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Oceanographer Bruce Heezen dies at sea during research cruise
Memorial service planned at Lamont-Doherty Observatory for Bruce C. Heezen, famed Muscatine born oceanographer who mapped the ocean floor. Heezen died at age 53 off Iceland aboard NR-1 after a heart attack during a new expedition. He led key work on abyssal plains and sea floor spreading with Maurice Ewing and Marie Tharp, published over 400 papers and several books. Heezen's career included long tenure at Lamont-Doherty and pivotal discoveries about tectonic plates and ancient volcanic ash layers in the Mediterranean. He is survived by his mother Esther H. Dauch of Pittsburgh.
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Bruce C. Heezen
Muscatine
Columbia University
Lamont-Doherty Geological Observatory
Palisades
N.Y
Heezen
Iceland
George M. Wittich
Greenwood Cemetery
Reykjanes Ridge
Maurice Ewing
Ewing
Lamont-Doherty
Piermont Avenue
Piermont
Marie Tharp
Costa Rica
Pacific Ocean
Equator
Aleutian Islands
Atlantic Ocean
Dominican Republic
Columbia
Vera
Grand Banks
Newfoundland
Dr. Heezen
Mediterranean
Thera
Crete
Aegean Islands
American Geophysical Union
Walter H. Bucher
Henry Bryant Biglow
Cullum Geographic
Francis Shepherd
American Association For the Advancement of Science
American Geographical Society
Geological Society of America