GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF
Secretary’s Report
January 10, 1962
The 829th meeting of the Society was held in the John Wesley
Powell Auditorium, Wednesday evening, January 10, at 8:00 PM, with President
Thomas P. Thayer presiding.
The minutes of the 828th meeting were read and approved.
The Secretary announced the election of four new members:
James W. Clarke, Keith R. Moore, Roscoe M. Smith, and A. B. Tanner, all of the
U. S. Geological Survey.
The Secretary announced that the Society's cash balance was
low and that the Treasurer would be happy to receive dues for 1962 at any time.
The President informed the Society of the deaths of Roland W.
Brown on December 21st, and of Everett W. Withers on January 7th.
The President announced that prizes for the best paper, the
best informal communication, and the Sleeping Bear Award would be presented as
in past years. He briefly discussed the criteria on the basis of which the
recipients will be selected. President
Thayer also called attention to the prolixity of some of the speakers during
the past year and stated that he would make every effort to keep the
long-winded members within reasonable bounds.
The regular program followed:
Raymond L. Nace -- A rational
approach to site selection in the-atomic-energy industry. Discussed by Goldman,
McKelvey and Belter.
Henry Faul -- Measured ages and
theories of orogeny (continuous vs
episodic). Discussed by Neuman, Roedder,
John S. Brown --
Attendance: 128
The meeting adjourned at 9:45 PM.
Charles S. Denny
Secretary
GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF
Secretary’s Report
January 24, 1962
The 830th meeting of the Society was held in the John Wesley
Powell Auditorium, Wednesday evening, January 24, at 8:00 P.M. with President
Thomas P. Thayer presiding.
The minutes of the 829th meeting were read and approved.
The Secretary announced the election of three new members:
John William Kofoed, U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey;
John B. Roen, U. S. Geological Survey; and Prof. G.
V. Carroll,
Mary Mrose sounded a call for
housing during the April meeting of the International Mineralogical
Association. Scientists in the
Sergius H. Mamay
read a memorial to Roland W. Brown.
Michael Fleischer reported informally on a new quantum theory
of geochemistry or scandals in scandium.
The regular program followed:
Donald E. Rawson - Petrology of the underground nuclear
explosions, Nevada Test Site. Discussed by Toulmin, Zen, Fleischer, Roedder,
McKelvey, Thayer, and Warren.
David B. Stewart - A month at the Hawaiian Volcano
Observatory.
William A. Fischer - Some experiments in spectral
reflectivity. Discussed by Rawson,
Roedder, and Thayer.
Attendance: 175
The meeting adjourned at 9:30 P. M.
Charles S. Denny
Secretary
GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF
Secretary’s Report
February 14, 1962
The 831st meeting of the Society was held in the John Wesley
Powell Auditorium, Wednesday evening, February 14, at 8:00 PM with President
Thomas P. Thayer presiding.
The minutes of the 830th meeting were read and approved.
The Secretary announced the election of five new members:
Richard Hamburger, Division of Peaceful Nuclear Explosives, Atomic Energy
Commission; Martin Prinz, Geology Department, Tufts University; Louis S.
Walter, Theoretical Division, Goddard Space Flight Center; and Douglas W.
Rankin and Sam Rosenblum of the U. S. Geological
Survey.
The Secretary announced that a meeting of the Washington
Academy of Sciences will be held in this room on February 15 at 8:15 P. M. The Retiring President, Philip H. Abelson, will speak on the subject: The Long Term Fate of Biochemicals.
Helen L. Foster read a memorial to Arnold C. Mason.
The regular program followed:
Irving Friedman - Deuterium in the Hydrologic cycle. Discussed by Stewart, Tanner, Joesting, Thayer, Barker, McKelvey, Mooney, Faul, Waters, Rosenblum, Warren,
Andrew Griscom - Geologic mapping in
Icomi-Bethlehem Steel Company - The Amapa manganese-deposit,
Attendance: 140
The meeting adjourned 9:45 P. M.
Charles S. Denny
Secretary
GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF
Secretary’s Report
February 28, 1962
The 832nd meeting of the Society was held in the John Wesley
Powell Auditorium, Wednesday evening, February 28, at 8:00 pm with President
Thomas P. Thayer presiding.
