Before and after photos testing lava granules I got after R/V Oden and their crew returned from newly investigated places, which I couldn't find on a map. Commenting about this in an e-mail, science writer Lonny Lipsett wrote this in return: "No, you wouldn't find 85°N on Heezen/Tharpe map. Until the mid-1990s, the only Arctic seafloor data U.S. scientists had was from a handful of ice stations on drifting ice floes. It wasn't until the mid-1990s that U.S. scientists got any seafloor data from the Arctic at all, and even now, we have very little." |