Robert L. Fisher Papers
Scope and Content of Collection
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Biographies undated
Newspaper clippings
Education ca. 1952-1957
Academic bio-bibliographies 1950-1987
Certificates 1953
CORRESPONDENCE
Chronologically sorted correspondence
1950 January-1965 February
1965 March-1973 May
1973 June-1979 September
1979 October-1986 December
1987 January-1996 May
1996 June-2002 December
2003 January-2013 November
undated
Agapova, Galina (Institute of Physics of the Earth, USSR Academy of Sciences) 1976-2006
Alexander, E.C. (UC Berkeley Department of Physics) 1972-1974
Allison, Edwin C. (Museum of Paleontology, University of California) 1957-1967
Andreason, Christian (International Hydrographic Bureau) 1992-1996
de Baissac, Jean B. 1962-1991
Baker, F.W.G. (ICSU) 1972-1973
Behrman, Daniel (UNESCO) 1968-1987
Bergh, Hugh (Bernard Price Institute of Geophysical Research) 1975-1996
Bloomer, Sherman 1980-1998
Bogdanoff, Alexei (Subcomission, Tectonic Map of the World, Moscow University) 1966-1971
Chavez, Carmen 1981-2006
Delaloye, Michel 1984-1987
Dick, Henry (WHOI) 1977-2012
Engel, Celeste 1977-2002
Falconer, Robin (GeoResearch Associates) 1983-2004
Frankel, Henry 2006-2012
Geli, Louis (INFREMER Centre de Brest) 1998-2000
Goodwillie, Andrew 2001-2008
Goslin, Jean (GEBCO) 1981-1986
Harper, Brian 1996-2011
Heezen, Bruce (Lamont Geological Observatory, Columbia University) 1962-1966
Howorth, Elizabeth 1961-1968
Jantsch, Marie 1963-1972
Johnson, Leonard 1962-1967
Kapoor, D.C. (Indian Navy) 1981
Koppes, Steve 2006-2011
Laughton, Anthony (National Institute of Geology) 1961-2005
Lawver, Lawrence 1980-1990
Markl, Rudi (Lamont-Doherty Geological Observatory) 1974-1981
Matthews, Drum (University of Cambridge Department of Geodesy and Geophysics) 1963-1990
Maxwell, Arthur (University of Texas at Austin Institute for Geophysics) 1963-2004
Melson, William (National Museum of Natural History) 1971-1975
Menard, Henry William 1963-1989
Nasu, Noriyuki (University of Tokyo) 1962-2010
Nierenberg, William 1966-1985
Patriat, Philippe (Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris) 1987-1992
Revelle, Roger 1979-1989
Riedel, William 1977-2013
Rowland, Robert 2002-2006
Schenke, Hans Werner (Institute for Polar and Marine Research) 2003-2011
Schlich, Roland (Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris) 1970-2012
Sclater, John 1965-2009
Scott, Mary and Desmond 1977-2012
Scott, Mary and Desmond (cont.) 1977-2012
Shor, Betty and George 1969-1981
Simpson, E.S.W. (University of Cape Town Institute of Oceanography) 1969-1985
Louis Slichter 1966-1967
Stewart, Harris (U.S. Department of Commerce Office of Oceanography) 1958-1995
Talwani, Manik (Lamont-Doherty Geological Observatory, Columbia University) 1965-1976
Thyfault, Jean 1969-2006
Udintsev, Gleb (Academy of Sciences USSR Institute of Oceanography) 1962-2005
Venkatarathnam, Kolla 1967-1977
Von Herzen, Richard 1963-1967
Wolff, Torben (Universitetets Zoologiske Museum) 1964-1977
Yashima, Kunio 1994-2011
Deep-Sea Research journal 1967-1976
Dredging techniques 1969-1990
Encyclopedia of Geology undated
Geological/Geophysical Atlases of the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO 1979-1991
Geology, nomenclature and standards 1984-1987
Geological Survey of Japan 1997-2000
H.M.A.S Diamantina 1958-1973
H.M.A.S Kimbla 1968-1969
Krauss, John A. 1961
Marine geological material curation, standards and abbreviations 1959-1974
Matkin CHALLENGER Letters Publication Project 1987-1993
Melville Bank, undersea name proposal 1980
Mosaic magazine, National Science Foundation 1980-1981
Oak Summit Vineyard 2000-2012
Ocean-Wide Survey, National Research Council 1960
Ocean Floor Relief Project 1974-1980
Ophiolites 1977-1980
Owen Bank, undersea name proposal 1981-1982
"Petrological Study of Plutonic and Extrusive Rocks from Rapidly-Spreading Mid-Oceanic Ridges" - NSF project proposal 1984-1985
Quartz, microphotographs 1950-1959
R/V Alpha Helix 1979-1980
R/V Flinders 1969-1970
R/V Horizon 1961-1964
R/V New Horizon 1974-1980
R/V Roger Revelle 1996
Ritter Hall 1985-2001
Rocas Alijos Project 1989-12007
Saint Pierre Bank, undersea name proposal 1980
Scientific American 1966-1973
SEASAT SAR, satellite imaging of Gulf of California 1978
Shoals of Capricorn Programme 1997-2000
