This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!
U S French project to explore rifting in Atlantic by bathyscopes
Aboard the Canberra the Archimede and Alvin will dive the mid Atlantic ridge canyon to study plate tectonics and rifting. The four year FAMOUS project will map lava fields, fracture zones, and pillow lava while sampling volcanic activity and magnetic properties to understand how new sea floor forms and how ancient reversals occurred.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Atlantic
Black Gorge
Bathyscophe Archimede
Mid- Atlantic
New York
London
Casly
Mid- Atlantic Ridge
Java
mid-Atlantic
Eurasia
Iceland
Azores
Woods Hole
Mass
Oceanographic Institution
Rift Valley
Scripps Institution of Oceanography
Ta Jolla
Calif
Woods Hale
Kriorr
Uils
Hayes