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Gordon J. F. Macdonald's Degrees
- PhD Geophysics California Institute of Technology
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- The rotation of the earth (1960) (879)
- Relative Contributions of Uranium, Thorium, and Potassium to Heat Production in the Earth (1964) (295)
- Composition and petrology of the earth's mantle (1977) (273)
- Role of methane clathrates in past and future climates (1990) (273)
- Astronomy-Geophysics. (Book Reviews: The Rotation of the Earth. A geophysical discussion) (1975) (256)
- Calculations on the thermal history of the Earth (1959) (235)
- Glacial Cycles and Astronomical Forcing (1997) (213)
- The Deep Structure of Continents. (1963) (207)
- The Future of Methane as an Energy Resource (1990) (202)
- A study of the free oscillations of the Earth (1961) (153)
- Ice Ages and Astronomical Causes: Data, Spectral Analysis and Mechanisms (2002) (139)
- Attenuation of Small Amplitude Stress Waves in Solids (1958) (138)
- Glacial cycles and orbital inclination (1995) (118)
- Stochastic Optimization of Insurance Portfolios for Managing Exposure to Catastrophic Risks (2000) (104)
- Experimental determination of jadeite stability relations to 25,000 bars (1957) (98)
- Anhydrite-gypsum equilibrium relations (1953) (93)
- On the internal constitution of the inner planets (1962) (90)
- The global variation of terrestrial heat flow (1963) (74)
- The escape of helium from the Earth's atmosphere (1963) (73)
- A system approach to management of catastrophic risks (2000) (69)
- Experimental determination of calcite-aragonite equilibrium relations at elevated temperatures and pressures (1956) (66)
- Ice Ages And Astronomical Causes (2000) (64)
- Quartz-coesite stability relations at high temperatures and pressures (1956) (62)
- Spectral analysis of time series generated by nonlinear processes (1989) (62)
- Spectrum of hydromagnetic waves in the exosphere (1961) (61)
- The internal constitutions of the inner planets and the moon (1963) (60)
- Spectrum of 100-kyr glacial cycle: orbital inclination, not eccentricity. (1997) (58)
- Dependence of the surface heat flow on the radioactivity of the Earth (1964) (51)
- Simultaneous presence of orbital inclination and eccentricity in proxy climate records from ocean drilling program site 806 (1997) (51)
- Free oscillations of the Earth: 1. Toroidal oscillations (1960) (49)
- THE MANY ORIGINS OF NATURAL GAS (1983) (46)
- An Equation of State for the Core of the Earth (1960) (43)
- Models for acoustic loss in solids (1960) (42)
- Stability of phase transitions within the Earth (1960) (41)
- Continentality and the gravitational field of the Earth (1960) (41)
- Stress history of the Moon (1960) (40)
- Chapter 1: Orientation of Anisotropic Minerals in a Stress Field (1960) (39)
- Interior of the Moon: Observations from space vehicles will provide further clues to the history of the earth-moon system. (1961) (39)
- Earth and Moon: Past and Future: Astronomical observations and dynamical arguments place new limits on theories of the origin of the moon. (1964) (35)
- Scientific basis for the greenhouse effect (1988) (31)
- A Model for Estimating Future Emissions of Sulfur Hexafluoride and Perfluorocarbons (1999) (30)
- Thermodynamics of solids under non-hydrostatic stress with geologic applications (1957) (29)
- ORIGIN OF THE MOON: DYNAMICAL CONSIDERATIONS (1965) (28)
- Latin American Environmental Policy in International Perspective (1996) (25)
- The Figure and Long-Term Mechanical Properties of the Earth (1966) (24)
- Global climate and ecosystem change (1990) (21)
- Environment: Evolution of a Concept (2003) (17)
- Surface heat flow from a differentiated Earth (1961) (17)
- On the Design of Catastrophic Risk Portfolios (1998) (15)
- Catastrophic risk management and economic growth (2000) (15)
- Gibbs Free Energy of Water at Elevated Temperatures and Pressures with Applications to the Brucite-Periclase Equilibrium (1955) (14)
- Major Questions About Deep Continental Structures (1988) (13)
- Climate and Catastrophic Weather Events (1999) (11)
- The Effect of Nitrogen Fertilization on the Nutritive Value of Orchardgrass Hay (1957) (10)
- Technology Transfer: The Climate Change Challenge (1992) (7)
- The Carbon Dioxide Problem: Implications for Policy in the Management of Energy and Other Resources (2008) (7)
- Continental structure and drift (1965) (6)
- The Magnetic Field and the Central Core of the Earth (1958) (6)
- Discussion of paper by W. Barclay Kamb, “The thermodynamic theory of nonhydrostatically stressed solids” (1961) (6)
- Comparison of Spectra for Spheroidal Modes Excited by the Chilean and Alaskan Quakes (1966) (5)
- Mantle Properties and Continental Drift (1966) (5)
- The Impact of Carbon Dioxide on Climate. (1979) (4)
- This Common Inheritance -An American View (1991) (4)
- Earthshine and climate (1992) (4)
- How to make Kyoto a success (1997) (4)
- Gonadotropin potency variation in anterior pituitaries from sexually amature male quail (Coturnix coturnix japonica). (1969) (3)
- Optimization of catastrophic risk portfolios (1999) (3)