St. Lawrence Island, Alaska ca. 1949
"Structural and Petrologic Study of the Antarctic Plate Boundary in the Southwesternmost Indian Ocean: Field Program" - NSF project proposal 1981
Udintzev, G.B. 1960
Who's Who 1965-2005
Yap Trench 1997-2000
Zatonsky, L.K. 1961
Adventurer's Club 2004
Alfred Wegener-Institut fur Polar und Meeresforschung 1994-1998
American Geophysical Union 1992-2000
American Men and Women of Science 1959-1994
American Miscellaneous Society ca. 1952-1966
Ancient Mariners 1997-2007
Arctic Institute of North America 1957-1966
Australian Antarctic Division 1996-2000
Australian Geological Survey Organization 1987-2000
Beach Erosion Board 1950
British Oceanographic Data Centre 1989-2008
British Oceanographic Data Centre (cont.) 1989-2008
Caltech Alumni Association 1964-2008
The Challenger Society 1973-2010
Committee on Oceanography, National Research Council 1959-1961
Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) 1995-2000
l'Ecole et Observatoire des Sciences de la Terre 1987-2004
Explorers Club, general information and correspondence (cont.) 1988-2013
Explorers Club, annual dinners 1984-2013
The Geological Society 1984
Geological Society of America 1970-1978
Hydrographic Committee on Antarctica, IHO 1986-1998
Hydrographic Service, Royal Australian Navy 1962-2003
Indo-U.S. Sub-commission on Science and Technology 1978-1983
Institute of Oceanographic Sciences 1989-2001
Interagency Committee on Oceanography 1960-1961
International Decade of Ocean Exploration (IDOE) 1970-1976
IDOE Southeast Asia Program 1974-1975
International Hydrographic Organization 1992-2000
International Upper Mantle Committee 1965-1975
IOC-Editorial Board on the International Bathymetric Chart of the Western Indian Ocean (IBCWIO) 1984-2003
Lamont-Doherty Geological Observatory of Columbia University 1987-1995
Mauritius Oceanography Institute 2000-2004
Ministry of Geology, People's Republic of China 1978-1985
National Geographic Society 1983-2013
National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research 1997-1998
National Science Foundation
General information and correspondence ca. 1976-1988
NSF reviews - Research proposals 1972-1990
NSF reviews - Research proposals (cont.) 1972-1990
Summary of grants awarded with Fisher as Principal Investigator 1960-1975
Ocean Drilling Program, Texas A&M University 1972-1983
Ocean Policy Committee, OSU Marine Science Center 1979
The Oceanography Society 1988-2004
Office of Marine Sciences and Technology Affairs 1980-1983
Office of Naval Research
General information and correspondence ca. 1965-1977
General information and correspondence ca. 1977-1987
Progress reports 1952-1959
Progress reports (cont.) 1952-1959
Office of Science and Technology, South African Consulate-General 1982-1985
The Royal Society 1964-2003
Scripps Industrial Associates 1965-1976
Sigma Xi 1997-2013
SIO Centennial Books Committee 1998-2002
Soviet Geophysical Committee 1960-1961
South African Hydrographic Office 1981-2000
"Tectonics of the Southern Ocean" - Research project sponsored by MIT 1981-1984
Territoire des Terres Australes et Antarctiques Francaises (TAAF) 1986-1995
U.S.-Japan Cooperative Science Program 1962-1963
U.S. Board on Geographic Names 1978-2003
U.S. Board on Geographic Names (cont.) 1978-2003
U.S. Civil Service Commission 1955-1958
U.S. Geological Survey 1950-1974
U.S. Naval Oceanographic Office 1965-1976
United Kingdom Hydrographic Office 1962-1996
University-National Oceanographic Laboratory System (UNOLS)
General information and correspondence 1970-1979
Annual meetings and workshops 1974-1979
Annual meetings and workshops (cont.) 1974-1979
University of Texas at Austin Institute for Geophysics 1988-1990
Working Group on Atlases, SCOR 1963-1965
Working Group on Improved Global Bathymetry, SCOR 1996-1997
Working Group on Morphological Mapping of the Ocean Floor, SCOR 1972-1975
Wright Paleohydrological Institute 2002-2012
Assorted correspondence 1974-1994
Michel Huet - Correspondence 1995-2013
Dmitri Travin - Correspondence 2001-2003
Robert Whitmarsh - Correspondence 2001-2010
Robert Whitmarsh - Correspondence 2001-2010
Undersea name proposals 1997-2000
Standards and terms 1996-2000
List of geographical names 1985
International lexicons 1983-1993
International conference on Maritime Terminology Issues in Communication and Translation 1998 May 15-16
