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The itinerary of the R/V HORIZON during LUSIAD is scheduled as 

 follows: 



Program 



Conduct underway reflection profiling 

 of Red and Arabian Seas. 



In company R/V ARGO; two- ship 

 seismic refraction work under 

 Drs. George G. Shor, R. W. Raitt, 

 and R. L. Fisher, Bottom- sampling, 

 hydrographic casts, heat-flow 

 measurements . 



Besides serving as consort to the r/V ARGO between Cochin and Port 

 Darwin, the HORIZON will carry out hydrographic studies between Suez 

 and Cochin and from Port Darwin she will return to San Diego via the 

 Pacific. Figure 1 shows the tract of MONSOON and Figure 2 that of 

 LUSIAD. 



The third planned Scripps cruise will be carried out by the R/V 

 SPENCER F. BAIRD between February and May 1964 under W. R. Riedel. 

 Emphasis will be on detailed stratigraphic, geochemical, and heat flow 

 development in the central and eastern Indian Ocean where earlier cruises 

 have indicated areas of especial interest. Continuous undeirway magneto- 

 meter recordings will also be made. 



LAMONT GEOLOGICAL OBSERVATORY 



Three cruises of the r/v VEMA have been planned as part of the 



IIOE. 



VEMA 16 Itinerary 



Figures 3 and k 



Left Cape Town 

 Arrive Mauritius 

 Left Mauritius 

 Arrive Fremantle 

 Left Fremantle 

 Arrive Adelaide 

 Left Adelaide 

 Arrive Wellington 



Under the direction of C. Fray, as Chief Scientist, VEMA made the 

 passage from Cape Town to Mauritius and from Mauritius to Fremantle. 

 More than 83OO miles of topographic track was recorded with a precision 

 depth recorder in the southern Indian Ocean. The existence of a 



