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Melvin N.A. Peterson, right, manager of Deep Sea Drilling Project, describes deep-sea sediment cores to scientists from Russia visiting on campus. From left: A.P. Metalnikov, executive secretary, USSR Oceanographic Committee; A.G. Kolesnikov, director, Marine Hydrographic Institute, USSR Academy of Sciences; and L.M. Brekhovskikh, leader of seven-member Soviet Scientific Exchange delegation to the United States. He is also secretary of the Department of Oceanology, Physics of the Atmosphere, and Geography of Soviet Academy. December 6, 1972

Melvin N.A. Peterson, right, manager of Deep Sea Drilling Project, describes deep-sea sediment cores to scientists from Ru...