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Visit the Oil Museum of Canada, Oil Springs, Ontario, the site of the first oil well in North America. Oil Springs is 35 km south of Sarnia. The Oil Museum of Canada is open May 1st to October 31st, 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. daily. Open year round for tours. (519) 834-2840.
P.I. Russell
The Wisconsin Dells are situated an hour northwest of Madison. The area offers enough family entertainment, spectacular scenery and geology to keep you interested for at least a week. Camping facilities are available in State Parks and private campgrounds. Motels have waterparks and the area is also well endowed with mini golfs and other attractions.
Catherine Hickson
Volcanoes in Canada? Yes! Canada’s western margin is geologically extremely active. This activity is the result of living on the edge of the huge North American continent, actually a giant tectonic "plate". Off the coast of British Columbia this plate runs into another tectonic plate. The jamming together of these plates creates earthquakes and volcanoes! (Figure 1 on previous page).
Art Sweet
Richard A.F. Grieve
As we go about daily living, we are reminded in many ways that we do not exist in isolation. We are part of a much larger symbiotic system of life on earth and it is even popular these days to talk of the earth as if it were a single, closed system. The earth, however, does not exist in isolation.
It is a planet in the solar system and, as such, is subjected to solar system processes. One such process is the impact of interplanetary asteroids and comets.
R.L. Grasty
There is great concern, particularly in the United States regarding the concentration of radon inside homes. In the United States radon is believed to cause a significant number of deaths from lung cancer. However, very few measurements have been made of the radon concentration in outdoor air.
S. Srivastava
Have you aver wondered: why the Atlantic coastlines of South America and Africa look as though they could fit together; why a chain of volcanoes lies along the west coast of Canada; and why most of the oil and gas offshore lie off the east, and not the west coasts of Canada? All of these phenomena can be explained by one theory known as Plate Tectonics.
Peter Russell
Arkansas has much to offer the person interested in geology and for family members wishing other forms of attraction.
Arkansas Geological Commission, 3815 W. Roosevelt Road, Zip: 72204. Displays illustrating Arkansas geology. Free brochures available, geological publications and topographic maps sold. Free publication list and state highway map available on request.
Najwa A. Yassar
By Robert Alvarez and Arjun Makhijani
Imagine a lake the size of Manhattan 40 feet deep. The U.S. government has dumped that much radioactive waste directly into the soil.
And that's just the beginning...