Oral history interviews : tapes and transcripts, 1983-1999.

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Oral history interviews : tapes and transcripts, 1983-1999.

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Interviews conducted with professors and former students in the School of Earth Sciences: Robert G. Coleman, William R. Dickinson, John W. Harbaugh, James C. Ingle, A. Myra Keen, Mary Balch Kennedy, Konrad Krauskopf, Ronald J. P. Lyon, Edgar A. McDowell, Frank G. Miller, Benjamin M. Page, and Russell A. Pomeroy. Participants discuss their original interest in geology, what brought them to Stanford, their subsequent careers, the Stanford curriculum, development of the School of Earth Sciences, and other concerns, including student life at Stanford.

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Stanford University. Department of Special Collections and University Archives

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Stanford University. Department of Special Collections and University Archives

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