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QUEENSLND PLATEAU CORE-Deep Sea Drilling Project Leg 21 Cruise Co-Chief Scientists Dr. James E. Andrews, right of the Department of Oceanography, University of Hawaii, and Dr. Robert E. Burns, center of the Joint Oceanographic Research Group, University of Washington (Seattle), join Cruise Operrations Manager Theodore C. (Ted) Bangs, of the Union Oil Commpany, Santa Fe Springs, California, who is on loan to DSDP, to inspect a sedimentary core of deep sea ooze taken at Site 209 on the Queensland Plateau which is located Northeast of Australia. Water depth at the site was 4,593 feet. A portion of the drilling derrick aboard D/V Glomar Challenger is in the background. Scientists and drillers recovered 4,556 feet of core material during leg 21 which was from Suva, Fiji to Darwin, Australia.

QUEENSLND PLATEAU CORE-Deep Sea Drilling Project Leg 21 Cruise Co-Chief Scientists Dr. James E. Andrews, right of the Depa...