Journey to the bottom of the Earth

[...] was a fourhour flight to Antarctica's McMurdo Station for two days of survival training to learn how to build an emergency shelter, prevent hypothermia and get unstuck from a frozen ice crack. Pekar, a geology professor at Queens College in New York City, plans to use sound waves to track...

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Published in:Ebony 2008-12, Vol.64 (2), p.42
Main Author: Samuels, Adrienne P
Format: Magazinearticle
Language:English
Subjects:
Earth
Sound waves
Studies
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Summary:[...] was a fourhour flight to Antarctica's McMurdo Station for two days of survival training to learn how to build an emergency shelter, prevent hypothermia and get unstuck from a frozen ice crack. Pekar, a geology professor at Queens College in New York City, plans to use sound waves to track the depth and size of enormous underground layers of Earth anticipated to be around 45 million years old.
ISSN:0012-9011