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Henry William Menard
Henry William Menard
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Of these, The Ocean of Truth: A Personal History of Global Tectonics, published posthumously by the Princeton University Press in 1986, is one insider's scientific history of the seafloorspreading concept ant! plate tectonics.
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notes! that it was "an engaging and prophetic exposition of scientism at its operational best." Menarcl surveys the development of science in the United States, to a large extent based on his associations with the geological community.
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his cloctorate under the guidance of Professor Henry Stetson, a pioneer marine geologist. His thesis project involvecI an experimental stucly of sediment transport in a flume at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.
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was encouraged by his colleagues at the Navy Electronics Laboratory (especially Dietz anct Ec~win Hamilton) , who with him undertook research following ongoing evaluations as to where to initiate potentially rewarding anct productive scientific efforts.
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he recognizecI anti clescribecI the startlingly regular quartet of huge "fracture zones" that extend thousands of kilometers westward, almost as great circles on the spheroid, from the California and Baja California coastlines to the Central Pacific.
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the "transform fault," an ingenious mechanism that unified anct macle compelling the accumulating observations that established plate tectonics. Bill was a contributor and elucidator to all major themes in marine geology from the tumultuous turbidity currents of the early 1950s to the more subtle propagating rifts of the 19SOs.
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Origin of abrupt change in slope at continental shelf margin.
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Clipperton fracture zone in the northeastern equatorial Pacific.
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Scientific uses of random drilling models. Science 190:337-43.
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McNutt. Constraints on yield strength in the oceanic lithosphere derived from observations of flexure.
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