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Russians Laud Drilling Project - Dr. Alexander P. Lisitzin, left, a geologist, and Dr. Valeriy A. Krasheninnikov, right, a micropaleontologist - both from the Institute of Oceanology, Academy of Sciences, Moscow, discuss a core sample taken on Leg 6 of the Deep Sea Drilling Project with Dr. Melvin N.A. Peterson, DSDP Chief Scientist. Because of the great depths reached in drilling and coring oiperations, the Soviet scientists said, "a new era has been opened in Marine Geology." Scripps Institution of Oceanography is managing institution for the $12.6 million Project

Russians Laud Drilling Project - Dr. Alexander P. Lisitzin, left, a geologist, and Dr. Valeriy A. Krasheninnikov, right, a...