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      <image:caption>Myself collecting Plioene sea shells south of San Diego, California, in 1961.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>“Uncle” George Kanakoff, my mentor and father figure, collecting Pliocene shells south of San Diego, California, 1961</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>The J.W. Nickle drilling tender and its three-legged jack-up platform in Cook Inlet, Alaska. 1967. The mudshack where I worked is the white building with a window partly showing on the platform.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>On the widowmaker between the drilling tender J.W. Nickle and the platform. Fining privacy meant climbing to the top of the 142-foot derrick behind me. 1967</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Lou, on right, with Gene Inman’s drill crew on J.W. Nickle. 1967.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Lou pulling himself up by the neck on a dare. Descending was the hard part. 1967</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Enjoying the moment on an oil rig in Alaska while working as a mudlogger, 1967</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>A Godforsaken offshore oil platform in wintertime Alaska, 1968</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Killing time in the mudshack with my banjo. 1967</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Collecting mollusks from a leg of the G.L. Temple offshore platform</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>The photo I sent as a Christmas card to my boss in 1969 from Dahomey.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>At the shaker screen where I collected cuttings samples</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>With Duster in front of a carved door in Cotonou, Dahomey, 1969</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Texaco camp at Driftwood on the Utukok River, western North Slope, Alaska, 1974</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Enjoying the Alaskan tundra with an eagle feather in my hat, 1974</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>1974 Texaco field team in Alaska. Left to right: Jim “Moley” Molnar, Mike Simmons, Lou “Dr. Clam” Marincovich, Alex “Little Leader” Feucht, and Don “Oltzie” Oltz, behind the nightly shit-burning barrel</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Photo Gallery - Self-portrait in a helicopter near Cold Bay, Alaska, 1977.</image:title>
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      <image:caption>Left to right: Don Oltz, pilot Hank, and Lou ten minutes before we went down in the Hughes 500 helicopter from 300 feet up. Our fuel dump is in the background. 1974</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Driftwood, tents lighted during a storm, 1974</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>The failed right-side engine on our twin-engine plane, just before we went down. Northern Alaska, 1974.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Photo Gallery - A slab of sandstone with 10-million-year-old shells; tired at the end of a long day at Cape Tachilni, by Cold Bay, Alaska, 1977.</image:title>
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      <image:title>Photo Gallery - Caribou migration in 1988 at 3AM; note tent top on right.</image:title>
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      <image:title>Photo Gallery - Collecting shells in beds 28 million years old, near Barter Island, northern Alaska.</image:title>
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      <image:title>Photo Gallery - With Anton Oleinik (R) at ruined paleo-Eskimo dwelling, Canada, 2001.</image:title>
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      <image:title>Photo Gallery - Resupply plane arrives at our tent camp on Tugidak Island, Alaska.</image:title>
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      <image:title>Photo Gallery - Musk oxen on Ellesmere Island, northern Canada, 2001.</image:title>
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      <image:title>Photo Gallery - Musk oxen in defensive formation on Ellesmere Island, Canada, 2001.</image:title>
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      <image:title>Photo Gallery - Lou in Dehavill and Beaver bush plane on way to Tugidak Island from Kodiak Island, Alaska.</image:title>
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      <image:title>Photo Gallery - 60,000,000-year-old shells, Ocean Point, Alaska. From an early poster presentation at a geological meeting.</image:title>
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      <image:title>Photo Gallery - Riding over horrible mud-lump tussocks, Ellesmere Island, 2001.</image:title>
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      <image:title>Photo Gallery - Paleocene clams being excavated, Ellesmere Island, Canada, 1984.</image:title>
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      <image:title>Photo Gallery - Signaling a helicopter in 1975, before we had walkie-talkies in the field, Lituya Bay, Alaska.</image:title>
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      <image:title>Photo Gallery - Excavating Ice Age beds at Skull Cliff near Barrow, Alaska, 1983.</image:title>
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      <image:title>Photo Gallery - Twin Otter bush planes just landed on rough ground, Ellesmere Island, Canada, 2001.</image:title>
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      <image:caption>The only exit from this overloaded Alaskan bush plane was a small window. 1974</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Left to right: Alex Feucht, Lou Marincovich, Don Oltz and Jim Molnar resting on a North Slope ridge, 1974.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>My first USGS field day, in front of La Perouse glacier near Lituya Bay,Alaska. 1975.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Research Vessel Don J. Miller II in Lituya Bay, Alaska, 1975</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>We made daily landing and takeoffs at our tiny ship’s helipad next to our helicopter’s fuel barrels. Lituya Bay, 1975.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Looking upstream along the Colville River at Ocean Point. The immediate foreground is the place where I had an out-of-body experience, 1977</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Layer of 60-million-year-old shells at Ocean Point, Alaska. Sheath knife handle for scale.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Showing off by hanging over a 1,000’ dropoff during a windstorm at Sandy Ridge, 1978. At the time I didn’t know that the williwaw wind could suddenly stop.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Heading into the field through an Anchorage tourist shop, 1998.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Enjoying a hillside of lupines, Kodiak Island, 1978</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Self-portrait in a 1982 during a 120-mile-an-hour hurricane near Bear Lake, with pack and shotgun case close at hand.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Being dropped off alone on a narrow ridge with my backpack and Remington shotgun near Bear Lake.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>A wolf followed me one day, as I discovered when I backtracked</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Clambering around the steep Sandy Ridge stratigraphic section, 1999</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>In a museum collection holding the specimen of the clam Astarte that was the key to unlocking Bering Strait’s age, 1997.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Standing with Sasha (left) in front of the Sandy Ridge stratigraphic section, 1998</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>An adult grizzly that ran in front of our landing chopper near Sandy Ridge</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Lou and Sasha with outcrop fossils: With white mollusk specimens I just collected lying on a rocky shelf at Sandy Ridge, where we documented the earliest opening of Bering Strait, 1998.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Visiting a walrus colony at Cape Seniavin near Bear Lake, 1998</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Watching a grizzly bear approach out tent camp at Ocean Point in northern Alaska, while holding a 12-gauge shotgun and wearing a .44 Magnum revolver in a shoulder holster.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Float plane landing on the Colville River at Ocean Point, northern Alaska.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Tent camp at Ocean Point, northern Alaska, 1978.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>My last tent camp in the Arctic, at Carter Creek in 2005. The supply tent is fifty yards from the sleeping tents in case a grizzly comes by when we were asleep.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>150,000 caribou migrating by our Carter Creek camp, northern Alaska, at 3 a.m. in 1988. The top of our white supply tent is visible at right</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Ellesmere Island, Canada, at about 80 degrees North, pointing to the exact spot on the aerial photo where I am currently standing on the shore of Strathcona Fiord. Photo by Anton Oleinik.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Basking in the Midnight Sun in a photo taken—to the second—at midnight, Strathcona Fiord, Ellesmere Island, Canada, 1984.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Here I’m confronting the alpha male wolf that boldly came into our camp at Strathcona Fiord, Ellesmere Island, Canada.1984.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Gluing together a particularly important mollusk specimen while trying to stay warm on a windy, below-freezing day, Meighen Island, Arctic Canada, 1990</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Loading DeHavilland Twin Otter bush plane after a month on Ellesmere Island, northern Canada, 1984.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Striking a pose in the Valuvayam River, Siberia, 2003</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>It was worrisome to fly 150 miles in this shabby looking Russian helicopter, seen at Korf, Kamchatka, Siberia, 2003</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Tent camp by Valuvayam River, Kamchatka, Siberia, 2003</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Staying safe on Kodiak Island, Alaska, 2003. I’m on the right.</image:caption>
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