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Rock Doc column: Mercury lingers from good old days

By E. Kirsten Peters, College of Agricultural, Human & Natural Resource Sciences PULLMAN, Wash. – When I was a younger and more sprightly woman, I spent part of my life investigating unusual hot springs in rural California. They were salty and quite stinky springs out in the middle of nowhere, and several of them occurred […]

Riches unearthed in the midst of war

    PULLMAN – Some geologists are heroes.   That was the thought that came to my mind when I read of what Afghan geologists had done during the long and difficult time the Taliban had run their country.   Even without real hope they might ever do geology again, but with fears about what […]

Student helps assure diamonds stay forever

A WSU graduate student hopes his undergraduate research project results in a few less broken hearts this Valentine’s Day.In the research project, sponsored by Pounders Jewelers and Hi-Rel Laboratories in Spokane, Colin Merriman worked with David Bahr and Grant Norton, professors in the School of Mechanical and Materials Engineering, to better understand the problem of […]