Autobiography, 2001.

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Autobiography, 2001.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/79391321

Personal reminiscences of a career in geophysics, much of spent at work on the ocean floor. Describes early land-based experiments in seismology with Doc Ewing and Columbus Iselin during his college years at Lehigh University; subsequent underwater seismic testing; his work in underwater photography during World War II; work and leisure activities at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute; grad school at Columbia University; Lamont Geological Observatory's early years; ocean bottom sediment drilling; formation of Palisades Geophysical Institute with Ewing and others; move to the University of Texas in Galveston and multichannel work there at the Institute of Geophysics up to his retirement in 1979. An afterword summarizes his accomplishments.

325 pp.

American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library

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