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Actually earth heat itself is still the most important unknown of geophysics. The only known source of energy which is potent enough to contort the earth's surface with upthrust mountains, heat must be studied by the geophysicist in order to gauge rocks' conductivity...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Secluded Dunbar Laboratory Studies Earth's Composition, Professor Birch Heads College's Geophysical Research | 11/25/1953 | See Source »

Into his place went Fred M. Nelson, 54, a graduate of the Colorado School of Mines in 1925, who worked as a geophysicist before going to Texas Gulf in 1927 as a $200-a-month geological scout...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PERSONNEL: Stepping Up | 7/9/1951 | See Source »

Married. Herbert Hoover III, 21, Menlo Junior College (Calif.) student, grandson of the 31st President of the U.S., son of Geophysicist Herbert Jr.; and Meredith McGilvray, 21, a childhood sweetheart, now a Stanford University Coed; in Virginia City...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jan. 24, 1949 | 1/24/1949 | See Source »

...caused Noah's flood. One pole was then in the Sudan, and Noah and his family lived in temperate South Africa. "In the 600th year of Noah's life . . . were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened."* No geophysicist, Noah did not realize that the poles had shifted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Can the Earth Capsize? | 9/13/1948 | See Source »

...Herbert Hoover Jr., 44, a successful California geophysicist, was awarded Patent 2430983 for a "seismic amplifying system providing, in geophysical prospecting, for the controlled variation of seismic wave sensitivity during recording...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Dec. 1, 1947 | 12/1/1947 | See Source »

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