tures greater than 200°C were encountered at a depth of 800 

 meters. The presence of subaerial volcanics at 786 meters below 

 sea level indicates subsidence of the island at a rate of 0.1 

 centimeter per year during the past 69 million years. 



East and Southeast Asia 



This program of research within the International Decade 

 of Ocean Exploration is under the sponsorship of the Com- 

 mittee for Coordinaion of Joint Processing for Mineral Re- 

 sources in Asia Offshore Areas and the Intergovernmental 

 Oceanographic Commission (IOC). Proposals for continued 

 studies include production of a geological and geophysical atlas 

 of water-covered portions of east and southeast Asia and a 

 synthesis of existing data. All available data will be brought 

 together to analyze the plate kinematics and related processes. 

 Compilation and publication of an atlas will be by the Lamont- 

 Dohcrty Geological Observatory in cooperation with investi- 

 gators from Cornell University. Scripps Institution of Ocean- 

 ography (SIO), and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. SIO 

 will compile and contour bathymetric data and provide geo- 

 chemical and petrographic data by augmenting its data collection 

 and preparing maps of sediment properties. Other scientists will 

 cooperate in studies of seismic reflection profiles, magnetism, 

 gravity (free-air and Bouguer anomalies), heat flow data, and 

 deep crustal structure. Field work will be carried out in areas 

 like the Banda Sea. Java Trench, and Phillipine Islands, where 

 the synthesis program indicates additional data are necessary. 



Project FAMOUS Research Papers 



Anonymous, 1974: Rapport de Mission FAMOUS 1974, 

 CNEXO Section des Engins, September 23. 



Bellaiche, G., J. L. Cheminee, J. Francheteau, R. Hekinian. 

 X. Le Pinchon, H. D. Needham, and R. D. Ballard, 1974: 

 Inner floor of the Rift Valley: First submersible study. 

 Nature 250( ): 558-560. 



Bougault, H., and R. Hekinian, 1974: Rift valley in the At- 

 lantic Ocean near 36°50'N; petrology and geochemistry 

 of basaltic rocks. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 24(2) :249-261. 



Brundage, W. L., H. S. Fleming, and N. Cherkis, 1974: Pre- 

 liminary NRL LIBEC/FAMOUS Lineation.s Report. 



Detrick, R., J. D. Mudie, B. P. Luyendyk, and K. C. Mac- 

 donald, 1973: Near-bottom observations of an active 

 transform fault: Mid-Atlantic Ridge at 37°N, Nature 

 246 ( ):59. 



Fowler, C. M. R., and D. H. Mathews. 1974: Seismic refrac- 

 tion experiment on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge in the FA- 

 MOUS area. Nature 249(5459) :752-754. 



Greenewalt, David, and P. T. Taylor. 1974: Deep-tow mag- 

 netic measurement across the axial valley of the Mid- 

 Atlantic Ridge, /. Geophys. Res. 79 ( ): 440 1-4405. 



Heirtzler. J. R.. 1973: Project FAMOUS planning Mid- Atlantic 

 Ridge investigation. Mar. Tech. Sac. J. 7(1): 14-15. 



Heirtzler, J. R., 1974: FAMOUS: A plate tectonics study of 

 the genesis of the Lithosphere. Geology 2(6) :273-378. 



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