Fred B. Phleger Papers, 1939-1986 (SMC 26)

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Restrictions: Original film formats are restricted. Viewing copies may be available for researchers.

Extent: 8.5 Linear feet (16 archives boxes, 1 record carton, 4 shoeboxes, 1 map case folder, 1 oversize folder, and 1 oversize film), + .45 GB of digital files

Digital Content

Two of the films are only available in digital video format. At the time of this finding aid (2022), none of the 16mm films have been reformatted.

Papers of Fred B. Phleger (1909-1993), an oceanographer at Scripps Institution of Oceanography who was known for his research in the ecology and paleoecology of marine foraminifera, and who helped establish the field of paleoceanography. The collection includes correspondence, writings, research notes and data, slides, photographs, and films.

Fred B. Phleger (1909-1993) was a professor emeritus at Scripps Institution of Oceanography (University of California, San Diego), where he was a pioneer in the ecology and paleoecology of foraminiferan protists.

Two excellent short biographies of Phleger are available online:

Deborah Day, Fred B. Phleger biographical essay, 1998.

Wolfgang H. Berger, Memorial to Fred B. Phleger. Geological Society of America, 1994 June.

Papers of Fred B. Phleger (1909-1993), an oceanographer at Scripps Institution of Oceanography who was known for his research in the ecology and paleoecology of marine foraminifera, and who helped establish the field of paleoceanography. The collection includes correspondence, writings, research notes and data, slides, photographs, and films.

The image documentation is particularly focused on Baja California coastline, lagoon, and marsh ecology, including aerial footage. Many of the photographs and films taken in Baja date from 1956 through the early 1960s. There are a few black and white photo albums showing the coastal areas where Phleger took his samples and observations, and many color slides.

Arranged in six series: 1) BIOGRAPHICAL, 2) CORRESPONDENCE, 3) RESEARCH, 4) WRITINGS, 5) PHOTOGRAPHS, and 6) FILMS.

Container List

BIOGRAPHICAL

Scope and Content of Series

Series 1) BIOGRAPHICAL: Biographical information about Fred B. Phleger, particularly regarding his employment at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego. Includes correspondence, lists of publications, and a proposal to name an undersea bank in the Gulf of Mexico after him.

Box 1 Folder 1
Biographical information, 1950-1981
Box 1 Folder 2
Fred B. Phleger - Remarks by Joseph R. Curray on Phleger's retirement, 1977
Box 1 Folder 3
Undersea feature name proposal for "Phleger Bank", 1972
Box 1 Folder 4
Publications list, 1950-1972
Box 1 Folder 5
UC San Diego - Appointments and committees, 1949-1975

CORRESPONDENCE

Scope and Content of Series

Series 2) CORRESPONDENCE. Arranged in two subseries: A) Alphabetical, and B) U.S.-Mexico Cooperation.

A) Alphabetical: Phleger's correspondence with geologists, oceanographers, paleontologists, oil corporations, government agencies, and research organizations. Arranged alphabetically by surname or organization name. Prominent correspondents include Hans Pettersson of the Swedish Deep-Sea Expedition, Frances L. Parker, Henry Stetson, Ruth Todd, and William R. Walton.

B) U.S.-Mexico Cooperation: Correspondence in English and Spanish regarding cooperative scientific research and instruction between Scripps Institution of Oceanography and Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. Correspondents include Agustín Ayala-Castañares, Ricardo Monges López, and Guillermo P. Salas. Phleger was the coordinator of research undertaken by SIO and the government and universities of Mexico.

