic System") deals in seismic monitoring systems, primarily for use in deep mines. ISS systems are being used in Australia, Canada, Chile, England, Poland, South Africa and Zambia.

Geotimes, September 1995, reprinted with permission.