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Sirs: Bill Foran, reconnaissance geologist for Standard Oil of New Jersey, bobbed up the other night after four years in Iraq...
Daly Physical Geologist...
...Some geologists have believed that "a great cluster of giant meteorites, moving from northwest to southeast and striking the earth at an oblique angle, scooped out the numerous oval craters." This obvious, horse-sense theory was last week attacked if not demolished by Geologist Douglas Johnson of Columbia University. First he found two big flaws in it: 1) only meteorites a mile across could make some of these craters, whereas none larger than 20 feet across are known to have reached the earth; 2) though small exploding meteorites can make large craters, their holes are always circular, never oval, regardless...
They must also have eyes and memories more sensitive than a geologist's seismograph. The exigencies of movie production often require that successive scenes in the same room be shot weeks apart. The most accurate instruments used to record the intensity of light have a wide margin of error; so at least 25% of the factors involved in reconstructing a similar setting depend on the sensitivity of the cameraman. The experts say you have to "feel...
Died. John Eliot Wolff, 82, professor emeritus of geology at Harvard University; of thirst and exhaustion; in the Mojave Desert, California. Motoring across the desert (where the heat often reaches 120°) for a one-day camping trip, Geologist Wolff apparently got stuck in the sand. While awaiting death or rescue, Professor Wolff wrote a codicil to his will, leaving a bequest to his gardener...