Papers, 1936-1995 bulk 1954-1995.

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Dietz, Robert S. (Robert Sinclair), 1914-1995. Papers, 1936-1995 bulk 1954-1995.

Papers, 1936-1995 bulk 1954-1995.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/25518113

The accession includes correspondence, manuscripts of scientific papers, photographs, subject files, reprints, newspaper clippings and other material documenting the career of geologist Robert S. Dietz. The papers include material documenting Dietz's graduate study with Francis P. Shepard and his work with Shepard and fellow graduate student K.O. Emery at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography during the 1930's. The collection includes files on Dietz's work as a civilian scientist with the Navy, including his work at the Naval Electroncs Laboratory in San Diego (1946-1958). The collection includes material describing Dietz's work with Jacques Piccard on the bathyscaph TRIESTE during the years 1956-1961. The collection includes full documentation of Dietz's scientific research, including files on his study of the Sudbury Basin, astroblemes and meteoric impacts. The files contain fulsome documentation of Deitz's oceanographic research, including his interests in continental margins, ocean basins, plate tectonics, tsunamis and the sea floor. The papers include a small quantity of material on Arctic and Antarctic research and expeditions, including one file on Operation Highjump. The collection includes files documenting Dietz's confrontations with creationists over the age of the earth, scientific education and other topics. Dietz's contacts with creationists, which began in the 1980's, led to the publication of his 1987 book, Creation/evolution satiricon: creationism bashed.

19 cubic feet.

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