Centenary meeting 2003 April 10-17
Officers meetings 1984-2002
Guiding Committee 1967-2011
Guiding Committee 1967-2011
Sub-Committee on Geographical Names and Nomenclature of Ocean Bottom Features (GN/NOBF) 1975-1991
Sub-Committee on Geographical Names and Nomenclature of Ocean Bottom Features (GN/NOBF) (cont.) 1975-1991
Sub-Committee on Undersea Feature Names (SCUFN) (cont. i) 1991-2011
Sub-Committee on Undersea Feature Names (SCUFN) (cont. ii) 1991-2011
Gazetteer and Standardization of Undersea Feature Names (BP-0008) 1988, 2004
Fifth edition 1979-1991
MARINE OPERATIONS COMMITTEE (MOC)
General information and correspondence 1975-1983
General information and correspondence 1975-1983
Nimitz Marine Facility (MarFac) 1978-1985
U.C. Ship Funding Panel 1974-1981
Alpha Helix Program 1976-1985
Funding and expenditures 1971-1980
Daily ship rates 1977-1997
Ship operational schedules 1959-1974
Ship schedules 1964-1977
Meeting minutes 1967-1993
Meeting minutes 1967-1993
Shipboard alcohol policy 1959-1980
Ship formulas 1976-1977
Ship Maintenance Subcommittee 1978
Reports 1978
Safety 1980
Chief scientist's manuals 1975-1982
Miscellaneous conferences and symposiums ca. 1958-1960
"The Crust of the Earth" - Department of Geology, Columbia University 1954 October 14-16
Congreso Geologico Internacional, XX Sesion Mexico 1956
Third meeting, Special Committee on Oceanic Research (SCOR) 1959 August 29-30
India - Miscellaneous 1964-1966
Second International Oceanographic Congress 1966 May 30-June 9
Symposium on Igneous and Metamorphic Rocks from the Deep Sea Drilling Project 1973
25th Reunion of the SIO Expedition Cruises 1975 August 17
IDOE Workshop, Fiji 1975 September 1-6
International Conference on the Nature of the Oceanic Crust 1975 December 4-6
Workshop on Problems of Scientific Research in the Third U.N. Law of the Sea Conference 1976 January 15
25th International Geological Congress 1976 August 16-25
Third U.N. Conference on the Law of the Sea 1978 March
Tectonics of the Southwest Pacific Margins - IUGG General Assembly 1979
5th CIBCASIO annual reunion 1979 November 2-3
Symposium in Honor of Sir Edward Bullard 1980 January 11-12
The Generation of the Oceanic Lithosphere - AGU Chapman Conference 1981 April 6-10
Workshop on Vourinos-Guevgueli Ophiolites 1983 June 2-10
Ophiolites and Lithosphere of Marginal Seas - Field meeting in Hatay, Turkey 1985 May
Marine Geophysics: A Navy Symposium in honor of the 80th birthdays of Russell W. Raitt and Victor Vacquier 1986 October 16
Chemistry and Our Environment: Science and Public Policy - Symposium honoring Edward D. Goldberg 1989 August 11
A Celebration in Honor of Russell Raitt and Victor Vacquier 1992 October 13
Fifth International Congress on the History of Oceanography 1993 July 7-14
National Academy of Sciences Colloquium on Carbon Dioxide and Climate Change 1995 November 13-15
Remembering Roger 1999 March 7
50th Reunion of the SIO Expedition Cruises 2000 September 30
SIO Centennial events 2003
Drake Medal reception honoring Dr. Robert Fisher, WHOI and the Ocean Studies Board 2004 July 7
Roger Revelle 100th Birthday Celebration 2009 March 5-7
Miscellaneous
Assorted conversion tables, indices and charts for work at sea undated
Oceanographic equipment ca. 1960-1969
Robert Fisher dredge hauls 1952-1996
Miscellaneous cruise dates and tracks 1952-1980
Miscellaneous SIO expeditions - Memoranda and announcements 1955-1969
Miscellaneous SIO expeditions - Memoranda and announcements (cont.) 1955-1969
Miscellaneous expedition logs 1960-1971
Expedition funding and budgets 1962-1964
Miscellaneous SIO expeditions - Memoranda and announcements 1971-1984
Miscellaneous SIO cruise operations 1978
Miscellaneous fathograms ca. 1960-1969
Miscellaneous fathograms (cont.) ca. 1960-1969
Earthquake epicenters 1948-1956
List of SIO expeditions 1950-1954
Research permits and legal issues, Mexico 1977-1979
Guadalupe Island 1951
Shellback Expedition 1952
Cedros Deep 1952
TORO Expedition 1953
Northern Holiday Expedition 1954
Yo-Yo Cruise 1954
Acapulco Trench Expedition (Chubasco) 1954
France-Spain Beach Studies 1955
San Benito Islands Expedition 1955-1956
Acapulco Geological Expedition 1956
Turtle Bay Relief Expedition 1956
Vermilion Sea Expedition 1959
Naga Expedition 1959
Zephyrus Expedition 1962
