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Dibblee was known for "roughing it" during his field mapping trips, for which he dropped out of sight for a week or two at a time. Some of colleagues report that during these trips, he would sleep in his car and take little more than a couple of loaves of bread and a jar of peanut butter. When he
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as a volunteer. Although he was "retired," he mapped the geology of more than 3,000 square miles (7,800 km) in the national forest.
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theory, there was no known mechanism that could cause such large-scale movements.
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