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Show Discover 'Young' Volcano A new volcano that is, probably not more than a few hundred years old was among the discoveries made by the University of California's Califor-nia's survey schooner E. W. Scripps, which returned recently to San Diego Di-ego after a 78-day cruise to the Gulf of California. The volcano is on one of the islets in the vicinity of the ancient village of Loreto Coronados island, a mass of rocks a mile and a half across. Objective of the cruise was chiefly geological, and while "land geologists" geolo-gists" were at work on the islands and mainland, scientists aboard the Scripps were busy taking soundings and borings of the floor of the gulf. The vessel, which is attached to the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at La Jolla, is equipped with extensive ex-tensive scientific and research equipment equip-ment Both in the number of soundings taken, and in the size of borings of the sea bottom, the Scripps set a record. Dr. Roger Revelle reported that in addition to taking 25,000' soundings by means of the fathometer, fathome-ter, 10 times as many as had been taken on prior cruises, they brought up cores as long as 17 feet an all-time all-time record. |