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CORRESPONDENCE

Scope and Content of Series

Series 1) CORRESPONDENCE: Contains letters exchanged with oceanographers and geologists including Robert Dietz, Harry Hess, Gordon MacDonald, and H. William Menard. The series includes some photocopies of the originals.
Box 1, Folder 1-19

1933-1995 and undated

 

SUBJECT FILES

Scope and Content of Series

Series 2) SUBJECT FILES: Includes material documenting the MidPac Expedition, as well as the work of the Sea Floor Studies Group of the U.S. Navy Electronics Laboratory in San Diego, California. The series also includes Hamilton's notes of a class on ecology of marine animals taught by R.L. Bolin at Hopkins Marine Station in 1949.
Box 1, Folder 20

Acoustical Society of America 1977-1986

Box 1, Folder 21

American Geophysical Union (AGU) 1956

Box 1, Folder 22

Bonestell, Chesley painting of guyots in Mid Pacific Mountains 1956 and 1983

Box 1, Folder 23

California Academy of Sciences 1961

Box 1, Folder 24

Computation (methods, equations) 1965-1979 and undated

Box 1, Folder 25

Deep Sea Drilling Project sample request 1975

Box 1, Folder 26

Deep submersibles - Public relations miscellaneous 1963-1968, 1976 and undated

Box 1, Folder 27

Geological Society of America (GSA) 1958-1967 and 1984

 

Hamilton, Edwin L.

Box 1, Folder 28

Bibliography undated

Box 1, Folder 29

Biographical information ca. 1940-1971

Box 1, Folder 30

CURL award 1968-1971 and undated

Box 1, Folder 31

Position descriptions 1979-1980

Box 1, Folder 32

Thesis, photographs and negatives undated

Box 1, Folder 33

Memo to Carey Smith regarding information on properties for underwater acoustics 1977

Box 1, Folder 34

Menard, Henry William 1986-1987 and undated

Box 1, Folder 35

MidPac fossil notes 1950-1951 and undated

 

Navy Electronics Laboratory (NEL) / Naval Undersea Research and Dev. Center

Box 1, Folder 36

Miscellaneous 1954, 1957, 1961 and undated

Box 1, Folder 37

Programs and program history 1949-1989

Box 1, Folder 38

Geoacoustic modeling program recommendation 1985 and undated

Box 1, Folder 39

Nekton - Geological Diving Consultants (GDC) 1958, 1965, 1984

Box 1, Folder 40

Pacific Science Congresses 1957, 1961, 1985-1986 and undated

Box 1, Folder 41

Scuba diving, Geological Diving Consultants (GDC) - Includes photos 1952-1957 and undated

Box 1, Folder 42

Shipek, Carl 1969, 1980 and undated

Box 1, Folder 43

Stanford 1946-1948 and undated

Box 1, Folder 44

Statistics 1980-1982 and undated

Box 1, Folder 45

Student notes, Ecology of Marine Animals 60h, Hopkins Marine Station, Dr. R.L. Bolin (professor), by Edwin L. Hamilton 1949 and undated

Box 1, Folder 46

University of Washington 1950-1951

 

NOTEBOOKS

Scope and Content of Series

Series 3) NOTEBOOKS: Hamilton's notebooks include some field observations, but largely consist of notes and data collected in support of Hamilton's scientific papers.
Box 1, Folder 47

Attenuation α's 1975-1987 and undated

Box 1, Folder 48

αp abstracts from papers since 1987 1971-1987 and undated

Box 1, Folder 49

αp II notes, etc. 1971-1980 and undated

Box 2, Folder 1

Elastic, minerals Ks Kr, data 1968-1974 and undated

Box 2, Folder 2

Lee SS Operation, data 1975-1980 and undated

Box 2, Folder 3

Water undated

Box 2, Folder 4

Vp vs. P gradients 1977-1978 and undated

 

PUBLICATIONS

Scope and Content of Series

Series 4) PUBLICATIONS: Includes manuscripts and reprints of publications authored by Hamilton and in collaboration with others.
Box 2, Folder 5

Notes undated

Box 2, Folder 6

Acoustic Properties of Sediments undated

Box 2, Folder 7

Ocean Islands undated

Box 2, Folder 8

Sunken Islands of the MidPacific Mountains 1951

Box 2, Folder 9

Upper cretaceous, tertiary, and recent planktonic foraminifera from MidPacific flat-topped seamounts 1953

Box 2, Folder 10

Underwater mapping by diving geologists 1954

Box 2, Folder 11

Echograms of the MidPacific Expedition 1954

Box 2, Folder 12

Acoustics and other physical properties of shallow water sediments off San Diego 1955

Box 2, Folder 13

Density, porosity, and water content of sea floor surface sediments in the vicinity of San Diego, California 1955

Box 2, Folder 14

Lower eocene phosphatized Globigerina Ooze from Sylvania Guyot - Includes photos 1957, 1959, 1961

Box 2, Folder 15

Acoustic and other physical properties of shallow water sediments off San Diego 1956

