Robert S. Dietz Papers
Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego
Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego
Copyright 2018
9500 Gilman Drive
La Jolla 92093-0175
spcoll@ucsd.edu
Descriptive Summary
Languages:
English
Contributing Institution:
Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego
9500 Gilman Drive
La Jolla 92093-0175
Title: Robert S. Dietz Papers
Identifier/Call Number: SMC 0028
Physical Description:
9.2 Linear feet
(22 archives boxes, 2 card file boxes, and 2 oversize folders)
Date (inclusive): 1936-1995
Abstract: Papers of geologist Robert S. Dietz (1914-1995), including correspondence, writings, and files relating to Jacques Piccard's
submersible ocean research vessel, the bathyscaph Trieste.
Scope and Content of Collection
Papers of geologist Robert S. Dietz (1914-1995), including biographical materials, correspondence, writings, and files relating
to Jacques Piccard's submersible ocean research vessel, the bathyscaph Trieste. The collection contains two fairly small series
containing Dietz's letters and a limited selection of his research files on various topics, including meteor craters, astroblemes,
continental margins, plate tectonics, ocean basins, and Soviet oceanography. The more significant series include thorough
documentation of his writings and publications, including reports authored while Dietz was a Scientific Liaison Officer at
the London Office of Naval Research (ONR), his formative research papers on the theory of continental drift, and Dietz's intellectual
confrontations with creationists in the public sphere. The collection also includes papers and sound recordings relating to
the important research collaboration between Dietz, the ONR, the U.S. Navy Electronics Laboratory and Swiss explorer and inventor
Jacques Piccard, which resulted in record-breaking deep ocean dives in Piccard's bathyscaph Trieste off the coast of Guam
in 1959 and 1960.
Arranged in five series: 1) BIOGRAPHICAL, 2) CORRESPONDENCE, 3) BATHYSCAPH TRIESTE, 4) WRITINGS, and 5) SUBJECT AND RESEARCH
FILES.
Biography
Robert Sinclair Dietz was born in Westfield, New Jersey, 1914, a son of civil engineer Louis Dietz and Bertha Dietz. He was
educated at the University of Illinois from 1933-1941 where he received B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in geology with a minor
in chemistry. He joined ROTC his junior year. While Dietz's degrees were from the University of Illinois, most of his doctoral
work was done at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography (SIO) under the direction of his mentor, Francis P. Shepard, who
had faculty positions at both institutions before the war. While a student in Illinois, Dietz became interested in the Kentland
structure in Indiana and identified it as a meteoric impact site. He wanted to write his dissertation on Kentland, but his
professors steered him toward marine geology. Dietz and his fellow graduate student K. O. Emery together with Francis P. Shepard
first described the submarine phosphorites off California.
Dietz was unable to obtain employment as a marine geologist after receiving his doctorate, as this field was not yet recognized.
He was called to active duty as a ground officer in the U.S. Army Air Corps with the 91st Observation Squadron in Fort Lewis,
Washington, and served as a pilot with many missions in South America. World War II, he remained in the reserves for an additional
fifteen years and retired as a lieutenant colonel.
After his wartime military service, Dietz received a letter from Dr. Eugene LaFond, a colleague he had met at Scripps, asking
him to organize a sea-floor studies group at the Navy Electronics Laboratory (NEL) in San Diego. Dietz accepted and became
the founder and director of the Sea Floor Studies Section of NEL. This position included an opportunity to be a geological
oceanographer on Admiral Richard E. Byrd's last expedition to Antarctica, the navy-sponsored Operation HIGHJUMP. While at
NEL, Dietz participated in several joint NEL-SIO oceanographic cruises to explore the Pacific basin, notably MidPac in 1950.
H. William Menard and Dietz delineated the Cape Mendocino submarine scarp on MidPac; Menard later described its fracture zone
as a type locality. Working with Robert Dill, they made the first map of the deep sea fan at the mouth of Monterey Submarine
Canyon that showed large amounts of sediments channeled into the deep sea from the continent.
Dietz's laboratory purchased the first Canadian "aqua-lungs" invented by Emile Gagnan and Jacques Cousteau, and NEL Sea Floor
Studies Section scientists became proficient in their use. In 1953 the group together with several members of the SIO staff
formed a private consulting firm called Geological Diving Consultants. GDC was hired by major oil companies interested in
initiating oil exploration off the central California coast. GDC's seafloor geological maps were used in the discovery of
two major oil fields off Santa Barbara and Point Conception. Dietz contributed directly by making hundreds of dives along
the California and Baja California coasts.
Dietz, SIO diving officers Conrad Limbaugh and James Stewart, Robert Dill, Francis Shepard and others at NEL/SIO made ten
cruises to the Gulf of California, mapping and diving at the heads of submarine canyons. They filmed underwater footage and
made still photographs of the geological processes in canyon heads. This work contributed to publications including Shepard
and Dill's
Submarine Canyons and other Valleys of the Sea Floor, the Marine Geology chapter in Shepard's book,
Submarine Geology, and van Andel and Shor, eds.
Marine Geology of the Gulf of California. Dietz's experiences as a scuba diver increased his awareness of the value of in situ studies and the potential value of
submersibles as a scientific tool.
Dietz served as an adjunct professor at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography from 1950-1963, coincident with his service
at the Naval Electronics Laboratory, 1946-1963. At his home at La Jolla Shores he hosted discussions among marine geologists
and graduate students. These years in California were interrupted in 1953 when Dietz served as a Fulbright Scholar at the
University of Tokyo, and again from 1954-1958 when he served with the Office of Naval Research (ONR) in London. His fellowship
in Japan enabled him to study trans-Pacific transmission of underwater sound from the 1952 Myojin-sho eruption and to become
familiar with Japanese Hydrographic Office studies of the submarine geology of the Northwest Pacific basin. He became interested
in and named the Emperor chain of seamounts that extended from the northwest end of the Hawaiian Island-Midway chain and speculated
over lunch with Robert Fisher in 1953 that something must be carrying these old volcanic mountains northward like a conveyer
belt. The papers he published during this period, combined with the work of others, posed some of the fundamental questions
connected with plate tectonic theory. Dietz became an early and convincing proponent of continental drift, and he wrote incisive
papers contributing to the concept he called sea-floor spreading.
While stationed in London, Dietz met Jacques Piccard through Jacques Cousteau. Dietz knew of Piccard's design for the French
submersible FNRS-3, and he offered to promote ONR support for the construction of the bathyscaph Trieste. This was successful,
and Trieste was tested in sea trials off Capri. Piccard, Dietz, and Dr. Andreas Rechnitzer of NEL formulated a plan for a
Trieste manned deep dive into the western Pacific trench to prove the utility of the bathyscaph as a research tool for NEL.
On January 23, 1960, Piccard, accompanied by US Navy Lt. Donald Walsh, made the deepest dive, 35,800 feet, almost seven miles
to the seafloor in the Challenger Deep, a location southwest of Guam surveyed by SIO geologist Robert Fisher as the deepest
ocean trench in the world. Dietz and Piccard coauthored a book describing this feat entitled
Seven Miles Down: The Story of the Bathyscaph TRIESTE (New York: Putnam, 1961).
In 1963, Dietz was asked by Dr. Harris B. Stewart to join and expand the oceanographic and geological studies group within
the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey in Washington, DC. These were the post-Sputnik years when American oceanographers were
pushing to develop a "wet NASA" to focus attention on oceanography "inner space." The Survey moved its research offices to
Miami where it became the Environmental Sciences Administration (ESSA). ESSA was absorbed into the National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration (NOAA) when it was created. Dietz was instrumental in forming a team of marine biologists and geophysicists
within NOAA similar to the Sea Floor Studies Group at NEL. Dietz presented papers to scientists and to the public to publicize
NOAA studies and developments in plate tectonics. These papers often included the cartoons of his NOAA colleague John Holden.
Changes in governmental priorities de-emphasized geology and geophysics within NOAA just as Dietz reached retirement age in
1975.
After leaving NOAA, Dietz accepted positions as a visiting professor at the University of Illinois in 1974, Washington State
University, 1975-1976, and Washington University, St. Louis, in 1976- 1977. In 1977, he accepted a tenured faculty position
at Arizona State University and became emeritus faculty in 1985, although he continued research and publication until his
death.
