Oral history interview with Eugene Merle Shoemaker, 1986 January 30 to 1988 September 8.

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Oral history interview with Eugene Merle Shoemaker, 1986 January 30 to 1988 September 8.

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Early career in the United States Geological Survey (USGS); Atomic Energy Commission-sponsored surveys of uranium deposits in the western United States; USGS Grand Junction, Colorado field office; nuclear explosion crater studies; the MICE project; early lunar studies sponsored by NASA. Specific topics include Shoemaker's investigations of the geology of the Colorado plateau; doctoral studies at Princeton University in the mid-1950s; his identification of coesite at the Meteor Crater, Arizona; and the Ries formation in Bavaria, Germany; the development of lunar stratigraphic principles.

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American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library

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