Word: lamonts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...people they meet who live in the Yard, unless they take the initiative--they have to stop by and visit, because the Yard freshmen rarely come up their way. The Quad's only definite attraction to outsiders is Hilles Library, which is much more luxurious than the Yard's Lamont and is a great place to study when the Yard gets too noisy. Hilles's comfortable chairs and bright airy atmosphere contrast to Lamont's stiff wooden claustrophobia...
...implication of that information was not lost on visiting Westerners. As soon as he returned home from Moscow, Lynn Sykes, head of the seismology group of Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Geological Observatory, urged one of his students, a young Indian doctoral candidate named Yash Aggarwal, to look for similar velocity shifts in records from Lamont-Doherty's network of seismographs in the Blue Mountain Lake region of the Adirondacks, in upper New York State, where tiny tremors occur frequently...
...Russian discoveries reawakened interest in the subject. Geophysicist Christopher Scholz of Lamont-Doherty and Amos Nur at Stanford, both of whom had studied under Brace at M.I.T., independently published papers that used dilatancy to explain the Russian findings. Both reports pointed out an apparent paradox: when the cracks first open in the crustal rock, its strength increases. Temporarily, the rock resists fracturing and the quake is delayed. At the same time, seismic waves slow down because they do not travel as fast through the open spaces as they do through solid rock. Eventually ground water begins to seep into...
Other seismic monitoring grids in the U.S. include a 45-station network in the Los Angeles area, operated jointly by the USGS and Caltech; smaller networks in the New York region under the Lamont-Doherty scientists; and those in the Charleston, S.C., area, operated by the University of South Carolina. When completed and computerized, these networks will provide two warnings of impending quakes. If scientists detect changes in P-wave velocities, magnetic field and other dilatancy effects that persist over a wide area, a large quake can be expected-but not for many months. If the dilatancy effects occur...
...Documents Room. Where all the microfilm machines are, in the basement of Lamont Library. The Documents Room is cavelike and very cool, but doesn't have easy chairs. Nonetheless you can read back issues of the New Orleans Times-Picayune to your heart's content...