Everything about Geoscope
The Geoscope was a proposal by Buckminster Fuller around 1960 to create a 200-foot-diameter (61 m) globe that would be covered in colored lights so that it could function as a large spherical display. It was envisioned that the Geoscope would be connected to computers which would allow it to display both historical and current data, and enable people to visualize large scale patterns around the world. Several projects by his students to build a "miniature Earth", starting with a 20-foot version at Cornell University in 1952, were precursors of the Geoscope proposal. Before proposing the Geoscope, Fuller had invented the Dymaxion map, a novel map projection for the whole Earth. Wikipedia →
🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path
- Read the overview: GeoscopeA 5-minute orientation
- Skim a recent paper: GEOSCOPE Network: 40 Yr of Global Broadband Seismic DataInfluential work since 2022
- Pick up a classic book: Geoscopic PatternsThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: Upper mantle anisotropy beneath the Geoscope stationsCited 127 times
- Go sideways: Buckminster FullerA closely related topic
- Go sideways: World GameA closely related topic
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🗂️ The subject at a glance
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🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
Upper mantle anisotropy beneath the Geoscope stations
GEOSCOPE Station Noise Levels
GEOSCOPE: A French initiative in long‐period three‐component global seismic networks
Attenuation in the uppermost inner core from broad-band GEOSCOPEPKPdata
Anisotropy beneath 9 stations of the GEOSCOPE Broadband Network as deduced from shear‐wave splitting
Upper mantle anisotropy beneath the African IRIS and Geoscope stations
The GEOSCOPE program: Present status and perspectives
GeoScope
🆕 Influential since 2022
📚 Books worth reading
- 📕Geoscopic PatternsAugust Johnston, Kendall Bohn · 2011
Ranked by number of editions on Open Library, a rough measure of how lasting a book is.
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