Information collected from geological newsmagazines in 2014 is reviewed. First topic is mineral resources such as mineral commodity summary of 2013 in USA, estimation of copper deposits in the world, estimation of platinum-group resources, and paleovalley-related uranium deposits. Second topic is regional geology and planetary geology. This topic includes geological tour in Antarctica, trekking the high terrain of Tajikistan, and first global geologic map of Ganymede, the largest moon in the solar system. Third topic is on current modification of geological science such as Anthropogenic concept and shifting bedrock mapping to more specialized courses in response to the changing nature of the geosciences.
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