Word: heirtzler
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...potential payoff makes the risks seem worthwhile. The mid-Atlantic rift valley that the subs will probe is the place "where the earth's crust is created," says Chief U.S. Scientist James Heirtzler of Woods Hole. According to the revolutionary new view of geology called "plate tectonics," the earth's outer shell consists not of a single solid mass but of half a dozen or so giant plates on top of which the continents drift like extremely slow-moving ice floes. It was the gradual outpouring of lava from deep within the earth's mantle along...
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