Dietz traveled widely in the American west and was appointed chief scientific consultant for the Barringer Crater Company,
owners of Meteor Crater, because of his expertise in meteoric impacts. He was a popular teacher and led many field trips for
his introductory courses to the Grand Canyon and other points of geological interest. After his retirement, he became interested
in the publications of creation scientists and their assertions that the Grand Canyon was much younger than suggested by geologists,
created on a time scale consistent with biblical texts. He attended creationist science conferences, corresponded with conference
speakers, and visited exhibits representing their point of view. Dietz collaborated with scientific illustrator John C. Holden
on a book entitled
Creation/Evolution Satiricon: Creationism Bashed (Winthrop, WA: Bookmaker, 1987), which refuted creationist views of earth history.
Throughout his career, Dietz made many significant contributions in the fields of geology, marine geomorphology, and oceanography.
Edwin Hamilton, one of the first geologists he recruited at NEL, noted that in geomorphology, Dietz contributed original work
in geomorphic evolution of the continental terrace, in the origin of continental slopes and margins, in the development of
the Hawaiian swell, and in the development of the abrupt change in slope at the continental margins. He contributed broadly
to knowledge of the geomorphology of the northwest Pacific and the Arctic basin. Dietz contributed to an understanding of
turbidity-current channels, and sedimentation in the continental terrace and in the deep Pacific.
Dietz was well known for his advocacy of continental drift and for the term "sea-floor spreading," which he coined. Dietz
was interested in lunar craters as a graduate student and returned to the interest during the last years of his professional
career. He achieved prominence by studying meteorite craters, both on Earth and on the moon, and arguing that these impact
craters were common. He long argued, in opposition to economic geologists, that the nickel-iron rich deposit of Sudbury Basin
in Ontario, Canada, resulted from a meteoric impact. He used shatter coning to identify impact sites including the Ries and
Steinheim basins in Germany (1958) and the Vredefort Ring in South Africa (1961). He coined the phrase "astrobleme" to describe
impact structures created by high energy extraterrestrial objects striking the earth. He lived long enough to see most of
his findings, called iconoclastic by his colleagues in the 1950s and 1960s, confirmed. Dietz was a very independent thinker
characterized by his colleagues as one of the foremost geologists of his generation, and characterized by historians as one
of the modern proponents of catastrophism. He called himself an astrogeologist. Dietz enjoyed discussion of new ideas. He
often recognized the significance and implications of discoveries made by others earlier than the discoverers themselves,
and he urged his students and colleagues to write about their discoveries in the widest context of geology.
Dietz received many distinguished honors during his career; among these were the Walter H. Bucher Medal of the American Geophysical
Union, the Gold Medal of the Department of Commerce, the Alexander von Humboldt Prize (West Germany), and the Penrose Medal
of the Geological Society of America.
Robert Sinclair Dietz died of a heart attack on Friday, May 19, 1995, at his home in Tempe, Arizona.
References:
Dietz, Robert S. "Earth, Sea, and Sky: Life and Times of a Journeyman Geologist."
Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Science 22 (1994), 1-32.
"Dietz, Robert Sinclair."
McGraw-Hill Modern Scientists and Engineers v. 1 (1980), 290-291.
Preferred Citation
Robert S. Dietz Papers. SMC 28. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.
Acquisition Information
Acquired 1988, 1995, 2006.
OFF-SITE STORAGE
COLLECTION STORED OFF-SITE. ALLOW ONE WEEK FOR RETRIEVAL OF MATERIALS.
Publication Rights
Publication rights are held by the creator of the collection.
Digital Content
A small selection of materials from the collection have been digitized. The digitized images may be viewed by searching the
phrase "Robert S. Dietz papers" in quotes, on the UC San Diego Library Digital Collections website.
Restrictions
Original Dictaphone sound recordings in Box 24 are restricted. Most have been reformatted, and digital listening copies are
available upon request.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Creationism
Continental drift
Sea-floor spreading
Plate tectonics
Meteorite craters
Oceanographic submersibles
Dietz, Robert S. (Robert Sinclair), 1914-1995 -- Archives
Piccard, Jacques
Shepard, Francis P. (Francis Parker), 1897-1985
Trieste (Bathyscaphe)
United States. Navy. Electronics Laboratory
BIOGRAPHICAL
Scope and Content of Series
Series 1) BIOGRAPHICAL: A selection of materials including personnel files, awards, photographs and publicity documenting
the life and career of Robert Dietz.
Box 1, Folder 3
University of Illinois - Master's degree certificate
1939
Box 1, Folder 4-9
Navy and federal civilian personnel records
1936-1974
Box 1, Folder 10-11
Honors, awards and appointments
1936-1994
Box 1, Folder 12
Certificates
1964-1986
General note
Includes certificates for Dietz's participation in submersible research, including the R/V Ben Franklin, Aluminaut, and a
diving saucer to Scripps Canyon in 1964. Additional certificates documenting achievements may also be found in Dietz's Navy
and federal civilian personnel records, and the Honors, Awards and Achievements folders.
Box 1, Folder 13-14
Photographs of Robert Dietz
1938-1988
Box 2, Folder 1
Photographs from TransPac Expedition, Japan
1953
Box 2, Folder 2
Geological Diving Consultants clipping
undated
Box 2, Folder 3-6
Press releases and publicity
1938-1970
Box 22, Folder 9
Pencil portrait by H. Ishida
1961 November 22
Box 2, Folder 7
Dietz family genealogy
1961, 1985
Box 2, Folder 8
Atlantic Oceanographic & Meteorological Labs (AOML) personnel files
1963-1975
General note
Includes statement of highlights of scientific contributions written by Dietz.
Box 2, Folder 9
Letter to brother Lew Dietz, repaying 1934 tuition assistance
1985
Box 2, Folder 10
Biographical profiles
1985-1994
Box 2, Folder 11
Profile on Dietz and Harry Hess by Robert Stevenson
undated
General note
Typescript covers background on Dietz and Hess, and the nearly simultaneous development of their respective ocean basin origin
theories in 1960. Original folder states title of Stevenson book was to be
Oceanography for Astronauts.
Box 2, Folder 12
Dietz Bluff, Antarctica - Photographs and articles
1987-1988
Box 2, Folder 13
Penrose Medal - Geological Society of America
1988
Box 2, Folder 14
Honorary doctorate, Arizona State University - Acceptance speech and publicity
1988
Oversize FB-549, Folder 15
Honorary doctorate, Arizona State University
1988
Box 2, Folder 15
Memo of conversation with Rex Dietz regarding R. Dietz's photographs of the 1968 Soviet invasion of Prague
1988
General note
Some of Dietz's photographs were published in Life Magazine v. 65, no. 10 in September 1968.
Box 2, Folder 16
Asteroid 4666 Dietz - Photographs and articles
1993
CORRESPONDENCE
Scope and Content of Series
Series 2) CORRESPONDENCE: Arranged chronologically. Early correspondence discusses research topics, the NEL, SIO personalities,
and expeditions such as TransPac. A selection of letters from the 1950s and early 1960s document the effort to bring Jacques
Piccard's bathyscaphe Trieste to the United States for deep ocean diving experiments, which supplements materials in the BATHYSCAPH
TRIESTE series. Important correspondents include E. L. Hamilton and Gordon Lill.
BATHYSCAPH TRIESTE
Scope and Content of Series
Series 3) BATHYSCAPH TRIESTE: Materials in this series document Dietz's role in important research collaborations between
London's Office of Naval Research, Jacques Piccard, and the U.S. Navy Electronics Laboratory regarding reinforcement and testing
of the bathyscaph Trieste. It includes correspondence, reports, memoranda, diving logs, sound recordings and research files
on submersibles and deep ocean diving dating primarily from 1956 to 1964. Specifically, it includes original records relating
to the development and execution of Project Nekton. The Project Nekton operation was a series of manned shallow test dives
and deep dives off the coast of Guam, which culminated in Trieste submerging to a record-setting depth of approximately 35,800
feet in the Challenger Deep, at the southern end of the Mariana Trench. The series includes both paper documentation and sound
recordings that were referenced by Dietz and Piccard for the publication of their book
Seven Miles Down: The Story of the Bathyscaph Trieste (1961).
Arranged in four subseries: A) Papers and Records, B) Sound Recording Transcripts, C) Audiocassettes, D) Dictaphone Belts.
A) Papers and Records: Dietz's paper documentation relating to Trieste and deep-submersible research. Includes correspondence,
technical memoranda (primarily from the US Navy teams associated with Project Nekton), diving logs, and photographs.
B) Sound Recording Transcripts: In 2000, sixty-one Dictabelts from the Dietz collection believed to contain content related
to Trieste were reformatted to audiocassette, and the recordings were also transcribed at that time. This subseries contains
a transcript for all sixty-one reformatted recordings, in addition to a small selection of additional transcripts generated
from other original recordings (not in the collection) made during Trieste dives around 1960. Content on the tapes not related
to the unique history of the Trieste (i.e., speakers reading from manuscripts or commenting on manuscript edits, probably
related to
Seven Miles Down), was not transcribed.
