• George Plafker is an American geologist and seismologist who has made significant contributions to both fields, with research focused on subduction, tsunami...
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  • including Pulltrouser Swamp. In the 1960s, geographers William Denevan, George Plafker, and Kenneth Lee found evidence of raised-field agriculture that had...
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    crust would be melted and recycled into the Earth's mantle. In 1964, George Plafker researched the Good Friday earthquake in Alaska. He concluded that the...
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    to document the fault rupture and its effects. This team headed by George Plafker traveled the entire length of the fault by helicopter and was able to...
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    State Representative Heather Lind, actress, Boardwalk Empire and TURN George Plafker, geologist and seismologist "2019 U.S. Gazetteer Files". United States...
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    Gateway to the Paleobiology Database". Retrieved 17 December 2021. George Plafker and W.O. Addicott, Glaciomarine deposits of Miocene through Holocene...
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  • anthropologist, Director of the Guatemalan Forensic Anthropology Foundation George Plafker (B.A. 1949), geologist and seismologist, known for pioneering research...
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    2009 "Geological Aspects of the May 31, 1970, Peru Earthquake", by George Plafker, et al., in Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America (June 1971)...
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    in regional carbonate aquifers. First publishing together in 1967, George Plafker, Rubin, and their colleagues did painstaking fieldwork after the magnitude...
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