| Description | Working file entitled 'Indian Ocean 1971 paper', relating to the paper: McKenzie, D & J G Sclater, "The evolution of the Indian Ocean since the late Cretaceous", 'Geophysical Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society', vol 24 (1971), pp 437-528.
Includes:
File 1: Correspondence, notably with John Sclater, concerning the research, research trips, maps and diagrams which illustrate the published paper, October 1969-May 1971; letter from David 'Dai' Davies, American Editor, 'Geophysical Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society', Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, suggesting editorial changes, 20 May 1971; letter from Dennis Flanagan, Editor, 'Scientific American', New York, USA, pleased that McKenzie will be writing a populist article for the magazine, 29 November 1971; copy of letters between Manik Talwani and Ron Girdler and report concerning recommendations by the Indian Ocean Advisory Panel for suitable sites for deep sea drilling for the JOIDES program, May 1971;
File 2: Manuscript notes and equations*; computer data sets; computer generated projections indicating the global locations of current, Jurassic and Cretaceous poles*; magnetic anomaly profiles*; draft and final figures used to illustrate paper*; notes in other hands and secondary published sources on related subjects, notably typescript paper "Computation of Best Fit" by Jim E Everett which has been annotated by Edward 'Teddy' Bullard* [likely to have been used for Everett's PhD thesis 'The Fit of the Continents around the Atlantic' (1965) or the paper Bullard, E and J E Everett & A Gilbert Smith, "The Fit of the Continents around the Atlantic", 'Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series A, Mathematical and Physical Sciences', Vol. 258 (1965), pp 41-51, see also LDGSL/1107/A/7, May 1969];
File 3: Manuscript and typewritten instructions for using computer programmes such as HYPERMAP and FORTRAN, along with two FORTRAN punch cards, 1960s-[1971]*; black and white photograph of Tanya Atwater, [1969-1971]; computer generated magnetic anomaly profiles with manuscript bathymetrical data, [1969-1971]; photocopies of the figures used in the paper Barker, P F, "A reconnaissance survey of Murray Ridge", 'Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A', vol 259 (1966), pp187-197, which have been drawn over and modified for use in the final published paper, [1969-1971];
File 4: Typescript master copy of the final paper with illustrations, in two parts, [1971]. |