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Rivers of Sand
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Underwater footage taken in 1959 by Wheeler J. North, then a student at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, of the formation of a submarine canyon near Cabo San Lucas. The purpose of the footage was to study how such underwater geologic formations occur.
Digitized from the Archives original reel by the California Audiovisual Preservation Project (CAVPP)
ID: 2013-00045
North, Wheeler
Creation
Dec. 21, 2012
MEDIUM: Digital files; FORMAT: Harddrive files: digital; LENGTH: 12:54 minutes
Topics: Geology, Oceanography
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