Alphabetical

Box 1 Folder 6
A - Miscellaneous
Box 1 Folder 7
Adegoke, O. S., 1975-1977
Box 1 Folder 8
Akpati, Benjamin, 1978-1980
Box 1 Folder 9
Albritton, Claude C., 1953
Box 1 Folder 10
American Association of Petroleum Geologists (J. P. D. Hull), 1953-1955
Box 1 Folder 11
American Geophysical Union (Waldo E. Smith), 1948-1954
Box 1 Folder 12
Arnold, Zach M., 1951-1954
Box 1 Folder 13
Arrhenius, Gustaf, 1948-1962
Box 1 Folder 14
Ashley, R. E. (Jarrell-Ash Company), 1948
Box 1 Folder 15
B - Miscellaneous
Box 1 Folder 16
Bandy, Orville L., 1951
Box 1 Folder 17
Bartlett, Grant A., 1966-1977
Box 1 Folder 18
Baughman, Jack L., 1952
Box 1 Folder 19
Bé, Allan W. H., 1954-1981
Box 1 Folder 20
Beeftink, William G., 1965
Box 1 Folder 21
Benson, Richard H., 1954-1962
Box 1 Folder 22
Benthonics Coordinating Committee, 1975-1977
Box 1 Folder 23
Berger, Wolfgang, 1968
Box 1 Folder 24
Berggren, W. A., 1965
Box 1 Folder 25
Bernard, Hugh A., 1950-1963
Box 1 Folder 26
Boltovskoy, Esteban, 1954-1978
Box 1 Folder 27
Bradshaw, John S. (Jack), 1958-1964
Box 1 Folder 28
Brodie, J. W., 1959
Box 1 Folder 29
Brönnimann, Paul, 1948-1955
Box 1 Folder 30
Brown, Roger C. (Summit Film Productions), 1961-1965
Box 1 Folder 31
C - Miscellaneous
Box 1 Folder 32
Carter, A. N., 1962-1964
Box 1 Folder 33
Cepak, Pavel, 1961-1963
Box 1 Folder 34
Chen, T. T., 1954
Box 11 Folder 6
Closs, Darcy, 1964-1965
Box 1 Folder 35
Coast and Geodetic Survey, 1960
Box 1 Folder 36
Committee on Institute of Marine Resources, 1951
Box 1 Folder 37
Community theater, 1950-1951
Box 1 Folder 38
Cox, Ben B., 1950-1954
Box 1 Folder 39
D - Miscellaneous
Box 1 Folder 40
Dapples, E. C., 1954
Box 1 Folder 41
Dickey, Parke A. (Carter Oil Company), 1949-1955
Box 1 Folder 42
Dorsey, George E. (Socony-Vacuum Oil Company), 1952
Box 1 Folder 43
Durham, J. Wyatt, 1951-1953
Box 1 Folder 44
E - Miscellaneous
Box 1 Folder 45
Eckart, Carl, 1949
Box 1 Folder 46
Eicher, Don L., 1964-1965
Box 1 Folder 47
Elliott, John, 1949-1951
Box 1 Folder 48
Ellis, Brooks F., 1949-1954
Box 1 Folder 49
Ellison, Robert L., 1975-1977
Box 1 Folder 50
Ellison, Samuel P., Jr., 1955
Box 1 Folder 51
Emery, K. O. (Kenneth Orris), 1949-1965
Box 1 Folder 52
Emery, Murl, 1959-1962
Box 1 Folder 53
Emiliani, Cesare, 1951-1960
Box 1 Folder 54
Enbysk, Betty Joyce, 1955-1957
Box 1 Folder 55
Ericson, David B., 1949-1957
Box 1 Folder 56
Ewing, Gifford C., 1955-1958
Box 2 Folder 1
F - Miscellaneous
Box 2 Folder 2
Funnell, Brian M., 1960-1968
Box 2 Folder 3
G - Miscellaneous
Box 2 Folder 4
Gardner, Erle Stanley, 1960
Box 2 Folder 5
Geological Society of America, 1948-1959
Box 2 Folder 6
Ginsburg, Robert N., 1966-1967
Box 11 Folder 7
Golik, Abraham, 1968-1978
Box 2 Folder 7
Grell, Karl G., 1954
Box 2 Folder 8
Gripenberg, Stina, 1947-1948
Box 2 Folder 9
Gunter, Gordon, 1951
Box 2 Folder 10
H - Miscellaneous
Box 2 Folder 11
Henbest, Lloyd G., 1949-1954
Box 2 Folder 12
Hendrix, Charles C. N. (Monk), 1951-1954
Box 2 Folder 13
Hidaka, Koji, 1962
Box 2 Folder 14
Hill, M. N. (Maurice Neville), 1960
Box 2 Folder 15
Holmes, Robert, 1951-1952
Box 2 Folder 16
Hooper, Kenneth, 1983
Box 2 Folder 17
Hupé, P., 1951-1952
Box 2 Folder 18
I - Miscellaneous
Box 2 Folder 19
Imbrie, John, 1961-1963
Box 2 Folder 20
Iselin, Columbus, 1947-1955
Box 2 Folder 21
J - Miscellaneous
Box 2 Folder 22
Jenkins, D. Graham, 1965
Box 2 Folder 23
Johnson, Martin W., 1952
Box 2 Folder 24
K - Miscellaneous
Box 2 Folder 25
Kanaya, Taro, 1962-1965
Box 2 Folder 26
Kennett, J. P., 1964
Box 2 Folder 27
Kugler, Hans G., 1953-1965
Box 2 Folder 28
Kullenberg, Börje, 1949
Box 2 Folder 29
L - Miscellaneous
Box 2 Folder 30
Ladd, Harry S. (U.S. Geological Survey), 1949
Box 2 Folder 31
Lankford, Robert, 1954-1977
Box 2 Folder 32
Lill, Gordon G., 1949-1954
Box 2 Folder 33
Loeblich, Alfred R., 1950-1962
Box 2 Folder 34
Loeblich, Helen Tappan, 1965
Box 2 Folder 35
Logan, Brian, 1958-1967
Box 2 Folder 36
Longwell, Chester R., 1948
Box 2 Folder 37
Lowman, Shepard W., 1946-1949
Box 2 Folder 38
M - Miscellaneous
Box 2 Folder 39
MacClintock, Paul, 1948
Box 2 Folder 40
Malkin, Doris S. (Curtis, Doris Malkin), 1951-1952
Box 2 Folder 41
Matoba, Yasumochi, 1979-1980
Box 2 Folder 42
McKenzie, K. G., 1963-1965
Box 2 Folder 43
Metcalf, William Gerrish (Gerry), 1947-1949
Box 2 Folder 44
Mosby, Håkon, 1950-1951
Box 2 Folder 45
Movius, Hallam L., 1948-1949
Box 2 Folder 46
Munk, Walter H., 1951
Box 2 Folder 47
N - Miscellaneous
Box 2 Folder 48
Natland, Manley L., 1948-1962
Box 2 Folder 49
Newell, Norman D., 1948
Box 2 Folder 50
O - Miscellaneous
Box 11 Folder 8
Ovey, C. D. (Cameron Darrell), 1949-1955
Box 2 Folder 51
P - Miscellaneous
Box 2 Folder 52
Parker, Frances L., 1948-1964
Box 2 Folder 53
Pergamon Press (J. G. Mason), 1954
Box 3 Folder 1-2
Pettersson, Hans, 1946-1955

Correspondence documents Swedish Deep-Sea Expedition.

