Author: Edwin L. Hamilton
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One of the objectives of the 1950 expedition to Bikini carried on by the Scripps Institution of Oceanography and the U.S. Navy Electronics Laboratory was to investigate previously located flat-topped seamounts (guyots of Hess, 1946) in an area 600–1100 miles west of Hawaii. Five of these seamounts were surveyed by echo sounder, dredged, and cored, and were found to be peaks on a great submarine range—the Mid-Pacific Mountains—which extends from Necker Island in the Hawaiian Islands to near Wake Island. The flat-topped guyots are submerged to between 700 and 900 fathoms…
Published: 3/10/1956
Pages: 91
Product Category: Memoirs