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Cold Stills & Hot Springs. Geologist William Fischer, who headed the survey, soon recognized the significance of the findings: like an aerial divining rod, the infra-red scanner had spotted streams of cool, fresh rain water flowing out into the ocean. After completing the volcanic survey, the B-25 flew back and forth over Hawaii's entire coastline, eventually detecting a total of 219 shore areas that might have underground fresh-water springs. In one 5-sq.-mi. area in Hilo Bay, the scientists estimate, the discharge of fresh water amounts to 100 million gallons a day. Using the infra...
...Army's Cold Regions Re search and Engineering Laboratory at Hanover, N.H., Geologist Chester Lang-way Jr. has been dating the ice cores both by counting the yearly layers -much as the age of a tree is determined by counting its rings - and by isotope dating of bubbles of ancient air trapped when the ice was formed. Samples tak en from the bottom of the sheet have been found to be as much as 10,000 years old. The ice and the trapped air bubbles are also being analyzed for composition, organic and inorganic im purities, influences of climate...
...former boss and later when I made him a minority partner in my business, I am mortified that my good friend and geologist, Franc. R. Joubin, should write as he does of my career [June 10]. When Canadian Franc. Joubin was employed by me, the price of uranium had already been fixed by the U.S. at the rate of $8 or better per pound for all uranium-producing countries. Canada was not excluded. The North Span Uranium Mine was completely financed by Morgan, Stanley & Co. and the Chase Manhattan Bank to the extent of about $90 million...
Working with 32-to 65-ft.-long sedimentary cores taken from the bottom of the North Pacific, Geologist Bruce Heezen and his associates at Columbia's Lamont Geological Observatory carefully examined each one, slice by slice, for traces of residual magnetism and remnants of primitive life. Because sediment has settled continuously on the ocean bottom for millions of years, each core represented both a magnetic and evolutionary calendar; each slice was a thin but significant record of a brief period in the earth's history...
...geologist partner and the discoverer and developer of his mines, I'm mortified that my good friend and former grubstaker, American Joe Hirshhorn, should be quoted [May 20] as saying of his truly Horatio Algeric career: "The things I did in my life can only be done here." Joe, one of America's greatest unrecognized poets, was simply employing the usual license...