C) Audiocassettes: These audiocassettes are reformatted and remastered recordings of sixty-one Dictaphone belts from the Dietz
Papers, a project that was completed in 2000 as a joint preservation effort between the SIO Archives and the U.S. Navy. Most
of the recordings contain observations, recollections, and commentary on the Trieste's Project Nekton dives, and in some recordings,
the speakers (primarily Dietz, Jacques Piccard, and Andreas Rechnitzer) appear to be referring to notes, memoranda, or manuscripts.
The recordings date from between 1958 and 1963. At the time of processing, any notations that were written on the Dictabelt
envelopes were copied and transcribed onto the cassette cases; these notations have been recorded in the finding aid. Full
transcripts of these recordings are also available in the preceding subseries. The sixty-one Dictabelt recordings were reformatted
onto fourteen audiocassette tapes, and there are two copies of each tape. The audiocassettes were digitized in 2008, and digital
versions of the recordings are available to researchers upon request.
D) Dictaphone Belts: Dietz's papers originally contained almost 100 Dictaphone belt sound recordings which were created by
Dietz, Jacques Piccard, Andreas Rechnitzer, and others. Fifty-four of these belts were in a box Dietz labelled, "Trieste B'Scaph
File Letters." Other belts were found throughout the collection. In preparation for reformatting, the belts were gathered
and arranged alphabetically by the given title on the original envelopes (so similar titles, like "Big Dive" or "San Diego
Dives" could be grouped together) and all notations, including dates, were transcribed and transferred to the finding aid.
For organization, the belts were given unique sequential numbers by archives staff. In 2000, sixty-one belts that were appraised
and considered likely to contain important content were reformatted to audiocassette and transcribed; in 2008, the audiocassettes
were digitized. While the original belts are restricted, the reformatted versions and transcripts are available for research.
Box 4, Folder 1
Photographs of Trieste and Trieste II
ca. 1953-1964
General note
Includes images of the 1961 launch off San Diego, 1964 launch of Trieste II, Jacques and Auguste Piccard, and artistic renderings
of submersibles.
Box 4, Folder 2
Photographs of echograms showing illusion of Trieste landing on bottom
undated
Box 4, Folder 3
News clippings on Trieste
1957-1962
Box 4, Folder 4
Proposal by A. and J. Piccard for collaboration between the National Science Foundation…with the bathyscaph Trieste
1954
Box 4, Folder 5
Resolution submitted to the Symposium on Aspects of Deep Sea Research
1956 March 1
Box 4, Folder 6
Technical memorandum 2-57 - Translation of French papers concerning diving results of the bathyscaph FRNS-3
1956-1957
Box 4, Folder 7-10
Trieste - Reports and memoranda
1956-1960
Oversize FB-549, Folder 15
Plans, elevation (bow and stern) and longitudinal section of deep-diving submersible
1957 June
General note
Designed and drawn by Lt John B. Stubbs.
Box 4, Folder 11
Press release - Bathyscaph Trieste in the Mediterranean
1957 February 27
Box 4, Folder 12
Preliminary report of the Hudson Laboratories Bathyscaphe program
1957 July-October
Box 4, Folder 13
Preliminary Reports on the 1957 Scientific Investigations with the Bathyscaph Trieste
1957
Box 4, Folder 14
The 1957 Diving Program of the Bathyscaph Trieste, by A. B. Rechnitzer
1959 December 28
General note
NEL Report 941.
Box 4, Folder 15
Reprints signed by J. Piccard (in French) on Trieste dives
1957-1958
Box 4, Folder 16
Accounts and paper "Misadventures at Capri" on 1957 Trieste dives off Capri
1957-1959
General note
Includes typescripts of diving log.
Box 4, Folder 17
Project Nekton - Proposal for official recognition and support
ca. 1958
Box 4, Folder 18
Calendar of events and dive reports from San Diego
1959
Box 4, Folder 19
Project Nekton negatives
ca. 1959
General note
Black and white images of people socializing and examining papers, including Dietz and Piccard.
Box 4, Folder 20
Project Nekton manuscript
ca. 1960
Box 4, Folder 21
Diving notes from 1953-1959 - Commentary on Trieste dives off Italy, San Diego, and Guam
undated
Box 4, Folder 22
French Navy bathyscaph B-11,000
ca. 1960
Box 4, Folder 23
History of the bathyscaph - Notes and manuscripts
ca. 1960
Box 4, Folder 24
Jacques Piccard - Notes and biographical data by R. Dietz
ca. 1960
Box 4, Folder 25
Trieste diving log, Loma Sea Valley
1961 September 14
Box 4, Folder 26
Archimede (French bathyscaph) - Ocean floor negatives, Kuril Trench
1962
Box 22, Folder 12
NEL flier on Trieste II - Includes research program summary, diagram, etc.
1964
Box 4, Folder 27
Francis Shepard - Recollections of Trieste dive in La Jolla Canyon
1964 March 7
Box 4, Folder 28
25th anniversary of the Trieste deep dive - Booklet
1985
Sound Recording Transcripts
Box 5, Folder 1
Dives #61 and #64
1959-1960
General note
Includes transcript of live action report from observers standing by during Dive #61, as well as a version of a transcript
adapted from dictabelts 15-18.
Box 5, Folder 2
Dive #63
1959
General note
Transcript of live action report.
Box 5, Folder 3
Dive #69
1960 January 9
General note
Transcript of live action report.
Box 5, Folder 4-5
Transcriptions from reformatted dictabelt recordings, 1958-1963 - Dives of the bathyscaph Trieste
Transcriptions from reformatted dictabelt recordings, 1958-1963 - Dives of the bathyscaph Trieste
General note
Typed transcript of 61 recordings reformatted to audiocassette from Dietz's collection of plastic Dictaphone belts. Speakers
include Robert Dietz, Jacques Piccard, Andreas Rechnitzer, and an unidentified speaker. The content is primarily observations,
commentary, and recollections concerning Trieste dives, in particular dives made in the Challenger Deep, and off the coast
of Italy and San Diego.
Box 5, Folder 6
Piccard's recollection of Trieste construction in 1952
Box 5, Folder 7
History of Trieste and its coming to the U.S., by R. Dietz
undated
Box 5, Folder 8
History of Project Nekton and report of 1954 Trieste dive with Dr. Pollini, Italy
undated
Box 5, Folder 9
Project Nekton - "The Big Dive" accounts by Piccard, Walsh and Dietz
1959-1960
Box 23, Folder 1
Dictabelts 1-5 - Reformatted
undated
General note
"The Big Dive" to 37,800 in the Trieste, Jacques Piccard dictating. Skips/repeats throughout. Time 01:05:31.
Access
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Box 23, Folder 2
Dictabelts 6-10 - Reformatted
1960
General note
(6) Comments on the "Big Dive" by R. Dietz to complete J. Piccard's description. (7) "On Big Dive," J. Piccard #2, 4 March.
(8) Dive to 37,000 feet, #1, 1960 January 14. (9-10) Tape just before big dive from NGD—first part has pieces from Rex and
Drew, 1960 January. Time 00:56:23.
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Box 23, Folder 3
Dictabelts 11-14 - Reformatted
undated
General note
R. Dietz. Time 00:47:31.
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Box 23, Folder 4
Dictabelts 15-18 - Reformatted
1960
General note
(15-16) Dive #61 - J. Piccard and A. Rechnitzer, depth of 18,000 ft., J. Piccard dictating. (17-18) Dive #64, 24,000 ft.,
J. Piccard, tapes #1-2. Time 00:40:57.
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Box 23, Folder 5
Dictabelts 19-22 - Reformatted
1960 July
General note
(19-20) Dive log. (21) Dietz on the Bathysonde. (22) From J. Piccard, 1960 July 14. Time 00:54:02.
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Box 23, Folder 6
Dictabelts 23-25 - Reformatted
undated
General note
(23-25) Italian dive, R. Dietz, 8 March. Skips/repeats throughout. Actual recording of the dive starts at time 4:00 (the first
part records a child singing, nothing to do with the dive). Time 00:39:52.
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Box 23, Folder 7
Dictabelts 26-29 - Reformatted
undated
General note
(26-28) Italian dive, R. Dietz. (29) Italy dive with Pollini, J. Piccard #5, March 3. Time 00:54:27.
