Abstract
Henry William Menard, professor of geology at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, was one of the pioneers and leaders of the great period of exploration of the ocean floor that began after World War II. He led or participated in 25 deep‐sea expeditions, mainly in the North Pacific and South Pacific oceans. On the first of these, the Midpac Expedition in 1950, he and his colleagues at the Scripps Institution and the U.S. Navy Electronics Laboratory, Ed Hamilton and Bob Dietz, discovered the Mid‐Pacific Mountains, a 4000‐m‐high mountain range under the sea, which extends for nearly 4000 km from the Hawaiian Island chain to Wake Island. During Midpac, Russell Raitt collected 16 refraction stations showing, for the first time, the uniformity of the ocean crust and Art Maxwell and Roger Revelle discovered that oceanic heat flow was nearly the same as that measured on continents.
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