Word: geologists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...over the South Polar Plateau added very little more to the knowledge of the plateau itself than Amundsen and Scott, afoot, recorded the antarctic "summer" of 1911-12. However, he could see the real lay of the Queen Maude Range, of which the Charles Bob Mts. are an extension. Geologist Laurence McKinley Gould, on a 1,500-mi. sledge and ski trip over the Ross Shelf ice to the foot of the mountains and back, found coal traces in the range. His observations, coupled with prior ones farther north along the Ross Sea, indicated existence of a great coal...
...London hotel room last week was Dr. Bailey Willis, 72-year-old geologist-emeritus of Stanford University, attache of the Carnegie Institution, scientific advisor to states and governments.* He had just returned from a 7000-mile trip through Africa. He had walked 500 miles of the way, nicking rocks, sampling gravels, speculating on the waters of the great-lake and big-game country, inspecting all "rift valleys'' to form his own theory as to whether there is a great continental split running from Abyssinia to the Jordan, and if so whether it was formed by tension (sinking...
...geological phenomena splendidly displayed in a high and rugged mountain region, combined with numerous experiences in camp and along the trail, was the lot of the members of the Harvard Summer School of Field Geology during June and July of last year. To the customary work of the field geologists was added the zest of mountain climbing and the photographing of wild animals, as the region selected for the annual trip of the Department of Geology was in Jasper and Robson National Parks in Alberta and British Columbia. This portion of the Canadian Rocky mountains has recently been made fairly...
...majority of the party left Boston, Wednesday evening, June 19, in a special car for Montreal, where Thursday, June 20, was spent in an investigation of the geology of Mount Royal and vicinity under the efficient guidance of John Dresser, geologist for the Canadian Pacific Railway. From Montreal the party traveled by a special car attached to the Transcontinental Limited of the Canadian National Railway to Noranda, Quebec. Here the evening of June 21 was spent underground in the mine of the Horne Copper Corporation. Howard M. Butter field, '26, and Roger Peale, '21, initiated the embryo geologists into...
Foolish Doodlebugs. Neither doodlebugs nor forked sticks nor any instrument known to man will locate oil under the surface. The best a geologist can do with all the tools of science at his service is to locate underground formations where oil might have seeped. Thus the geologist can prevent useless digging. When he picks the site of a probable well, he studies the subsurface rock and sand, particularly for those minute fossil animals called foraminifera whose deep presence almost always means oil a little ways farther down. So accurate have geologists become in their prospecting, so reliable that...