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Deep sea drilling project: On the Mississippi Fan

Nature volume 306, pages 736–737 (1983)Cite this article

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  1. The scientific party aboard Glomar Challenger for Leg 96 of the Deep Sea Drilling Project, International Phase of Ocean Drilling, consisted of: Arnold H. Bouma (Gulf Research & Development Co., Houston, Texas; Co-Chief Scientist), James M. Coleman (Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana; Co-Chief Scientist), James Brooks (Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas), William Bryant (Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas), Richard Constans (Chevron USA Inc., New Orleans, Louisiana), Michel Cremer (University de Bordeaux, Talence, France), Laurence I. Droz (Laboratoire de Geodynamique Sous-Marine,Villefranche-Sur-Mer, France), Toshio Ishizuka (University of Tokyo, Tokyo), Mahlon C. Kennicutt (Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas), Barry Kohl (Chevron USA Inc., New Orleans, Louisiana), William R. Normark (US Geological Survey, Menlo Park, California), Suzanne O'Connell (Lamont-Doherty Geological Observatory, Palisades, New York), Mary Parker (Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida), Kevin Pickering (University of London, London), Claudia Schroeder (Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia), Charles E. Stelting (Gulf Research & Development Co., Houston, Texas), Dorrik Stow (Edinburgh University, Edinburgh), William E. Sweet (Mineral Management Service, Metairie, Louisiana), Andreas Wetzel (Geologisches Institut, Tubingen), Jean K. Whelan (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, Massachusetts), Audrey Wright (DSDP, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, California).

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