![]() | Plate Tectonics and Great Earthquakes Lynn R. Sykes is Higgins Professor Emeritus of Earth and Environmental Sciences at Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory. His application of earthquake science to monitoring underground explosions was crucial to treaties limiting nuclear testing. He is the author of Silencing the Bomb: One Scientist's Quest to Halt Nuclear Testing (Columbia, 2017). |
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