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    corporation. Glomar Challenger was given its name as a tribute to the accomplishments of the oceanographic survey vessel HMS Challenger. Glomar is a truncation...
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  • Transocean. Glomar Challenger, the drillship used for the Deep Sea Drilling Project Glomar Explorer, a large salvage vessel built by the CIA Glomar response...
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  • Glomar Challenger Basin (77°45′S 180°0′E / 77.750°S 180.000°E / -77.750; 180.000) is a northeast trending undersea basin in the central Ross Sea continental...
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    GSF Explorer, formerly USNS Hughes Glomar Explorer (T-AG-193), was a deep-sea drillship platform built for Project Azorian, the secret 1974 effort by the...
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    oceanographic and marine geological survey ship Glomar Challenger, and the Space Shuttle Challenger. Aitken, Frédéric; Foulc, Jean-Numa (2019). From...
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  • research ship Glomar Challenger, the Apollo 17 lunar module and the Space Shuttle Challenger were named after this ship. The sixth HMS Challenger (1902) was...
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  • Look up challenger in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Challenger, Challengers, The Challenger, or, The Challengers, may refer to: Challenger (character)...
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  • The Glomar Challenger, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, Hardback. 197pp. English. 1982, The Mediterranean Was a Desert: A Voyage of The Glomar Challenger...
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    during Leg 13 of the Deep Sea Drilling Program conducted from the Glomar Challenger under the supervision of co-chief scientists William B.F. Ryan and...
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    operations. The Levingston Shipbuilding Company laid the keel of the Glomar Challenger on October 18, 1967, in Orange, Texas. It sailed down the Sabine River...
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  • Glomar Challenger in drilling and coring operations in the Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian Oceans, as well as in the Mediterranean and Red Seas. Glomar...
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    062 m (33,012 feet). The previous record was held by the U.S. vessel Glomar Challenger, which in 1978 drilled to 7,049.5 m (23,128 feet) below sea level...
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  • Hsü, Kenneth J. The Mediterranean Was a Desert: A Voyage of the Glomar Challenger. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1983. Koslow, Tony....
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    spreading hypothesis and helped to prove the theory of plate tectonics. Glomar Challenger conducted the drilling operations. DSDP was the first of three international...
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    Drilling Project. Construction of new dedicated scientific drill ship Glomar Challenger began in 1967, becoming operational in August 1968. The oil industry...
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    Kenneth J. Hsü (1987). The Mediterranean Was a Desert: A Voyage of the Glomar Challenger. Princeton University Press. ISBN 978-0-691-02406-6. DeMets, Gordon...
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    Government Printing Office. Deep Sea Drilling Project: Leg 10 of the Glomar Challenger GULF OF MEXICO SEAFLOOR 23°52′N 91°35′W / 23.867°N 91.583°W / 23...
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  • 062 m (33,011 ft). The previous record was held by the U.S. vessel Glomar Challenger, which in 1978 drilled to 7,049.5 meters (23,130 feet) below sea level...
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    throughout the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program. She is the successor of Glomar Challenger. The ship was first launched in 1978 as Sedco/BP 471, an oil exploration...
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    Volume XII (covering Leg 12 of the cruises of the Drilling Vessel Glomar Challenger). Vol. 12. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office. p. 915...
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    and the French diving saucer CYANA, assisted by support ships and Glomar Challenger, explored the great rift valley of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, southwest...
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  • ships destroyed by U-boats. He was the chief scientist on board the Glomar Challenger. He originated Project Mogul, an early program to detect Soviet nuclear...
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  • When the World Screamed (category Professor Challenger short stories)
    novelette, "Born of the Sun," and the irony in naming of the later Glomar Challenger which drew deep-sea core samples from the Earth's crust. "Feedbooks"...
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    during seafloor spreading. In 1968, the oceanographic research vessel Glomar Challenger was launched and embarked on a 15-year-long program, the Deep Sea...
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    in 1997 and means spreading stopped by end of the Chron 34n. The Glomar Challenger had surveyed part of the area by 1987 but the global magnetism data...
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    in 2018. The Deep Sea Drilling Project began operations as the D/V Glomar Challenger began its first core-drilling operation under the planning of the...
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    Europe: CV". www.ae-info.org. Retrieved 2 April 2023. "Aboard the D/V Glomar Challenger (ship) is Bilal Haq (left) of Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution...
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    proposal was again blocked by Russia. Oceans portal Beaufort Island Glomar Challenger Basin Hallett Ridge Iceberg B-15 Mawson Bank McMurdo Station Pennell...
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    The area was drilled from February 22 to March 1, 1975 by the ship Glomar Challenger before DSDP 368 was drilled. Its location was at 12°29.2'N and, 20°02...
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    from the Pacific Ocean floor in 1974 using the purpose-built ship Hughes Glomar Explorer. The 1968 sinking of K-129 occurred about 1,560 miles (2,510 km)...
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