Box 3 Folder 3
Quigley, C. M., Jr. (Standard Oil Company of Texas), 1951
Box 3 Folder 4
R - Miscellaneous
Box 3 Folder 5
Rabban, Robert, 1963
Box 3 Folder 6
Ray, Louis L., 1948-1949
Box 3 Folder 7
Redfield, Alfred C., 1947-1965
Box 3 Folder 8
Reid, Cecil (Texas Game and Fish Commission), 1953
Box 3 Folder 9
Revelle, Roger and Ellen, 1948-1960
Box 3 Folder 10
Riedel, William, 1950-1986
Box 3 Folder 11
Riley, Gordon A., 1951
Box 3 Folder 12
Rolshausen, F. W. (Humble Oil and Refining Company), 1948-1953
Box 3 Folder 13
Rothwell, Thomas (Richfield Oil Corporation), 1948-1954
Box 3 Folder 14
Russell, R. Dana, 1948-1949
Box 3 Folder 15
Russell, Richard J., 1960
Box 3 Folder 16
Ryder, Frank C., 1948-1949
Box 3 Folder 17
S - Miscellaneous
Box 3 Folder 18
Said, Rushdi, 1950-1951
Box 3 Folder 19
Sanderson, George A., 1954
Box 3 Folder 20
Schott, W., 1952-1957
Box 3 Folder 21
Schroeder, William C., 1948-1949
Box 3 Folder 22
Scientific Committee on Oceanographic Research (SCOR), 1975-1976
Box 3 Folder 23
Scripps Institution of Oceanography, 1951-1962
Box 3 Folder 24
Scruton, Philip C., 1952-1961
Box 3 Folder 25
Sears, Mary, 1946
Box 3 Folder 26
Shanaman, Fred C., 1965
Box 3 Folder 27
Sheets, M. M., 1949
Box 3 Folder 28
Shepard, Francis P., 1949-1952
Box 3 Folder 29
Smith, Sally J., 1951
Box 3 Folder 30
Smithsonian Institution, 1951-1984
Box 3 Folder 31
Society of Economic Paleontologists and Mineralogists (SEPM), 1950-1951
Box 3 Folder 32
Stefanon, Antonio, 1966-1967
Box 3 Folder 33
Stetson, Henry, 1948-1954
Box 3 Folder 34
Stewart, Harris B., Jr., 1962-1984
Box 3 Folder 35
Strock, Lester W., 1948-1949
Box 3 Folder 36
Swain, Frederick M., 1952-1964
Box 3 Folder 37
T - Miscellaneous
Box 3 Folder 38
Takayanagi, Yokichi, 1952-1955
Box 3 Folder 39
Taylor, William Randolph, 1948
Box 3 Folder 40
Thalman, Hans E., 1949-1954
Box 3 Folder 41
Todd, Ruth (Cushman Foundation for Foraminiferal Research), 1949-1984
Box 3 Folder 42
Trask, Parke D., 1948-1954
Box 3 Folder 43
Troelsen, J. C., 1954
Box 3 Folder 44
U - Miscellaneous
Box 3 Folder 45
Uchio, Takayasu, 1953-1963
Box 4 Folder 1
UC San Diego Land and Water Reserves Committee, 1968

Contains correspondence, meeting minutes, draft proposals and diagrams regarding the Kendall-Frost Mission Bay Marsh Reserve.

Box 4 Folder 2
Urey, Harold C., 1947-1949
Box 4 Folder 3
U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), 1946-1962
Box 4 Folder 4
U.S. Navy, 1948-1960
Box 4 Folder 5
V-W Miscellaneous
Box 4 Folder 6
Walton, William R., 1949-1983
Box 4 Folder 7
Wang, Chao-Siang, 1962-1963

Includes description and diagrams of the Phleger bottom sampler.

Box 4 Folder 8
Waters, J. A. (Ohio Oil Company), 1952
Box 4 Folder 9
Weibull, Waloddi, 1947-1952
Box 4 Folder 10
Whitmore, Frank, 1949
Box 4 Folder 11
Woodring, W. P., 1953

Includes photographs of fossils.

Box 4 Folder 12
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, 1948-1949
Box 4 Folder 13
ZoBell, Claude, 1953

U.S.-Mexico Cooperation

Box 4 Folder 14
Adem, Julián, 1958-1959
Box 4 Folder 15
Ayala-Castañares, Agustín, 1958-1984
Box 4 Folder 16
d'Anglejan, Bruno, 1961-1966
Box 4 Folder 17
Guerrero Soto, Vicente, 1957-1959
Box 4 Folder 18
Kuhn, Gilbert J., 1958
Box 4 Folder 19
Llamas, Roberto, 1958-1959
Box 4 Folder 20
López Lira, Gilberto, 1961
Box 4 Folder 21
Maldonado Koerdell, Manuel, 1958
Box 4 Folder 22
Monges López, Ricardo, 1958-1959
Box 4 Folder 23
Salas, Guillermo P., 1958-1964
Box 4 Folder 24
Yáñez Correa, Amado and Alejandro Yáñez Arancibia, 1959-1983
Box 4 Folder 25
U.S.-Mexico correspondence - Miscellaneous

RESEARCH

Scope and Content of Series

Series 3) RESEARCH. Arranged in two subseries: A) Proposals, and B) Data.