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Box 23, Folder 8
Dictabelts 30-35 - Reformatted
undated
General note
(30-33) J. Piccard, February 27. (34) J. Piccard to R. Dietz. (35) J. Piccard on seepage of Trieste. Time 01:24:29.
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Box 23, Folder 9
Dictabelts 36-40 - Reformatted
1960 May 27
General note
(36-40) Last comments. Time 01:18:14.
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Box 23, Folder 10
Dictabelts 41-45 - Reformatted
1960
General note
(41-42) Neptune. (43) Newton, J. Piccard, March 4. (44-45) Phantom bottom, R. Dietz #1-2, 1960 December 7. Time 01:14:07.
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Box 23, Folder 11
Dictabelts 46-50 - Reformatted
undated
General note
(46) Rechnitzer on 19,000 ft. dive. (47-49) San Diego dives, J. Piccard, March 3. (50) R. Dietz on dives of Trieste off San
Diego, 1958-1959 September. Time 01:11:40.
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Box 23, Folder 12
Dictabelts 51-55 - Reformatted
undated
General note
Time 01:59:39. Untitled; no description available.
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Box 23, Folder 13
Dictabelts 56-60 - Reformatted
1960, 1962
General note
(56) #1 May 25. (57) Untitled, May 26. (58-59) Untitled, 1960 July 4. (60) Untitled, 1962 August 26. Time 01:06:34.
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Box 23, Folder 14
Dictabelts (unnumbered) - Reformatted
1959-1960
General note
Side A: 1) Big Dive, and 2) 1960 January 14. Side B: "Sample" 1) J. Piccard #1, and 2) Neptune. Time 00:54:27.
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Box 23, Folder 15-28
Full duplicate set of audiocassettes
Box 24, Folder 1
Dictabelts 1-5
undated
General note
"The Big Dive" to 37,800 in the Trieste, Jacques Piccard dictating.
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Box 24, Folder 2
Dictabelt 6
undated
General note
Comments on the "Big Dive" by R. Dietz to complete J. Piccard's description.
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Box 24, Folder 3
Dictabelt 7
undated
General note
"On Big Dive," J. Piccard #2, 4 March.
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Box 24, Folder 4
Dictabelt 8
1960 January 14
General note
Dive to 37,000 feet, #1.
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Box 24, Folder 5
Dictabelts 9-10
1960 January
General note
Tape just before big dive from NGD—first part has pieces from Rex and Drew, 1960 January.
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Box 24, Folder 6
Dictabelts 11-14
undated
General note
R. Dietz.
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Box 24, Folder 7
Dictabelts 15-16
undated
General note
Dive #61 - J. Piccard and A. Rechnitzer, depth of 18,000 ft., J. Piccard dictating.
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Box 24, Folder 8
Dictabelts 17-18
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General note
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Dive log.
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Dictabelt 21
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Dietz on the Bathysonde.
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Dictabelt 22
1960 July 14
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From J. Piccard.
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Dictabelt 35
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1960 May 27
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Last comments.
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Neptune.
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1960 December 7
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#1 May 25.
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May 26.
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Dictabelts 58-59
1960 July 4
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Dictabelt 60
1962 August 26
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1960 July 20
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1960 June 3
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1960
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1960 July 12
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1960 May 7
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1960
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WRITINGS
Scope and Content of Series
Series 4) WRITINGS: The WRITINGS series constitutes the bulk of the Dietz papers, with extensive documentation of his publishing
and research activities.
Arranged in four subseries: A) ONR Reports and Memoranda, B) Articles, Essays and Presentations, C) Books, D) Notebooks.
A) ONR Reports and Memoranda: Dietz served as a Scientific Liaison Officer at the London Office of Naval Research in the mid-1950s.
He authored the reports and memoranda in this series, which cover topics as varied as submersible research, the state of oceanography
studies and technologies in different countries, and reports from scientific congresses.
B) Articles, Essays and Presentations: This subseries consists largely of original typescripts and reprints of Dietz's publications,
however, it also includes book reviews, speeches, encyclopedia articles, rebuttals, letters to the editor, and articles written
for the popular press. Most folders in this subseries include the final publication, often in the form of a signed reprint,
though some also include manuscripts, drafts, outlines, supporting research materials, correspondence, original illustrations
and line drawings, and photographs. Organized chronologically, with short abstracts and reviews and undated publications condensed
at the front of the subseries.
C) Books: Manuscript material produced for three major books (one,
Realms of the Sea, was never published).
Seven Miles Down was co-written with Jacques Piccard, and references many of the documents in Series 3) BATHYSCAPH TRIESTE as source material.
Dietz's confrontations with creationists over the age of the earth, Noah's ark, science education and other topics led to
the publication of his 1987 book,
Creation/Evolution Satiricon: Creationism Bashed. Additional material in Series 5) SUBJECT AND RESEARCH FILES and other writings in Subseries 4B supplement the topic of Dietz's
public intellectual disputes with creationists.
D) Notebooks: Notebooks on a variety of topics, including conference attendance and research ideas. Arranged in approximate
chronological order.
ONR Reports and Memoranda
Box 5, Folder 10
ONRL-85-54 Oceanography at Hamburg, Germany, and in Scandinavia
1954 September 27
Box 5, Folder 11
ONRL-110-54 Oceanography in Japan
1954 December 3, 1960
General note
Includes a supplemental 1960 report by Kazuhiko Terada on the same topic.
Box 5, Folder 12
ONRL-6-55 Post war German oceanography
1955 February 3
Box 5, Folder 13
ONRL-10-55 Oceanography on the Iberian Peninsula
1955 February 21
Box 5, Folder 14
ONRL-10-55 Related memo on Strait of Gibraltar and Italian submarines during WWII
1956 February 21
Box 5, Folder 15
ONRL-16-55 Oceanography at Marine Laboratory, Aberdeen, and Oceanographic Laboratory, Edinburgh
1957 February 28
Box 5, Folder 16
ONRL-33-55 Limnology and bottom sediments of Swiss Lakes
1955 April 22
Box 5, Folder 17
ONRL-40-55 Geological oceanography in France
1955 May 16
Box 5, Folder 18
ONRL-55-55 Recent developments in scuba diving in Europe
1955 June 30
Box 5, Folder 19
ONRL-71-55 Bathyscaphe Trieste
1955 August 10
Box 5, Folder 20
ONRL-91-55 USSR program in oceanography for the International Geophysical Year
1955 September 28
Box 5, Folder 21
ONRL-95-55 Calypso Oceanographic Expedition to the Eastern Mediterranean; Marine science in Turkey and Greece
1955 October 11
Box 5, Folder 22
ONRL-96-55 Cooperative research with French submarine geologists (May-June 1955); Beach studies and Elie Monnier cruise
1956 October 11
Box 5, Folder 23
ONRL-123-55 Oceanographic developments at the International Council for the Exploration of the Sea 1955 meeting
1955 December 5
Box 5, Folder 24
ONRL-4-56 Hydraulics Research Station, Wallingford, England
1955 December 1
Box 5, Folder 25
ONRL-14-56 Marine Sciences in Egypt with notes on Geology and Geophysics
1956 February 6
Box 5, Folder 26
ONRL-23-56 Oceanographic and Geophysics Institutes, Trieste, Italy
1956 April 3
Box 5, Folder 27
ONRL-47-56 Earth Sciences in Ireland with notes on Marine Biology
1956 May 17
Box 5, Folder 28
ONRL-64-56 Some German oceanographic and geophysical developments
1956 July 17
Box 5, Folder 29
ONRL-98-56 Meeting of the 13th International Limnological Congress with notes on Finnish and Russian Oceanography
1956 October 17
Box 5, Folder 30
ONRL-116-56 Notes on French Oceanography and diving
1956 November 23
Box 5, Folder 31
ONRL-7-57 International Conference on Rock Magnetism, London
1957 January 10
Box 5, Folder 32
ONRL-51-57 Meeting of the German Geological Association; Marine Geology in Germany and Holland
1957 May 7
Box 5, Folder 33
ONRL-112-57 Oceanography along the French Mediterranean and at Monaco
1957 September 11
Box 5, Folder 34
ONRL-117-57 National Institute of Oceanography, Great Britain
1957 October 4
Box 5, Folder 35
ONRL-31-58 Oceanography and tidal studies at Liverpool
1958 April 8
Box 5, Folder 36
ONRL-47-58 French colloquium on the Topography and Geology of the Deep Sea Floor
1958 June 9
Box 5, Folder 37
ONRL-59-58 Fifth International Sedimentology Congress
1958 July 25
Box 6, Folder 1
Technical memoranda list
1954-1956
Box 6, Folder 2
Russian drifting ice scientific station in the Arctic Basin
1954 September 1
Box 6, Folder 3
Principles of measuring ocean currents by Bohnecke
1955 January 26
Box 6, Folder 4
Russian survey of the Kurile Trench
1955 February 2
Box 6, Folder 5
Sea ice reporting and prediction in Europe
1955 March 4
Box 6, Folder 6
Program to measure deep ocean currents at NIO
1955 March 9
Box 6, Folder 7
Russian trip report of Brian Roberts and Terrence Armstrong of the Scott Polar Research Institute
1956 November 1
Articles, Essays and Presentations
Box 6, Folder 9-12
Abstracts, reviews and short papers
1938, 1964-1974
Box 6, Folder 13
Berkeley lecture on Pacific Basin
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Box 6, Folder 14
Continental Margins: Historical Review
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Box 6, Folder 15
Geological Oceanography
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Box 6, Folder 16
Meteorite Craters
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Box 6, Folder 17
Seeing the Ocean Floor
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Box 6, Folder 18
Untitled manuscript
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Topics include swings of sea level, emperor sea mounts, and turbidity currents.
