Word: sanding
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Tuscaloosa Sand, "geopressured" zones could raise nation's supply...
...well's importance goes far beyond that. Its discovery indicates that a major new gas-exploration effort in the Tuscaloosa Sand geological formation of southern Louisiana is hitting pay zones. That promises new production not only for Louisiana but for an energy-hungry nation that counts natural gas as both its cleanest-burning and most critically scarce fuel. Last week the Louisiana Office of Conservation estimated that gas reserves in the Tuscaloosa Sand may reach 3 trillion cu. ft. That would be equal to 86% of last year's production in Louisiana, which leads the nation...
...Parlange well extended the known limits of the Tuscaloosa Sand, which is named for the Alabama county where it crops to the surface. In Louisiana, the "trend" (main potential gas-producing formation) lies four miles beneath the green bayous and sugar-cane fields and stretches 200 miles from Lake Pontchartrain to the Texas border. Because of its depth, high temperature and geological history, the Tuscaloosa Sand has produced mostly gas, very little...
...appropriately draw attention to the problem of nuclear-waste storage [Oct. 31]. But the nuclear critics who want atomic power to go away have their heads in the sand-it's here to stay, at least in Germany, France, Japan and Russia. A myopic policy will keep the U.S. out of the ball game but will not impede the growth of nuclear power. While we procrastinate, the rest of the world keeps betting that nuclear and safe, clean, economical are synonymous...
...took the form of the "Aleph," a tiny spot of light in which everything that occurred in the world could be seen simultaneously. In the new book, there is "undr, " a single word meaning wonder, which is an ancient tribe's entire body of literature. The Book of Sand is an other expression of this hyperidealism. A collector acquires a clothbound octavo volume bearing the title "Holy Writ." But he can never find the same place twice...