Charles C. Roripaugh, Jr. Papers 1944-1989

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Charles C. Roripaugh, Jr. Papers 1944-1989

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Research notes, seismic surveys, charts and graphs, photographs, field conference guidebooks, and manuscripts of reports written for Shell Oil Company on seismic prospecting for oil, of this petroleum exploration geophysicist.

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Roripaugh, Charles C., Jr., 1927-1989

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Geophysicist Charles Clifford Roripaugh, Jr., was born July 13, 1927, in Oceanside, California. He served in the U.S. Navy Reserve from 1945 to 1946 with training in aviation electronics. Roripaugh joined Shell Oil Company as a seismologist in 1949 after receiving his B.S. degree in electrical engineering from the University of California, Berkeley. He was advanced to seismologist party chief in 1953 with responsibility for data acquisition and interpretation in the Rocky Mountain b...