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...Geologist MacNeil is prepared to offer two kinds of evidence to support his stand. First, there are actually many islands, standing well above sea level, whose high rims and comparatively low centers could very well have been formed by the process he describes. Second, and even more convincing, the theory has survived a realistic laboratory test. A block of limestone, he reports, sprayed with dilute hydrochloric acid to approximate the effect of long-continued rain, erodes into a shallow saucer with a raised...
...things. As the salt pokes through the sediment beds, it bends and breaks them and drags them upward, forming many pockets to trap the oil that has formed from marine organisms buried in the sediments. Best of all, salt domes all but shout, "Here we are!" To an oil geologist using the proper instruments (gravimeters and seismographs), a deeply buried dome stands out like a snowcapped mountain against a clear...
Whenever he thought about those three Rocky Mountain peaks, Geologist Leslie W. LeRoy of the Colorado School of Mines got mad. In 1869, it seemed, some Harvard professor had come along to survey the Colorado Rockies, and with typical Ivy League impertinence had named a few of them. The highest peak he measured thus became Mt. Harvard (14,399 ft.), the next highest Mt. Yale (14,172), and a few years later, a third peak naturally was named Mt. Princeton (14,177). Not one Colorado peak bore the name of a Colorado campus...
Another University geologist who will retire this year is Associate Professor Russel Gibson...
Similarly, the ocean is the key to the secret of the land, for undisturbed on its bottoms the recording silt of cons has settled in layers often hundreds of feet thick. Coring samples taken from the ocean bottom by specially designed cutting tubes promise revelations for the geologist...