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Tanya M. Atwater and Paul Johnson examine rock samples in a laboratory. Original Credit Line: Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.

Original Caption: "Paul Johnson of Dalhousie University and Tanya Atwater of MIT examine recent samples from the Mid-Atlantic Ridge aboard R/V KNORR during summer 1974 field operations of Project FAMOUS."

Original Caption: "38-J Tanya Atwater, M.I.T. assistant professor of marine geology, and Paul Johnson of Dalhousie University, on the Knorr, examine samples of rocks brought up by Alvin from a rift in the Mid-Atlantic Ridge two miles below. They were participating in FAMOUS, the French-American Mid-Ocean Undersea Study, in 1974 to learn more about the movement of the huge plates in the earth's crust."