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...over the South Polar Plateau added very little more to the knowledge of the plateau itself than Amundsen and Scott, afoot, recorded the antarctic "summer" of 1911-12. However, he could see the real lay of the Queen Maude Range, of which the Charles Bob Mts. are an extension. Geologist Laurence McKinley Gould, on a 1,500-mi. sledge and ski trip over the Ross Shelf ice to the foot of the mountains and back, found coal traces in the range. His observations, coupled with prior ones farther north along the Ross Sea, indicated existence of a great coal...
...London hotel room last week was Dr. Bailey Willis, 72-year-old geologist-emeritus of Stanford University, attache of the Carnegie Institution, scientific advisor to states and governments.* He had just returned from a 7000-mile trip through Africa. He had walked 500 miles of the way, nicking rocks, sampling gravels, speculating on the waters of the great-lake and big-game country, inspecting all "rift valleys'' to form his own theory as to whether there is a great continental split running from Abyssinia to the Jordan, and if so whether it was formed by tension (sinking...
Chipper as ever after his travels, Geologist Willis talked of animals as well as rocks. "Never in my knowledge was I in any danger," said he. "But I took a hunter along as life insurance in certain districts . . . lions are not particularly dangerous. They are generally so well fed they don't bother you. Driving along we scared seven off their kill beside the road. All ran away except the 'old man,' who wagged his tail back and forth. But we didn't try to twist...
...When Professor Willis predicted another earthquake for Southern California the Los Angeles Graphic (society weekly) excited by a rival geologist, Robert Thomas Hill, assailed the prediction as "the incondite ravings of a mischief maker . . . God must have tipped him off." (TIME...
...majority of the party left Boston, Wednesday evening, June 19, in a special car for Montreal, where Thursday, June 20, was spent in an investigation of the geology of Mount Royal and vicinity under the efficient guidance of John Dresser, geologist for the Canadian Pacific Railway. From Montreal the party traveled by a special car attached to the Transcontinental Limited of the Canadian National Railway to Noranda, Quebec. Here the evening of June 21 was spent underground in the mine of the Horne Copper Corporation. Howard M. Butter field, '26, and Roger Peale, '21, initiated the embryo geologists into...