Word: seismicity
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There were a few cries of sacrilege when it became known some years ago that oil companies were searching for crude beneath the streets of Paris, using noisy trucks equipped with seismic scanners to chart geologic formations below the Champs Elysees, the Arc de Triomphe and other hallowed landmarks. But last week Elf-Aquitane, one of France's national oil companies, announced that it had recovered an encouraging 27 bbl. of oil from a 6,500-ft.-deep well about four miles from the heart of Paris...
...Perhaps even a quick crusade mounted by ragtag armies. In the summer of 1988, the preferred methods of resistance are picket lines, economic boycotts and angry appearances on talk shows. If the furor surrounding Scorsese's Last Temptation of Christ proves one thing, it is that in any era, seismic emotions are involved when people probe the nature of the man who is worshiped as God by well over a billion souls...
...could be something else. During the past decade, at least eight nations, including the U.S., have conducted seismic explorations of Antarctica's continental shelf. But even if recoverable quantities of oil are discovered, formidable obstacles, including icebergs sometimes as large as the state of Massachusetts, would stand in the way of setting up drilling rigs...
Before dealing with the core, though, scientists had to understand the intervening mantle, through which all seismic information has to pass on its way to the surface. Explains Dziewonski: "If it's a faulty lens, you're going to have a wrong image." By 1984 the Harvard group had assembled the first detailed map of the mantle ever published. Their data consisted of the patterns of earthquake-generated pressure waves that passed through the solid earth, moving faster through cooler regions of the mantle and more slowly through warmer areas...
...seismic clash between cocky, contentious Joe Clark of Eastside High and the Paterson, N. J., school board has catapulted a back- burner conversation among academics about the quality of urban schools into front- page and prime- time news. President Reagan says Clark has the right stuff. Most educators, however, believe the bat- toting principal swings too hard. See EDUCATION...