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David Perlman articles
Amazing Voyage Probing Underwater Mysteries 
March 7, 1977
San Francisco Chronicle

Astounding Undersea Discoveries 
March 9, 1977
San Francisco Chronicle

Exploring the Ocean’s Young Volcanoes 
March 12, 1977
San Francisco Chronicle

Sea Research—Ceaseless But Exciting 
March 18, 1977
San Francisco Chronicle

Deep Questions From the Sea 
March 25, 1977
San Francisco Chronicle

Other Articles

Report of the Decade: The International Decade of Ocean Exploration 
National Science Foundation

Clustering of Suspension-Feeding Macrobenthos Near Abyssal Hydrothermal Vents at the Oceanic Spreading Centers 
By Peter Lonsdale
Deep-Sea Research, 1977, Vol. 24, No. 9

Hydrothermal Plumes in the Galápagos Rift 
By R.F. Weiss, P. Lonsdale, J.E. Lupton, A.E. Bainbridge, H. Craig
Nature, Vol. 267, No. 5612, June 16, 1977

Submarine Thermal Springs on the Galápagos Rift 
By Jack B. Corliss, Jack Dymond, Louis I Gordon, John M. Edmond, David Williams, Arnold Bainbridge, Kathy Crane, Tjeerd H. van Andel
Science, Vol. 203, No. 4385, March 16, 1979

The Galápagos Rift at 86°W: Volcanism, Structure, and Evolution of the Rift Valley 
By Tjeerd H. van Andel and Robert D. Ballard
Journal of Geophysical Research, Vol. 84, No. 810
September 10, 1979


The Giant Tubeworms 
By Meredith L. Jones
Oceanus, Vol. 27, No. 3, Fall 1984

Notes on a Major Oceanographic Find 
By Robert D. Ballard
Oceanus Vol. 20, No. 3, Summer 1977

The Distribution and Community Structure of Megafauna at the Galapágos Rift Hydrothermal Vents 
By Robert R. Hessler and William M. Smithey, Jr.
Hydrothermal Processes at Seafloor Spreading Centers, edited by Peter A. Reno, Kurt Bostrum, Lucien Laubier, and Kenneth L. Smith, Jr. (Plenum Publishing Corporation, 1984)

Galápagos ‘79: Initial Findings of a Deep-Sea Biological Quest 
By J.F Grassle, C.J. Berg, J.J. Childress, J.P. Grassle, R.R. Hessler, H.J. Jannasch, D.M. Karl, R.A. Lutz, T.J. Mickel, D.C. Rhoads, H.L. Sanders, K.L. Smith, G.N. Somero, R.D. Turner, J.H. Tuttle, P.J. Walsh, and A.J. Williams
Oceanus, No. 22, 1979

The Geochemistry of Ridge Crest Hot Springs
By John M. Edmond
Oceanus, Vol. 27, No. 3, Fall 1984

Biologists’ First Look at Vent Communities—Galápagos Rift, 1979 
By J. Frederick Grassle
Oceanus, Vol. 41, No. 2, 1998

Chemosynthetic Production of Biomass: An idea from a recent oceanographic discovery 
By Holger W. Jannasch
Oceanus, Vol. 41, No. 2, 1998