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2nd page of Some Morphological Results of the Cruise of the METEORJanuary to May 1938 by Gunther Dietrich. Published in International Hydrographic Review 1939. This article clearly establishes Gunther Dietrich as the firstto note the median valley
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3nd page of Some Morphological Results of the Cruise of the METEORJanuary to May 1938 by Gunther Dietrich. Published in International Hydrographic Review 1939. This article clearly establishes Gunther Dietrich as the firstto note the median valley
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4th page of Some Morphological Results of the Cruise of the METEORJanuary to May 1938 by Gunther Dietrich. Published in International Hydrographic Review 1939. This article clearly establishes Gunther Dietrich as the firstto note the median valley
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A very small-scale map of the world ocean produced by theInternational Hydrographic Bureau in 1939. Perhaps because of the patterning,this map has a somewhat odd appearance.
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Josephine Bank as contoured by Albert Defant in 1939 from acoustic soundings.
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Section of 1939 North Pacific chart 5486 by Navy Hydrographic Office showinghundreds of seamounts, the true configuration of the Aleutian Trench, and someof the southern seamounts of what became known as the Emperor Seamount Chainextending north from
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Southeast section of 1939 North Pacific chart 5486 by Navy Hydrographic Officeshowing use of name Albatross Plateau for East Pacific Rise leading into Gulf ofCalifornia. It was not until 1960 that H.W. Menard popularized the nameEast Pacific Rise.
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Northeast section of 1939 North Pacific chart 5486 by Navy Hydrographic Officeshowing few of the seamounts surveyed by the C&GS; during the years 1925-1939.See images map00126-map00128.
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C&GS; Chart 5101A, 1939, a prototype chart incorporating bathymetry acquiredwith RAR navigation by the C&GS; out to oceanic depths. This chart was meant for navigation by following bottom contours. No other chart like this was everproduced as WWII
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The famous A.C. Veatch and Paul Smith map of the Mid-Atlantic continental slopewhich attracted great attention from the scientific world as it showed theresults of precision radio acoustic ranging navigation and acoustic sounding.With the exception o
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Harold Murray of the C&GS; published this pioneering study of undersea mountains 1941. Many of the seamounts depicted on this chart were flat-topped seamountslater termed guyots by Harry Hess of Princeton.
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Systematic mapping of the Gulf of Alaska by C&GS; ships going to and fromtheir Alaska nautical charting surveys led to the discoveries shown in imagesmap00126 and map00128.
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Flat-topped seamounts, later termed guyots, as noted by Harold Murray of theC&GS.;
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The discovery survey of Astoria Canyon off the Oregon coast. The lines of dotsare lines of soundings navigated by means of radio-acoustic ranging, the firstprecision navigation system to eliminate the need for visual signals. Thissystem was develop
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Monterey Canyon as published by George Davidson in 1897. This canyon wasthe second canyon ever discovered, Hueneme Canyon being first in 1855 andMonterey Canyon in 1857. In: The Submerged Valleys ofthe Coast of California, Proceedings of California
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Hueneme Canyon as published by George Davidson in 1897. This canyon wasthe first submarine canyon ever discovered and was found as the result of UnitedStates Coast Survey hydrographic surveys in 1855. In: The Submerged Valleys ofthe Coast of Califor
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The Mendocino Escarpment as compiled by Harold Murray of the Coast andGeodetic Survey and reproduced in the Bulletin of the Association ofField Engineers in 1938. This is the first hint at the nature of what laterwere termed fracture zones by H.W. M
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Davidson Seamount, the first undersea feature to be officially termed a seamount by the U.S. Board on Geographic Names. This feature was surveyed by the C&GS; in in 1933 and named in honor of the great Coast Survey West Coast pioneerGeorge Davidson,
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This excerpt from International Aspects of Oceanography, an NSF publication, waswritten by Wayland Vaughn of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in 1937 and describes the contribution of both echo-sounding and the navigation systemtermed Radio-Ac
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Track of the Surveying Brig DOLPHIN from September 1851 to July 1852. Thistrack chart contains depth information, currents, winds, and other observations. It could be fair to say that U.S. Navy deep sea oceanography began with thiscruise ordered by
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