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Still leary of the theory, Hurley returned to the U.S. and organized a joint group of U.S. and Brazilian scientists to compare radioactively dated rock samples from two African regions with others from South American areas...
Doubting & Digging. "Actually, we set out to disprove the theory when we started," said M.I.T. Geology Professor Patrick M. Hurley, 55, adding that "Harvard and M.I.T. have been hotbeds of geological conservatism for years." Hurley and his colleagues became interested in the theory at a 1964 scientific meeting in London. There, Cambridge Geophysicist Sir Edward Bullard disclosed that a computer study of shorelines on both sides of the Atlantic -at a depth of 500 fathoms, to allow for coastal idiosyncrasies-showed that they would still match if they were set side by side. "The results were rather amazing," said Hurley...
...There's never really a eureka moment on any of these projects," said Hurley, "but when I began to plot these samples, the correlation was astounding. They all fitted exactly." In addition to the identical ages of the regions, Hurley, his M.I.T. associates and their collaborators at the University of Sao Paulo found the boundary line between the 550-million-and 2-billion-year-old areas in northeast Brazil exactly where they had predicted it would...
...this evidence is quite conclusive," says Hurley. "It's very difficult to argue against it. It looks as though opposition to the continental-drift theory is dying...
Another slugger, rightfielder Joe DeChellis, single-handedly pulled out the Holy Cross game. The Andover grad hit a double, triple, and home run in that game to account for both Harvard runs. Neal Hurley "played what I think is the hardest position and did a good job in center," Harris said...