摘要:

While the U.S. government is paring its budget for science, the Japanese cabinet recently announced a plan to spend $170 billion on science over the next 5 years. According to a report inScience, Japan's Council for Science and Technology recommended in June that the nation's investment in science should grow to nearly 1% of the gross national product (the United States currently spends about 1% of its GNP on science). The plan would effectively double the $21 billion the Japanese government spent on research in 1992; Japan will spend roughly $27 billion in 1996.

ISSN:0002-8606    

DOI:10.1029/EO077i029p00273-03

年代:1996

数据来源: WILEY

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John Elliott Nafe, known for his many pioneering contributions to seismological research, died on April 6 at his home in Vancouver, British Columbia. He had been an AGU Fellow since 1962. A physicist by training, Nafe proposed several important seismological concepts. In 1958, he was the first to demonstrate that sound waves could travel around the globe through the ocean. With colleague Charles L. Drake, he developed the Nafe‐Drake Curve, which relates the velocity of sound through rock to the rock's density. He was one of several pioneering researchers at Lamont‐Doherty Earth Observatory, who in the 1940s and 1950s began profiling the Earth's crust at different points around the globe—an effort that eventually resulted in the tectonic plate theory of continental mov

ISSN:0002-8606    

DOI:10.1029/96EO00196

年代:1996

数据来源: WILEY

摘要:

Neogene Earth surface events are often extremely difficult to date by conventional means because most geochronological techniques lack the required sensitivity for this time period or present other problems. Yet, quantitative modeling of neotectonic and global change processes requires reliable temporal control to establish rates and recurrence frequencies.

ISSN:0002-8606    

DOI:10.1029/96EO00197

年代:1996

数据来源: WILEY

ISSN:0002-8606    

DOI:10.1029/EO077i029p00276-01

年代:1996

数据来源: WILEY