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...desk in the University of Toronto last week, a geologist, Victor Ben Meen, was drafting his report on the first big expedition to the Chubb Crater in far northern Canada. He was already satisfied on one point: the crater was almost certainly made by a great meteorite, perhaps 150 ft. in diameter, that plunged into the Canadian tundra and then exploded, many thousands of years...
...meteorite crater near Canyon Diablo. It is close to Hudson Strait, on a granite plain so desolate that even arctic animals prefer to live somewhere else. Discovered by Prospector Fred W. Chubb (who noticed its telltale circular shape in an air photo), it was briefly explored by Geologist Meen in the summer of 1950 (TIME, Aug. 14, 1950) with inconclusive results. He decided that it had not been caused by a volcanic explosion or glacial action; but there was no positive proof that it had been caused by a meteor...
Spelunking along the Spanish border early this summer, Scientist Georges Lépineux watched a black mountain crow fly into a yawning pit and disappear. Since crows love dark recesses almost as much as speleologists do, Amateur Geologist Lépineux rushed to investigate. A small cave led off the pit floor, and a few feet inside the cave mouth a limestone chimney dropped away into darkness. Cautiously, Lépineux heaved a rock into the opening, waited for the faint, faraway sounds of its fall. Then he rushed to report his discovery...
...engineer but a politician, and busy letting everyone know that he expects to be the next Prime Minister. The "engineers" on his "temporary board of directors" last week included a mechanical engineer with no oil background, a dairy expert. Makki's chief technical consultant is a young geologist who admitted he didn't know a catalytic cracker from a fractionating tower (Abadan has both...
...pioneer laboratory, out of which grew the autonomous Sheffield Scientific School. Gradually, Yale began to accumulate some of its brightest ornaments. There were Physicist Josiah Willard Gibbs, who formulated the laws that form the basis for modern thermodynamics, Elias Loomis, who helped devise the modern weather map, Geologist James Dwight Dana, Sociologist William Graham Sumner...