biography
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Byerly, Perry (Edward)
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| male
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| lived:
| (1897–1978)
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| biography:
| Seismologist, born in Clarinda, Iowa, USA. His career at the University of California, Berkeley (1925–64) included the directorship of its seismographic station (1950–62). From his study of travel-time curves of W North American earthquake waves, he postulated that the earth's mantle is discretely layered and penetrated by the base structures of mountains. |
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