Box 6, Folder 19
Shepard, F.P. and R. Dietz. The Emergence of (Santa) Catalina Island. American Journal of Science
1939
Box 6, Folder 20
Shepard, F. P., Roger Revelle and R. Dietz. Ocean-bottom Currents off the California Coast. Science
1939
Box 6, Folder 21
Clay Minerals in Recent Marine Sediments. University of Illinois Ph.D. thesis
1941
Box 6, Folder 22
Dietz, R., K. O. Emery and F. P. Shepard. Phosphorite Deposits on the Sea Floor off Southern California. Bulletin Geological
Society of America
1942
Box 6, Folder 23
The Small Mounds of the Gulf Coastal Plain. Science
1945
Box 6, Folder 24
Geological Structures Possibly Related to Lunar Craters. Popular Astronomy
1946
Box 6, Folder 25
The Meteoric Impact Origin of the Moon's Surface Features. Journal of Geology
1946
Box 6, Folder 26
Meteorite Impact Suggested by the Orientation of Shatter-cones at the Kentland, Indiana, Disturbance. Science
1947
Box 6, Folder 27
Aerial Photographs in the Geological Study of Shore Features and Processes. Photogrammetric Engineering
1947
Box 6, Folder 28
Antarctic 'Seeing.' Popular Astronomy
1948
Box 6, Folder 29
Final report: Some Oceanographic Observations on Operation HIGHJUMP. U.S. Navy Electronics Lab (NEL) Report 55
1948
Box 6, Folder 30
Some Pacific and Antarctic Sea-floor Features Discovered during the U.S. Navy Antarctic Expedition 1946-1947. Proceedings
7th Pacific Science Congress
Box 7, Folder 1
Lafond, E. C., R. Dietz and D. W. Pritchard. Interim report: Oceanographic Measurements from the USS Nereus on a Cruise to
the Bering and Chukchi Seas, 1947. U.S. Navy Electronics Lab (NEL) Report 91
1949
Box 7, Folder 2
Grim, R., R. Dietz, and W. F. Bradley. Clay Mineral Composition of Some Sediments from the Pacific Ocean off the California
Coast and the Gulf of California. Bulletin Geological Society of America
1949
Box 7, Folder 3
R. Dietz and E. C. LaFond. Natural Slicks on the Ocean. U.S. Navy Electronics Lab (NEL) Report 160
1950
Box 7, Folder 4
Emery, K. O. and R. Dietz. Submarine Phosphorite Deposits off California and Mexico. California Journal of Mines and Geology
1950
Box 7, Folder 5
E. C. Buffington, A. J. Carsola and R. Dietz. Oceanographic Cruise to the Bering and Chukchi Seas, Summer 1949. Part 1: Sea
Floor Studies. U.S. Navy Electronics Lab (NEL) Report 204
1950
Box 7, Folder 6
LaFond, E.C., R. Dietz and J. A. Knauss. A Sonic Device for Underwater Sediment Surveys. Journal of Sedimentary Petroleum
1950
Box 7, Folder 7
Menard, H. and R. Dietz. Submarine Geology of the Gulf of Alaska. Bulletin of the Geological Society of America
1951
Box 7, Folder 8
Dietz, R. and H. Menard. Origin of Abrupt Change in Slope at Continental Shelf Margin. Bulletin American Association of Petroleum
Geology
1951
Box 7, Folder 9
Substrata Acoustic Probe. NEL memoranda
1951-1958
General note
Memoranda on bottom sediment types using fathometers and acoustic penetration.
Box 7, Folder 10
The Pacific Floor. Scientific American
1952
Box 7, Folder 11
Menard, H. and R. Dietz. Mendocino Submarine Escarpment. Journal of Geology
1952
Box 7, Folder 12
Carsola, A. and R. Dietz. Submarine Geology of Two Flat-topped Northeast Pacific Seamounts. American Journal of Science
1952
Box 7, Folder 13
Geomorphic Evolution of Continental Terrace (Continental Shelf and Slope). Bulletin American Association of Petroleum Geology
1952
Box 7, Folder 14
Boquerón. Pacific Discovery
1953
Box 7, Folder 15
Possible Deep-Sea Turbidity Current Channels in the Indian Ocean. Bulletin Geological Society of America
1953
Box 7, Folder 16
Sound in the Sea. Asahi Kagaku
1953
Box 7, Folder 17
Dietz, R. and H. Menard. Hawaiian Swell, Deep, and Arch, and Subsidence of the Hawaiian Islands. Journal of Geology
1953
Box 7, Folder 18
Dietz, R. and M. J. Sheehy. Trans-Pacific Detection by Underwater Sound of Myojin Volcanic Eruptions. Oceanographic Society
of Japan Journal
1953
Box 7, Folder 19
Possible Deep-Sea Turbidity Current Channels in the Bay of Bengal. Current Science
1954
Box 7, Folder 20
The Explosive Birth of Myojin Island. National Geographic
1954
Box 7, Folder 21
Dill, R., R. Dietz and Harris Stewart. Deep-Sea Channels and Delta of the Monterey Submarine Canyon. Bulletin Geological Society
of America
1954
Box 7, Folder 22
Dietz, R., H. Menard, and Edwin Hamilton. Echograms of the Mid-Pacific Expedition. Deep Sea Research
1954
Box 7, Folder 23
Dietz, R. and M. Sheehy. Trans-Pacific Detection of Myojin Volcanic Explosions by Underwater Sound. Bulletin Geological Society
of America
1954
Box 7, Folder 24
Marine Geology of Northwest Pacific: Description of Japanese Bathymetric Chart 6901. Bulletin Geological Society of America
1954
Box 7, Folder 25
Manganese Deposits on the Northeast Pacific Sea Floor. California Journal of Mines and Geology
1955
Box 7, Folder 26
Bradner, Hugh and R. Dietz. Recent Developments in Scuba Diving in Europe. Office of Naval Research, London
1955
Box 7, Folder 27-30
Arctic Basin Geomorphology
1955-1961
General note
Includes a folder on Ice island T-3 and Arctic/Hudson Bay sounding data.
