My Career in Geophysics我的地球物理学生涯.pdf

S My Career in Geophysics: R Becoming an Explorationist I O M Robert (Bob) Mummery E When asked to write about my I was accepted into the graduate M career in geophysics, I was initially program at McMaster University in perplexed. Although I have worked Hamilton and started the fall of closely with geophysical data for 1968. It was there that I met my wife over twenty-five years, my formal Janis and we were married two training was in “classical” geology. I years later in 1970. After I submitted have morphed from “hard rock” to the first draft of my doctoral thesis, I “soft rock” geology and from geolo- was given permission to take a gist to exploration geoscientist. lecturer position at the University of Some of my fellow “geoscientists” Waterloo while finalizing my thesis: consider me a geologist, others as an “Coronite Amphibolites from the interpretive geophysicist. To all I Whitestone Lake Anorthosite” in the hope that I am an “explorationist”.