University of Utah Department of Geology and Geophysics records

University of Utah Department of Geology and Geophysics records, 1968-1983

Overview of the Collection

Creator: University of Utah. Dept. of Geology and Geophysics
Title: University of Utah Department of Geology and Geophysics records
Dates: 1968-1983 (inclusive)
19681983
Quantity: 4 linear feet
Collection Number: Acc0420
Summary: The departments of Geology and Geophysics merged in 1969 to create the Department of Geological and Geophysical Sciences. In 1974 the name was changed to the Department of Geology and Geophysics. This collection contains personal and departmental correspondence, research proposals and reports, memoranda, and meeting minutes. A major portion of the collection consists of records of the Apollo Lunar Sounder Experiment sponsored by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). At the University of Utah the Experiment was headed by Stanley H. Ward who also served as department head until 1981.
Repository: University of Utah Libraries, University Archives and Records Management
University Archives and Records Management, J. Willard Marriott Library
University of Utah
666 Guardsman Way
Salt Lake City, UT
84112
Telephone: 8015818242
david.buhler@utah.edu
Access Restrictions: Materials must be used on-site; advance notice suggested. Access to parts of this collection may be restricted under provisions of state or federal law.
Languages: English

Content DescriptionReturn to Top

This collection contains personal and departmental correspondence, research proposals and reports, memoranda, and meeting minutes. A major portion of the collection consists of records of the Apollo Lunar Sounder Experiment sponsored by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).

Use of the CollectionReturn to Top

Preferred Citation

Initial Citation: University of Utah Department of Geology and Geophysics records, Acc. 420, Box [ ]. University Archives and Records Management. University of Utah, J. Willard Marriott. Salt Lake City, Utah.

Following Citations:Acc. 420.

Administrative InformationReturn to Top

Arrangement

This collection is arranged alphabetically.

Detailed Description of the CollectionReturn to Top

Apollo Lunar Experiment: A-LReturn to Top

Container(s): Box 1

Container(s)	Description	Dates
Folder
1	Abstract - Lunar Subsurface Exploration with Coherent Radar	undated
2	Acceptance Plan	1972
3	Acquisition of Signature Data by Aircraft Flights with S-209 Hardware	undated
4	Action Item Summary	1971
5	Goodyear Aerospace Corporation - Apollo Recorder Preliminary Design Review	1971
6	Ambient Noise Literature Survey	1971
7	Antenna - Electrical Design	1971
8	Antenna - Preliminary Design Review	1971
9	Antenna - Strength Calculations	1971
10	Antenna - Stress/Thermal and Mechanical Design	1971
11	Antenna - Thermal Design Report	1971
12	Antenna Systems - Critical Design Review	1971
13	Blueprint	1971
14	Description of Target	1972
15	Dissector Facility	undated
16	Draft	undated
17	Goodyear Aerospace Corporation - Block Diagram	undated
18	Hardware Specifications	1970-1971
19	Imaging Radar Spacecraft Data Processing	1974
20	Investigators Information	undated
21	Jet Propulsion Laboratory - Memoranda	1971; 1973
22	Lunar Sample Security	1974
23	Lunar Science Institute	1972; 1974
24	Lunar Sounder Technical Review	1972

Apollo Lunar Experiment: M-NReturn to Top

Container(s): Box 2

Container(s)	Description	Dates
Folder
1	Memoranda	1972-1973
2	Minutes - Apollo 17/ Preliminary EMC. Review	1971
3	Minutes - The Circuit Development Group of the Apollo Optical Recorder PDR	1971
4-5	NASA - Apollo Spacecraft Program Plan	1972
6	NASA - Apollo 16, Change a Flight Plan	1972
7	NASA - Apollo 17, MSC Flight Readiness Review	1972
8	NASA - Apollo 17, Mission Science Planning Document	1972
9-10	NASA - Apollo 17, Report	1972-1973
11	NASA - Award, Grant NSG 7090 (Basic)	1974
12	NASA - Contract Number NAS 5-21883 MMC 307	1973
13	NASA - Contract Number NSA 9-11475/ Report	1971 September
14	NASA - Contract Number NAS 9-11475, Final Report	1971
15	NASA - Contract Number NAS 9-11475, Report/ Science Objectives and Requirements, Apollo Lunar Sounder S-209 (Baseline Version)	1971

