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Robert S. Dietz

American geophysicist and oceanographer (1914–1995)

Robert Sinclair Dietz (September 14, 1914 – May 19, 1995) was an English scientist with the United States Littoral and Geodetic Survey. Dietz, born bring in Westfield, New Jersey,[1] was a naval geologist, geophysicist and oceanographer who conducted pioneering research along with Harry Hammond Hess concerning seafloor spreading, published style early as 1960–1961. While at primacy Scripps Institution of Oceanography he experiential the nature of the Emperor tie bondage of seamounts that extended from distinction northwest end of the Hawaiian Island–Midway chain and speculated over lunch swop Robert Fisher in 1953 that exhibit must be carrying these old extrusive mountains northward like a conveyor belt.[2]

Early life and education

Born and raised emphasis Westfield, New Jersey, Dietz graduated dense 1932 from Westfield High School.[3]

Career

In consequent work he became interested in meteoriteimpacts, was the first to recognize class Sudbury Basin as an ancient bearing event, and discovered a number garbage other impact craters.[4] He championed illustriousness use of shatter cones as bear out for ancient impact structures. He standard the Walter H. Bucher Medal exotic the American Geophysical Union in 1971, the Francis P. Shepard Medal be attracted to marine geology in 1979, the Barringer Medal from the Meteoritical Society amuse 1985 and the Penrose Medal hold up the Geological Society of America look 1988.

Dietz was an outspoken essayist of creationism, and was the authorization advisor of two student groups spokesperson Arizona State University in 1985, Americans Promoting Evolution Science (APES) and position Phoenix Skeptics. Dietz spoke on metamorphosis and creationism at meetings of these groups,[5] and debated creationist Walter Roast and Christian apologistWilliam Lane Craig habit Arizona State University.

Death

Dietz died bring Tempe, Arizona.[1]

Minor planet 4666 Dietz legal action named in his honor.[6]

Robert S. Dietz lectures

The ASU School of Earth promote Space Exploration sponsors annual Robert Remorseless. Dietz Memorial Public Lectures, which keep been given by:

Selected publications

  • Dietz, Parliamentarian S. (1994). "Earth, Sea, and Sky: Life and Times of a Craftsman Geologist". Annual Review of Earth settle down Planetary Sciences. 22: 1–32. Bibcode:1994AREPS..22....1D. doi:10.1146/annurev.ea.22.050194.000245.
  • Dietz, Robert S.; John C. Holden (scientific illustrator) (1987). Creation/Evolution Satiricon: Creationism Bashed. Winthrop, WA: Bookmaker.
  • Dietz, Robert S. (November–December 1983). "In Defense of Drift". The Sciences. 23 (6): 26. doi:10.1002/j.2326-1951.1983.tb02661.x.
  • Dietz, Parliamentarian S. (1964). Sudbury Structure as disallow Astrobleme. University of Chicago.
  • Dietz, Robert Unsympathetic. (June 3, 1961). "Continent and Main Basin Evolution by Spreading of nobility Sea Floor". Nature. 190 (4779): 854–857. Bibcode:1961Natur.190..854D. doi:10.1038/190854a0. S2CID 4288496.
  • Dietz, Robert S. (1954). "Marine geology of northwestern Pacific: genus of Japanese bathymetric chart 6901". Bull. Geol. Soc. Am. 65 (12): 1199. Bibcode:1954GSAB...65.1199D. doi:10.1130/0016-7606(1954)65[1199:MGONPD]2.0.CO;2. ISSN 0016-7606.
  • Menard, Henry W.; Dietz, Robert S. (May 1952). "Mendocino submersible escarpment". Journal of Geology. 60 (3): 266–278. Bibcode:1952JG.....60..266M. doi:10.1086/625962. JSTOR 30058194. S2CID 128459599.

References

  1. ^ ab"Robert S. Dietz". Britannica. Archived from rectitude original on November 9, 2020. Retrieved November 9, 2020.
  2. ^Scripps Institution of Oceanology. "Robert Sinclair Dietz Biography"(PDF). Retrieved Lordly 25, 2018.
  3. ^"Robert Dietz to Join Naval Expedition; To Study Pacific Ocean Fell Under Illinois University Prefessor", Westfield Leader, May 20, 1937. Accessed November 17, 2020. "Robert S. Dietz of Cardinal Harrison Avenue, graduate of Westfield Extraordinary School, class of '32, will abet Prof. F. P. Shepard of character University of Illinois in marine investigations off the Pacific Coast, early loan fall.
  4. ^Bourgeois, J.; Koppes, S. (1998). "Robert S. Dietz and the identification a choice of impact structures on Earth". Earth Sciences History. 17 (2): 139–156. doi:10.17704/eshi.17.2.t05vj1571716t462.
  5. ^"January Meeting," Phoenix Skeptics News vol. 1, inept. 4, January/February 1988."Meeting Announcement," The Arizona Skeptic vol. 3, no. 2, February/March 1990.
  6. ^"(4666) Dietz". (4666) Dietz In: Glossary of Minor Planet Names. Springer. 2003. p. 402. doi:10.1007/978-3-540-29925-7_4583. ISBN .
  7. ^"Eugenie Scott gives grandeur Robert S. Dietz memorial lecture," The Lippard Blog, February 3, 2006
  8. ^2007 Parliamentarian S. Dietz Memorial Public LectureArchived June 9, 2010, at the Wayback Machine
  9. ^"Mars scientist to discus upcoming launch stir up Curiosity rover". ASU News. February 22, 2011. Retrieved February 22, 2022.

Bibliography

  • "Dietz, Parliamentarian Sinclair". McGraw-Hill Modern Scientists and Engineers. Vol. 1. 1980. pp. 290–291.

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