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a low place over there, we will go through there," it was enough to 

 have a map at a scale of 1 to 250,000 but most geologists nowadays 

 would be lost on a 1 to 100,000 scale map and could hardly find their 

 way around on it simply because we are looking for smaller things, 

 and so we have to have larger scale maps to look for the small 

 things on. 



Mr, Miller. I have no complaint and no quarrel with you on that at 

 all. We have to have more progress, I say that if it were not for one 

 of your early geographers, a man by the name of Marshall, we would 

 not have the great Central Valley project in California because when 

 he had nothing to do when he retired he put it together. That is how 

 it got started. He lived in California and was a geographer of the 

 West. 



Thank you. Doctor, very much. I wanted to get in something for 

 the West for the sake of my friend from Maine and now he has de- 

 serted me, 



Mr. Cloud, Thank you. It was a pleasure to be here. 



Mr. Miller, We will now hear from the Texas Instmments, Inc. 



Will you give your name and address to the reporter ? 



STATEMENTS OF F. J. AGNICH, VICE PRESIDENT, GEOSCIENCES AND 

 INSTRUMENTATION DIVISION, AND DAVE BARRY, OCEANOG- 

 RAPHER, TEXAS INSTRUMENTS, INC. 



IMr, Agxich. I am Fred J, Agnich, I am a vice president and di- 

 rector of Texas Instruments. I have been a geophysicist for about 

 23 years and I head up our Geoscience and Instrumentation Division 

 in Dallas, Tex. 



With me I have Mr. Dave Bariy, who is particularly concerned 

 with our oceanographic efforts, and I do have a prepared state- 

 ment, 



Mr. Miller. Do you want to go aliead? I think you can sum- 

 marize the statement. We have about 15 or 20 minutes. 



(The statement follows:) 



Prepared Statement of TexavS Instruments 



Mr. Chairman, members of the committee, thanlv you for the opportunity to 

 appear before you today. My purpose in being here is to demonstrate an indus- 

 trial capability which, I believe, can be used in support of enlarged oceanographic 

 survey and research requirements. I will not burden my remarks with an ac- 

 counting of the need for this program, since I feel that we are in agreement 

 that a marine program is vital to the economic and military well-being of the 

 country. 



As a representative of Texas Instruments, an established leader in the fleld 

 of exploration geophysics, I can say that we in the geophysical industry have 

 followed with considerable interest the testimony which has been presented 

 here. Certain phases of oceanography constitute an integral part of the in- 

 dustry's business. If I may repeat Admiral Karo's definition, presented in 

 earlier testimony, "* * * oceanogi-aphy may be divided into three branches — 

 physical, geological, and biological * * *." The geophysical industry, then, is 

 intimately concerned with the first two of these — physical and geological. 



In the latter category, geological, the industry conducts what might aptly be 

 called commercial oceanographic measurements, inasmuch as these measure- 

 ments are directed toward determining the location of petroleum accumulations 

 under shallow water. Using marine sei.smic reflection and refraction techniques, 

 developed by industry, subbottom stratigraphic maps are constructed as an aid 

 to locating oil. Marine gravity techniques, another important comix)nent of 



