Vice President visits Scripps-A Deep Sea Drilling Project briefing was included on the itinerary of Vice President Spiro T. Agnew during a recent visit to Scripps Instituition of Oceanograpy. Left to right in the foreground inspecting a five-foot section of sedimentary core material recovered from the Pacific Ocean are Dr. Terry Edgar, DSDP Coordinating Staff Geologist, Professor John D. Iosaacs, of Scripps, Vice President Agnew and Dr. William A. Nierenberg, Director of Scripps and Principal Investigator for the Deep Sea Drilling Project. A tungsten carbide insert roller core bit used to drilling in the deep sea floor is shown at the left. The West Coast Repository for all cores recovered from the Pacific Ocean is at Scripps

• 1969-12-15

• Deep Sea Drilling Project

This digital image is a surrogate of an item from the SIO Deep Sea Drilling Project Records, 1961-1987

• Deep Sea Drilling Project

• Agnew, Spiro T.
• Edgar, Norman Terence, 1933-
• Isaacs, John D. (John Dove)
• Nierenberg, William A. (William Aaron), 1919-2000

• Drill cores

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