RRS Discovery, Mauritius 1964
DODO Expedition 1964
STYX Expedition 1968 April
SCOR Working Group 15 Sea Trials 1968 April-1968 May
Conversion graphs 1969
Expedition SCAN 1969 February
R/V Melville maiden voyage 1969 September 2-1969 November 16
Expedition Eurydice 1974-1975
Expedition Eurydice 1974-1975
R/V Dmitry Mendeleev, IGCP Working Group on Ophiolites 1976 June-1976 August
Indian Ocean Triple Junction dredging cruise, R/V Atlantis II 1976
Mariana Expedition ca. 1978
Atlantis II 1980
Rama Expedition 1980-1981
Western Indian Ocean 1980 August
Mariana Trench survey 1982
Boomerang Expedition 1996
Multi-sock Sediment Trap
Correspondence 1958
Sediment trap data 1950
Sediment trap report and data 1950-1951
Charts and graphs 1950-1951
Sediment trap mechanical analyses 1951-1952
Sediment trap mechanical analyses (cont.) 1951-1952
Capricorn Expedition
General information and correspondence 1952-1953
Dredging 1952-1953
Report 1953
Photographs 1952
Transpac Expedition
General information and correspondence 1952-1953
Emperor Hirohito's visit 1975
Photographs 1953
Downwind Expedition
General information and correspondence 1957-1958
Report ca. 1958
Photographs 1958
Monsoon Expedition
General information and correspondence 1960-1961
Radio messages 1960-1961
Log 1960-1961
Ship schedules 1958-1960
Dredging 1960-1961
International Indian Ocean Expedition (IIOE)
General information, correspondence and reports 1960-1965
SIO involvement 1960-1964
Purchase orders, requisitions and invoices 1962-1968
Reports 1960-1964
USC&GS Ship Pioneer 1964
Bulletins 1962-1968
Intercalibration Report ca. 1960-1969
International data exchange 1961-1965
Indian Ocean Working Group, SCOR 1959-1962
Working Group on the Geology and Geophysics, National Committee on the International Indian Ocean Expedition 1960-1961
U.S. Program in Biology for the International Indian Ocean Expedition 1961
IIOE Meteorology Program 1961-1966
Australian program 1961-1974
British program 1962-1964
Japanese program 1962-1964
South African program 1963-1964
German program 1965
Indian Ocean Biological Centre 1962-1965
R/V Vityaz, USSR 1964
IIOE First Meeting of Editorial Committee for Bathymetry 1968 January 6-11
IIOE Second Meeting of Editorial Committee for Bathymetry 1968 July 22-24
Geological-Geophysical Atlas 1969-1974
Geological-Geophysical Atlas (cont.) 1969-1974
Geological Investigations of the Indian Ocean 1974
Plaque undated
LUSIAD Expedition
General information and correspondence 1962-1963
Itinerary and ship scheduling 1961-1962
Radio messages 1962
Personnel 1962-1963
International consulates 1962
International customs and clearances 1962
Expedition log 1962
Dredging 1962
Data report 1962-1963
PROA Expedition 1962
General information and correspondence 1962
Radio messages 1962
Log 1962
Dredging 1962
Photographs 1962
Tape recordings notes 1962
NOVA Expedition
General information and correspondence 1966-1968
Radio messages 1967
Dredging 1967
Photographs 1967
Film-related materials 1969
Expedition CIRCE
General information and correspondence 1968-1969
Itinerary 1968-1969
Radio messages 1968-1969
Log 1968-1969
Personnel 1968-1969
Rock samples, notes and calculations ca. 1968
Dredging 1968-1969
Air gun profiles 1968
Reunion field notes 1968
Film 1969-1970
Publicity 1968-1969
Igneous Rocks Dredged from the Mid-Indian Ocean Ridge 1968
Quebrada Expedition
General information and correspondence 1969
Radio messages 1969
Dredging 1969
Seven-Tow Expedition
General information and correspondence 1970
Radio messages 1970
Dredging 1970
Antipode Expedition
General information and correspondence 1970-1974
Radio messages 1970-1973
Itinerary 1970-1971
Dredging 1971-1973
Ship log 1970
Budget and funding 1970-1972
Personnel lists 1970-1971
Press releases and news 1970-1972
Final Technical Report 1972
Photographs 1970
Film 1971-1973
INDOMED Expedition 1978
General information and correspondence 1977-1980
Radio messages 1978
Budget and funding 1977-1978
Samples and graphs, Leg 8 1978
Photographs 1978
PROTEA Expedition 1983-1984
General information and correspondence 1983-1984
Correspondence, post-cruise 1984-1990
Reports and data requests 1984-1986
Radio messages 1983-1984
Dredge hauls 1984
Program data reduction 1984
Personnel lists 1984
Cape Town reception 1984 February
Proteaceae 1984
