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...rate of movement into the trenches is almost imperceptible-no more than an inch or so a year. But Geophysicist Robert C. Bostrom and Civil Engineer Mehmet A. Sherif think that some of the more conveniently located trenches could be used as efficient geophysical garbage dumps. The trick, they explain in Nature, would be to dump packaged waste into the sea off the mouths of fast-flowing rivers, which annually wash vast amounts of mud into continental trench areas. Though the garbage would not be drawn far into the earth for many years, it would soon be buried so deep...
...Venus in 1962, they made an unexpected discovery. They found that the earth's cloud-shrouded neighbor spins not only more slowly than the other planets, but also in the opposite direction.*Long puzzled by Venus' eccentric behavior and dissatisfied with previous attempts to explain it, Geophysicist S. Fred Singer has now come forth with an ingenious theory...
...stretch westward toward the Rockies and the shape of the mountains themselves. Unlike the Andes or even the closer Canadian Rockies -both of which were squeezed up by massive lateral pressures-the American Rockies seem to have been at least partially lifted by enormous forces directly beneath them. As Geophysicist Wilson points out, many of them are not jagged or irregular peaks, like their Canadian neighbors to the north, but huge granite slabs that still retain the flatness of the original Colorado Plateau...
...evidence comes from 28 samples of the sea bottom drilled in the Pacific and Antarctic oceans. After microscopic examinations of half a million individual fossils taken from the deep-sea cores, Paleontologist James D. Hays and Geophysicist Neil Opdyke concluded that two species of Radiolaria became extinct 2.4 million years ago, another about two million years ago, two about 1.8 million and one about a million years ago. The dates, Hays told a meeting of the Geological Society of America, are significantly close to known reversals in the earth's field...
Leahy, a 41-year-old geophysicist, will continue in his post as assistant dean. He served as coordinator for governmental relations under Whitlock, who became associate dean of Harvard College last month...