Box 7, Folder 31
Salient Problems of the Continental Terrace. Proceedings 8th Pacific Science Congress
1956
Box 8, Folder 1
Richards A. F. and R. Dietz. Eruption of Boquerón Volcano, San Benedicto Island, Mexico. Proceedings 8th Pacific Science Congress
1956
Box 8, Folder 2
Piccard, Jacques and R. Dietz. Oceanographic Observations by the Bathyscaph Trieste (1953-1956). Deep-Sea Research
1957
Box 8, Folder 3
Deep-Sea Diving by Bathyscaph, Times Science Review (London)
1957
Box 8, Folder 4
The Channels on the Deep Sea Floor. The New Scientist
1958
Box 8, Folder 5
Dietz, R., Russell Lewis, and A. Rechnitzer. The Bathyscaph. Scientific American
1958
Box 8, Folder 6
Point d'Impact Des Asteroides comme Origine des Bassins Oceaniques: Une Hypothese. Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
1958
Box 8, Folder 7
1100-Meter Dive in the Bathyscaph Trieste. Limnology and Oceanography
1959
Box 8, Folder 8
Drowned Ancient Islands of the Pacific. The New Scientist
1959
Box 8, Folder 9
Shatter Cones in Cryptoexplosion Structures (Meteorite Impact?). Journal of Geology
1959
Box 8, Folder 10
Meteorite Impact Suggested by Shatter Cones in Rock. Science
1960
Box 8, Folder 11
Bathyscaphs and Other Deep Submersibles for Oceanographic Research
1960, 1965
Box 8, Folder 12
The Spreading Ocean Floor - Typescript draft for Saturday Evening Post "Adventures of the Mind" series
1960-1961
Box 8, Folder 13
Dietz, R. and A. J. Carsola, E. C. Buffington, and Carl J. Shipek. Sediments and Topography of the Alaskan Shelves
1961, 1964
Box 8, Folder 14
Final report: Some Oceanographic Observations on Operation HIGHJUMP. U.S. Navy Electronics Lab (NEL) Report 55
1961
Box 8, Folder 15
Astroblemes. Scientific American
1961
Box 8, Folder 16
Dietz, R. and George Shumway. Arctic Basin Geomorphology. Bulletin Geological Society of America
1961
Box 8, Folder 17
Vredefort Ring Structure: Meteorite Impact Scar? Journal of Geology
1961
Box 8, Folder 18
Dietz, R. and E. C. Buffington. Panamint Crater: Not Meteoritic. Meteoritical Society
1961
Box 8, Folder 19
Continent and Ocean Basin Evolution by Sea Floor Spreading: Commotion in the Ocean. American Association of Petroleum Geology
Distinguished Lecture Series
1962
Box 8, Folder 20
Commotion in the Ocean: The Growth of Continents and Ocean Basins. Hidaka Anniversary Volume Geophysical Institute, University
of Tokyo
1962
Box 8, Folder 21
Ocean Basin Evolution by Sea Floor Spreading. From Continental Drift, International Geophysics Series 3, Chapter 10
1962
Box 8, Folder 22
Das Ratsel der Mittelozeanische Gebirge. Die Weltwoche
1962
Box 8, Folder 23
Ocean Basin Evolution by Sea Floor Spreading. Japanese Oceanographic Society
1962
Box 8, Folder 24
The Sea's Deep Scattering Layers. Scientific American.
1962
Box 8, Folder 25
Some Comments on the Present Status of Japanese Oceanography. Undersea Technology
1962
Box 8, Folder 26
Sudbury Structure as an Astrobleme. Journal of Geology
1962-1964
Box 8, Folder 27
Astroblemes: Ancient Meteorite Impact Scars on Earth. From The Solar System (ed. Middlehurt and Kuiper), Chapter 10
1963
Box 9, Folder 1
Collapsing Continental Rises: An Actualistic Concept of Geosynclines and Mountain Building. Journal of Geology
1963
Box 9, Folder 2
Meteorite Impacts, Lunar Maria, Lopoliths and Ocean Basins (response to Gallant). Nature
1963
Box 9, Folder 3
A Theory of Ocean Basin Origin. Undersea Technology
1963
Box 9, Folder 4
Origin of the Continental Slopes. Presented at the American Association of Petroleum Geology convention
1963
Box 9, Folder 5
Cryptoexplosion Structures: A Discussion. American Journal of Science
1963
Box 9, Folder 6
LaFond, E. C. and R. Dietz. The Lonar Crater (India): Meteorite Crater? Journal of the Indian Geophysics Union, and Meteoritics
1963
Box 9, Folder 7-8
To Question Marine Profile of Equilibrium, Wave-Base and Wave-Built Terraces; with reply
1963-1964
Box 22, Folder 10
Do Tektites Come from the Earth or the Moon? The New Scientist
1964
Box 9, Folder 9
Unyielding Continent, Mobile Seafloor
1964
Box 9, Folder 10
Origin of Continental Slopes. Journal of American Science
1964
Box 9, Folder 11
A Recycled Hydrosphere? Nature
1964
Box 9, Folder 12-13
Pan-Pacific Chilean Tsunami of May 1960 at San Diego and Environs - Manuscript, notes and photographs of San Diego harbor
1964
Box 9, Folder 14
Dietz, Robert and John Holden. Earth and Moon: Tectonically Contrasting Realms. Presented at Lunar Symposium, New York; Pub.
in New York Academy of Science Journal
1964
Box 9, Folder 15
Dietz, R. and Louis Butler. Shatter Cone Orientation at Sudbury, Canada. Nature
1964
General note
Includes photographs.
Box 9, Folder 16
Dietz, R. and M. J. Sheehy. Transpacific Detection of Myojin Volcanic Explosions by Underwater Sound. Bulletin Geological
Society of America
1964
Box 9, Folder 17
The Third Surface. Chapter 1 from Papers in Marine Geology, Shepard Commemorative Volume
1964
Box 9, Folder 18
Dietz, R. and Nathan Ayer. Speculation on Oceanic Meteorite Impacts and Tsunamis
1965
Box 9, Folder 19
Soviet Research in Oceanography. Geotimes
1965
Box 9, Folder 20
Roter Kamm, Southwest Africa: Probable Meteorite Crater. Meteoritics
1965
Box 9, Folder 21
Geosynclines, Mountains and Continent Building (with reply). Scientific American
1965
Box 9, Folder 22
Colston Symposium: Marine Geology and Geophysics. Science
1965
Box 9, Folder 23
Soviet Oceanography 1964: A Trip Report (A Glimpse at Soviet Oceanography). U.S. Department of Commerce, Coast and Geodetic
Survey
1965
Box 10, Folder 1
Earth's Original Crust - Lost Quest? Tectonophysics
1965
Box 10, Folder 2
Stewart, H. B., R. Dietz and F. P. Shepard. Submarine Valleys off the Ganges Delta. International Indian Ocean Expedition
Coast and Geodetic Survey
1965
General note
Ship PIONEER 1964, v. 1, Cruise Narrative and Scientific Results.
Box 10, Folder 3
Review of Geologic Papers at the 11th Pacific Science Congress, Tokyo
1966
Box 10, Folder 4
The 2nd International Oceanographic Congress, Moscow
1966
Box 10, Folder 5
Oceanography in the USSR. Sea Frontiers
1966
Box 10, Folder 6
Re: Geological Oceanography
1966
Box 10, Folder 7
Re: Continental Drift
1966
General note
Includes essay on "Continental Drift and Earthquakes."
Box 10, Folder 8
Passive Continents, Spreading Sea Floors, and Collapsing Continental Rises (and reply). American Journal of Science
1966
Box 10, Folder 9
Drifting Continents: An Outrageous Hypothesis Which May Well Be True. Analog
1966
Box 10, Folder 10
Oceanography Soviet Style. Medical Opinion and Review
1966
Box 10, Folder 11
Dietz, R. and J. Holden. Deep-Sea Deposits in But Not on the Continents. Bulletin American Association of Petroleum Geology
1966
Box 10, Folder 12
Shatter Cone at the Middlesboro Structure, Kentucky, and Striated Surfaces on Meteorites: Shock Fractures, not Slickensides.
Meteoritics
1966
Box 10, Folder 13
Continental Drift: Some General Remarks. International Oceanographic Foundation
1966
Box 10, Folder 14
Equal Areas of Gondwana and Laurasia (Ancient Supercontinents). Nature
1966
Box 10, Folder 15
Continents and Ocean Basins. What's New on Earth Symposium
1966
Box 10, Folder 16
Geological Oceanography. From "Oceanography: Understanding Our Deep Frontier" (NAS/NRC narrated film series)
1966
Box 10, Folder 17
Shatter Cones and Astroblemes. Adapted from a paper read at the Oregon Lunar Geological Field Conference
1966
Box 10, Folder 18
Dietz, R. and J. Holden. Miogeoclines (miogeosynclines) in Space and Time (with replies). Journal of Geology
1966-1968
Box 10, Folder 19
Shatter Cones in Cryptoexplosion Structures. NASA
1966, 1968
Box 10, Folder 20
Craters and Legends. Medical Opinion and Review
1966-1967
Box 10, Folder 21
More About Continental Drift. Sea Frontiers
1967
Box 11, Folder 1
Shatter Cone Orientation at Gosses Bluff Astrobleme. Nature
1967
Box 11, Folder 2
Place of India in Continental Drift Morph Reconstructions
1968
Box 11, Folder 3
Mineral Resources and Power from the Sea (Vast, Vital, Virtually Untapped)
1968
Box 11, Folder 4
Reply to A. A. Meyerhoff's 'Arthur Holmes: Originator of Spreading Sea Floor Hypothesis.' Journal of Geophysics Research
1968
Box 11, Folder 5
Sproll, Walter and R. Dietz. Morphologic Continent Drift Fit of Australia and Antarctica. Nature
1968
Box 11, Folder 6
Dietz, R. and H. J. Knebel. Survey of Ross's Original Deep Sea Sounding Site. Nature
1968
General note
Includes photograph of USCGSS Discoverer attempting a sounding.