Shipboard Description and Inventory of Rocks Dredged on PROTEA Expedition, Leg 5, in Southwest Indian Ocean 1985
Prospectus 1972
Correspondence 1972
Bunce, Elizabeth T. (WHOI) 1973-1975
Dmitriev, Leonid V. (Vernadsky Institute of Geochemistry) 1972-1974
Personnel 1971-1972
Publicity and press releases 1972
Site surveys 1972-1974
Indian Ocean Panel 1968-1973
Scientific Advisory Committee 1971-1972
Shipboard handbook 1972
Coring summaries 1972-1973
Air gun profiles 1971
Air gun profiles undated
Leg 24 "hard rocks" 1972
Mineralogy data 1972-1974
Magnetic readings, DSDP Geophysical Log 1972
Rock analyses 1974
Leg 24 Summary Report 1972
Writings 1972-1974
Introductory chapter for initial report 1973
Photographs 1972
Oceanography 221 - Problems in Submarine Geology 1956
Oceanography 254 - Problems in Marine Geology 1959
Oceanographic Training Course, UNESCO-CSIR 1966 January 20-March 7
Exam notes ca. 1948-1952
"Bamboo Curtain" television show 1959
Topographic Heat Flow Studies in Seven Micronesian and Melanesian Trenches - AGU meeting 1967
Seafloor Topography in Turbulent Times: Initiation and Oversight - First International Conference on Maritime Terminology 1988 May 15
Student groups 1965-1976
Papers
Miscellaneous manuscript reviews 1969-1986
Sieve Analysis of Samples from a Cuspate Foreland 1950
Poole, D.M., R.L. Fisher and W.S. Butcher. "The Use and Accuracy of the Emery Settling Tube for Sand Analysis" 1951
Fisher, Robert L. and Roger Revelle. "A Deep Sounding from the Southern Hemisphere" 1954
On the Sounding of Trenches 1954
Raitt, Russel W., Robert L. Fisher and Ronald G. Wason. "The Tonga Trench" 1954
Morimoto, Ryohei, Robert L. Fisher and Noriyuki Nasu. "Bathymetry and Petrography of the Bayonnaise Rocks, Japan" 1955
Cuspate Spits of St. Lawrence Island, Alaska 1955
Fisher, Robert L. and Roger Revelle. "The Giant Furrows of the Pacific" 1955
Kuna, Hisashi, Robert L. Fisher and Noriyuki Nasu. "Rock Fragments and Pebbles Dredged Near Jimmu Seamount Northwestern Pacific" 1955
Rock Fragments and Pebbles Dredged in the Northwestern Pacific 1955
Fisher, Robert L. and Roger Revelle. "The Trenches of the Pacific" 1955
Fisher, Robert L. and George G. Shor, Jr. "Topography and Structure of the Middle America Trench" 1956
Carsola, A.J. and Robert L. Fisher. "Deep-Sea Bathymetry North of Point Baron" ca. 1957
Menard, Henry W. and Robert L. Fisher. "Clipperton Fracture Zone in the North East Equatorial Pacific" 1958
Fisher, R.L., A.J. Carsola and G. Shumway. "Deep-Sea Bathymetry North of Point Barrow" 1958
Fisher, Robert L. and H.H. Hess. "Trenches," The Sea: Vol. III 1959-1962
Fisher, Robert L. and Robert M. Norris. "Bathymetry and Geology of Sala y Gomez, Southeast Pacific" 1960
Shor, George G. and Robert L. Fisher. "The Middle America Trench: Seismic Refraction Studies" 1960
Monsoon Expedition 1960
Carsola, A.J., R.L. Fisher, C.J. Shipek and George Shumway. "Bathymetry of the Beaufort Sea" 1961
Middle America Trench: Topography and Structure 1961
Pacific Ocean - McGraw-Hill Yearbook of Science and Technology 1962
Submarine Geology of the Pacific - Yearbook of the McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology 1962
Fisher, Robert L. and Russell W. Raitt. "Topography and Structure of the Peru-Chile Trench," Deep-Sea Research 1962
Fisher, Robert L. and Francis P. Shepard. "Bathymetry and Faults of the Gulf of California" 1963
Bathymetry and Geology of St. Paul Island, Southern Indian Ocean ca. 1963
Helfer, M.D., Michele Caputo and R.L. Fisher. "Gravity Measurements in the Indonesian Archipelago, Jan. 1963 - Feb. 1963" 1963
Rusnak, Gene A., Robert L. Fisher and Francis P. Shepard. "Bathymetry and Faults of Gulf of California" 1964
Fisher, Rusnak and Shepard. "Marine Geology of Gulf of California" 1964
Rusnak, Gene A. and Robert L. Fisher. "Structural History and Evolution of the Gulf of California" 1964
Fisher, Robert L., A.E. Engel and Celeste G. Engel. "Igneous Rocks of the Indian Ocean Floor" 1965
The Median Ridge in the South Central Indian Ocean 1965
Fisher, Robert L., G. Leonard Johnson and Bruce C. Heezen. "Structural Trends in the West Central Indian Ocean" 1966
Fisher, Robert L., G.L. Johnson and B.C. Heezen. "Mascarene Plateau, Western Indian Ocean," Geological Society of America Bulletin 1967
