Word: geologist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...homes fled, and no lives were lost. But despite attempts to drain the new lake, the water has continued to rise at a rate of 4 in. an hour, fed by melting mountain snow. At least part of Thistle could be underwater for good. Commented State Geologist Bruce Kaliser, who claimed the mud bath was the largest in the area in 1,000 years: "It's the year of the slide...
...stuff but overrated, says Anita Harris, the geologist who guides McPhee through gaps, folds and sediment from Brooklyn to the dunes of northern Indiana. Harris reads old rock, both high and low, and she is not convinced that plate tectonics adequately explains a great deal of "suspect terrain." The whys and wheres of her disclaimers may not rivet the attention of readers whose geology begins on the front lawn and ends at the beach. But Harris' rigors of body and mind cannot fail to impress. She moves robustly over the landscape lugging her hammers and rock samples. She computes...
...resulting X ray-like pictures of the Sahara's subsurface were then analyzed by scientists from the U.S. Geological Survey, the University of Arizona, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., and the Egyptian Geological Survey and Mining Authority. The images of the area, says U.S.G.S. Research Geologist Carol Breed, "showed us a topography that could only have been buried. There was no trace of it on the surface." Marvels the head of the eight-member group interpreting the pictures, John F. McCauley of the U.S.G.S.: "We were able to look through and use radar as a time machine...
...meteorite ripped into a Wethersfield home about a mile from where the Donahues live. Scientists welcome such hits because meteorites provide valuable information about the solar system, and Wethersfield II is being shipped to a Washington State laboratory for study. The odds left the experts awestruck. Said one geologist: "To have two strike the same town is almost incomprehensible...
Officially, Malaurie entered Greenland's Sahara of ice and snow as a geologist. But land formations could not rival the relationships he shaped with his hosts. His life was in their hands, and, though they did not know it, their immortality was in his cold fingers. Whenever necessary, he would remove his mittens to record minute details of traditional life. "It is the search for time newly refound that I offer the reader," says Malaurie. The result, The Last Kings of Thule, is a poignant, endlessly informative valedictory that relives a great Arctic adventure in the tradition of Peary...