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...Chinese, for example, managed to predict the Manchurian quake with such extraordinary precision that the big jolt came only a few hours after their warning. As a result, says MIT Geologist Frank Press, more than a million people were evacuated from their vulnerable homes and tens of thousands of lives were saved...
Tilt Meters. Geologist Robert Castle, who with colleagues at the U.S. Geological Survey discovered the Palmdale bulge while examining old geodetic records, is keeping an open mind on the subject. The swelling could be caused by dangerous strains and dilatency, he says, or might be merely a "false pregnancy," resulting from other, less menacing geological quirks. He points out that there have been instances of land rising-including an earlier uplift south of Palmdale at the turn of the century-without subsequent earthquakes...
...historian Herodotus, is the gift of the Nile. He was right; Egypt-or at least its most populous and fertile area-was formed by the rich silt washed down from the East African highlands by the waters of the Nile. But which Nile? According to Egypt's leading geologist, Rushdi Said, 55, the present-day Nile is a relative newcomer to Egypt, having been around for only 30,000 years. Before that, he says, at least four different Niles had flowed through-and then disappeared from-the river basin...
Fragile Document. If, as many geologists suspect, there is oil and other mineral wealth in Antarctica, who owns it? In the first half of the century, seven nations claimed pie-like slices of Antarctica. Now, since the signing of the treaty, Antarctica is in effect international ground-like the moon-where military activity or nuclear testing are prohibited. But as Geologist Robert H. Rutford, head of NSF's office of polar programs, explains: "While the treaty has so far held up, it is at best a fragile document. The major test is sure to come on the resources issue...
Died. Marshall Kay, 70, Columbia University geologist and early proponent of the theory of continental drift; in Englewood, N.J. Kay's reconstruction of continental movements in 1948 showed that the boundaries of North America were delineated over 400 million years ago by undersea volcanic upheaval. He also predicted that Japan would one day merge with the Asian mainland. An organizer of the 1967 Gander conference on continental drift, Kay was honored with the Geological Society of America's top award...