The minutes of the 831st meeting were read and approved.
Secretary Denny's absence was explained by President Thayer and Walter White
was ruled out-of-order after an ill-concealed attempt to justify Denny's new
assignment.
The Secretary-for-the-evening announced Council's action
regarding participation in the Area Science Fairs. The Society will present special awards for
exhibits or merit in the Earth Sciences at the several Fairs in the
Metropolitan Area this year. Volunteers
from the membership were called for to act as judges.
G .A. Cooper read a memorial to R. S. Bassler. George Moore reed a memorial to Vaux Owen, Jr.
W. H. Bradley reported the discovery of fossil bacteria near
George Cohee announced publication
of the new Tectonic Map of the
The regular program followed:
Prof. Marius Lecompte - Modern reefs
and Paleozoic reefs. Discussed by:
Oliver, Ladd, Fosberg, Thayer, Cohee,
McKnight, Gordon and an unidentified gentleman.
John T. Hack and L. H. Durloo -
Geology of Luray Caverns,
Attendance: 135
The meeting adjourned at 10:01 pm.
J. T. Dutro Jr.
Secretary
*Footnote: After the meeting, Mr. Bradley divulged to a few
close friends that the bacteria are of early Cretaceous age.
GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF
Secretary’s Report
March 14, 1962
The 833rd meeting of the Society was held in the John Wesley
Powell Auditorium, Wednesday evening, March 14, at 8:03 P. M. with President Thomas
P. Thayer presiding.
The minutes of the 832nd meeting were read and approved, as
informally amended by Bradley, who substituted “Lower” for “Early”.
The Secretary announced the election to membership of William
L. Petrie, National Research Council.
Edwin Roedder reminded the Society that the International
Mineralogical Association will meet in
The President informed the Society of the death of H. Richard Gault and Percy L. Portz.
Michael Chappars read a memorial to
Everett Withers.
Charles Milton presented an informal communication on the
mineralogy of office dust. He described and figured reticulate glassy particles
originating in coal-burning powerhouses, pointed out their similarity to
volcanic reticulites, estimated the number produced,
and discussed the unnerving implications of their presence in locked drawers in
air-conditioned buildings. Further reports on this project are awaited with
interest.
The regular program followed:
Charles C. Bates - Two years of Vela Uniform - a progress
report. Discussed by Herz, Walter, and Lowman.
Eugene Boudette - Volcanic geology
in
Richard S. Fiske and Tokihiko
Matsuda - Submarine eruptions of ash-flow type in the Tokiwa
Formation (Miocene), south Fossa
Attendance: 146.
The meeting was adjourned at 10:10 P. M.
Frank C. Whitmore, Jr.
Secretary
GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF
Secretary's Report
March 28, 1962
The 834th meeting of the Society was held in the John Wesley
Powell Auditorium, Wednesday evening, March 28, at 8:05 P. M. with President
Thomas P. Thayer presiding.
The minutes of the 833rd meeting were read and approved.
The Secretary announced the election to membership of D. K.
Bailey of the Geophysical Laboratory.
The Secretary announced the cost of registration for local
scientists attending the meeting of the International Mineralogical
Association, April 17-20.
Gunnar Kullerud
read a memorial to H. Richard Gault.
Irving Breger presented two informal
communications. The first dealt with the
organic constituents of the
The regular program followed:
G. William Holmes - Glacial geology of Ulfs
Fjord, north
While Henbest was re-winding the
tape, the President and Guild discussed the fine points of wire-tape recorders.
Dennis P. Cox - Structure of the Serra
de Jacobena,
G. W. Leo - Petrologic problems of the Serra
de Jacobena.
Discussed by Zen, Toulmin, Guild, Barker, Doe, Bailey, Zen, Thayer, and
Doe.
Attendance: 63.
The-meeting was adjourned at 9:50 P. M.
Frank C. Whitmore
Secretary
GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF
Secretary's Report
April 11, 1962
The 835th meeting of the Society was held in the John Wesley
Powell Auditorium, Wednesday evening, April 11, at 8:03 P. M., with President
Thomas P. Thayer presiding.
The minutes of the 834th meeting were read and approved.