Apollo Lunar Experiment: NASAReturn to Top

Container(s): Box 3

Container(s)	Description	Dates
Folder
1	NASA - Contract Number NAS 9-12168, Budget	1971; 1973
2	NASA - Contract Number NAS 9-12168, Proposal	1971; 1973
3-5	NASA - Contract Number NAS 9-12168, Report	1971-1974
6	NASA - Contract Number NAS 9-13322	1973
7	NASA - Contract Number NGR 43-003-090, Report/ Electrical Parameter Measurements on Lunar Samples Returned from Apollo 14 and 15	1972 February 1-July 31
8	NASA - Correspondence	1970; 1972; 1974-1975
9	NASA - The Cutting and Chipping of Lunar Rock	1972
10	NASA - Handbook of Pilot Operational Equipment for Manned Space Flight	1972
11-13	NASA - Memoranda	1971-1975
14	NASA - Memoranda, Minutes of the 10th Science Working Panel	1971
15	NASA - Memoranda, Minutes of the 11th Science Working Panel	1971
16	NASA - Memoranda, Minutes of the 12th Science Working Panel	1971
17	NASA - Memoranda, Minutes of the 13th Science Working Panel	1972

Apollo Lunar Experiment: N-PReturn to Top

Container(s): Box 4

Container(s)	Description	Dates
Folder
1	NASA - Memoranda, Minutes of the 14th Science Working Panel	1972
2	NASA - Memoranda, Minutes of the 15th Science Working Panel	1972
3	NASA - Memoranda, Minutes of the 17th Science Working Panel	1972
4	NASA - Memoranda, Minutes of the 18th Science Working Panel	1972
5	NASA - Memoranda, Minutes of the 19th Science Working Panel	1972
6	NASA - News	1971
7	NASA - Principal Investigator/ Dauphin, Vern	1971-1973
8	NASA - Principal Investigator/ Linlor, William I.	1972-1973
9	NASA - Principal Investigator/ McDivitt, James A.	1971
10	NASA - Principal Investigator/ Phillips, Roger J. - Correspondence	1971; 1973
11	NASA - Principal Investigator/ Phillips, Roger J. - Memoranda	1971-1972
12	NASA - Principal Investigator/ Phillips, Roger J. - Report	1971-1972
13	Noise Measurements	1971
14	Principal Investigator - Brown, Walter E.	1971; 1974
15	Principal Investigator - Sill, William R.	1972-1973
16	Principal Investigator / Ward, Stanley H. - Correspondence	1970-1974
17	Principal Investigator / Ward, Stanley H. - Memoranda	1970-1972; 1974

Apollo Lunar Experiment: P-UReturn to Top

Container(s): Box 5

Container(s)	Description	Dates
Folder
1	Principal Investigator / Ward, Stanley H. - Minutes	1971-1972
2	Principal Investigator / Ward, Stanley H. - Miscellaneous	1971-1972
3-4	Principal Investigator / Ward, Stanley H. - Technical Progress Letter Report	1971-1974
5	Proposal - Digital System Data Reduction Implementation	1972
6	Proposal - Digital Systems Data Reduction Program (DSDR)	undated
7	Prototype Test	1971
8	Radar Images of the Moon	1973
9	Report - Graph 0070 Flight Unit	1972
10	Report - Lunar Sounder Radar Analysis, March 20 - April 20	undated
11	Report - Rock Property Measurements, S-209	1972
12	Solid Lunar Geophysics	1972
13	Statement of Work	1974
14	Summary of Apollo 17 Preliminary Examination Team Results	1973
15	Supporting Studies Plan	1971
16	Tables of Geological Features	1971
17	Team Charter	1972
18	Timeline Layout	undated
19	Timeline Options	1972
20	University of California, Berkeley - Technical Report on NASA Contract NAS 2-5078	1968-1969
21	University of Michigan - Informal Report	1972
22	University of Michigan - Proposal: Volume I-Technical Proposal	1971
23	University of Michigan - Proposal: Volume II-Cost Proposal	1971

Apollo Lunar Experiment to Faculty MeetingReturn to Top

Container(s): Box 6

Container(s)	Description	Dates
Folder
1	Apollo Lunar Experiment: University of Utah - Proposal / Volume I -Technical Proposal	1971-1973
2	Apollo Lunar Experiment: University of Utah - Proposal / Volume II - Cost Proposal	1971-1973
3	Apollo Lunar Experiment: University of Utah - Proposal / Volume III - Business Management Proposal	1971-1973
4	Curriculum	1973-1979
5	Earth Science Laboratory (ESL): University of Utah Research Institute (UURI) - Miscellaneous	1977-1978
6-7	Executive Committee Meeting	1970-1979
8	Faculty Meeting	1977-1978