A) Proposals: Research proposals to the Office of Naval Research, the National Science Foundation, the American Petroleum Institute and other organizations regarding research on foraminifera and sedimentology, particularly in the Gulf of Mexico and the Gulf of California.

B) Data: Research notes and data kept by Fred Phleger, Frances Parker, and other members of the Marine Foraminifera Laboratory at Scripps Institution of Oceanography. Records include marine foraminifera populations and seawater, sediments, and weather data for Laguna Guerrero Negro, Scammon's Lagoon, and many locations around the world.

Proposals

Box 4 Folder 26
Proposed studies of recent marine environments in the Gulf Coast region, 1947
Box 4 Folder 27-32
Foraminifera studies - Office of Naval Research, 1947-1953
Box 5 Folder 1
Sedimentology and oceanography of Scammon's Lagoon - Geological Research Society of America, 1956-1957
Box 5 Folder 2
Foraminifera and sedimentology of lagoons and the nearshore marine turbulent zone of Southern California and Western Mexico - National Science Foundation, 1957-1960
Box 5 Folder 3
Geomorphology of Mexican lagoons - Office of Naval Research, 1958-1962
Box 5 Folder 4
Arctic research proposal - Office of Naval Research, 1959-1961
Box 5 Folder 5
Field work in Baja California coastal lagoons - American Petroleum Institute, 1960
Box 5 Folder 6
Stabilization of the brine supply from Scammon salt basin - National Bulk Carriers, 1960
Box 5 Folder 7
Recent sediments of the Gulf of California - American Petroleum Institute Project 51, 1961-1962
Box 5 Folder 8
Oceanography and sedimentology of coastal lagoons on the east coast of Mexico - National Science Foundation and Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, 1960-1962
Box 5 Folder 9-11
Laguna Guerrero Negro ship channel - National Bulk Carriers (NBC), 1960-1964
Box 5 Folder 12
Modern sedimentary processes and foraminiferal paleontology - California Research Corporation, 1962
Box 5 Folder 13
Ecology and sedimentary patterns of foraminifera - National Science Foundation, 1962-1963
Box 5 Folder 14
Ecology of marsh foraminifera - Petroleum Research Fund, 1962-1971
Box 5 Folder 15
Advanced, detailed and specific oceanographic and sedimentologic studies in the Laguna de Términos, Campeche and other coastal Lagoons of east coast of Mexico - National Science Foundation and Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, 1963
Box 5 Folder 16
Ecology and distribution patterns of foraminifera - National Science Foundation, 1965-1966
Box 5 Folder 17-18
Planktonic foraminifera, marine processes and marine history - National Science Foundation, 1967-1972

Data

Box 6 Folder 1
Abraham Gowlik - Notes and data
Box 6 Folder 2
Cedros Island
Box 6 Folder 3
Coorong Lagoon and Point Gawler, Australia, 1967
Box 6 Folder 4
Copper River delta, Alaska
Box 6 Folder 5
Dune migration, 1965-1966
Box 6 Folder 6
English Coast, Bradwell Marsh
Box 6 Folder 7-8
Foraminifera - Ranges
Box 6 Folder 9
Gulf of California station counts
Box 6 Folder 10
Gulf of Panama plankton data, 1964-1972
Box 6 Folder 11
Jekyll Island, 1964 April
Box 6 Folder 12
Lab unit II, Geology Section - Floor plan and offices, 1958
Box 6 Folder 13
Labrador - Phleger cores from Blue Dolphin cruise, 1949
Box 6 Folder 14-17
Laguna de Términos, Campeche - Salinity, temperature, turbidity, and photographs of sediments, 1964-1967

Includes photographs.

Box 6 Folder 18-19
Laguna Guerrero Negro - Wind data, 1956-1963
Box 7 Folder 1-5
Laguna Guerrero Negro - Current stations, and tide records, 1956-1963
Box 7 Folder 6
Monsoon Expedition plankton data - Laboratory notebook kept by Frances Parker, Jack Bradshaw and Taro Kanaya, 1960-1961
Box 7 Folder 7
New Zealand notes, 1968
Box 7 Folder 8-15
Northwest Gulf of Mexico - Climate data, foraminifera stations, sediment analysis, salinity and weather for Huizache-Caimanero and Yavaros lagoons, 1968-1970
Box 7 Folder 16
Nova Scotia, 1967-1968
Box 7 Folder 17
Persian Gulf, 1949
Box 7 Folder 18
Pollensa, Mallorca - Marsh, 1965
Box 7 Folder 19
Rio Ajo, Argentina, 1968
Box 7 Folder 20
Santo Domingo Lagoon - Tide records, 1957
Box 8 Folder 1-11
Scammon's Lagoon (aka "SC" or Ojo de Liebre) - BT cards, station charts, salinity, cores, C14 dates, foraminifera, molluscs, and sediments, 1955-1965
Box 8 Folder 12
Scolt Head, England, 1965
Box 8 Folder 13
South Africa, 1972
Box 8 Folder 14
Tomales Bay and Walker Creek marsh, 1965
Box 8 Folder 15-26
Topolobampo Bay - Wave refractions, current data, sediment composition, weather data, live foraminifera populations, field notes, and correspondence, 1960-1966
Box 8 Folder 27-28
Vizcaino Bay - Temperature, salinity and weather data, 1953-1959
Box 11 Folder 9-17
Miscellaneous data (legal-sized)

Gulf Coast marsh foraminifera; Laguna Guerrero Negro - Additional data; Little Bay, Rockport, Texas; Mud Lake, Louisiana; Northwest Gulf of Mexico - Reports and data; Port Bay area, Copano Bay, Texas; Sabine Pass area, Texas; St. Lucia Lagoon, South Africa - Correspondence and data.

