Bruce P. Luyendyk
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Bruce Peter Luyendyk is an American geophysicist and oceanographer, currently professor emeritus of marine geophysics at the University of California, Santa Barbara. His work spans marine geology of t
Luyendyk during his visit to New Zealand.
RISE project
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The RISE Project was a 1979 international marine research project which mapped and investigated seafloor spreading in the Pacific Ocean, at the crest of the East Pacific Rise at 21° north latitude. Us
Bruce P. Luyendyk
…floor, supporting models of sea floor spreading. In the late 1970s, Luyendyk joined Spiess and Macdonald and an international contingent in forming the RISE project (Rivera Submersible Experiments) to explore the East Pacific Rise at 21° N latitude with the WHOI submersible ALVIN. Here the team discovered deep-sea…
Black smokers were first discovered on the East Pacific Rise at 21° north latitude.
Riftia tube worm colony at warm vent at Galapagos Rift