Fisher, Robert L., Celeste G. Engel and Thomas W.C. Hilde. "Basalts Dredged from the Amirante Ridge, Western Indian Ocean," Deep-Sea Research 1968
Engel, Celeste G. and Robert L. Fisher. "Lherzolite, Anorthosite, Gabbro, and Basalt Dredged from the Mid-Indian Ocean Ridge" 1969
Laughton, A.S., D.H. Matthews and R.L. Fisher. "The Structure of the Indian Ocean," The Sea: Vol. IV 1969
Fisher, Robert L. and Celeste G. Engel. "Ultramafic and Basaltic Rocks Dredged from the Nearshore Flank of the Tonga Trench" 1969
Sclater, J.G., U. Ritter, W. Hilton, L. Meinke and R.L. Fisher. "Charts of Residual Magnetic Field Plotted Along Track for the Indian Ocean" 1971
Fisher, Robert L., John G. Sclater and Dan P. McKenzie. "Evolution of the Central Indian Ridge, Western Indian Ocean," Geological Society of America Bulletin 1971
Fisher, Robert L. and Paul J. Liebertz. "Deep-Sea Rock Dredging" 1972
Part II: Seychelles Bank to Port Louis, Mauritius 1972 June 5-26
Sclater, John G. and Robert L. Fisher. "Evolution of the East Central Indian Ocean, with Emphasis on the Tectonic Setting of the Ninetyeast Ridge," Geological Society of America Bulletin 1974
Pacific Margins: Topography and Bathymetry - The Geology of Continental Margins 1974
Helms, Phyllis B., Robert L. Fisher, Warren L. Smith and Marie Z. Jantsch, "Surveys of Four Sites in the Tropical Western Indian Ocean as Preparation for Deep Sea Drilling Project Leg 24" 1974
Fisher, R.L., E.T. Bunce, et al. "Trace Element Compositions of Leg 24 Basalts and One Diabase" 1974
Engel, Celeste G. and Robert L. Fisher. "Granitic to Ultramafic Rock Complexes of the Indian Ocean Ridge System, Western Indian Ocean" 1975
Batiza, R., B. Rosendahl and R.L. Fisher. "Petrology and Geochemistry of Basalts from the Siqueiros Fracture Zone Area" 1975
Mammerickx, J., R.L. Fisher, F.J. Emmel and S.M. Smith. "Bathymetry of the East and Southeast Asian Seas" 1976
Shepard, F.P., N.F. Marshell, P.A. McLoughlin and R.L. Fisher. "Sediment Waves (Giant Ripples) Transverse to the West Coast of Mexico" 1976
Pacific-Type Continental Margins 1977
Batiza, A., B.R. Rosendahl and R.L. Fisher. "Evolution of Oceanic Crust: Petrology and Chemistry of Basalts from the East Pacific Rise and the Siqueiros Transform Fault" 1977
Sclater, John G., Robert L. Fisher, Christopher Tapscott. "The Southwest Indian Ridge from 55'E to the Indian Ocean Triple Junction" 1978
Hedge, Carl E., Kiyoto Futa, Celeste G. Engel and Robert L. Fisher. "Rare Earth Abundances and Rb-Sr Systematics of Basalts, Gabbro, Anorthosite and Minor Granitic Rocks from the Indian Ocean Ridge System, Western Indian Ocean" 1979
Agapova, G.V., A.V. Beljaev, A.V. Perevozchikov, M.V. Rudenko and R.L. Fisher. "Geomorphology of the Floor and Structure of the First Layer of Oceanic Crust" 1980
Goslin, Jean, Jacques Segoufin, Roland Schlich and Robert L. Fisher. "Submarine Topography and Shallow Structure of the Madagascar Ridge, Western Indian Ocean" 1980
Tapscott, Christopher, Philippe Patriat, Robert Fisher, et al. "The Indian Ocean Triple Junction" 1980
Sclater, John G., Robert L. Fisher, Philippe Patriat, et al. "Eocene to Recent Development of the Southwest Indian Ridge, a Consequence of the Evolution of the Indian Ocean Triple Junction" 1981
Fisher, Robert L. and John G. Sclater. "Late Cretaceous to Present Development of the Southwest Indian Ridge: The Relation of the Madagascar Ridge and Crozet Plateau" 1981
Dick, Henry J.B., Robert L. Fisher and Thomas Bullen. "Mineralogy and Composition of Abyssal Versus Alpine-Type Peridotites" 1981
Dick, Henry J.B. and Robert L. Fisher. "Mineralogy and Composition of Abyssal Peridotites" 1982
Fisher, Robert L. and John G. Sclater. "Tectonic Evolution of the Southwest Indian Ocean Since the Mid-Cretaceous: Plate Motions and Stability of the Pole of Antarctica/Africa for at Least 80 Million Years" 1982
Stakes, Debra S., Hugh P. Taylor and Robert L. Fisher. "Oxygen Isotope and Geochemical Characterization of Hydrothermal Alteration in Ophiolite Complexes and Modern Oceanic Crust" 1983
Fisher, Robert L. "Tectonic Evolution of the Southwest Indian Ocean Since the Mid-Cretaceous: Plate Motions and Stability of the Pole of Antarctic/Africa For at Least 80 Myr" 1983
Dick, Henry J.B., Robert L. Fisher and Wilfred B. Bryan. "Mineralogic Variability of the Uppermost Mantle Along Mid-Ocean Ridges" 1984
