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...Mendelssohn is convinced, caused consternation 30 miles away at Dahshûr, the site of the so-called Bent Pyramid. Some scholars have suggested that the Bent Pyramid's strange shape (its sides start up at an angle of 52°, but halfway to the top the slope changes abruptly to a more gentle 43½°) was brought about by the premature death of the pharaoh, which forced the workers to hasten completion of the pyramid. Mendelssohn, however, believes that the builders at Dahshûr, hearing of the avalanche at Medûm, prudently reduced the angle...
...learns that his grandparents' marriage had a tragic crisis and nearly fell apart. But its center held for sixty years -once the couple finally found their angle of repose, a term Stegner borrows from geology to describe the degree of slope at which falling rocks stabilize and cease to roll...
...since then it has been rising. One consequence is that the nation's known reserves of easily recoverable fuel declined in the late 1960s, at least in relation to consumption. That situation was reversed in oil last year because of the big find on Alaska's North Slope; proved reserves rose 24% during 1970. Known reserves of natural gas, however, have gone down in each of the past three years...
Billions of barrels of oil reserves are buried under the stark landscape of Alaska's North Slope. The problem is how to get this treasure to market. The best way, oilmen argue, is to pipe the crude across the breadth of Alaska to the southern port of Valdez, then tanker it to Seattle and Los Angeles. To date, oil companies have spent $300 million on engineering surveys, tanker contracts and special steel pipes. Yet the Federal Government has steadfastly refused to issue a permit to build the 789-mile-long pipeline across public land...
...leases are part of a potentially massive underwater oil deposit stretching some 3000 miles on a continental shelf which connects Japan, Indochina, Indonesia and Australia. Four major offshore finds in Southeast Asia to date have been made by American companies: Atlantic Richfield (who pioneered the Aretic North Slope of Alaska), Cities Service, the Union Oil Company, and Natomas Oil Company of California. The Wall Street Journal of September 22, 1970 reported rumors that Standard Oil of New Jersey (ESSO) had discovered a huge reservoir of petroleum in its 28,000 square mile concession off the coast of Malaysia, directly adjacent...