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...under thousands of miles of rock, was a mystery. Now all that is changing. In the past two years, thanks to a technological revolution in methods of observation, scientists have begun to paint a theoretical portrait of the planet's interior in startling detail. Says Harvard University Geophysicist Adam Dziewonski: "For the first time we can actually see the inside of the machine...
...science began in 1981, when scientists learned that planet-wide vibrations resulting from earthquakes deep within the earth are split into a complex system of overlapping "tones." The implication: there is something going on in the core that no one had previously suspected. Recalls John Woodhouse, a colleague of Dziewonski's at Harvard: "It was the beginning of a new wave of attention to the core...
Chairman of the Geology Department Adam M. Dziewonski said that Spence spent a day with the Geology Department listening to their concerns and examining their research. "It's not the kind of things deans used to do," he added...
...attempt to set up a useful forum for the department chairmen to find what problems other departments face," said Dziewonski...
...chief contribution to the field of geo-physics was the application of methods in high pressure physics to geological problems. Dziewonski said...