NATIONAL UNDERSEA RESEARCH PROGRAM Research Report 88-4 



Global Venting, Mid water, and Benthic 



Ecological Processes 



Michael P. De Luca and Ivar Babb 



Editors 



July 1988 



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U.S. DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 



C. William Verity, Secretary 



National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration 



William E. Evans. Undersecretary 



Oceanic and Atmospheric Research 



Joseph O. Fletcher, Assistant Administrator 



Office of Undersea Research 



David B. Duane, Director 



