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Thursday, March 13, 1969
College Station, Texas
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What the city of the future
might look like is a three-dimen
sional megalopolis — if rapid un
derground excavation can become
a reality.
“It seems obvious that the ef
ficiency, the health and the viabil
ity of the city would be enhanced
enormously if we could make the
city truly three-dimensional,”
proposed Dr. Earl F. Cook, acting
dean of the College of Geosci
ences.
In reality—if perfected—rapid
excavation would provide various
underground levels of activity for
such things as intercity trains,
vehicular traffic, “pods” for
intra-urban transportation and
utilities.
Cook pointed out that rapid
underground excavation not only
has a potential for improving
cities, but reconciling conserva
tion with development.
HE NOTED that while popula
tion is exploding, cities are grow
ing four times as fast as popula
tion.
“The modern city is essentially
two-dimensional,” Cook said. “All
urban activities compete for use
of the two-dimensional surface.”
He described cities as becom
ing “congested to the point of
stagnation and disintegration,”
and offered rapid excavation as
a means to “revitalize cities by
making them truly three-dimen
sional in the flow of people, goods
and services.”
Likewise, he said, the need for
mineral and energy resources is
growing twice as fast as popu
lation with conflicts between
mineral exploitation and surface
conservation becoming acute.
“MINERAL reserves are de
creasing rapidly in richness and
accessibility,” he said. “Rapid un
derground excavation offers new
alternatives for mineral develop
ment in harmony with surface
conservation and promises sig
nificant extension of our mineral
resources.”
Cook said when it is considered
that the vital flows of people,
goods and services in a city take
place essentially on a two-dimen
sional surface, “the modern city
becomes a wonder—that it works
at all!”
The geosciences professor be
lieves rapid excavation offers a
rare opportunity for the guided
development of a technology to
serve several human needs.
“Left to itself, rapid-excavation
technology will develop slowly
and haltingly, governed by the
existing demand for end-use sys
tems,” he added.
Cook noted that 90 percent of
the people will be living and
working in 10 percent of the land
area of the U. S. in the next few
years.
“RAPID excavation promises
great new flexibility to urban
and regional planning,” he said.
Development of continuous bor
ing machines costing over $1 mil
lion each — like gigantic drills
with power units — are now able
to eat through rocks much faster
than the old method of drills and
blasts, Cook pointed out.
There are problems, however.
“We cannot predict the quality
of rock to be discovered,” said
Cook, noting that the drills can-
| not adjust to fractures and
changes in strength of rocks.
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Constable School Slates Discussion
On Texas Driver Licensing Laws
Seventy-five justices of the
peace and constables are expected
here Monday to study changes
and procedures in the law.
The justices, who date their
position to the first magistrate
appointed in 1327 in England, will
take part in a three-day JP and
Constable School.
The school is sponsored by the
Engineering Extension Service’s
Police Training Division. Sessions
will be held in the Memorial Stu
dent Center from 8 a.m. to 5:30
p.m., Monday and Tuesday, and
until noon Wednesday.
Ira E. Scott, head of the Police
Training Division, said the pro
gram is opened to all judges and
officers interested in the subjects
for presentation.
INCLUDED in this year’s pro
gram will be a discussion of new
laws on driver licensing and land
lord-tenant relationships.
Scott added such cases are usu
ally processed by the precinct jus
tice court on a local basis.
Speakers include Jim Bundage,
Texas Liquor Control Board; Nor
man Suarez, Texas Department
of Public Safety; Judge Joe B.
Brown Jr., Dallas, and Carol
Vance, Harris County district
attorney.
Transport Confab
Open To Students
Faculty-staff members and stu
dents are invited to attend the
11th annual Transportation Con
ference without paying registra
tion fees, announced Maj. Gen.
John P. Doyle, MacDonald Chair
professor of transportation.
The March 27-28 conference is
sponsored by the U. S. Depart
ment of Transportation and the
Texas Transportation Institute.
Theme for the 1969 conference
is “Emergency Transportation
Controls.”
Sea Scientists
Find Oil Off
Mexican Coast
A&M oceanographers have
found oil where extensive oil
bearing deposits were unsuspect
ed—on the floor of the Gulf of
Mexico.
Bottom cores from a location
about 600 miles south of Houston
and 400 miles west of Cape Ca-
toche on the Yucatan Peninsula
were drawn from the depths
Saturday.
Examination by geological
oceanographers aboard the re
search ship Alaminos revealed
a tar-like substance. X-ray radio
graphs made on board showed
it contains crude petroleum.
“No one was previously aware
of such thick deposits in deep
water,” noted Dr. Richard A.
Geyer, oceanography department
head.
DRS. ARNOLD Bouma and
Richard Rezak and oceanography
doctoral student Frank B. Chmel-
ik described Tuesday retrieval of
the core.
“We were coring a knoll on
the Campeche Gulf continental
rise on Friday,” related Bouma.
“The core included a piece of
material at first suspected to be
charcoal.”
Analysis proved otherwise and
the Alaminos scientists continued
pelagic sedimentation c o r i n g s
across the slope of the knoll, an
underwater hill 1,530 feet high.
The last core of the two-week
Alaminos cruise produced the un
usual find.
IT WAS TAKEN at the foot
of the knoll, at 9,870 feet. The
three-inch in diameter, 40-foot
long coring device penetrated less
than six feet into the bottom and
was bent due to the hard texture
of the oil tar. The 2,400-pound
weighted pipe was dropped free
from 10 feet above the bottom.
“It was extremely heavy on the
pull-out,” commented Bouma, who
noted core pipes have been lost
because hawsers would not stand
the pull-out strain.
On ship, the scientists removed
nearly eight inches of the tar, a
40-inch plug of calcareous sedi
ment, another 12 inches of tar
and, at the top, a two-inch sedi
ment layer.
“Indications are that at least
these tar layers, maybe more, are
there very near the surface. The
tar shield is so stiff it doesn’t
float up into the water as it
normally would do,” Rezak said.
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