The Secretary announced the election of two new members:
Edward Newcomb, Internal Revenue Service, and Donald F. Squires, U. S. National
Museum.
Charles Milton reported on the earth and astronomical science
exhibits at the Montgomery County Senior Science Fair, at which he and Dorothy
Carroll represented the Society. They selected for commendation the project of
Richard Folwell,
Arthur Smith, Beach Erosion Board, presented an informal communication
on the effect of the recent storm on the
The regular program followed:
John B. Mertie, Jr. - Platinum
metals of the
William C. Prinz - Structural history of the ore deposits at
Attendance: 84.
The meeting was adjourned at 9:55 P. M.
Frank C. Whitmore, Jr.
Secretary
GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF
Secretary's Report
April 25, 1962
The 836th meeting of the Society was held in the John Wesley
Powell Auditorium, Wednesday evening, April 25, at 8:05 P. M., with President
Thomas P. Thayer presiding.
The minutes of the 835th meeting were read and approved.
The Secretary announced the election of two new members: Henry
R. Ensminger, U. S. Navy Hydrographic Office, and
Mrs. Ida M. Morgan, U. S. Geological Survey.
The President introduced two Science Fair participants who
have been selected by the Society for the award off a scientific book of their
choice as reward for the excellence of their projects. They were Richard Folwell
of
Charles Withington presented an
informal comimmication on the growth of quartz geodes
by progressive replacement of anhydrite and gypsum.
The regular program followed:
W. Wimmenauer - Alkalic
rocks and carbonatites of the Kaiserstuhl. Discussed by Pecora,
Bailey, and Yoder.
Stuart O. Agrell - Metamorphic
studies at volcanic pipes. Discussed by Zen, Kinkel,
White, Thayer, Waters, and Gates.
James Gilluly - The Roberts Thrust
in central
Attendance: 178
The meeting was adjourned at 10:02 P. M.
Frank C. Whitmore, Jr.
Secretary
GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF
Secretary's Report
October l0, 1962
The 837th meeting of the Society was held in the John Wesley
Powell Auditorium, Wednesday evening, October 10, at 8 P. M., with Vice
President Michael Fleischer presiding.
The minutes of the 836th meeting were read and approved.
The Secretary announced the election of four new members: Val.
L. Freeman, James F. Mello, K. Norman Sachs, and Zell
E. Peterman, all of the U. S. Geological Survey.
The Secretary also announced that a limited number of copies
of the program and abstracts of the last annual meeting of the AAPG were
available for distribution. He also
reminded the membership that the Treasurer would be happy to receive dues from
any late comers.
The Acting President informed the Society of the deaths of C.
E. Van Orstrand, Alfred D. Zapp,
and Nelson C. Dale.
There were no informal communications.
The regular program followed:
Charles R. Warren -- The surface materials of the moon. Discussed by Hall, Fleischer, Roedder, Baraff, and one unidentified gentleman.
Henry J. Moore -- An analysis of the effect of projectile
impact on the surface of the moon.
Discussed by Fleischer, Baraff, Warren, Hall,
and Roedder.
Charles Milton and Hugh D. Miser -- Quartz-Cookeite-Rectorite
in the Mississippian Jackfork Sandstone, Jeffrey
Stone Quarry, North Little Rock, Arkansas.
Discussed by Guild, Roedder, Baraff, Zen, and Altschuler.
The junior author of the last paper concluded the regular
program with some well-received remarks concerning geologic time and his Uncle
George.
Attendance: 176
The meeting adjourned at 9:45 P. M.
Charles S. Denny
Secretary
GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF
Secretary's Report
October 24, 1962
The 838th meeting of the Society was held in the John Wesley
Powell Auditorium, Wednesday evening, October 24, 1962, at 8:05 P. M., with
Vice President Michael Fleischer presiding.
The minutes of the 837th meeting were read and approved.
The Secretary announced the election of two new members:
Creighton Burk, A.M.S.O.C. Committee, National Academy of Sciences, and John L.
Snyder, American Geological Institute.
The Secretary informed the Society of honors conferred on two
of its members, Louis Ray and Frank Whitmore, of Big Bone Lick, Kentucky, have
been admitted to The Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels, Incorporated.
