Columbia University-Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory: Walter Pitman - Discovered Key to Plate Tectonics
October 04, 2019
October 04, 2019
NEW YORK, Oct. 4 -- Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory issued the following news:
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- Seabed Observations Suddenly Changed View of Earth
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Walter Pitman, a seagoing geophysicist who spotted a crucial piece of a huge puzzle that revolutionized the earth sciences, died Oct. 1 at the age of 87. The cause was complications of pneumonia, said his family; he passed away at the Hebrew Home in Riverdale, N.Y. At the time of . . .
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- Seabed Observations Suddenly Changed View of Earth
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Walter Pitman, a seagoing geophysicist who spotted a crucial piece of a huge puzzle that revolutionized the earth sciences, died Oct. 1 at the age of 87. The cause was complications of pneumonia, said his family; he passed away at the Hebrew Home in Riverdale, N.Y. At the time of . . .