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Dietz, Robert Sinclair
(b. Westfield, New Jersey, 14 September 1914;
d. Tempe, Arizona, 19 May 1995), marine geology and geomorphology, plate tectonics, planetary science.
Widely known for pioneering contributions to the geology of the seafloor and to geological aspects of the theory of plate tectonics, Dietz also made important scientific contributions to the recognition of impact structures, particularly of ancient, eroded impact scars on Earth, which he named astroblemes(star wounds).
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He also contributed to and used new methods of seafloor exploration, including scuba and bathyscaph. Dietz published prolifically in scientific and popular scientific journals and was both a synthesizer of key research and a generator of controversial speculation.
Early Life .
Robert Sinclair Dietz was the second youngest of seven children (the eldest a girl, then six boys); his father Louis was a civil engineer and his mother Bertha a devout Christian Scientist. Dietz reminisced that