Monsoon Expedition

• 1960

Located in Series 1) EXPEDITIONS.

This digital file is a surrogate of an item from the SIO Archive Film Collection (Box 2, Folder 6).

1 film reel (16 min.) ; silent, color ; 16mm

Film by geophysicist John C. Harrison. Includes images of R/V Argo in Honolulu, scientists and instruments (gravity corer, Edgerton bottom camera, piston corer, and early model LaCoste and Romberg marine gravity meter), Howland Island and Nanumea Island, a seismic shot, a heat flow apparatus being lowered and recovered, and the Over the Line ceremony. Featured scientists include: John Christopher Harrison, Richard Von Herzen, Alan Jones, Russell Raitt, George G. Shor, and others.

• Monsoon Expedition (1960-1961)

• video

• No linguistic content; Not applicable

Online finding aid

• SIO Archives Film Collection

• UC Regents

[Title, Date]. SIO Archive Film Collection. SMC 42. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.

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2021-11-29