Oversize Annex MC-006-10
Maps of research areas, showing sample sites

WRITINGS

Scope and Content of Series

Series 4): WRITINGS. Arranged in two subseries: A) Notes and Writings, and B) Talks and Lectures.

A) Notes and Writings: The subseries begins with a few folders of Phleger's notes and bibliographies on marine foraminifera and notes on the Marine Foraminifera Laboratory at Scripps Institution of Oceanography. His writings include drafts, correspondence, and graphics for articles and reports on marine foraminifera and sedimentology written by Phleger and other members of the Marine Foraminifera Laboratory. Includes progress reports for the Marine Foraminifera Laboratory, and correspondence and reviews for Phleger's 1960 book Ecology and Distribution of Recent Foraminifera. Writings are arranged chronologically.

B) Talks and Lectures: Drafts, notes, correspondence and ephemera for talks and lectures on marine sediments and foraminiferal ecology given by Phleger. Includes lecture notes for Phleger's classes on sediment-organism interactions.

Notes and Writings

Notes

Box 9 Folder 1-2
Bibliographic notes

Includes lagoons and estuaries.

Box 9 Folder 3
Notes - Berger, Bradshaw, and foraminiferal ecology, 1964-1965
Box 9 Folder 4
Organization and support of Marine Foraminifera Laboratory
Box 9 Folder 5
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) Institute of Biology - Meeting notes, 1969 October

Writings

Box 9 Folder 6
Foraminifera of a submarine core from the Caribbean Sea, 1948
Box 9 Folder 7
Foraminifera: Clues to Ocean History, 1949
Box 9 Folder 8
Suggested Research in Foraminifera in Pacific Border Region, ca. 1949
Box 9 Folder 9
Marine Foraminifera Laboratory progress reports, 1949-1968
Box 9 Folder 10
Submarine Geology Report No. 16, 1951
Box 9 Folder 11-14
Ecology of Foraminifera in Cores Collected for Biochemical Analyses, 1953
Box 9 Folder 15
Foraminifera Distribution in Sediment Samples Along Traverse A-A' off Horn Island, 1953
Box 9 Folder 16
Davies, James W., Scripps Institution of Oceanography. Distribution of Recent Benthonic Foraminifera in Eastern Mission Bay, 1954

Includes photographs of Mission Bay wetlands.

Box 9 Folder 17
Some General Characteristics of Foraminiferal Populations: Preliminary Report No. 1, 1955 April 1
Box 9 Folder 18-19
Ecology and Distribution of Recent Foraminifera (1960), 1955-1963
Box 9 Folder 20
Phleger, Fred B. and Gifford C. Ewing. Sedimentology and Oceanography of Coastal Lagoons in Baja California, 1960
Box 9 Folder 21
Coastal Phosphate Deposits in Baja California, 1961
Box 11 Folder 18
Laguna Guerrero Negro ship channel reports, 1961-1963
Box 10 Folder 1
Scammons Lagoon reports, 1962-1964

Includes negatives of data.

Box 10 Folder 2
Phleger, Fred, Frances Parker, and John Bradshaw. Reports on foraminifera to the Office of Naval Research, 1963-1965
Box 10 Folder 3
Cobarrubias, J. W. The Photomicrography of Foraminifera, 1964 May
Box 10 Folder 4
d'Anglejan, Bruno. Estudios in las barreras de Topolobampo, Sinaloa. Informe sobre el progreso del trabajo; observaciones de campo, 1964 November 2-10
Box 10 Folder 5
Instructions for sampling marine marshes for foraminifera, 1967
Box 10 Folder 6
Undergraduate curriculum in earth sciences - Committee report, 1968
Box 10 Folder 7
Columna litológica atravesada - Yañez core information, Laguna de Términos, 1969
Box 10 Folder 8
Foraminifera and Ecological Processes in St. Lucia Lagoon, Zululand, 1973-1975
Box 10 Folder 9
Phleger, Fred B. and Agustín Ayala Castañares. The Study and Interpretation of Coastal Lagoons, 1974
Box 10 Folder 10
Phleger, Fred B. and Agustín Ayala Castañares. Coastal Lagoons Bordering the Gulf of California, 1980
Box 10 Folder 11
The Bailer drilling rig designed by Frans J. Emmel
Box 10 Folder 12
Foraminifera and Paleoceanography
Box 10 Folder 13
Foraminifera of Three Submarine Cores from the Tyrrhenian Sea
Box 10 Folder 14
Phleger, Fred B. and John S. Bradshaw. Quantitative Measures of Sedimentary Environments in Marine Marshes
Box 10 Folder 15
Imbrie, John and Fred B. Phleger. Vector Analysis of Benthic Foraminifera From the San Diego, California, Area

