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The beautiful and spacious campus of the University of California at Berkeley will be a gathering place for geophysicists from all over the world late this summer as the International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics convenes for its Thirteenth General Assembly from August 19 to 31. The scientific community of the United States is pleased and proud to serve as host to this distinguished gathering of several thousand delegates, guests, and associates from the more than three‐score member nations of the IUGG and the many nonmember countries that will be sending observer

ISSN:0002-8606    

DOI:10.1029/TR044i001p00001

年代:1963

数据来源: WILEY

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Registration. All members and guests attending any session are requested to complete registration cards. There will be registration facilities for all sessions in the space adjacent to the meeting rooms. The Main Registration Desk will be in the National Academy of Sciences building. Receptionists will be available to supply information on the meetings, membership, telephone and mailing facilities, and other matters. No charge is made for registration.

ISSN:0002-8606    

DOI:10.1029/TR044i001p00003

年代:1963

数据来源: WILEY

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A summary of some results of the Gnome underground nuclear explosion in bedded salt is presented. The report deals primarily with the environment produced by the explosion, touches also on isotope production feasibility, feasibility of power production, seismic measurements, shock studies, and neutron experimentation, and discusses the venting which accompanied the explosion.

ISSN:0002-8606    

DOI:10.1029/TR044i001p00129

年代:1963

数据来源: WILEY

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The present rapid advance in space sciences, clearly apparent at previous semiyearly national meetings of the American Geophysical Union, was again in evidence at the Stanford meeting, December 27–29, 1962. A total of over 60 papers was presented by the Planetary Sciences Section, usually in sessions held jointly with other Sections, including Geomagnetism and Aeronomy; Meteorology; and Volcanology, Geochemistry, and Petrology. Two symposia, jointly sponsored by the American Physical Society, also included items of space interest, such as the atmospheric drag of satellites and the Mariner 2 probe observations on Venus conducted a few days previous to the meetin

ISSN:0002-8606    

DOI:10.1029/TR044i001p00137

年代:1963

数据来源: WILEY

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This book is a collection of seventeen recent papers published in the Soviet journal Applied Geophysics. These papers were selected by the editor to illustrate the activities and achievements of Russian geophysicists concerned with oil and mineral exploration.The book is divided into four sections: seismology; gravimetry; electrical prospecting; and ‘oil geophysics,’ which is primarily concerned with borehole techniques such as logging and inhole photography. Each section covers approximately the same number of pages. Individual articles are rather specialized, each being concerned with a single topic on which its author or authors have done research. There is no effort to cover any aspect of geophysics as thoroughly as would be expected in a textbook. From these samples, the Western reader should get a good conception of the type of research which the Russians are carrying out in exploration geophysics and associated fie

ISSN:0002-8606    

DOI:10.1029/TR044i001p00145

年代:1963

数据来源: WILEY

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Barth, Tom F. W., Theoretical Petrology (2nd ed.), John Wiley&Sons, New York and London, 416 pp., 1962, $12.75.Bompord, G., Geodesy (2nd ed.), Oxford University Press, New York and London, 501 pp., 1962, $14.40.

ISSN:0002-8606    

DOI:10.1029/TR044i001p00154

年代:1963

数据来源: WILEY

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The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization will move into the next biennium with an expanded natural sciences program to aid emerging nations. It is estimated that the organization's funds for this period will total $15,200,000, one‐third more than the 1961–1962 total. A considerable portion will be spent to assist scientific and technological research and training institutes. The science budget provides for large‐scale projects, including arid zone studies, humid tropics research, scientific cartography, and soil biology. A total of $117,000 was allocated for the study of hydrology. This program will prepare the way for an International Hydrological Decade (1965–1974). Fellowships will be made available to help overcome the shortage of trained hydrologists. UNESCO will also sponsor studies in oceanography, documentation improvement, space‐related sciences, science education, and assistance to international professional orga

ISSN:0002-8606    

DOI:10.1029/TR044i001p00166

年代:1963

数据来源: WILEY

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The meeting of the Council was called to order at 13h 35m on December 28, 1962, in Room 282 of the Engineering Building of Stanford University, by President Thomas E. Malone. Council members present were William C. Ackermann, Richard R. Doell (alternate for Thomas B. Nolan, Department of the Interior), C. T . Elvey, Willis B. Foster, Edward D. Goldberg (alternate for Hatten S. Voder, Jr., Section of Volcanology, Geochemistry, and Petrology), J. C. Harrison (alternate for Floyd Hough, Section of Geodesy), J. Wallace Joyce, Joseph Kaplan, John Lyman, Thomas F. Malone, Morris Neiburger, James A. Peoples, Jr., Donald W. Pritchard, A. Nelson Sayre, Louis B. Slichter, Waldo E. Smith, E. H. Vestine, and Charles A. Whitten. Others present were Leason H. Adams (Editor, Triennial Report), Arthur F . Pillsbury (Chairman, Pacific Southwest Regional Committee), and David K. Todd (Vice President, Section of Hydrology, and Chairman, Local Arrangements Committee, 13th General Assembly, IUGG).

ISSN:0002-8606    

DOI:10.1029/TR044i001p00174

年代:1963

数据来源: WILEY

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Merle A. Tuve, Director of Carnegie's Department of Terrestrial Masmetism, Washington, D. C., has been named the 25th William Bowie Medalist of AGU. This award, given for Unselfish Cooperation in Research, will be conferred April 18, 1963, at the Imrtv‐Fourth Annual Meeting of the Union in Washington, D. C. At the same meeting the John V. Fleming Medal and the James B. Macelwane Award will be presented. The Fleming Award, given for original research in geomagnetism and related fields, and for technical leadership and statesmanship, will go to James A. Van Allen, Head of the Physics Department at Iowa State University. The Macelwane Award, given in recognition of outstanding contributions to the geoidivsieal sciences by a young scientist, will go to Alexander J. Dessler, of the Graduate Research Center of the Southwes

ISSN:0002-8606    

DOI:10.1029/TR044i001p00215

年代:1963

数据来源: WILEY

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The following material is condensed from a report prepared by Willis L. Tressler, Marine Sciences Department, US Navy Hydrographic Office, and Audun M. Ommundm, Arctic Institute of North America. The parent report has been published by the Navy Hydrographic Office as its Technical Report 125, August 1962.

ISSN:0002-8606    

DOI:10.1029/TR044i001p00217

年代:1963

数据来源: WILEY