Oral history interview with Marcus G. Langseth, 1995 December 13, 21, and 1996 June 3, December 19.

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Oral history interview with Marcus G. Langseth, 1995 December 13, 21, and 1996 June 3, December 19.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/77584641

Discusses his youth and education; graduate study at Lamont; his first cruises on the research vessels Vema; being drafted into the army during graduate school and doing ballistic research at Aberdeen Proving Ground; his first year-long cruise aboard the Vema after his military service; the instruments used for research in heat flow and sea-floor spreading; his dissertation on heat flow in the Indian Ocean;*Prominently mentioned are Sir Edward Bullard, Charles Drake, Maurice Ewing, Bruce Heezen, Henry Kohler, Xavier Le Pichon, Jack Nafe, Jack Oliver, Frank Press, Manik Talwani, J. Lamar Worzel.

Transcript (4 sessions), 188 pp.

American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library

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