Talks and Lectures

Box 10 Folder 16
American Association of Petroleum Geologists lectures, 1949-1953
Box 10 Folder 17
Bakersfield College - Paleontology seminars, 1954-1960
Box 10 Folder 18
Sedimentary Patterns of Recent Foraminifera. International Oceanographic Congress, 1959
Box 10 Folder 19
Tohoku University conference, 1962
Box 10 Folder 20
Lectures in Mexico - Ephemera, 1962-1969
Box 10 Folder 21
Ecological Patterns of Potential Marine Stratigraphic Traps. Society of Economic Paleontologists and Mineralogists (SEPM), San Francisco, 1962 March 26-29
Box 10 Folder 22
Status of Foraminiferal Ecology for Application to Oceanography and Sedimentology. Geology seminar, 1963 January 2
Box 10 Folder 23
Modern Marine Sedimentary Environments, and the Ecology of Foraminifera. Short course in new exploration concepts, University of Tulsa, 1963 June 10-21
Oversize FB-009 Folder 5
Segundo Congreso Nacional de Oceanografía, Universidad Autónoma de Baja California - Certificate, 1965 March 15-18
Box 10 Folder 24
Oceanography of Coastal Lagoons: Laguna Guerrero Negro, Mexico. Colston Research Society 17th symposium, University of Bristol, 1965 April 7
Box 10 Folder 25
Sedimentology of marine marshes. Moscow, 1966
Box 10 Folder 26
Some General Features of Coastal Lagoons. Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, 1967 November
Box 10 Folder 27
South American lectures, 1968
Box 10 Folder 28
The Ocean 1968: A New World. Scripps Institution of Oceanography - Ephemera, 1968 February 1-2

Symposium was organized by Phleger.

Box 10 Folder 29
Recognition of Coastal Lagoons in Ancient Marine Sediments. Geological Society of America 21st annual meeting, Bozeman, 1968 May 9-11
Box 10 Folder 30
SIO 249. Sediment-Organism Interaction, 1970 fall
Box 11 Folder 1
Ecology and Distribution of Continental Margin Benthonic Foraminifera. Benthonics '75, Dalhousie University, Halifax, 1975 August 25-28
Box 11 Folder 2
A Review of Some General Features of Coastal Lagoons. UNESCO, 1978
Box 11 Folder 3
Phleger, Fred B. and Agustín Ayala Castañares. The Gulf of California Area. Gulf of California Symposium, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, 1979
Box 11 Folder 4
Geology Club talk
Box 11 Folder 5
Oceanographic Research and Non-renewable Resources of the Sea

PHOTOGRAPHS

Scope and Content of Series

Series 5) PHOTOGRAPHS. Arranged in five subseries by format: A) Color Slides - Plastic, B) Color Slides - Acetate, C) B&W Slides - Glass, D) Prints, and E) Negatives.

Many of the formats contain similar or overlapping documentation, particularly of Baja California coastal research sites in the 1950s and 1960s. Many of the color slides include aerial footage taken from Gifford Ewing's plane. In addition to a small number of portraits and photograph albums showing Phleger at work in Baja California and aboard ships, the Prints subseries contains specimen images of foraminifera. The foraminifera photographs are from Phleger's materials collected from the Marine Foraminifera Lab in Ritter Hall.

Color Slides - Plastic

Box 12 Folder 1
Cabo San Lucas, 1958-1959
Box 12 Folder 2
Cuyutlán, 1958
Box 12 Folder 3
East coast/Cape region, 1959
Box 12 Folder 4
Escuinapa, 1958
Box 12 Folder 5
Espiritu Santo Island, La Paz, 1959
Box 12 Folder 6
Guerrero Negro, undated
Box 12 Folder 7
Guerrero Negro - Black Warrior dunes, 1956
Box 12 Folder 8
La Cruz Lagoon, 1958
Box 12 Folder 9
Manzanillo, 1958
Box 12 Folder 10
Mazatlán, 1958
Box 12 Folder 11
Río Balsas, Guerrero, 1956
Box 12 Folder 12
San Ignacio, 1959
Box 12 Folder 13
Santa María, 1958
Box 12 Folder 14
Santo Domingo, 1956-1958
Box 12 Folder 15
Scammon's Lagoon, 1956
Box 12 Folder 16
Teacopan, 1958
Box 13 Folder 1
Topolabampo, 1958
Box 13 Folder 2
Yaqui River, 1958
Box 13 Folder 3
Miscellaneous - Named places, 1956, 1958
Box 13 Folder 4
Miscellaneous - Unidentified places, 1956, 1958

Color Slides - Acetate

Box 14 Folder 1
Aerial view of coastal Mexico, including Laguna Mitla area, 1956

May be complementary/duplicative of some images in the Plastic Slides.

Box 14 Folder 2
Guerrero Negro, 1956

May be complementary/duplicative of some images in the Plastic Slides.

Box 14 Folder 3
Mexico, Mulaga and Scammon's Lagoon salt works, 1956-1961

May be complementary/duplicative of some images in the Plastic Slides.

Box 14 Folder 4
Mexico - General Acapulco, aerial views, 1958

May be complementary/duplicative of some images in the Plastic Slides.

Box 14 Folder 5
Acapulco - Ground views, 1958 January

May be complementary/duplicative of some images in the Plastic Slides.

