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Dr. J. W. Handin, 1., and Dr. G. M. Sowers look over a photographic test device which
measures the strain in various materials. The Texas A&M University scientists are study
ing the behavior of rock under extreme conditions with an eye toward possible prediction
of earthquakes and better detection of underground nuclear explosions.
Scientists Complete Lab
To Study Earth’s Crust
Scientists at Texas A&M are
completing a laboratory to simu
late conditions deep in the earth.
By studying rocks under these
conditions, they hope to gain
knowledge leading to prediction
of earthquakes and better detec
tion of underground nuclear ex
plosions.
The subject has the jaw-break
ing title of “tectonophysics,” but
means simply the study of those
structures and forces involved in
deformations of the earth’s crust.
In A&M’s new laboratory, rocks
will be subjected to pressures up
to 10,000 times that of normal
atmosphere and heats of more
than 900 degrees F.
UNDER such conditions, rock
often becomes ductile—it becomes
more “taffy-like.” Sometimes,
however, it appears to remain
brittle—like many rocks at the
earth’s surface—due to mecha
nisms not well understood now.
Dr. J. W. Handin, director of
the Center for Tectonophysics,
said “one of the things we can do
(in the laboratory) is look for
these brittle mechanisms.” One
theory is that release of water
from certain types of rock may
cause it, he continued.
Dr. Handin and others of the
center are among earth scientists
who previously explained a series
of earth tremors in the Denver
area as the apparent result of
water being pumped into a natu
ral fracture zone.
THE WATER reduced the ef
fective pressure across the frac
ture, allowing it to slip and create
tremors.
In laboratory experiments
where water pressure varied in
rock, it was found as the pressure
gets higher, the rock gets weaker
and more brittle.
“There are certain hydrous
(water bearing) minerals such as
serpentine which dehydrate at
some critical temperature and re
lease water,” Handin said. “This
may be important in earthquakes
from about 30 to 60 miles deep
in the earth.”
The scientists at the center also
will be designing test instruments
to simulate some of the effects
on rock of an underground nu
clear explosion.
The center’s work is funded at
about $115,000 a year by the Ad
vanced Research Projects Agency
wtih contract administration by
the Corps of Engineers.
The scientists also simply want
to have a better understanding of
rock fracture. This could lead
to discovery of new methods of
breaking rock or of preventing
failure in slopes, foundations, or
underground openings.
INVOLVED in the studies are
Drs. Mel Friedman, John Logan,
D. W. Stearns, and G. M. Sowers.
Dr. Friedman is studying mech
anisms of deformation, rock
fabrics and stored elastic strain.
Dr. Stearns is looking at large
scale mechanisms and structural
problems, while Dr. Sowers is in
vestigating instability problems,
fracturing and folding and photo
mechanical model analysis.
Dr. Logan and Dr. Handin are
occupied with stress-strain prop
erties, mechanisms of deformation
and the influences of confining
pressure, pore fluid pressure,
temperature and time from the
surface of the earth to about 11
miles deep.
Open-Housing Amendment Fate
Deemed Poor By Mansfield
WASHINGTON <A>> _ The Sen
ate refused today 58-34 to table
and thus kill the administration’s
open housing legislation.
It has been offered as an
amendment to another bill urged
by President Johnson to provide
Negroes with federal protection
in the exercise of their civil
rights.
Democratic Leader Mike Mans
field of Montana offered the mo
tion to table the open housing
amendment, saying he did so re
luctantly but in the hope this
would improve the chances of
passing’ the civil rights protec
tion bill.
HE SAID in his judgment the
necessary two - thirds majority
connot be obtained at this time
Ag Grad Receives
Korean Medal
Army Col. John F. Dennington,
a 1943 Texas A&M graduate, has
ben awarded the Republic of
Korea Chungmu Distinguished
Military Service Medal with Gold
Star.
Now a logistics directorate
staff officer at the Pentagon, he
was recognized for service as
advisor to the ROK quartermas
ter general.
The 46-year-old officer from
Dallas also wears the Bronze
Star, Dutch Order of Wilhelm
and the Belgium Fourraguerre.
He studied agricultural admin
istration at A&M and later ac
quired his M.B.A. at Syracuse.
to shut off debates on the open
housing proposal and told his col
leagues “it is best now to face
the realities.”
If Mansfield was correct in his
assessment of the situation, the
rejection of his tabling motion
would indicate that no civil rights
bill will be passed by the Senate.
The showdown will come Mon
day when another vote will be
taken on whether to put the Sen
ate’s debate-closing cloture rule
in effect.
AN attempt to invoke cloture
Tuesday failed. The vote was 55-
37, or seven short of the neces
sary two-thirds majority.
Mansfield told newsmen that
if the cloture move fails again
Monday that will be the end.
“Twice is enough,” he said. “We
will have exhausted every effort.”
GOP senators split 18 to 18 on
Tuesday’s cloture vote after Sen
ate Republican Leader Everett
M. Dirksen of Illinois urged the
Senate not to gag itself by voting
to close debate.
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March 15. Nomination forms will
be filled out when pictures (por
trait 5x7 or larger and a full
length shot 3x5 or larger) are
submitted to the Student Pro
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Irish Bartender, 33,
Climbs Into Coffin
LONDON (A*) — Irish bartender
Mike Mealey, 33, donned his green
pajamas, said “Farewell, lads”
and climbed into his custom-built
coffin Wednesday—to spend two
months in a grave.
Sean, Paddy and Mick were
there, and all the other lads from
the Irish community in Kilbum,
North London, to wish Mike good
health and send him off in the
true tradition of the Irish wake.
Then they shouldered the wood
en box that will be Mike’s home
for 61 days and bore him off to
an eight-foot grave in a vacant
lot nearby.
MIKE, gravedigger when he
lived in Ballyporeen, County Tip
perary, wants to set up a world
record for being buried alive.
W. C. Whitman stayed 45 days
under South Carolina soil last
year to establish what he claimed
was a world record. But Mike
believes another American stayed
down 57 days “about 100 years
ago.”
“So I’ll come up on the queen's
birthday,” said Mike. That’s April
21.
MIKE, married with a wife and
baby son back in Ireland and an-
other child expected in April
should be comfortable in the cof.
fin.
Its lined with foam rubber
three inches thick and has two
holes, six inches in diameter, cat
into the lid. One will be the en.
trance for food down a shaft. Tit
other will supply fresh air.
“I’ll spend most of my tint
reading. I’m taking a pile of box.
ing books down with me,” said
170-pound Mike prior to his de
scent. “I’m told I’ll be able to
smoke while I’m in the coffin, so
it won’t be so bad.”
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