Sentence examples for survey geologist from inspiring English sources

The magnitude-7.8 quake in Ecuador was what would be considered a classic megathrust event, a type that was first identified through the work of George Plafker, a United States Geological Survey geologist, on the great Alaskan earthquake of 1964.

But in 1940, a United States Geological Survey geologist, Joseph Thomas Pardee, delivered a paper proposing that the Missoula Valley of western Montana had once been part of a giant glacial lake, created by the southern lobe of the Cordilleran ice sheet that blocked what is now the Clark Fork River.

"This is a huge finding supported by two different methods," says Cheryl Hapke a United States Geological Survey geologist based at the University of Rhode Island in Kingston.

"It's a very interesting idea that there would be these land level changes that would precede the earthquake," says Brian Atwater, a U.S. Geological Survey geologist based at the University of Washington, Seattle.

"The fact they are reporting Group One kimberlites is an important one as diamonds are more likely to be found in this style of kimberlite eruption," said Dr Teal Riley, a survey geologist with the British Antarctic Survey.

Why the Hayward fault is one of California's most feared, as explained by U.S. Geological Survey geologist David Schwartz.

Reconnaissance map of Lake Clark - Central Kuskokwim region, Alaska / U.S. Geological Survey ; Alfred H. Brooks, Geologist in charge of division, topography by R.H. Sargent, D.C. Witherspoon and C.E. Giffin.

U.S. Geological Survey earthquake geologist David Schwartz assesses cracks in the asphalt parking lot near the Hayward Fault.

"You have a fault like Hayward that passes through the most urbanized and most densely populated part of the Bay Area," U.S. Geological Survey earthquake geologist David Schwartz said.

"We have our theories, but we need more data," Idaho Geological Survey research geologist Bill Phillips told the Los Angeles Times.

All were patiently explained by our exactingly precise guides: U.S. Geological Survey research geologist Kate Scharer, system administrator Stan Schwarz and Caltech staff seismologist Jennifer Andrews.