Miscellaneous Department Notes to SubcontractReturn to Top

Container(s): Box 7

Container(s)	Description	Dates
Folder
1	Miscellaneous Department Notes	1973-1975
2	Miscellaneous Department Notes: Faculty and Staff Members - Bruhn, Ronald L. / Proposal	1979-1983
3	Miscellaneous Department Notes: Faculty and Staff Members - Chapman, D. S. / Justification	1979
4	Miscellaneous Department Notes: Faculty and Staff Members - Evans, Stan H. / Proposal	1979
5	Miscellaneous Department Notes: Faculty and Staff Members - Nash, William P.	1979
6	Miscellaneous Department Notes: Faculty and Staff Members - Wilson, Raymond C. / Mechanical Properties of Rock	1972
7	Miscellaneous Department Notes: Faculty and Staff Members - Wilson, Raymond C. The Mechanical Properties of the Shear Zone of the Lewis Overthrust, Glacier National Park, Montana	1970
8	Miscellaneous Department Notes: Faculty and Staff Members - Wilson, Raymond C. / Resignation	1975
9	Miscellaneous Department Notes: Faculty and Staff Members - Wilson, Raymond C. / " The Stress-Drop Paradox: A Problem of Scale?"	1974
10	Radiological Health Department: Miscellaneous	1972; 1974; 1979
11	Remodeling - Applied Research Building, Room 100	1976-1980
12	Report: " Completion of Installation of High-Gain Telemetered Seismograph Stations for the Data Colleection and Epicenter Determination Along the Wasatch Front, Utah" - Contract Number 14-08-0001-14107	1973-1976
13	Report: " Earthquake Hazards and Prediction Research in the Wasatch Front - Southern Intermountain Seismic Belt" - Contract Number 14-08-0001-19257	1980-1982
14	Report: " Earthquake Research and Network Operations in the Intermountain Seismic Belt - Wasatch Front" - Contract Number 14-08-0001-16725	1977-1980
15	Report: " Studies of Seismicity and Feasibility of Earthquake Prediction and Operation of Seismic Network - Along the Wasatch Front, Utah" - Contract Number 14-08-0001-15895	1976-1977
16	Report: " A Study of the Detailed Seismicity and Feasibility of Earthquake Prediction Along the Wasatch Front, Utah" - Contract Number 14-08-0001-14585	1974-1976
17-18	Seismography Stations Meeting	1974-1976
19	Subcontract between University of Utah and Micro Geophysics Corporation	1976-1977

Uinta Basin Seismological Obervatory to United States Department of EnergyReturn to Top

Container(s): Box 8

Container(s)	Description	Dates
Folder
1	Uinta Basin Seismological Observatory (UBO): Miscellaneous	1970; 1976
2	United States Department of Energy (DOE): Budget Planning Notes	1979-1980
3	United States Department of Energy (DOE): Program Review for Division of Geothermal Energy	1979 March 29
4	United States Department of Energy (DOE): Proposal	1979 August 13
5	United States Department of Energy (DOE): Proposal	1979 September 30
6	United States Department of Energy (DOE): Report - " Induced Seismicity and Seismic Baseline Studies at Roosevelt, Hot Springs and Cove Fort/Sulphurdale, Utah"	1978 September 15-1980 March 31
7	United States Department of Energy (DOE): Report - " Management Assistance for the Development of Hydrothermal Energy in the Rocky Mountain/Basin and Range Region"	1977 October 19-1979 December 31
8	United States Department of Energy (DOE): Report - " Management Assistance and Technical Support for the Programs in Exploration Technology"	1978 December 1-1980 February 28

Names and SubjectsReturn to Top

Subject Terms

Geology--Research--Utah
Geology--Study and teaching--Utah--History--Sources
Geophysics--Utah
Universities and colleges--Utah--Salt Lake City--History--Sources

Personal Names

Ward, Stanley H.

Corporate Names

Apollo Lunar Sounder Experiment
University of Utah--Archives
University of Utah. Dept. of Geological and Geophysical Sciences (contributor)

Form or Genre Terms

Applications
Correspondence
Memorandums
Minutes
Reports

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