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...ship Vema steamed back into New York Harbor last week with new information about the "rivers" that flow on the bottom of the ocean. About 600 miles east of Philadelphia, where the Atlantic is 17,000 ft. deep, the Vema's sensitive sounding apparatus found a steep-walled canyon two or three miles wide and about 180 ft. deep. The scientists followed it for 100 miles and they have reason to believe that it may run for 500 miles across the bottom of the ocean...
This discovery was no surprise to Bruce C. Heezen of Lament Geological Observatory, the Vema's scientific skipper. Two years ago, the Vema found another canyon south of Greenland, which it traced north and south for 1,200 miles on the bottom of the Atlantic. Heezen believes that there must be many such gorges and that they are the channels of mud rivers that formed the level plain on the ocean floor...
...that coursed intermittently down the slopes of the continents and deposited their sediment far out on the bottom of the ocean. Most of the sediment, he thinks, was carried down in remote geological ages. The turbidity currents probably started near land. They cut deep gorges (e.g., the famous Hudson Canyon) in the continental slopes and dumped their silt and sand in deep basins in the irregular ocean bottom. When the nearest basin was full, the mud-river ran across it just as a river would do on dry land, and started to fill the next basin. The canyon just found...
...California sun beating down on Berkeley's Strawberry Canyon was made to order for the visitors from Oklahoma. In town to take on the University of California's Golden Bears for intercollegiate football's nationally televised game-of-the-week, the Sooners warmed up fast. By the end of the first half they had a slim lead (7-6). But their outweighed (by some 15 Ibs. a man) line was out charging its opponents, their slam-bang tackling was setting up California fumbles, their split-second ball-handling was beating the Bear line backers to the punch...
People of the Blue Water, by Flora Gregg Iliff (Harper; $3.75), is the unusual story of how Author Iliff half a century ago taught school to an inaccessible Indian tribe called Havasupai. The Havasupai numbered only 250 and lived in Arizona at the bottom of an eight-mile canyon wall, 70 miles from the nearest town, which was a hot, dusty hamlet that "looked as if it had been blown in on a dry wind and stranded." Author Iliff served as teacher, doctor, judge, superintendent, and, incidentally, weather reporter to the U.S. Government. Her story is full of fascinating detail...