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Geologists to begin sandhill dig Aug. 1 By Deanne Nelson Staff Reporter University of Nebraska-Lincoln geologists will begin drilling in the sandhills of eastern Sheridan County early next month. The group of scientists, led by Duane Eversoll, associate professor of geology, will drill from Aug. 1 through September. Eversoll, also assistant to the di rector of UNL’s Geological Conscr 500-year-old book perpetuates learning BOOK from Page 2 lum” is a Latin term lor any book printed before 1500. Love Library has 30 incunabula, he said. Written in 1493 by Hartmann Schedcl of Nuremberg, Germany, “TheChronicle” was published by the printing house of Anton Koberger in Germany. Svoboda thinks quite a few copies; still exist. When it was first printed, there were 1,500 copies in Latin and 1,000 copies in German. Love Library’s copy is written in church Latin, he said. “This Latin is easier to read,” Svoboda said. He said any person that can read Latin could read the book, but that the script makes it difficult to read some of the words. Albrecht Durcr, the painter of “Adam and Eve (The Fall of Man)” (1504), is said to have worked on the book’s illustrations while still an apprentice to the artist Michael Wol gemut, Svoboda said. Svoboda doesn’t know how the university acquired “The Nuremberg Chronicle,” because documentation on the acquiring of books was very limited years ago, he said. “It was probably a gift (to Love Library') 50 or 60 years ago,” he said. There is a note penciled in the margin slating “The Chronicle” was sold to Goldschmidt and Co. on Feb. 14, 1924, for 13 English pounds. I-1 Nebraskan Editor Bob Nelson 472- 1766 News Editor Curt Wagner Editorial Page Editor Chertes Lletirai-cs Copy Dew Editor/ Chuck Green Night News Editor Sports Editor Tim Hartmann Arts & Entertain Geoff McMurtry ment editor Photo Ohio! 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Second-class postage paid at Lincoln, Neb ALL MATERIAL COPYRIGHT 1M8 DAILY NEBRASKAN vation and Survey Division, was awarded the $90,000 grant last month by the Nebraska Natural Resources Commission. Under contract with the NNRC, Evcrsoll will look for bclow-thc-sur facc clues to the makeup of the under ground and what it contains. He said the geologists will look for underground formations of rock and sediment “from the surface on down Evcrsoll cited Pleistocene sediments, the Ogallala formation, the While River group and Pierre shale as pos sible formation finds. These layers of ground are found in the above order and will tell the drill ers about past geologic processes in Nebraska which made the surface what it is today. These formations can be found by digging holes between 200 and 1,480 feet deep, Evcrsoll said. UNL researchers will also be measuring water levels in the sandhills for future use by hydrogc ologists in preparing hydrogcologic and geological maps, he said. The NNRC will use the maps and information “for groundwater moni toring, to construct groundwater models and to project the future im pact on irrigation and aquifers,” which arc underground water tables, said Ali Tabidian, hydrogeologist at NNRC. This groundwater measure ment can aid farmers in predicting how much irrigation will need to be done, Evcrsoll said. “We use the details from the drill ing extensively” in making hydroge ologic maps, Tabidian said. This information is also used by the Natural Resource Districts in the county where the holes were drilled to “help them manage the groundwater aquifer and to see how much water could be stored,” said Paul Zillig, assistant manager of NkD in Lancas ter county. Nebraska is “one of the leading states” as a result of the quantity of test hole drillings and research done, Evcrsoll said. For the past four years, Evcrsoll, in cooperation with the Geological Conservation and Survey Division, has been a participant in the drillings. Since drilling started in the 1930s, 4,420 test holes have been dug in Nebraska, he said. After drilling the holes, detailed geological logs are made, describing the materials encountered in those test holes, Evcrsoll said. After this analysis has been made, the holes arc then scaled and filled, he said. Connie Sheehan/Daily Nebraakar Duane Evorsoll, UNL geology professor, stands next to a geologic map. ©REUNION 1 16th & W Streets/On City Campus | ! FREE 16 OZ. COKE ! > WITH THE PURCHASE OF ANY SANDWICH j j HAMBURGER Coke. ! j PATTY S | j ^ WITH THIS COUPON. OFFER EXPIRES 8-31-88. j Wih'L'MWm