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...expert witness on power-plant sites. SEC called up University of Mississippi Engineering Dean Frederic H. Kellogg, a onetime Panama Canal geologist. Testified Kellogg: "A safe plant could be built at [West Memphis] but . . . foundation soil and river conditions . . . would make the overall substructure costs significantly higher than at other nearby locations." At a press conference, AEChair-man Lewis Strauss defended the site, saying that the Army Corps of Engineers had approved the West Memphis site as "a safe place" after surveying 16 proposed locations. But, as it turned out, the Army Engineers had nothing to do with the plant...
Angular Rhombus. Government Geologist George W. Swindel, who happened to be making a water survey in the neighborhood, saw the helicopter and the excited crowds milling around. Steered to Mayor Howard's office, he examined the black stone and pronounced it "a smooth, angular rhombus* with some of its corners broken off." The material inside was iron grey. Scrapings tested with hydrochloric acid gave the rotten egg odor of hydrogen sulphide. Swindel consulted Kemp's Handbook of Rocks and cautiously decided that the stone fitted the description of meteorites "of the sulphide type." Then the helicopter crew took...
...nearly 200 million years ago, when reptiles took the road that turned them into mammals, and eventually into man. They may know more soon. In the Navajo Reservation in northern Arizona, an Indian Service agent found an outcrop of fossil-bearing rock. Driving down from Denver to investigate, Government Geologist G. Edward Lewis found that the fossils were in the Kayenta Formation, a rock stratum that runs through Navajo country for hundreds of miles. For fossil fanciers this was big news: in the Kayenta Formation fossils are almost unknown...
...Geologist Lewis chiseled out some blocks of rock and headed back to his laboratory. In one of the chunks he found a paleontological El Dorado: the skull of a part-reptile, part-mammal tritylodontoid, a transitional creature that lived about 165 million years ago when mammals were just evolving from reptiles. Only a few small tritylodontoid fragments have been found in the old world; none at all had been found in the new world...
...earth has "boils" that form in its rocky flesh, rise toward its skin, and sometimes break through. Proper appreciation of these ailments, said Geologist C. Wroe Wolfe of Boston University last week, should lead to the discovery of valuable ore deposits...