Box 11, Folder 7
Shatter Cones and Star Wounds. New Scientist
1968
Box 11, Folder 8
Dietz, R., H. Knebel and L. Somers. Cayar Submarine Canyon. Bulletin Geological Society of America
1968
Box 11, Folder 9
The Origin of Continental Slopes. Nautilus
1968
Box 11, Folder 10
Wave Base. Encyclopedia of Geomorphology
1968
Box 11, Folder 11
Dietz, R. and R. Dill. Down Into the Sea in Ships. Sea Frontiers and Nautilus
1969, 1972
Box 11, Folder 12
Fratture conoidi e ferite stellari. Sapere
1969
Box 11, Folder 13
Ocean Floor in the Decade Ahead. Journal of the Marine Technology Society
1969
Box 11, Folder 14
Ocean Basins and Lunar Seas. Oceans
1969
Box 11, Folder 15
Dietz, R. and H. Knebel. First Deep-Sea Sounding. Sea Frontiers
1969
Box 11, Folder 16
Dietz, R., R. Fudali and W. Cassidy. Richat and Semsiyat Domes, Mauritania: Not Astroblemes. Bulletin Geological Society of
America
1969
Box 11, Folder 17
Dietz, R., J. Holden and W. Sproll. Geotectonic Evolution and Subsidence of Bahama Platform (with reply). Geological Society
of America Abstracts
1969-1970
Box 11, Folder 18
The Underwater Landscape/Mineral Resources and Power. From Exploring the Ocean World, ed. C. P. Idyll (Chapters 2, 8)
1969
Box 12, Folder 1
Dietz, R. and H. Knebel. Cayar and Trou Sans Fond Submarine Canyons and Guinea Nose, Africa. Submitted to SCOR Symposium,
"Geology of the East Atlantic Continental Margin"
1970
Box 12, Folder 2
Dietz, R. and W. Sproll. Fit between Africa and Antarctica: A Continental Drift Reconstruction. Science
1970
Box 12, Folder 3
Von der Borch, C. C., J. R. Conolly, and R. Dietz. Sedimentation and Structure of the Continental Margin in the Vicinity of
the Otway Basin, Southern Australia. Marine Geology
1970
Box 12, Folder 4
Continental Drift in Space and Time. Lecture, Newark State University
1970
Box 12, Folder 5
Dietz, R. and J. Holden. Continental Drift in Space and Time. Submitted to Scientific American
1970
Box 12, Folder 6
Dietz, R. and W. Sproll. East Canary Island as a Microcontinent within the Africa-North America Continental Drift Fit. Nature
1970
Box 12, Folder 7
Dietz, R. and J. Holden. Reconstruction of Pangaea: Breakup and Dispersion of Continents, Permian to Present. Journal of Geophysical
Research
1970
General note
Includes a derivative article on Pangaea published in Scientific American.
Box 12, Folder 8
Conolly, J. R., A. Flavelle and R. Dietz. Continental Margin of the Great Australian Bight. Journal of Marine Geology
1970
Box 12, Folder 9
Dietz, R. and W. Sproll. Overlaps and Underlaps in the North America to Africa Continental Drift Fit
1970
Box 12, Folder 10
Dietz, R. and H. Knebel. Sea Level, Ocean Depth, and Continental Thickness
1970
Box 12, Folder 11
Sea Level, Ocean Depth, and Continent Height: A Symbiosis
1970
General note
Prepared for Harry Hess memorial volume.
Box 12, Folder 12
Dietz, R. and J. Holden. Pre-Mesozoic Oceanic Crust in the Eastern Indian Ocean (Wharton Basin). Nature
1970
Box 12, Folder 13
Sudbury Astrobleme, Splash Emplaced Sublayer and Possible Cosmogenic Ores
1971
General note
Prepared for presentation at annual meeting of the Geological Association of Canada at Sudbury.
Box 12, Folder 14
Freeland, G. and R. Dietz. Plate Tectonic Evolution of Caribbean-Gulf of Mexico Region (with reply). Nature
1971
Box 12, Folder 15
Those Shifty Continents. Sea Frontiers
1971
Box 12, Folder 16
PC-8 Dive #238 in New Providence Channel (not published)
1971
Box 12, Folder 17
Dietz, R. and K. O. Emery. Portrait of a Scientist: Francis Parker Shepard. Earth Science Review/Atlas
1971
Box 12, Folder 18
Dietz, R. and H. Knebel. Trou Sans Fond Submarine Canyon: Ivory Coast, Africa. Deep Sea Research
1971
Box 12, Folder 19
Ocean Basins. Encyclopedia Britannica
1972
Box 12, Folder 20
Galapagos Gore NazCoPac Triple Junction and Carnegie/Cocos Ridges. Nature
1972
Box 13, Folder 1
Geosynclines, Mountains and Continent Building. Scientific American
1972
Box 13, Folder 2
Continents Adrift: New Orthodoxy or Persuasive Joker? (with illustrations by John Holden). NATO Symposium on Continental Drift,
England
1972
Box 13, Folder 3
Plate Tectonics, Sea Floor Spreading, and Continental Drift. Journal of College Science Teaching
1972, 1974
General note
Includes version presented at Proceedings of the 26th Brazilian Geology Congress, Belem.
Box 13, Folder 4
A Question of Priority (letter to the editor, and response). Geotimes
1972
Box 13, Folder 5
Geologic Evolution of New Zealand Platform
1972
Box 13, Folder 6
Sudbury Astrobleme, Splash Emplaced Sub-Layer and Possible Cosmogenic Ores. Geological Association of Canada Special Paper
no. 10
1972
Box 13, Folder 7
Dietz, R. and J. McHone. Laguna Guatavita: Not Meteoritic, Probable Salt Collapse Crater. Meteoritics
1972
Box 13, Folder 8
Dietz, R. and J. C. Holden. Collapsing Continental Rises: Actualistic Concept of Geosynclines (A Review). Society of Economic
Paleontologists and Mineralogists Special Report
1972, 1974
Box 13, Folder 9
Dietz, R. and J. C. Holden. Geophysical Illusions of Continental Drift: A Discussion (reply to Mantura). American Association
of Petroleum Geology Bulletin
1973
Box 13, Folder 10
The Bahamas Enigma. Sea Frontiers
1973
Box 13, Folder 11
New Global Tectonics and 'The New Geometry': Discussion (reply to Mantura). American Association of Petroleum Geology Bulletin
1973
Box 13, Folder 12
Morphologic Fits of North America/Africa and Gondwana: A Review. In D. Tarling and S. Runcorn, eds., Implications of Continental
Drift to Earth
1973
Box 13, Folder 13
Freeland, G. L. and Dietz, R. Rotation History of Alaskan Tectonic Blocks. Tectonophysics
1973
Box 13, Folder 14
Dietz, R. and J. C. Holden. Reconstruction of Pangaea, Breakup and Dispersion of Continents - Permian to Present. In R. G.
Pirie, ed., Oceanography: Contemporary Readings in Ocean Science
1973
Box 13, Folder 15
Dietz, R., J. C. Holden and W. Sproll. Antarctica and Continental Drift. In R. Aide, ed., Antarctic Geology and Geophysics
1973
Box 13, Folder 16
The Oceans from Skylab 4. Sea Frontiers
1974
Box 13, Folder 17
Ocean Wide, Ocean Deep. Industrial Research
1974
Box 13, Folder 18
Dietz, R. and J. McHone. Investigation of Possible Astroblemes in New Jersey and Canada (a Narrative Report)
1974
Box 13, Folder 19
Dietz, R. and J. McHone. Kaaba Stone: Not a Meteorite, Probably an Agate. Meteoritics
1974
Box 13, Folder 20
Dietz, R. and K. O. Emery. Early Days of Marine Geology (1937-1941) - The Way it Was
1975
General note
Reminisces about research on the ship E. W. Scripps and early research at SIO under F. Shepard.
Box 13, Folder 21
Plate Tectonics: A Revolution in Geology and Geophysics
1975
Box 13, Folder 22
Iceland: Where the Mid-Ocean Ridge Bares its Back. Sea Frontiers
1976
Box 14, Folder 1
The Restless Earth
1976-1977
General note
Unpublished manuscript written for German Playboy about climate change and geological evolution.
