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His specialty was seismology, one of the major lines of evidence that brought about the plate-tectonic scientific revolution in the 1960s.
"It was literally the bible for understanding seismology," said Larry D. Brown, a former student of Oliver's who is now chairman of Cornell's Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences. "It was one of the top five seminal papers on plate tectonics."
Larry Brown, the Sidney Kaufman Professor of Geophysics and chair of the Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, called the paper one of the most important in geophysics in the last century
When he was in his eighties he still hiked the Taughannock Falls loop regularly, one of his favorites.
In order to lead Cornell to a position of eminence in the earth sciences, Jack envisioned a concentration on the problems of continental geology, particularly a deep structure of the continents.
John (Jack) Oliver, one of a trio of authors whose 1968 paper helped shift support to the theory of plate tectonics, is dead at 87.
His specialty was seismology, one of the major lines of evidence that brought about the plate-tectonic scientific revolution in the 1960s.
In order to lead Cornell to a position of eminence in the earth sciences, Jack envisioned a concentration on the problems of continental geology, particularly a deep structure of the continents.
