Geophysics in the Affairs of Man. A Personalized History of Exploration Geophysics and Its Allied Sciences of Seismology and Oceanography

Content: 
Related Pergamon Titles of Interest, Page ii
Front Matter, Page iii
Copyright, Page iv
Acknowledgments, Pages v-vii
Approximate Conversion Factors, Pages xv-xvi
Prologue, Pages xvii-xx
CHAPTER 1 - Some Antecedents to the Modern-day Profession of Geophysics Through World War I, Pages 1-16
CHAPTER 2 - Geophysics Comes of Age—The Roaring Twenties and the Depressing Thirties, Pages 17-46,46a,46b,46c,46d,46e,46f,46g,46h
CHAPTER 3 - Geophysicists at War—1939–1945, Pages 47-78
CHAPTER 4 - Reversion to Peacetime, 1945–1950, Pages 79-100
CHAPTER 5 - The 1950s—A Burgeoning Era of Geophysics, Pages 101-159
CHAPTER 6 - Science in Government and Government in Science—the 1960s, Pages 160,160a,160b,160c,160d,160e,160f,160g,160h,161-239
CHAPTER 7 - Geophysics Interacts with the Environmentalists and OPEC—the 1970s and the Early 1980s, Pages 240,240a,240b,240c,240d,240e,240f,240g,240h,241-286,286a,286b,286c,286d,286e,286f,286g,286h,286i,286j,286k,286l,286m,286n,286o,286p
CHAPTER 8 - Geophysics as a Business—Then and Now, Pages 287-381
CHAPTER 9 - Geophysics As They Saw It, Pages 382,382a,382b,382c,382d,382e,382f,383-426
APPENDIX A - Significant Events in the Evolution of Geophysical Service, Inc. and its Offshoot, Texas Instruments, Inc., Pages 427-431
References, Pages 432-443
Name Index, Pages 445-478
Subject Index, Pages 479-490
About the Authors, Pages 491-492