Dick, Henry J.B. and Robert L. Fisher. "Mineralogic Studies of the Residues of Mantle Melting: Abyssal and Alpine-Type Peridotites" 1984
Fisher, Robert L., Henry J.B. Dick, James H. Natland and Peter S. Meyer. "Mafic/ultramafic suites of the slowly spreading Southwest Indian Ridge: PROTEA Exploration of the Antarctic Plate Boundary" 1985
Driscoll, M.L., Robert L. Fisher and Barry Parsons. "Seasat Altimetry and Bathymetry Over the Southwest Indian Ridge" 1985
Fracture Zone Trends and Structure at the Southwest Indian Ridge: An Investigation Using Seasat Altimetry and Surface-Ship Bathymetry 1986
Bloomer, Sherman H. and Robert L. Fisher. "Petrology and Geochemistry of Igneous Rocks from the Tonga Trench: A Non-Accreting Plate Boundary" 1986
Mahoney, J.J., J.H. Natland, W.M. White, et al. "Isotopic and Geochemical Provinces of the Western Indian Ocean Spreading Centers" 1987
A Proposal for Modesty 1987
Bloomer, Sherman H. and Robert L. Fisher. "Arc Volcanic Rocks Characterize the Landward Slope of the Philippine Trench off Northeastern Mindanao" 1988
Bloomer, Sherman H., Robert L. Fisher and James W. Hawkins. "Igneous and Metamorphic Rocks from the Southern Mariana Trench: A Trench-Trench Transform Boundary" 1988
Bloomer, Sherman H., James H. Natland and Robert L. Fisher. "Mineral Relationships in Gabbroic Rocks from Fracture Zones of Indian Ocean Ridges: Evidence for Extensive Fractionation, Parental Diversity, And Boundary-Layer Recrystallization" 1988
Natland, James H., Sherman H. Bloomer, Robert L. Fisher, et al. "Petrogenesis of Abyssal Tholeiites from the Indian Ocean" 1988
le Roex, Anton P., Henry J.B. Dick and Robert Fisher. "Petrology and Geochemistry of MORB from 25 degrees East to 46 degrees East Along the Southwest Indian Ridge: Evidence for Contrasting Styles of Mantle Enrichment" 1988
Mahoney, J., A.P. Le Roex, Z. Peng, R.L. Fisher and J.H. Natland. "Southwestern Limits of Indian MORB Mantle and the Origin of Low 206 Pb/204 Pb MORB: Isotope Systematics of the Central Southwest Indian Ridge" 1992
Deep-Sea Trench, McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology 1994
Fisher, Robert L. and Edward D. Goldberg. "Henry William Menard" 1994
Sclater, John G., Marc Munschy, Robert L. Fisher, et al. "Geophysical Synthesis of the Indian/Southern Oceans: Part 1, The Southwest Indian Ocean" 1997
Fisher, Robert L. and Andrew M. Goodwillie. "The Physiography of the Southwest Indian Ridge" 1997
Meanwhile, Back on the Surface: Further Notes on the Sounding of Trenches 2009
Bathymetry undated
Granitic Rocks from the Argo Fracture Zone undated
Reports
Office of Naval Research reports 1960-1967
Maximum Depths/Soundings of Principal and Notable Ocean Deeps 2009 June
Notes
Annotated bibliography ca. 1940-1950
Breakers and Surf - Annotated report 1944
CalTech class notes ca. 1948
CalTech class notes (cont.) ca. 1948
St. Lawrence Island field notes 1949
Mineral deposits 1950
Northwestern University class notes ca. 1950
Marine geophysics ca. 1950
SIO class notes 1950-1954
Sounding sources ca. 1950-1959
Equations and conditions 1951
Marine sediments 1951
Micropaleontology 1951
Physical oceanography 1951
Waves, miscellaneous 1951
Amirante Trench ca. 1965
Kerguelen Archipelago ca. 1960-1969
Trenches ca. 1960-1969
Mauritius undated
PHOTOGRAPHS AND SLIDES
Expeditions and work at sea
SIO research vessels & miscellaneous ca. 1950-1979
St. Lawrence Island 1948
Northwind Expedition 1957
R/V Argo, pre-Circe Expedition 1968
Quebrada Expedition 1969
D/V Clomar Challenger 1972
R/V Dmitri Mendeleev equator crossing ceremony 1976 July 31
Rama Expedition 1980
Marianas Trench 1982
Protea Expedition 1984
Events
First International Oceanographic Congress 1959
Institute of Oceanography visit, Moscow 1972
Jack Dullaghan's retirement party 1977
Klamath Mountains ophiolite excursion 1977
People-to-People visit, Universidad Autonoma de Baja California 1977
Roger Revelle's 80th birthday luncheon 1989 March 7
Films
Antipode Expedition 1970-1971
Additional 16mm Antipode footage ca. 1970-1972
New Odyssey, CIRCE Expedition 1971 July
Sound Recordings
CHARTS AND MAPS
Map Case Drawers
Ship track lines, position plotting sheets 1976-1978
Photo index charts, Indonesia, PROA (2), Amsterdam - Saint Paul - Carter Table Areas ca. 1990-1999
