Earthquakes, minerals and me with the USGS, 1942-1995: an oral history interview with Robert E. Wallace, 1995.

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Earthquakes, minerals and me with the USGS, 1942-1995: an oral history interview with Robert E. Wallace, 1995.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/80451943

Topics include his early family life and education through graduate school; joining the USGA and doing research in Alaska; teaching and field work; geologic mapping in Nevada; formulating a national earthquake program; development of the USGS Earthquake Program; earthquake efforts of other institutions; his memorable trips to Turkey and the Middle East in the 1960s and other trips throughout his career; USGS Directors: William Wrather, Thomas Nolan, William Pecora, V. E. McKelvey, Henry W.Menard, Dallas Peck, and Gordon Eaton; his retirement and reflections.

Transcript: 194 pp.

American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library

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