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RefNoTG/1/15/345
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TitleLetter from Thomas Gold to Dr Arthur A Meyerhoff, Consulting Geologist, Post Office Box 4602, Tulsa, Oklahoma
Date1 October 1978
DescriptionGold knows he has to deliver the article shortly. He is working, but new things keep coming up, all of them positive as far as the theory is concerned, and he hope to get it done within three weeks.

States a proposal is being prepared jointly with the Mitre Corposration, including Gordon MacDonald, for DoE, and it will have Meyerhoff's advice incorporated. They will send him a copy. He believes Gordon is arranging a meeting and hopes to write to Meyrehoff. They have not made much progress with exploitation yet, but will keep him informed. Big money is hard to shake loose, as Gold suspects Meyerhoff knows.

Gold is enclosing a copy of a Nature article, and wonders what he makes of it. Gold is quite persuaded that the phenomenon is real, and ought to be taken very seriously. They will prepare an improved method of visualizing the circles. Gold wrote about impact crater patterns showing through in 1964, but that by itself is not a sufficient explanation. Meyerhoff must realise that this would hardly be compatible with the more violent forms of continental drift.

States that Dr Elizabeth Bilson wrote to Meyerhoff about the question of a 'super arid' equatorial zone, possibly caused, as Gold suggested, by the land reaching the boiling point of water. Asks if Meyerhoff took any further iterest in this problem.
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FormatTypescript copy
AccessStatusOpen
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