Word: oceaneering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...year before entering Duke University and will work on a cattle ranch in Utah. "Dad probably wasn't too hot on that," Susan remarked, "but he would never object so strongly that he would tell Steve not to go." For himself, Steve, who has been tooling around Ocean City, Md., in his yellow Jeep, remarked: "I'm still trying to get used to the idea that the man I think of as my Dad is the President of the United States...
...primarily off aircraft carriers, and Iran does not now have any-but high Pentagon officials confirm privately that the Shah is in the market for two carriers. If he can buy them, they probably would be deployed not in the waters of the Persian Gulf but in the Indian Ocean, extending the Shah's power outside the Middle East...
...Captain Ronald A. Campbell, who is in charge of recruiting and counseling potential midshipmen. As an added attraction, Annapolis offers a majors program in which midshipmen can earn bachelor's degrees in nonnaval fields as well as traditional areas such as electrical and mechanical engineering, naval architecture and ocean engineering. West Point, which sends more than 70% of its graduates on to complete graduate school, does not offer a majors program, but it has liberalized its electives. Cadets in the social-studies department, for example, can take political philosophy, microeconomics and political and cultural anthropology. During the summer...
About 150 million years ago, during the breakup of a supercontinent that geologists call Gondwanaland,* South America and Africa began to drift apart, creating the Atlantic Ocean. There is convincing evidence for the once controversial theory that the two continents were once joined; geological features and fossil remains on opposite sides of the ocean show a remarkable match, and the shelves, or underwater plateaus, extending from each of the continents into the Atlantic form a near perfect fit, like adjacent pieces in a jigsaw puzzle. One piece of the puzzle, however, seemed to be missing. There was a deep indentation...
Geologists Ian Dalziel of Columbia University and Peter Barker of the University of Birmingham led a multinational scientific team aboard the research ship Glomar Challenger this spring, probing the ocean depths east of the Falkland Islands. Lowering a coring drill 8,500 ft. to the bottom, they penetrated through 1,835 ft. of sediment before beginning to bite into the solid rock that they were looking for. Analysis of the core samples brought to the surface identified it as granite about 600 million years old. The find proved that the rock was continental shelf and not ocean basin crust, which...