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Jack Whitehead and Stan Hart working on fluid dynamics experiment.

Jack Whitehead and Stan Hart working on fluid dynamics experiment.
Jack Whitehead and Stan Hart working on fluid dynamics experiment.
Jack Whitehead and Stan Hart working on fluid dynamics experiment.
Jack Whitehead and Stan Hart working on fluid dynamics experiment.
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Kleindinst, Thomas N.
Jack Whitehead and Stan Hart working on fluid dynamics experiment.
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01/01/1991
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Date is approximate; 1991.
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WHOI scientists-emeriti Jack Whitehead and Stan Hart (left to right) conduct a lab experiment in geophysical fluid dynamicsthe fundamental physics of oceans, rivers, magma, atmospheres, and other fluid media. Here in 1991, they inject a flow of light syrup (dyed blue) into a tank of Karo syrup to simulate plumes of molten rock deep in Earth's mantle, which rise buoyantly to Earths surface and erupt to create islands such as Hawaii. Hart, a geochemist, has studied the chemical makeup of plumes and in 1999 found Vailulu'u, a seafloor volcano that eventually will become a new Samoan island. Whitehead has also investigated how ocean currents form and flow.
Photo by Tom Kleindinst
© Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Images are from AC-43, Records of Graphic Services and Publications.
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