Mauritius - Rodriguez - Reunion, Contoured masters, Illustrations - Undersea name proposal materials and contour maps ca. 1980-1999
Master set: GEBCO 5 maps ca. 1980-1999
Challenger Deep - Contour maps, ship track lines ca. 1980-1989
Saint Paul - Amsterdam, Work sheets - Position plotting sheets ca. 1980-1989
2012, Central Indian Ridge, Dredge localities - Contour maps of ARGO Fracture Zone 1969-1971
East Africa Canyons: 2000:2002, IBWIO 04, 07: 1999, IBCWID: 1977 - GEBCO IBCWI ca. 1977-2002
AGU: GEBCO booth, Various grid-contour-track:7, East: 70'E - 170'E track lines, West: 20'W - 80'E track lines-contours-grid & GEBCO 6: Indian Ocean track lines 2002
GEBCO 6: Indian Ocean gridded topography - Bathymetric maps 2002-2003
GEBCO 6: Indian Ocean contours (500m, +100, 200) - RLF GEBCO GDA contours 2002
GEBCO 6: Indian Ocean various gridding - Gulf of Aden sounding tracks 2002
Alliance Exotique, Bidston plots: contours, track lines : AGU: 7, 8, 12, 13 - Plot maps 1994
RLF GEBCO 5.09 (1982) and Sclater and Fisher (1974), Figs 1 and 2 - Assorted maps ca. 1968-1982
IIOE Geology-Geophysics Atlas, Moscow, Gravity plots - Geological Geophysical Atlas of the Indian Ocean 1975
Map notes and drafts ca. 1960-1969
H.O. Published charts, Plot charts, Indian Ocean and Western Pacific, Gulf of California 1958-1961
Mauritius work sheets, Also Kerguden 3871 ca. 1950-1959
DSDP Leg 24, planning, site plots - Contour maps ca. 1970-1979
South Africa H.O. - Bathymetric maps 2002
Australian H.O. (Indian Ocean only) - Plot maps 1978
Indian Ocean tectonic elements, (earthquakes, ridges, fractures) - PROTEA maps 1988-1992
Indian Ocean - Ocean soundings 1987
Philippine Trench, Mindanao Deep - Plot and contour maps 1985-1995
Tonga Trench: (and Capricorn Guyot), SEVEN-Tow - plotting sheets; CalComp runs, NOVA - Plotting sheets, figures - NOVA Expedition ca. 1950-1970
Assorted contour maps ca. 1950-1969, 1995
British Admiralty Index plots, Indian Ocean ca. 1980-1989
British Admiralty Compilations and special area sounding collections at larger scales, 1976 Northwest Indian Ocean (Tony Laughton) - Plotting sheets 1976-1982
GEBCO 5.09 - Vellum master copies - Contours and index charts 1980-1981
INDOMED (R/V Melville) INMD 8: sounding plots 1978
Navigation and Bathymetry print outs, Navigation notes - Indian Ocean ca. 1960-1998
Quebrada Expedition - Contour maps and plot sheets 1969
SIO Expeditions (revised Raitt end paper), cruise certificates ca. 1960-1979
Barrow, Arctic Basin, St. Lawrence Island - Charts and maps 1949, 1957-1958
Middle America Trench (tracings, seismic sections, physiographic diagrams, illustrations) - Contour maps ca. 1950-1959
Cedros Deep, Vizcaino Bay - Contour maps ca. 1950-1959
Figures for The Sea and McGraw-Hill Pacific Ocean - Reference maps ca. 1960-1969
Gulf of California bottom - Rough plots for the Baird & Horizon - Smooth plots with soundings Horizon & Baird - Shepard, Curray, Warren, etc. - Pre-expedition drawings, misc. charts ca. 1960-1969
Gulf of California summary and work sheets - Contour maps 1959-1961
Peru-Chile Trench, Shellback, Atlantis, Schweigger, DOWNWIND - Contour maps and track plots ca. 1950-1969
Russian Expeditions, Vityaz 25, 27, 31, 33, 35, 36 (Indian Ocean) - Track plots 1964-1966
USSR maps ca. 1965
R/V Vema: Coriosis, Dampier, Wandank - Track plots ca. 1960-1969
Marion Dufresne and Gallena track charts, Prepared on board Melville - Track charts 1978
British Admiralty Collector Sheets - Mylar GEBCO maps ca. 1950-1959
Antipode Expedition (R/V Melville), Legs 6, 7, 8 tracks/soundings - Track charts ca. 1970-1979
Antipode Expedition (R/V Melville), Leg 5: track, soundings, magnetics, Leg 12: track, soundings - Track charts 1970-1971
CIRCE Expedition (R/V Argo), Leg IV Colombo to Colombo, Leg V Colombo to Mauritius, Leg VI Mauritius to Mauritius, Leg VII Mauritius to Lourenzo Marques - Bridge plots and track charts 1968
Anton Bruun, F.S. Meteor, Cdt. Robert Giraud, O.R. Bates, Republic of South Africa, Siboga - Miscellaneous maps ca. 1960-1979
Galathea, Eastwind, Atlantis II, Snellius, Pioneer - AESO track plots 1997
PROA, R/V Spencer F. Baird (Krauss charts) - Track plots ca. 1960-1969
DOWNWIND - Figures for report, Sala y Gomez - Track plots ca. 1950-1959, 1990
MONSOON - Track plots 1960-1961
Lusiad - Track plots 1962-1963
Rolled Charts