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Fred N. Spiess
Researcher at Scripps Institution of Oceanography
Publications - 70
Citations - 3206
Fred N. Spiess is an academic researcher from Scripps Institution of Oceanography. The author has contributed to research in topics: Seafloor spreading & Transponder. The author has an hindex of 24, co-authored 70 publications receiving 3042 citations. Previous affiliations of Fred N. Spiess include United States Department of the Navy & University of California, Berkeley.
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East Pacific Rise: Hot Springs and Geophysical Experiments
Fred N. Spiess,Ken C. Macdonald,Tanya Atwater,Robert D. Ballard,A. Carranza,D. Cordoba,C. Cox,V. M. Diaz Garcia,J. Francheteau,José Manuel Crespo Guerrero,James W. Hawkins,Rachel M. Haymon,Robert R. Hessler,Tierre Juteau,Miriam Kastner,Roger L. Larson,Bruce P. Luyendyk,J. D. Macdougall,Stanley L. Miller,William R. Normark,John A. Orcutt,Claude Rangin +21 more
TL;DR: High-resolution determinations of crustal properties along the spreading center were made to gain knowledge of the source of new oceanic crust and marine magnetic anomalies, the nature of the axial magma chamber, and the depth of hydrothermal circulation.
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Corals on seamount peaks provide evidence of current acceleration over deep-sea topography
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present some of the first quantitative observations of hard-bottom (non-hydrothermal) fauna in the deep sea and show that black corals (antipatharians) and horny corals present on the slopes of a multi-peaked seamount are more abundant near peaks compared with mid-slope sites at corresponding depths.
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Hydrothermal heat flux of the “black smoker” vents on the East Pacific Rise
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors showed that the heat loss associated with a single vent of this type is three to six times the total theoretical heat loss for a 1-km segment of ridge out to 1 m.y.
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Methane-rich plumes on the Carolina continental rise: Associations with gas hydrates
TL;DR: In this paper, gas-rich plumes were identified acoustically in the water column up to 320 m above a pockmarked sea floor associated with active chemosynthetic biological communities.
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Precise GPS/Acoustic positioning of seafloor reference points for tectonic studies
Fred N. Spiess,C. David Chadwell,John A. Hildebrand,Larry Young,George H. Purcell,Herb Dragert +5 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used the Global Positioning System (GPS) satellites and underwater acoustics to establish a geodetic reference site on the Juan de Fuca plate at 2.6 km depth.