Supplies on beach during the MidPac Expedition (1950), this joint Scripps Institution of Oceanography-U.S. Navy expedition discovered the Mid-Pacific Mountain Range on the bottom of the Pacific Ocean and confirmed Darwin's theory about the origin of atolls. Expedition scientists on the R/V Horizon (ship) and the navy ship PCE(R) 857 were surprised to find that the seafloor was young, deep and rocky, not flat, old and filled with sediments. 1950.

• 1950

• Morita, Richard Y.

This digital image is a surrogate of an item from the Richard Yukio Morita Slides, 1950-1952

• MidPac Expedition (1950)

• Horizon (Ship)

• Beaches
• Islands
• Oceanography--Field work (land)

• image

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