DeepEarthScience

No, this is not a blog about some random Sci-Fi movie, it really is a blog about the secrets of the deep ocean (sorry guys, no shiny sphere that gives you special powers when you touch it). Already as a kid I was fascinated about large structures in the deep depths of our oceans. I will show you some cool geological features and their origin in the deep depths of the South Atlantic Ocean. Fortunately, Vening Meinesz, the geophysicist I am talking about now for some time, sailed over this huge ocean onboard the K18 submarine (yes, yes, I know, again I am spamming you guys about this very interesting and cool scientist).  After visited several ports along the eastern South American coastlines, the K18 and its occupants started from Mar del Plata the difficult crossing of the South Atlantic Ocean. Vening Meinesz wrote in Volume III of his "Gravity Expeditions at Sea", the following about this crossing: The crossing of the Atlantic from Mar del Plata to Cape Town was a s...

In one of my previous post , I explained that I am currently working in a project to explain the measurements done by Vening Meinesz, a Dutch civil engineer responsible for high-accurate gravity measurements onboard the Hr. Ms. K18 submarine. He, together with the crew, sailed from Den Helder, Holland to Java, Indonesia. Stopping at harbors along the African, South American and West Australian coast. At the end of december 1934, the Hr. Ms. K18 left port of Saint Vincent, one of the northern islands of Cape Verde. Cape Verde was also visited by the famous biologist Darwin during his voyage on the HMS Beagle. During this 5 year long voyage Darwin collected many observations that enabled him to establish the evolution theory. A theory that describes the diversity of living creatures and their way of adapting different environments, quite well, if I may say so.  However this was many years before Vening Meinesz sailed from Saint Vincent. They sailed southwest to the center of...