Box 14 Folder 6
Aerial views of unidentified coast (likely Baja), 1960 February
Box 14 Folder 7
Marshes research, 1961-1964
Box 14 Folder 8
Gemini satellite images, 1961-1966
Box 14 Folder 9
Scammon's Lagoon, 1962 February
Box 14 Folder 10
Lagoon Terminos, 1963 June
Box 14 Folder 11
Mexico trip to Carmen, 1963 June
Box 14 Folder 12
Topolobampo, 1965
Box 14 Folder 13
Rio Balsas, Huatenejo, 1966
Box 14 Folder 14
Northwest Mexico lagoons, 1969
Box 14 Folder 15
Laguna Alvarado and St. Lucia, South Africa, 1972

B&W Slides - Glass

Box 13 Folder 5
Black and white slides - Unidentified landscape, ca. 1930-1960
Box 13 Folder 6
Gulf of California, Mexico - Lecture slides, undated
Box 13 Folder 7
Swedish Deep-Sea Expedition and Albatross lantern slides, undated

These images are tentatively identified as documenting the Swedish Deep-Sea Expedition (1947-1949). Additional versions of these images may be found in the Negatives and Prints subseries. Images depict scientific activities and instruments aboard ship.

Prints

Box 15 Folder 1
Portraits, undated

Includes images of Phleger and other colleagues.

Box 15 Folder 2
B&W album - Taking samples, undated
Box 15 Folder 3-6
B&W albums, 1939-1960

Assorted images of Phleger's research sites and colleagues, Baja (esp. Scammon's Lagoon), aerial views, and the Swedish Deep-Sea Expedition aboard the Albatross.

Box 15 Folder 7-8
B&W album - Baja California research sites, ca. 1950-1959
Box 16 Folder 1-5
Foraminifera specimen cards, undated

In alphabetical order by scientific name.

Box 16 Folder 6
Specimen plates, undated
Box 17 Folder 1
Foraminifera, undated
Box 17 Folder 2
Guerrero Negro marsh bugs, undated
Box 17 Folder 3
Microscope slide images, Walton group B-N, undated
Box 17 Folder 4
Microscope slide images, Walton group O-R, undated
Box 17 Folder 5
Miscellaneous specimens, undated
Box 17 Folder 6-7
Gulf of California, undated

Negatives

Box 18 Folder 1
Albatross trip, ca. 1947-1949

These images are tentatively identified as documenting the Swedish Deep-Sea Expedition (1947-1949). Additional versions of these images may be found in the B&W Slides - Glass, and Prints subseries. Images depict scientific activities and instruments aboard ship.

Box 18 Folder 2
Phleger bottom sampler and Hvorslev-Stetson coring tube on deck of Atlantis, undated
Box 18 Folder 3
Gulf of Mexico, 1947
Box 18 Folder 4
Scammon's Lagoon, 1957 February

Additional images of Scammon's Lagoon are available in other formats.

Box 18 Folder 5
Scammon "berms", 1962 February

Some of these images may be available as slides.

Box 18 Folder 6
Guerrero Negro marsh, 1963 May
Box 18 Folder 7
Walton - Todos Santos negatives of Forams, undated
Box 18 Folder 8
San Diego specimens, undated
Box 18 Folder 9
Sampling gear - Phleger, undated
Box 18 Folder 10
San Quintin and Campeche, 1963 June
Box 18 Folder 11
Gulf of California, 1962 May
Box 18 Folder 12
Mohole Project, 1962 May
Box 18 Folder 13-14
Unidentified locations, 1961-1962, and undated

Many of these images complement photographs in the slides series.

FILMS

Scope and Content of Series

Series 6) FILMS: The collection includes nearly 60 films, all silent, and mostly in color. The films were taken by Phleger and Gifford Ewing on their many trips together to Baja California, traveling in Ewing's small plane. They include footage of Guaymas, Merida, Manzanillo, La Paz, Santo Domingo, Acapulco, Mazatlán, Puerto Vallarta, and other cities. The films include aerial footage of the Baja coastline, dessert, sand dunes, plateaus and other terrain. Footage includes Marjorie Temple Phleger and Alice Ewing along with their spouses, camping and conducting experiments.

Arranged in three subseries: A) Indexed Reels, B) Unnumbered Reels, C) Digital-Only Films.

A) Indexed Reels: Fourteen films, numbered 1-22, with gaps. These films were indexed and described by Phleger, and a transcribed copy of the notes is included with this subseries. The 1987 accession record documents that Reel 14 was found to be a copy of Reel 15 (so it was not retained), and Reel 22 is an original positive copy of Reel 21.

B) Unnumbered Reels: Additional short 16mm films not included on the "indexed" list, but with simple descriptions transcribed from the original boxes. Most footage is of Baja, California research trips.

C) Digital-Only Films: Two films that exist only as digital surrogates.

Indexed Reels - 16mm

Box 19 Folder 1
Reel 2. Phleger, Ewing and wives - Aerial views of Guaymas and airport

Shows town, streets, people, hotel and airport.

Box 19 Folder 2
Reel 3. Tapachula, Tehuantepac, and Mérida

Shows village market place, people shopping, aerial views of countryside. Also hotels, two-lane highway, village costumes and village dance (fiesta).

Box 19 Folder 3
Reel 4. Miscellaneous Scammon's

Ewing and Phleger conduct experiments on boat T-441.

Box 19 Folder 4
Reel 5. Mexico west coast (Mexcaltitán-Manzanillo to Oaxaca)

Aerial views of ocean, terrain, an island, and town people.

Box 19 Folder 5
Reel 8. Palmilla, Hann Rach, Santa María

Shows the Ewings/Phlegers visiting the village/town.