The Acting President informed the Society of the deaths of L.
W. Stephenson and A. H. Koschmann.
E-an Zen presented an informal communication: The entropy
change of separating minerals that refuse to be separated -- or -- an item for
the useless information department.
The regular program followed:
Elizabeth King, Isidore Zietz and Leroy Alldredge --
Investigation of the
Z. S. Altschuler, E. J. Dwornik, and Henry Kramer -- Weathering transformation of montmorillonite to kaolinite in
Following these two papers, Second Vice President Fleischer
reluctantly released the Chair to First Vice President Waters who introduced
the third speaker.
Herbert A. Waite -- Hydrogeologic
exploration of Nubian aquifers in the Western Desert of Egypt. Discussed by Rozanski,
Kinney, Hanshaw, Altschuler,
Waters, and two unidentified gentlemen.
Attendance: 105
The meeting adjourned at 10:00 P. M.
Charles S. Denny
Secretary
GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF
Secretary's Report
November 14, 1962
The 839th meeting of the Society was held in the John Wesley
Powell Auditorium, Wednesday evening, November 14, 1962, at 8:00 P.M., with
President Thomas P. Thayer presiding.
The minutes of the 838th meeting were read and approved.
The Secretary announced the election of the following: John Bredehoeft, Bruce Hanshaw,
Everett D. Jackson, Robert Schneider, Robert Tilling, Frank Trainer, and H.
Richard Blank, Jr., all of the U. S. Geological Survey; Richard A. Stewart,
David F. Noble, Mrs. Julie Anne Jaekel, all of the U.
S. Naval Oceanographic Office; and Martin McDonald of the Geraldines
Lts., Annapolis.
The President gave an informal communication on the hazards of
becoming an assistant to an assistant Chief Geologist. This nameless one
prevailed on three of his associates to nominate him for membership in the
Society and was duly elected by the Council. Undercover work by our diligent
Treasurer brought to light the startling fact that this assistant to an
assistant has been, in fact, a dues-paying member of the Society for several
years.
The regular program followed:
E. S. Simpson -- Geohydrologic
studies in radioactive waste disposal. Discussed by Thayer and one unidentified
gentleman.
D. S. Carder -- Mantle structure deduced from seismic waves
from nuclear explosions.
R. I. Tilling -- Batholithic emplacement and contact metamorphism
near
Attendance: 66
The meeting adjourned at 10:00 P. M.
Charles S. Denny
Secretary
GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF
Secretary's Report
November 28, 1962
The 840th meeting of the Society was held in the John Wesley
Powell Auditorium, Wednesday evening, November 28, 1962, at 8:00 P. M., with
President Thomas P. Thayer presiding.
The minutes of the 839th meeting were read and approved.
The Secretary announced the election to membership of the
following: George H. Britton, George E. Ericksen, and
Gus H. Goudarzi, of the U. S. Geological Survey;
Francis M. Hueber, U. S. National Museum; Edwin B. Shykind, Smithsonian Institution; and Agnes Creagh, Geological Society of America.
The Secretary announced that the following nominations of
officers for the coming year had been approved by the Council.
For President: Luna B. Leopold
For First Vice-President: David B. Stewart
For Second Vice-President: William E. Benson
For Secretary (two year term): Avery A. Drake, Jr.
For Treasurer: Jane H. Wallace
For Councilors-at-lame (two year terms): George Gryc (U.S.G.S.), Gilbert H. Espenshade,
(U.S.G.S.) Martin Russell (A.G.I)
For Delegate to the
There were no informal communications.
The regular program followed:
Aaron C. Waters -- Contemporaneous plutonic invasion and
explosive volcanism at
Meyer Rubin -- So what’s new with Carbon-14? The President then called for discussion.
When it became apparent that Charlie Hunt was speechless and that M. M.
Leighton was not in the audience, Chuck Lewis rose to the occasion and Meyer
was able to discuss his paper.
Charles Milton, Sarah Berthold, and
E. J. Dwornik – Mineralogy and petrology of King
Solomon's copper mines, Negev, Israel.
Discussed by Cox, Rubin, Thayer, Zen, and Toulmin.
Attendance: 225
The meeting adjourned at 9:55 P. M.
