Ben Oostdam's |
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 Seafloor Spreading |
Ben Oostdam's |
page 26 |
Seafloor Spreading |
Tonight, October 23, 2002, my eyes are tearing for several reasons, one because I just speed-read Henry Menard's fascinating book: The Ocean of Truth." I am ashamed to admit seeing it for the first time, although it was finished just before and published shortly after Bill's death of cancer on February 9, 1986.
| After completing the previous pages, I had searched in vain through my own memories - (diary still missing) - and those on the WWW for more details on the seminar in which Dietz first used the term "Seafloor Spreading". |
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That's when I found a link
to the book which tells everything about the Dietz-Hess scientific priority controversy , so I decided to order it forthwith from amazing Amazon and can without reservations recommend it as a jewel of science as well as history. |
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Henry Menard got his Ph.D. from Harvard in 1949 under Henry Stetson of WHOI working on an experimental study of sediment transport in a flume. He then moved to USNEL's Sea-floor Studies Section in San Diego, which was headed by Dietz, and later became Professor at Scripps and Director of the U.S. Geological Survey. | next page - contents COMMENTS, PLEASE ? |