Petroleum geologists and meteorologists were among the biggest doubters, with only 47 percent and 64 percent, respectively, believing in human involvement.

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So it is with perfect timing that a long-awaited Special Publication from the Energy Minerals Division and Astrogeology Committee of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists has been published.

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Better spatial visualization is a must for dozens of professions: surgeons training for arthroscopic procedures, drug researchers modeling how complex proteins fold in upon themselves, petroleum geologists mapping miles-deep oilfields.

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Next, geologists and petroleum engineers huddle in a "hive, " a 3-D imaging room, to identify promising geological formations and plan the trajectory of the well.

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