C. S. Denny
Secretary
GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON
Secretary's Report
December 12, 1962
The 841st meeting of the Society was held in the John Wesley
Powell Auditorium, Wednesday evening, December 12, at 8:00 P.M., with President
Thomas P. Thayer presiding.
The minutes of the 840th meeting were read and approved.
The Secretary announced the election to membership of the
following; Myrl E. Beck, David L. Southwick, W. D.
Carter, and G. Chase Tibbitts, all of the U. S.
Geological Survey; and David Branand, Wing K. Leong, Paul Jurik, Robert B.
Ryder, and Lewis E. Pugh, all of the U. S. Army Area Analysis Intelligence
Agency.
President Thayer then turned over the chair to Vice President
Waters who introduced Tom; praising his virtues and noting that his faults
"have slowly fallen array".
The Presidential Address was entitled "A tale of the Oregon
woods-of turbidites, and zeolites
and serpentine".
Attendance: 160
The meeting adjourned at 9:10 P.M.
Charles S. Denny
Secretary
GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON
70th Annual Meeting
December 12, 1962
The 70th Annual Meeting of the Society was held in the John
Wesley Powell Auditorium, Wednesday evening, December 12, at 9:20 P.M., with
President Thomas P. Thayer, presiding.
The minutes of the 69th Annual Meeting were read and approved.
The annual report of the Secretaries for 1962 was read and
approved.
The annual report of the Treasurer was presented by Margaret
Cooper. The U. S. Savings Bonds were sold and the proceeds deposited in
Columbia Federal Savings and Loan Association because the annual rental on the
safe deposit box where the bonds were kept was nearly equal to the interest
earned on them. Total receipts for 1962
from dues were $2,255.00; total expenses were $2,561.91. The endowment fund or
savings account as of December 11, 1962, stands at $2,804.60.
The report of the auditing committee consisting of A. R. Kinkel, Jr., and Robert A. Weeks, was presented by Art, who
reported that the committee had examined the accounts and found them to be
correct.
Following some ill-considered remarks on beer by Henry Faul, the reports of the Treasurer and the auditing
committee were approved.
The report of the Awards Committee was presented by George Gryc, chairman of a committee that included J. Thomas
Dutro, Robert Moxham, David Phoenix, and Pete
Toulmin. George noted that only 6 of the
34 speakers exceeded their time limit.
The paper by Richard S. Fiske, "Submarine eruptions of ash-flow type
in the Tokiwa Formation (Miocene), South Fossa Magna, Japan" was selected as the best of the
year, and Charles R. Warren's, "The surface materials of the moon"
ran as a close second. Honorable mention went to Stanley R. Hart for his paper
on "Discordant mineral ages and their interpretations".
The Great Dane Award, for the best informal communication, was
presented to Charles Milton for his note on the "Petrology and mineralogy
of inter-office dust". Bill Bradley
rated a most honorable mention for his very interesting communication on fossil
bacteria or, "the bugs that killed the dinosaurs".
The silver cup, symbolic of the Sleeping Bear Award, was
presented by Bill Bradley, chairman of an otherwise anonymous committee. The Committee reaffirmed the validity of the
donor's original objective--a reward for a good informal communication or
discussion and signaled out three candidates for commendation--Charlie Milton,
E-an Zen, and W. D. Johnston.
Bill continued: "That takes care of all the worthy
candidates. Now we can turn our attention to our candidate.
"Caesar said that all Gaul was divided into three parts.
This is not so in our candidate--his gall is entire and undivided. Anyone who would deliberately plant a
question in the audience---well, that takes gaull. But when he gets a colleague to ask ‘what was
that question you asked me to ask?', tells him the question and has him repeat
it--all this just so that he can have 5 minutes more to finish his paper,
disguised as discussion; this is no sleepy bear we have by the tail. We think
this brazen performance deserves the silver cup--Meyer Rubin its all yours, for
a whole year."
The cup was then presented to Meyer who murmured something
about humility and modesty.
The candidates for officers of the Society presented by the
nominating committee for the coming year, were elected by unanimous vote.
After some farewell remarks by the retiring President, the
meeting adjourned at 9:59 P.M.
Attendance: 153
Charles S. Denny