Box 14, Folder 2
The Present State of Plate Tectonics - Introductory remarks
1977
Box 14, Folder 3
Elgygytgyn Crater, Siberia: Probable Source of Australasian Tektite Field. Meteoritics
1977
Box 14, Folder 4
San Andreas: An Oceanic Fault that Came Ashore. Sea Frontiers
1977
Box 14, Folder 5
Dietz, R. and J. F. McHone. Volcanic Land Forms and Astroblemes. Apollo-Soyuz Test Project Summary Science Report
1977
Box 14, Folder 6
IFO's (Identified Flying Objects).Sea Frontiers
1978
Box 14, Folder 7
Plate Tectonics: Past, Present, and Future. Encyclopedia Britannica Yearbook of Science
1978
Box 14, Folder 8
Target Earth: Meteorite Craters and Astroblemes. Encyclopedia Britannica
1978
Box 14, Folder 9
Breaking the Seal: Bathysphere Dives of William Beebe, 1930-1934. "Grand Premières" Reader's Digest France compilation
1979
Box 14, Folder 10
Dietz, R. and W. von Engelhardt. Non-Random Distribution of Many Terrestrial So-called Impact Structures and its Implications
(a reply to A. R. Crawford). Naturwissenschaften
1979
Box 14, Folder 11
Lambert, P., J. F. McHone, R. Dietz (e. al). Impact and Impact-Like Structures in Algeria. Part II: Multi-Ringed Structures.
Meteoritics
1981
Box 14, Folder 12
Review,
Creation and Evolution: Myth or Reality by Norman Newell. Arizona Republic
1982-1983
Box 14, Folder 13
Dietz, R. and M. Woodhouse. Mediterranean Sub-bottom Giant Salt as a Messinian Precipitate. Presentation
1984
Box 14, Folder 14
Tektites and Terrestrial Meteorite Craters: Possible Associations. Journal of Non-Crystalline Solids
1984
Box 14, Folder 15
Dietz, R. and W. M. Woodhouse. Wave Built Terrace Myth: Resquiescat in Pace. Paper Presented at California Coastal Conference
1986
Box 14, Folder 16
Introduction for Robert Ballard
1988
Box 14, Folder 17
Desiccated-Basin Model for Mediterranean (assorted writings)
1989
Box 14, Folder 18
Age of Rocks or Rocks of Ages?
1990
General note
Draft article for
Geotimes on the International Conference on Creationism (ICC).
Box 14, Folder 19
The Demise of the Dinosaurs: A Mystery Solved? Astronomy
1991
General note
Article about the K/T boundary collide impact.
Box 14, Folder 20
Are We Mining an Asteroid? Article on Sudbury Basin
1991
Box 14, Folder 21
Beaverhead Astrobleme
1991
Box 14, Folder 22
Review of
Challenger at Sea: A Ship that Revolutionized Earth Science by Kenneth Hsu. American Journal of Science
1992
Box 14, Folder 23
Sydney Chapman Memorial Lecture, University of Alaska Fairbanks
1992
Box 14, Folder 24
Earth, Sea, and Sky: Life and Times of a Journeyman Geologist. Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Science
1993
General note
Dietz's biographical reminisces on his research career and personal philosophies.
Box 14, Folder 25
Z.E.U.S.: Recipe for Man's Survival in the 21st Century. ASU Geology Colloquium
1993
Box 14, Folder 26-28
Ark-eology: The Incredulous Discovery of Noah's Ark - Draft and notes for
Geotimes (1993)
1985-1994
General note
Includes a folder of correspondence and press clippings relating to Dietz's response to the CBS special on Noah's ark.
Seven Miles Down: The Story of the Bathyscaph Trieste (1961)
Box 22, Folder 11
Publishing contract
1960 April 13
Realms of the Sea (unpublished)
1957-1970
Box 16, Folder 1-3
Chapter 1 - Bathymetry, ancient islands, origin and geology
Box 16, Folder 4-7
Chapter 2 - Biology, continental drift, sea level spreading, currents and acoustics
Box 16, Folder 8-10
Chapter 3 - Continental margins and physical oceanography
Box 17, Folder 1-2
Chapter 5 - Ocean basins and sediments
Box 17, Folder 3
Chapters 7-8 - Resources and physical oceanography
Box 17, Folder 4
Chapters 9-10 - Deep scattering layer
Creation/Evolution Satiricon: Creationism Bashed (1987)
Box 17, Folder 9
Photocopies of annotations in Bible
Box 17, Folder 10-13
Typescript manuscript
1984-1985
Box 18, Folder 1-4
Typescript manuscript
1987
Box 18, Folder 8
USSR oceanography delegation visit to US
1965 October
Box 18, Folder 10
Vadimecum Satiricon II
1987 September-December
Box 18, Folder 13
Meteoritical Society/ICR short course/Earthquakes
1988
Box 19, Folder 1
GSA/Notes on creation and evolution
1989-1990
Box 19, Folder 2
Notes
1990
General note
Topics as follows: 1. Notes, 2. LPSC Houston, 3. China trip, 3A. Indian Ocean PT for ODP Germany, 4. Amber from petrified
forest, 5. Organic matter K/T, 6. Amber, 7. Carlisle K/T boundary, 8. Basalt plateaus.
Box 19, Folder 3
International Conference on Creationism (Pittsburg)/GSA
1990-1993
SUBJECT AND RESEARCH FILES
Scope and Content of Series
Series 5) SUBJECT AND RESEARCH FILES: Assorted files documenting Dietz's research interests over time, though they are not
exhaustive or necessarily representative of original scientific research. Major themes include Soviet oceanography, creationism,
continental drift, geomorphology, meteor impact craters, the Sudbury basin, and important single folders on Project Mohole
and Francis P. Shepard.
Oversize FB-549, Folder 14
Arctic cruise - Nautilus track graph data
1961
Box 19, Folder 4
Arizona - State rock and fossil (petrified wood) proposals
Box 19, Folder 5
Arizona State University, Museum of Geology - Petrified wood installation
1990-1994
Box 19, Folder 6
Bahama Nexxus (BNX)
1982-1987
General note
Includes slides of Dietz.
Box 19, Folder 7-15
Barringer Crater Company
1961-1975
General note
Includes extensive correspondence.
Box 20, Folder 1
Barringer meteor crater - Composite bibliography
1969
Box 20, Folder 3-4
Earthquakes - Notes
1985-1986
Box 20, Folder 6
Historical recognition of astroblemes - Notes for GSA
1994
Box 20, Folder 7
HMS Affray wreck - Photographs
1951
Box 20, Folder 8
Hudson Bay and Nastapoka Arc
1972
General note
Includes detailed letter describing 11-day expedition by J. Paul Barringer; memoranda about a possible impact site in Canada.
Box 20, Folder 9-10
International Conference on Creationism, Pittsburgh
1990
General note
Includes papers and abstracts. Used as a topic for Dietz's writings discrediting creationist "science."
Box 20, Folder 11
K/T impact crater and dinosaur demise
ca. 1990
General note
Includes photo of Dietz with John F. McHone.
Box 21, Folder 1
Operation Highjump, Navy/Byrd Antarctic Expedition
1947
General note
Includes photographs and a letter by Dietz.
Box 21, Folder 2
Project Mohole - Post-mortem file
1960-1962, 1989
General note
Includes a 1989 "historical note" memo by Dietz explaining his opposition to the Mohole research, and notes from the National
Academy of Sciences-National Research Council, Committee on Oceanography, from 1961 April.
Box 21, Folder 3
Project Mohole - Clippings
1960-1968
Box 21, Folder 5
Shepard, Francis P.
1985-1993
General note
Extensive biographical file, including photographs and recollections of Shepard prepared for his memorial service.
Box 21, Folder 6-9
Soviet (USSR) astroblemes and meteorite research
1972-1979
General note
Includes Russian reprints, papers on the Zhamanshin crater, and correspondence from P. V. Florensky.
Box 21, Folder 10
Soviet (USSR) oceanography research
1959-1965
General note
Includes photographs of Russian oceanographers and research centers.
Box 21, Folder 11
Spokane, WA historic floods
1993
Box 22, Folder 1-4
Sudbury Basin
1962-1987
General note
Includes photographs.
Box 22, Folder 5
Sudbury Conference on Large Meteorite Impacts and Planetary Evolution
1992
Box 22, Folder 6
Triton consulting
1968-1968
Box 22, Folder 7
Trou Sans Fond submarine canyon - Correspondence and data
1958-1968
Box 22, Folder 8
U.S. Navy Electronics Lab photographs
ca. 1950-1970
General note
Assorted black and white prints, mostly 8x10, of coastlines, specimens, figures and underwater research. May include some
photographs by Dietz.