Word: geologist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...equipped robot wandered through the Titanic, the first visitor to enter the "unsinkable" ship since an iceberg sent her and more than 1,500 of the 2,200 passengers to the bottom of the sea on her maiden voyage in April 1912. "It was a breathtaking experience," says Marine Geologist Robert Ballard, 44, who located the wreck last September some 350 miles southeast of Newfoundland and 13,000 ft. beneath the surface, and returned last week to explore...
Within days of her arrival she was reported to have fought bitterly with her son, a Moscow doctor. A few months later, her daughter, a geologist who spends most of her time on Kamchatka Peninsula in the Soviet far east, announced that she wanted no contact with her mother. Svetlana and Olga moved to Tbilisi, in Stalin's home republic of Georgia. In Gori, his birthplace, many still revere the dictator who brutally ruled the Soviet Union for 24 years...
...also possesses a daughter named Charlotte, 39, who has been married some 20 years to Horace Nettleship, a dry-as-dust geologist 15 years older than his increasingly unhappy wife. Horace's long research into volcanic lava has convinced him "that Creation has been a more ponderously slow and haphazard process than was suggested by the opening chapters of the Book of Genesis." The resultant loss of his faith in Christianity has left Horace painfully vulnerable to other blows. Bad enough that Charlotte has not spoken to him during the past 15 years of their marriage. Now his son Lionel...
...long thought to be virtually devoid of fossils and thus of little interest to paleontologists. In fact, says Neil Shubin, 25, a graduate student in biology at Harvard, the site they discovered "looks like Rocky Road ice cream. It's dark rock absolutely splattered with bone." Says his partner, Geologist Paul Olsen, 32, of Columbia's Lamont-Doherty Geological Observatory: "We were shocked by the number of fossils...
...fossil find may have implications for the controversial theory proposed by a team headed by Physicist Luis Alvarez and his son Geologist Walter Alvarez, both of the University of California, Berkeley. In their view, at least some of the great extinctions, especially the one that wiped out the dinosaurs 65 million years ago, were caused by the effects of giant comets or asteroids smashing into the earth. The impacts, they suggest, spewed debris into the atmosphere, obscuring the sun, causing temperatures to drop and bringing on a long "winter" that killed much of the life on earth. But, at least...