Box 2, Folder 16

Low sand velocities in high porosity sediments 1956

Box 2, Folder 17

Planktonic foraminifera from an equatorial Pacific core 1957

Box 2, Folder 18

Research in marine geology at NEL 1957

Box 2, Folder 19

Marine geology of the Southern Hawaiian Ridge 1957

Box 2, Folder 20

The last geographic frontier: the sea floor 1957

Box 2, Folder 21

Thickness and consolidation of deep sea sediments 1959

Box 2, Folder 22

Ocean basin ages and amounts of original sediments 1960

Box 2, Folder 23

Marine geology of the Pacific Basin 1963

Box 2, Folder 24

Paleogeography of the Tropical Pacific 1963

Box 2, Folder 25

Sea floor relief 1963

Box 2, Folder 26

Bulk densities of mineral grains from Mohole samples (Guadalupe Site) 1963

Box 2, Folder 27

Sediment sound velocity measurements made in Situ from Bathyscaph Trieste 1963

Box 2, Folder 28

Data on recent marine sediments undated

Box 2, Folder 29

Sea floor relief 1963

Box 2, Folder 30

Consolidation characteristics and related properties of sediments from experimental Mohole (Guadalupe Site) 1964

Box 2, Folder 31

Sound speed and related physical properties of sediments from experimental Mohole (Guadalupe Site) 1965

Box 2, Folder 32

Kodiak seamount not flat-topped 1966

Box 2, Folder 33

Investigation of deep-sea sediment cores, III consolidation 1967

Box 2, Folder 34

Marine geology of abyssal plains in the Gulf of Alaska 1967

Box 2, Folder 35

Sound velocity and related properties of marine sediments, North Pacific 1970

Box 2, Folder 36

Velocities of compressional and shear waves in marine sediments determined in Situ from a research submersible 1970

Box 2, Folder 37

Sound channels in surficial marine sediments 1970

Box 2, Folder 38

Reflection coefficients and bottom losses at normal incidence computed from Pacific sediment properties 1970

Box 2, Folder 39

Elastic properties of marine sediments 1971

Box 2, Folder 40

Prediction of In-Situ acoustic and elastic properties of marine sediments 1971

Box 2, Folder 41

Compressional-wave attenuation in marine sediments 1972

Box 2, Folder 42

Correlation between Qs of shear waves and rigidity 1972

Box 2, Folder 43

Prediction of deep-sea sediment properties: state-of-the-art 1974

Box 2, Folder 44

Geoacoustic models of the sea floor 1974

Box 2, Folder 45

Sediment velocities from sonobuoys: Bay of Bengal, Bering Sea, Japan Sea, and North Pacific 1974

Box 2, Folder 46

Sound attenuation as a function of depth in the sea floor 1976

Box 2, Folder 47

Variations of density and porosity with depth in deep-sea 1976

Box 2, Folder 48

Shear-wave velocity versus depth in marine sediments 1976

Box 2, Folder 49

Attenuation of shear waves in marine sediments 1976

Box 2, Folder 50

Density, porosity, and grain density of samples from deep sea drilling project site 222 (Leg 23) in the Arabian Sea 1976

Box 2, Folder 51

Physical properties of Calareous Ooze: control by dissolution at depth 1977

Box 2, Folder 52

Sediment velocities from sonobuoys: Bengal Fan, Sunda Trench, Andaman Basin, and Nicobar Fan 1977

Box 2, Folder 53

Sound velocities in Calcareous Oozes and chalks from sonobuoy data: Ontong Java Plateau, Western Equatorial Pacific 1978

Box 2, Folder 54

Sound velocity-density relations in sea-floor sediments and rocks 1978

Box 2, Folder 55

Sound velocity gradients in marine sediments 1979

Box 2, Folder 56

Vp/Vs and Poisson's ratios in marine sediments and rocks 1979

Box 2, Folder 57

Geoacoustic modeling of the sea floor 1980

Box 2, Folder 58

Sound velocity and related properties of marine sediments 1982

Box 2, Folder 59

Acoustic and related properties of Calcareous deep-sea sediments 1982

Box 2, Folder 60

Sound velocity as a function of depth in marine sediments 1985

Box 2, Folder 61

Memorial to Carl Joseph Shipek 1972

Box 2, Folder 62

Abstracts undated

Box 2, Folder 63

Reviews (selected) 1978-1987, 1993

Box 2, Folder 64

Marine Geology book reviews 1982, 1991, 1993

Box 2, Folder 65

Page of book reviews 1987

 

PHOTOGRAPHS AND SLIDES

Scope and Content of Series

Series 5) PHOTOGRAPHS AND SLIDES: Primarily images created or collected for lectures and scientific papers. The series also includes some photographs and slides taken on the MidPac Expedition.
Box 2, Folder 66-67

Photographs and line drawings 1946 - 1966 and undated

Globigerina ooze on top of Sylvania Seamount near Bikini Atoll: ca. 1950
Chain-bag dredge and complete dredge haul: ca. 1950
Chain-bag dredge: ca. 1950
Bathymetric chart between Hawaiian and Marshall Islands: 1950

General

Selected photographs from this folder have been digitized.
Box 2, Folder 68

MidPac samples photographs and negatives ca. 1950

Echinoid, shark tooh, cetacean earbone, and basalt peddle samples from MidPac: 1950 November 7
Rock samples from MidPac total dredge haul at station MP 33C: 1950 November 7
Rock samples from MidPac total dredge haul at station MP 33D: 1950 November 7

General

Selected photographs from this folder have been digitized.
Box 2, Folder 69

MidPac and miscellaneous photographs and negatives ca. 1950 - 1975

MidPac expedition crew: ca. 1950
Crew examining dredge haul on MidPac expedition: ca. 1950
Dredge haul from Sylvania Seamount containing fossil corals: ca. 1950
Edwin Lee Hamilton portrait: 1964 October 27

General

Selected photographs from this folder have been digitized.
Box 2, Folder 70-71

35mm slides, general 1951-1987

Box 2, Folder 72-74

35mm slides, properties I 1962-1987

Box 2, Folder 75

35mm slides, properties, reports II 1980 - 1985