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Published by the American Geophysical Union as part of the Geophysical Monograph Series.

Content:
Chapter 1 Gravity Investigations of the Subduction Zone (pages 1–15): J. Lamar Worzel
Chapter 2 Gravity Field of the Northwest Pacific Ocean Basin and Its Margin (pages 17–34): A. B. Watts, M. Talwani and J. R. Cochran
Chapter 3 Gravity Measurements Near Japan and Study of the Upper Mantle Beneath the Oceanic Trench?Marginal Sea Transition Zones (pages 35–52): Jiro Segawa and Yoshibumi Tomoda
Chapter 4 Airy?Woollard Isostasy (pages 53–57): Luman E. Wilcox
Chapter 5 A Simulation Study for Sub?Meter Geodesy in the Pacific Basin (pages 59–65): P. Morgan
Chapter 6 Regional Gravity of Peru (page 67): L. Ocola and H. Aleman
Chapter 7 Seismological Studies of the Pacific Area: Introduction to Session 2 (pages 69–70): John I. Ewing and Jack E. Oliver
Chapter 8 Crustal Structure of the Peru?Chile Trench: 8°12° S Latitude (pages 71–85): D. M. Hussong, P. B. Edwards, S. H. Johnson, J. F. Campbell and George H. Sutton
Chapter 9 Geometry of the Nazca Plate and Its Geodynamic Implications (pages 87–103): E. Rene Rodriguez, S. J. Ramon Cabre and Augusto Mercado
Chapter 10 Project NarnIo Iii: Refraction Observation Across a Leading Edge, Malpelo Island to the Colombian Cordillera Occidental (pages 105–132): R. P. Meyer, W. D. Mooney, A. L. Hales, C. E. Helsley, G. P. Woollard, D. M. Hussong, L. W. Kroenke and J. E. Ramirez
Chapter 11 Attenuation of Rayleigh Waves Along the East Pacific Ridge (page 133): E. Kausel and F. Schwab
Chapter 12 Observation of Earthquakes and Explosions at the Bottom of the Western Pacific: Structure of Oceanic Lithosphere Revealed by Longshot Experiment (pages 135–153): Toshi Asada and Hideki Shimamura
Chapter 13 Ocean?Bottom Seismograph Study of the Western Margin of the Pacific (pages 155–167): Shozaburo Nagumo and Junzo Kasahara
Chapter 14 Seismic Activity on the Island of Hawaii, 1970 to 1973 (pages 169–172): Robert Y. Koyanagi, Elliot T. Endo and Peter L. Ward
Chapter 15 Magnetic Studies of the Pacific Area: Introduction to Session 3 (pages 173–175): Seiya Uyeda
Chapter 16 Post?Eocene Plate Tectonics of the Eastern Pacific (pages 177–202): David W. Handschumacher
Chapter 17 The Early Cretaceous?Late Jurassic Magnetic Reversal Time Scale, and the Phoenix Magnetic Lineations Revisited (page 203): R. L. Larson
Chapter 18 Mesozoic Sea?Floor Spreading in the North Pacific (pages 205–226): Thomas W. C. Hilde, Nobuhiro Isezaki and John M. Wageman
Chapter 19 An Age?Dependent, Two?Layer Model for Marine Magnetic Anomalies (pages 227–234): Richard J. Blakely
Chapter 20 Magnetic Anomalies in the Sea of Japan and the Shikoku Basin: Possible Tectonic Implications (pages 235–251): Kazuo Kobayashi and Nobuhiro Isezaki
Chapter 21 Magnetic Anomalies in the West Philippine Basin (pages 253–267): Keith E. Louden
Chapter 22 Anomalies in the Tectonic Evolution of the Pacific (pages 269–278): Edward L. Winterer
Chapter 23 Cenozoic Plate Motion and the Magnetic Time Scale, Equatorial Pacific (page 279): S. R. Hammond and F. Theyer
Chapter 24 Cenozoic History of the Central Equatorial Pacific: A Synthesis Based on Deep Sea Drilling Project Data (pages 281–295): Tjeerd H. Van Andel, G. Ross Heath and T. C. Moore
Chapter 25 Sea Water, Sea?Floor Spreading, Subduction, and Ore Deposits (page 297): J. B. Corliss
Chapter 26 Contrasts in Tectonic History Along the Eastern Pacific Rim (pages 299–308): R. H. Dott
Chapter 27 Some Highlights in the Development of Volcanology in the Pacific Area (pages 309–317): Gordon A. Macdonald
Chapter 28 Linear Volcanic Chains on the Pacific Plate (pages 319–335): Everett D. Jackson
Chapter 29 Mechanics of Benioff Zone Magmatism (pages 337–350): Bruce D. Marsh
Chapter 30 Chemical Diversity of Abyssal Volcanic Glass Erupted Along Pacific, Atlantic, and Indian Ocean Sea?Floor Spreading Centers (pages 351–367): W. G. Melson, T. L. Vallier, T. L. Wright, G. Byerly and J. Nelen
Chapter 31 40Ar/39Ar Ages of submarine rocks from the Line Islands: Implications on the origin of the Line Islands (pages 369–374): K. Saito and M. Ozima
Chapter 32 Kilauea Lava Lakes: Natural Laboratories for Study of Cooling, Crystallization, and Differentiation of Basaltic Magma (pages 375–390): Thomas L. Wright, Dallas L. Peck and Herbert R. Shaw
Chapter 33 Phase Transformations in Descending Plates: Implications for Mantle Dynamics and Differentiation (pages 391–398): A. E. Ringwood
Chapter 34 Mineralogic Distribution of Iron in the Upper Half of the Transition Zone in the Earth'S Mantle (pages 399–405): Syun?Iti Akimoto, Masaki Akaogi, Kaoru Kawada and Osamu Nishizawa
Chapter 35 Elastic Properties of Selected Ophiolitic Rocks from Papua New Guinea: Nature and Composition of Oceanic Lower Crust and Upper Mantle (pages 407–421): L. W. Kroenke, Murli H. Manghnani, C. S. Rai, P. Fryer and Ralph Ramananantoandro
Chapter 36 Thickening of the Oceanic Lithosphere (pages 423–430): Toshikatsu Yoshi, Yoshiteru Kono and Keisuke Ito
Chapter 37 Lithospheric Flexure, Analysis of Gravity Anomalies, and the Propagation of Seamount Chains (pages 431–438): R. I. Walcott