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...companies-headed by Humble Oil, a Jersey Standard affiliate, and including such giants as Atlantic Richfield, Getty, Mobil and Texaco -have poked and probed the continental shelf in hopes of a big discovery. Recently oil and gas were discovered off Sable Island, Nova Scotia, and hopes soared. Geologists concluded that the find was probably part of a pool extending southward to North Carolina, and oilmen accelerated the Atlantic search. Most promising sites so far: Georges Bank Trough off Massachusetts, Baltimore Canyon Trough off the Middle Atlantic states and Blake Plateau off Florida. As Geologist Wilson Laird, the consortium...
There isn't one single guy today at the White House who has an agriculture background. Take the presidential aide handling agriculture and the environment, John Whitaker. You know what he is? A geologist! What the hell does a geologist know about agriculture? Secretary Hardin is an economist. You can take all the economists in the world and lay them end to end, and they'll never come to a conclusion. My initial reaction to Dr. Butz? Oh hell, another professor! I was hoping for someone from the soil. But I'm reserving judgment until I find...
...Scott's white, coarse-grained "Genesis rock"-which may be a fragment of the moon's original 4.6 billion-year-old crust. Indeed, the scientific dividends from Apollo 15 were proving to be so great that NASA announced that it was giving a berth to astronaut-geologist Harrison Schmitt on the final scheduled moon voyage, Apollo 17, next year. Thus, he will become the first scientist to walk the moon...
Lunar Tumble. To Egyptian-born Geologist Farouk El Baz, who helped train the astronauts, the layering meant that the rille was not created by the collapse of a single lava tube, as some lunar scientists have suggested, but by a number of separate lava flows. Not so, said Astronaut Harrison Schmitt, a professional geologist himself and a member of Apollo 15's back-up crew. He insisted that the rille could just as well have been the result of faulting, or cracking, of the moon's surface as it cooled...
...poked his head out of Falcon's top hatch. "Oh, boy, what a view," he shouted, and he proceeded to name the features he had so carefully studied on earth. Scott's descriptions were so detailed that NASA Geophysicist Robin Brett said he performed as well as a professional geologist...