Box 19 Folder 6
Reel 10. Carmen, Joe Curray, 1959

Small village with a port, hotel, and a few modern structures. Experiments on small boat in water.

Box 19 Folder 7
Reel 13. University of Mexico, Taxco, and Custero Hotel in Acapulco, 1958 January

Shows city with snow covered peaks in background, hotel, beach, and vacationers.

Box 19 Folder 8
Reel 15. Marismas nacional to Mazatlán

Scenes of heavily populated island, aerial shots of coastline and terrain.

Box 19 Folder 9
Reel 16. Acapulco Lagoon trip, Pierre Marquez, 1958 January

Scenes of lagoon from boat, wildlife, and villagers.

Box 19 Folder 10
Reel 17. Coastal lagoons, Pacific coast Mexico, Mazatlán, Puerto Vallarta

Scenes of coastline, beach, market place and aerial shots of local terrain.

Box 19 Folder 11
Reel 18. Mexico, Yucatán-Guadalajara, 1957 January

Scenes of villagers, terrain, visit to (Aztec) pyramids and other ruins.

Box 19 Folder 12
Reel 19. Manzanillo area and Cuyutlán, Phlegers and Ewings, coastline at night

Nighttime aerial scenes of coastline, local terrain, vegetation, and children.

Box 19 Folder 13
Reel 20. Oceanography from an airplane

Phleger and Ewing; experiments on the boat Barracuda.

Oversize FS-188
Reel 22. Guerrero Negro Laguna

Note in can attributes photography to Roger Brown.

Box 19 Folder 14
Index/descriptions for film reels 1-22

Unnumbered Reels - 16mm

Box 20 Folder 1
Aerial shots, whales, Stacey, John Imbrie, Scammon's
Box 20 Folder 2
Scammon's Lagoon, 1956 July 18-20
Box 20 Folder 3
Scammon's Lagoon, Guerrero Negro salt flats, 1956 July 20
Box 20 Folder 4
Guerrero Negro from the air, Scammon's cloud shot, 1959 November
Box 20 Folder 5
LA Bay turtles and Mulegé, 1961
Box 20 Folder 6
Mulegé, 1961 February
Box 20 Folder 7
Manzanillo hurricane damage
Box 20 Folder 8
Miscellaneous Baja, Loreto
Box 20 Folder 9
Salas Torres, Hermosillo
Box 20 Folder 10
Sea lane, 1962
Box 20 Folder 11
South and north of Mazatlán, low flying
Box 20 Folder 12
Acapulco, 1958
Box 20 Folder 13
Gulf of Mexico - Coring, 1954
Box 20 Folder 14
Gulf of Mexico - Dolphins, 1954
Box 20 Folder 15
Gulf of Mexico - Fish, 1955
Box 20 Folder 16
Gulf of Mexico, 1954
Box 20 Folder 17
Baja - Salt flats, Donald Douglas, 1956 March
Box 20 Folder 18
Stewart Jewel Islands near Louisiana Bay, 1956 December 6
Box 20 Folder 19
Puerto Vallarta lagoon, 1957 January
Box 20 Folder 20
Douglas helicopter, 1957 March 22
Box 20 Folder 21
South Carolina from air, 1957 August
Box 20 Folder 22
Rachiometer being used at plane, 1957 Fall
Box 20 Folder 23
Black Warrior Lagoon, salt flats, pelican, 1957 September 4
Box 20 Folder 24
SC (Scammon's? South Carolina?) miscellaneous, 1957 September 6
Box 21 Folder 1
Landing - Salt flats, 1957 September 6
Box 21 Folder 2
Louisiana Bay to South Carolina, 1957 September 6
Box 21 Folder 3
West coast lagoons, 1957 October 28
Box 21 Folder 4
Manzanillo - Jungle near airport, 1958
Box 21 Folder 5
Yellow tide, 1958
Box 21 Folder 6
Eva Cox landing on Santa María Bay, 1959 February 26
Box 21 Folder 7
LA Bay and midden, 1959 November
Box 21 Folder 8
La Paz airport, landing Santa María beach, 1959 November
Box 21 Folder 9
Middens, Santa María Bay, La Paz airport, Muñoz plane, 1959 November
Box 21 Folder 10
Iguana - Taxco, changing tire at salt flats, 1960
Box 21 Folder 11
Mexico City, pyramids, university, 1960
Box 21 Folder 12
Horse in poppies at beach, 1960 spring
Box 21 Folder 13
Rick and Denice in Baja, 1960 Christmas
Box 21 Folder 14
Scammon's beach, plane, dunes, and marsh, 1961
Box 21 Folder 15
Scammon's beach house, Japanese ship in Guerrero Negro, small boat, 1961 April
Box 21 Folder 16
Dredge, Japanese ship, Guerrero Negro, 1961 May
Box 21 Folder 17
Guerrero Negro, tug, whales, Scammon's beach camp, 1961 April

Digital-only Films

Digital file 1
Baja California coastal lagoon seen from seaplane, whales, beach camp, and oceanographic equipment, ca. 1957

Location may be Scammon's Lagoon or Santo Domingo Lagoon. Human subjects may include Gifford Ewing, Earl Murry, or John Imbrie. 12 minutes, 17 seconds; color, silent.

Digital file 2
Oceanographers at Baja California coastal lagoon, ca. 1957

Fred Phleger with oceanographic equipment. Locations may include Scammon's Lagoon or Laguna Guerrero Negro. 1 minute, 53 seconds; color, silent.