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Ballard, Robert 1942-

BALLARD, ROBERT 1942-

Geologist, ocean Explorer, Engineer

Gal á pagos Hydrothermal Expedition

In 1977 Robert Ballard and the team of geologists and chemists of the Gal á pagos Hydrothermal Expedition were taking pictures of the ocean bottom off the coast of South America when they found something completely unexpected. Well below the reach of sunlight at the mouth of a volcanolike structure, an area certain to be too hot and too remote to support life they found a thriving community of crabs, eels, and tube worms. The excursion had set out to learn more about geological activity in the deep sea, evidence that might prove that the earth's crust is composed of ...

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