European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 19, 1966, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Depths Rositi Iii Lihs Core left from sea Bottom record Earth history flip top ship upends standing on right As a manned buoy to study the Depths of the they Deal with a relatively Young but the people at califor Nias Scripps institution of oceanography feel there old hands at started As an Independent biological research lab in Scripps has cume to be known As one of the worlds major research and education centers for the Marine its work Points up a new Era in the exploration of the superabundant resources of the the lows lung buildings of the Center Overlook the Balmy Pacific at one of the most picturesque spots along the Cali fornia coast at la just North of it would be hard to imagine a better setting the smells and sights of the Ocean Are a constant reminder that the space within is hardly bet Ter known than outer the investigation of biological phenom Ena at the Institute has been supplemented by chem ical and geological land bound research is being bolstered by floating one of the institutions Veteran the 213foot is now on a eight month cruise to the North the Argo is part of Scripps Fleet of eight with assignments ranging from limited objective trips to far reaching expeditions to gather a variety of data on relatively unexplored within the past four two Scripps vessels circumnavigated the Globe in opposite another cruise to the Indian Ocean was made in these expeditions on top of the Multi faceted research activities in la Jolla generally accumulate a Rich Larch 1966 by Peter staff writer crop of information and Sci timer some spectacular typical of the latter is the that the earths surface is in awesome Scripps Victor Vacquier and two of his colleagues proved that the giant plates of the Earth crust under the Northeast Pacific have slipped past each other by As much As 700 they found this great which suggests that Continental drifts can easily occur by making maps of the earths magnetic Field under a Large area of the the magnetic Topography on part of the Ocean floor consists of a series of narrow parallel zones of alternating High and Low magnetic along the two sides of the fracture the ridges and troughs do not but they can be made to match almost exactly if the map is Cut along the fracture zones and one Side of it is Slid along by a distance equal to several Hundred Cripps institution named after the family of publishing Fame from which it has received much financial became an integral part of the univer sity of California in the present Dean and director is William former professor of physics at the Berkeley aside from the Central la Jolla a Scripps has been provided with additional lab space by the Navy electronics Laboratory and it also keeps its Small Fleet in the shelter of san Diego As a planetary oceanography scope is so Broad that it is taught Only in a graduate program at the the current Batch of 104 graduate students is trained by chem geologists and Mathe who arc applying their special skills to new their specialities also Are represented among the Crew of the now engaged in expedition Zutes which will not return Home until zetas was one of the twin sons of the god of the North wind in greek Mythol supported by the office of naval re search and by Grants of the National science the expeditions work Load will be tremendous mapping of seismic profiles and stud ies of the heat flows along the floor probing biochemical activities of bacteria at great Depths observing the formation of water masses on the Ocean surface and studying zooplankton and and the depth to which cold Arctic water sinks in also will observe the strength and frequency of Winter storms in the Northwest the greatest wave Heights that will be encountered and the amount of icing that can be expected on a ship operating in the West Ern Bering sea and off the Kurile is no scientific expedition has been there in the Winter and Winter data is not from to Geo physical investigations will take followed by research on microorganisms at Grent Depths in Tokyo Waters and in the Depths of the Jap anese on the Way the Ano will Stop off in tie Honolulu area to in tests in preparation for a Moholen drilling in the so called hawaiian the stars and stripes Page 13