Biographical Memoirs Volume 71 (1997) / Chapter Skim
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ALLAN V. COX
ALLAN V. COX
Pages 17-32
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By this mishap geophysics lost a major contributor to the theory of plate tectonics, Stanforc! University lost an able en c!
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In graduate work at Berkeley Allan came uncler the influence of John Verhoogen en c! chose geophysics rather than glaciology for his specialty.
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description of the atmosphere at Berkeley cluring his graduate years: As graduate students at the University of California in the mid-fifties, we sniffed something in the air that we were NOT hearing about in our lectures and seminars, with the exception of those of John Verhoogen. So we graduate students formed a Geology Club.
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in a small tar-paper shack set up adjacent to the main Survey building a location that seemec! at the time to reflect a Tow estimate of the importance of rock magnetism on the part of their Survey superiors.
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for a time there was feverish competition among the different laboratories. General agreement about the times of polarity change macle it clear that a time scale or caTenciar conic!
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en c! parts of the crust on the two sicles of a ricige represent huge "plates" of crustal material that are cirifting apart.
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some of his students was to fins! an explanation for the curious pattern in the geology of the rocks that make up the west coast of North America.
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not only a key to the initial concept of plate tectonics, but a wealth of ciata on the largescale movement of crustal plates in the Earth's past. In 1979 AlIan became clean of the School of Earth Sciences, a clemancling position in which he clisplayoc!
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, Plate Tectonics and Geomagnetic Reversals, is a reprinting of the more important early papers on plate tectonics, together with an extensive major introduction en c! then shorter introcluctions to different parts of the subject which provicle
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of life came his often expressed concern for preservation of open space en c! his talent for giving wise counsel to politicians and environmental groups on problems of timber harvesting in the nearby hills.
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hac! improper relations with a teenage boy.
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The accuracy of the paleomagnetic method as evaluated from historic Hawaiian lava flows.
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Pliocene geomagnetic polarity epochs. Earth Planet.
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Paleomagnetic test of the early Tertiary plate circuit between the Pacific Basin plates and the Indian plate.
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Relative motions between Eurasia and North America in the Bering Sea region. Tectonophysics 1 34:239-61.
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