Word: fossils
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...jobs it offers. An expert Texas micropaleontologist can diagnose the age and character of 100 underground samples a day, making a geological index of 3,000 to 4,000 feet of drilling. In California, where petroleum signs are more complex, scientists must identify about 100 types of fossils in each sample, and analysis is far slower. All told, some 500 fossil experts are hired by Gulf Coast and California oil producers to divine the meaning of the "pebbles" they...
Theodore E. White, Cambridge, Mass., Assistant Curator of Fossil Mammals...
Died. Dr. Walter Granger, 68, explorer and curator of fossil mammals for the American Museum of Natural History; in Lusk, Wyo. He explored the Gobi Desert with Roy Chapman Andrews, helped establish the age of Peking Man at about 500,000 years...
...Princeton University recently acquired a fossil of a bat estimated to be over 60,000,000 years old." --Ohio State "Lantern...
When Colonel John Stuart found some fossils in a Virginia cave, he naturally sent them to Monticello where Jefferson was known to include old bones among his strange (and, folk said, atheistic) interests. In 1797 Jefferson described the fossil creature before the American Philosophical Society (of which he was then president) as a kind of enormous lion because of its eight-inch claws. Wrote he: "I cannot . .. help believing that this animal, as well as the mammoth, are still existing." When Jefferson sent Lewis and Clark up the Missouri River and Captain Zebulon Pike into the Rockies, he half-hoped...