| Description | Working file relating to the paper: McKenzie, D and A B Watts, B Parsons & M Roufosse, "Planform of mantle convection beneath the Pacific Ocean", 'Nature', vol 288 (1980) pp442-446.
Comprises: Copies of instructions for using computer subroutines/algorithms to generate projections/data, 1968-1973; letters from Barry Parsons, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, on the contents of their joint paper and sending McKenzie computer data, February-July 1980; manuscript notes, equations and computer generated data sets, with plots & charts on bathymetry, gravity and convection, 1980; copies/offprints of academic articles by others on related subjects, 1973-1980; letter from Anthony 'Tony' Watts', Lamont-Doherty Geological Observatory of Columbia University, New York, USA, altimetry and bathymetry correlations in data from Australia and the Pacific, 21 April 1980. |