Magnitude Calculation

Collection contains a variety of documents and publications relating to Oliver's time at Cornell. The majority are miscellaneous papers and charts from various seismological events. There are some records of geology courses Oliver has taught in the past at Cornell as well as papers and slides from COCORP, Consortium for Continental Reflection Profiling. The collection also contains papers documenting the wide variety of conferences and symposiums at which Oliver was in attendance. Multiple boxes house bound publications written by Oliver, including the drafts of his 1996 book, Shocks and Rocks, as well as his 1998 autobiography, Shakespeare Got It Wrong: It's Not "to Be", It's "to Do!"; the autobiographical memoirs of a lucky geophysicist." Also correspondence, lecture notes, committee minutes, and guide books (1911-1990). Additionally there are a number of papers from the Department of the Interior, and a “Certificate of Appreciation” from the Department of the Air Force.