Word: geophysicist
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...Whose fellow council members are Robert Cahn, Washington correspondent for the Christian Science Monitor, and Gordon J.F. Mac-Donald, a geophysicist at the University of California at Santa Barbara...
Train's appointment had been expected by many Administration watchers. They detected a growing coolness between Train and his boss, Interior Secretary Walter J. Hickel, who was said to resent reports that Train was actually running the department. Chairman Train's fellow members will be Geophysicist Gordon J. F. MacDonald, 40, vice chancellor for research and graduate affairs at the University of California (Santa Barbara), and Robert Cahn, 52, a Pulitzer-prizewinning reporter for the Christian Science Monitor who has specialized in conservation stories. All three nominees must be approved by the Senate, but little opposition is likely...
...Chairman prescient? Could he have anticipated by more than four decades an ingenious scheme just conceived by University of Alaska Geophysicist David Stone? If Mao had carried his maxim a little farther, says Stone in a tongue-in-cheek letter to Geotimes, China could have threatened distant enemies with mass destruction years before the development of nuclear warheads and long-range missiles...
Although these bell-like reverberations were unlike any seismic event on earth, Columbia University Geophysicist Gary Latham offered a plausible explanation. The effect may have been caused, he said, by a layer of rubble or fractured rock sandwiched between bedrock in the floor of the Ocean of Storms and a solid cover of fine material deposits above. Lacking dampening fluids or gases, the layer of rubble may have acted as an echo chamber in which the seismic waves reverberated. If so, the next big seismic event on the moon should be a scientific spectacular; the third-stage rocket of Apollo...
...belfry of a church and it kept reverberating for 30 minutes," explained Maurice W. Ewing, director of Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Geological Observatory. Later scientists said that reverberations had lasted as long as 55 minutes. "We've never seen anything like it on earth," said M.I.T. Geophysicist Frank Press. "We're not sure what it means, but probably it will represent a major discovery completely unanticipated about the moon." It could mean, for example, that the structure of the moon's interior is highly unstable and that Intrepid's impact set off a continuing...