- Circulation and tides in the high atmosphere (1963) (3)
- Geophysical Deductions from Observations of Heat Flow (2013) (2)
- International Institutions for Environmental Management (1972) (2)
- Geophysical Implications of Satellite Geodesy (1963) (2)
- The Earth's Free Oscillations: Large earthquakes cause low-frequency vibrations which give new information about the earth's interior. (1961) (2)
- Uses of Environmental Indices in Policy Formulation (1972) (2)
- Climate change: a challenge to the means of technology transfer (1991) (2)
- 1988 Waldo E. Smith Medal to Philip Hauge Abelson (1988) (2)
- Origin of the Glacial Cycles: A Collection of Articles (1997) (1)
- Evidence from the surface configuration of the Moon on its dynamical evolution (1967) (1)
- A Note on Order Statistics and Property Losses from Catastrophic Hurricanes and Floods in the USA (2000) (1)
- The viscosity of the Earth's mantle: Lawrence M. Cathles III. Princeton University Press, Princeton, N.J., 1975, 386 pp., $ 25.00 (1976) (1)
- Science and Space Policy: How Does It Get Planned? (1967) (1)
- Introduction to space science: edited by Wilmot N. Hess. 919 pages, diagrams, 6 × 9 in. New York, Gordon and Breach, 1965. Price, $10.00 (1966) (1)
- Environmental Politics and Policy in Latin America (2021) (1)
- Third Presentation of the James B. Macelwane Award, April 21, 1964 (1964) (1)
- Highlights of the Planetary Sciences Program (1960) (1)
- Problems of catastrophic risks insurance (2001) (1)
- Brazil 1992: Who needs this meeting. [The United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED), a crucial opportunity] (1991) (1)
- Science and Politics of Rainmaking (1968) (1)
- Assessing the U.S. Environment (1996) (1)
- INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON THE PHYSICS OF THE MAGNETOSPHERE, HELD IN WASHINGTON, D. C., SEPTEMBER 3--13, 1968. (1969) (0)
- Policy Brief 01: Environmental Security (1995) (0)
- The Structure of the Ionosphere (1963) (0)
- Overview of Global Atmospheric Change (1990) (0)
- The Interiors of the Planets (1963) (0)
- NASA Summer Institutes (1965) (0)
- Carbon Dioxide and Global Change: Earth in Transition , by Sherwood B. Idso. Institute for Biospheric Research Press, 631 E. Laguna Drive, Tempe, Arizona 85282, USA: iii + 292 pp., 22 × 15 × 2 cm, paperback, US $19.95, 1989. (1991) (0)
- The Carbon Dioxide Problem (2006) (0)
- Deep Structure of Continents: ABSTRACT (1965) (0)
- Social Security Reform; Proceedings of an International Workshop, Warsaw, Poland, September 23-24, 1997 (1998) (0)
- Editor's Note (1998) (0)
- An Environmental Forecast for 1972 (2016) (0)
- Environmental Sciences—Problems and prospects (1965) (0)
- Editor's Note (1996) (0)
- Letter report: Ari Patrinos -- ARM summary (1995) (0)
- Social Security Reform (1998) (0)
- Catastrophic failure planning for the SR 520 bridge (2011) (0)
- Editor's Note (1999) (0)
- Editor's Note (1996) (0)
- Editor's Note (2000) (0)
- Editor's Note (1999) (0)
- The earth's density (1977) (0)
- Twenty‐Eighth Award of the William Bowie Medal, April 20, 1966 (1966) (0)
- On the interaction of non-ionizing radiation with people. Technical report (1980) (0)
- Report on Reports: The Fourteenth Annual Report of the Council on Environmental Quality (1984) (0)
- Eitor's Note (1999) (0)
- How Mobile is the Earth? (2018) (0)
- Jason 1978 Sonic Boom Report (1978) (0)
- SECTION 10: GEODETIC DATA (1966) (0)
- Stray Katz: Is Shredded Trash Private (1994) (0)
- Editor's Note (2000) (0)
- The Origin of the Solar System (1967) (0)
- Editor's Note (2000) (0)
- Editor's Note (2001) (0)
- Global climate and ecosystem change: proceedings of a NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Model Ecosystems and their Changes, held in Sept. 1989 in Maratea, Italy. (1991) (0)
- Editor's Note (2001) (0)
- Hearing on Senate Resolution 281before the Subcommittee on Ocean and International Environment, Committee on Foreign Relations, United States Senate, July 27,1972 (1972) (0)
- Chapter from ' Unless Peace Comes ' , 1968 HOW TO WRECK THE ENVIRONMENT by (2010) (0)
- Editor's Note (1998) (0)
- Control of the Anisotropy of Mechanical Properties in Steel Plate (1982) (0)
- Announcing the First Two Titles to be Published in the MIT Press Environmental Studies Series (1974) (0)
- Editor's Note (1998) (0)
- Conclusion: Latin American Foreign Policy and International Environmental Regimes (2021) (0)
- Abstracts (1977) (0)
- Editor's Note (2002) (0)
- Environmental studies program: Dartmouth College (1977) (0)
- Handling, Reducing, and Interpreting Geophysical Data. (1962) (0)
- Editor's Note (2001) (0)
- Letter report: Ari Patrinos -- Subsurface bioremediation (1995) (0)
- Editor's Note (2001) (0)
- Editor's Note (1998) (0)
- Long-Term Availability of Natural Resources, and discussions (1978) (0)
- Editor's Note (1999) (0)
- Editor's Note (1996) (0)
- Gaia: The Human Journey from Chaos to Cosmos , by Elisabet Sahtouris, PhD. Pocket Books, 1230 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY 10020, USA: 252 pp., 21 × 13.5 × 1.25 cm, paperback US $7.95, 1989. (1991) (0)
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