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Data file, Continental Margin Program, Atlantic Coast of the United States: vol. 2 sample collection and analytical data

The purpose of the data file presented below is twofold: the first purpose is to make available in printed form the basic data relating to the samples collected as part of the joint U.S. Geological Survey - Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution program of study of the Atlantic continental margin of the United States; the second purpose is to maintain these data in a form that is easily retrievable
Authors
John C. Hathaway

Interstitial water studies on small core samples, Deep Sea Drilling Project, Leg 6

Sediments from Leg 6 sites, west of the Hawaiian Islands, consisted primarily of various combinations of deep-sea biogenic oozes, volcanic ash, and its breakdown products. Pore fluids from most of the sites were similar in composition to present day ocean water, and in some sties almost identical. However, interstitial fluids from Site 53 (Philippine Sea) showed changes in ionic composition which
Authors
F. T. Manheim, F.L. Sayles

Pacific geomagnetic secular variation

A smooth field over the central Pacific for a million years indicates a nonuniform lower mantle of the earth.
Authors
Richard R. Doell, A. Cox

Two former faces of the moon

Systematic geologic mapping of the lunar near side has resulted in the assignment of relative ages to most visible features. As a derivative of this work, geologic and artistic interpretations have been combined to produce reconstructions of the Moon's appearance at two significant points in its history. The reconstructions, although generalized, show the Moon (1) as it probably appeared about 3.3
Authors
D.E. Wilhelms, D.E. Davis

Geomagnetic polarity epochs: age and duration of the olduvai normal polarity event

New data show that the Olduvai normal geomagnetic polarity event is represented in Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania, by rocks covering a time span of roughly from 0.1 to 0.2 my and is no older than 2.0 my. Hence the long normal polarity event of this age that is seen in deep-sea sediment cores and in magnetic profiles over oceanic ridges should be called the Olduvai event. The lava from which the Gilsàeven
Authors
C. S. Grommé, R. L. Hay