| Description | Working file entitled 'Gravity & bathymetry (3)', relating to the papers: McKenzie, D and A B Watts, B Parsons & M Roufosse, "Planform of mantle convection beneath the Pacific Ocean", 'Nature', vol 288 (1980) pp442-446, and Watts, A B & D McKenzie, Parsons & M Roufosse, "The relationship between gravity and bathymetry in the Pacific Ocean", 'Geophysical Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society', vol 83 (1985), pp263-298.
Comprises: bibliographic information, copies and offprints of academic articles by others on related subjects, 1975-1981; letters from Barry Parsons, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, Arabian Sea, Indian and Pacific Ocean data, status of their proposal for the Venus Orbiting Imaging Radar (VOIR) project, July 1980-May 1981; letters from Anthony 'Tony' Watts, publication of their joint paper, sending Hawaiian gravity and bathymetry profile and other data, [August]-December 1980; manuscript notes, equations and computer generated data sets, with plots and contour charts on bathymetry, gravity and altimetry mainly for the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans, 1980-[1981]. |
| Administrative History | The proposed Venus Orbiting Imaging Radar (VOIR) mission was cancelled in 1982 due to budgetary issues. |