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In 1968, R. E. Sheriff published in Geophysics, the "Glossary of terms used in Exploration Geophysics," the precursor of his Encyclopedic Dictionary. Sheriff received the Virgil Kauffman Gold Medal in recognition of the glossary.


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He was one of the original GSI party chiefs and later bought the company (along with Eugene McDermott, Erik Jonnson, and Cecil Green) on 6 December 1941--one day before the attack on Pearl Harbor.
The torsion balance is credited with making the first discovery of commercial quantities of oil by any geophysical method. The technique rivaled seismic in popularity during the late 1920s and early 1930s. However, gravity meters started to replace them in the mid-1930s and the torsion balance virtually vanished from geophysical exploration by 1940.

 

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