N. Christian Smoot
PROFESSIONAL
BACKGROUND:
Employed by the Ocean Survey
Program of the US Naval Oceanographic Office 1966-1975, 1977-1998- career
consisted of 20 years of deep-ocean data collection (took 67 cruises and logged
over 600,000 nautical miles at sea) in bathymetry, gravity, magnetics, and
physical oceanography; progressing through state of the art technology of data
collection from hand surveying and processing methods to full computer suite
including transponders, inertial navigation, Transit and GPS satellite
navigation, LORAN-C and Omega; single-beam sonar; SASS, Seabeam, and Simrad
multibeam sonars; SeaMARC II side-scan sonar; sound velocity studies using
Nansen casts, salinometers, Niskin samplers, and expendable bathythermo-graphs;
found missing submarine, USS SCORPION, in June 1968; was senior scientist from
1981 until 1988–30 years of office work consisted of data compilation of
thousands of point charts and a couple of hundred regional charts over the
years, training others including updating the training manual four times, many
special projects, and publishing results; 34 feature names accepted by US Board
on Geographic Names; retired April 1998 with 18 work-related awards
Cruises:
1. 20 Jun-11 Nov 66 USNS
BOWDITCH- grunt- NELant, GibStraits, and WestMed, Lisbon, Rota, Lisbon, Belfast, Belfast, Belfast, Barcelona
2. 11 Jan-10 Mar 67 USNS
MICHELSON- grunt- NWPac (Marianas region, Challenger Deep), Yokosuka,
Yokosuka, Yokosuka
3. 22 Jun 67-19 Oct 67 USNS
BOWDITCH- grunt- NELant and WestMed
(Sargasso Sea, Straits of Sicily and Gibraltar, Skerki and Pantellaria Banks),
Belfast, Lisbon, Swansea, Rota, Valetta
4. 15 Nov 67-13 Mar 68 USNS BOWDITCH- grunt- WestMed and
NELant (Tagus Plain, GibStraits), Valetta, Naples, Barcelona, Barcelona, Lisbon
5. 26 May-12 Aug 68 USNS
BOWDITCH- grunt- NELant (found USS SCORPION, ran transponder OPS for the
USNS MIZAR, and surveyed the area), Bremerhaven, Amsterdam, Plymouth
6. 21 Jan-25 May 69 USNS
BOWDITCH- grunt- NELant (Bay of Biscay,
Atlantic Voyageur, GibStraits), Bayonne, Lisbon, Lisbon, Belfast, Rota
7. 15 Jun-25 Aug 69 USNS
BOWDITCH- grunt- WestMed and NELant (GibStraits), Livorno, Livorno, Rota,
Glasgow
8. 26 Dec 69-26 Jan 70 USNS
DUTTON- grunt- NELant (Faeroes, G/I/UK Gap, Atlantic Voyageur),
Edinburgh, Hoboken
9. 25 May-31 Jul 70 USNS
DUTTON- grunt- Arctic (Eastern Iceland through Jan Mayan Ridge, Bluenose),
Trondheim, Amsterdam, Belfast, Chatham
10. 1 Feb-15 Apr 71 USNS
DUTTON- grunt- NELant (Maury Seachannel, Charlie-Gibbs Fracture Zone,
Rockall Plateau), Newcastle, Newcastle,
Newcastle, Newcastle, Southampton
11. 20 Mar-12 May 72 USNS
DUTTON- grunt- NLant (Atlantic Voyageur; GibStraits), Norfolk, Rota,
Rota
12. 10 Dec 72-18 Jan 73 USNS
DUTTON- grunt- WestMed, Barcelona, Barcelona, Barcelona
13. 17 Jan-30 Mar 75 USNS
DUTTON- grunt- NLant (found TITANIC for Bob Ballard, Azores Platform, Atlantic
Voyageur), Brooklyn, Baltimore, Norfolk, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Ponta
Delgada
14. 25 Oct-23 Dec 77 USNS
DUTTON- grunt- NEPac (Gulf of Alaska), Seattle, Seattle, Seattle
15. 5 Jul-8 Sep 78 USNS
DUTTON- Hydroplot Supervisor- NEPac (Gulf of Alaska, exploratory- Golden
Dragon), Seattle, Seattle, Honolulu
16. 27 Jul-6 Oct 79 USNS
DUTTON- Hydroplot Supervisor- NPac (Emperor Seamounts- Golden Dragon),
Yokosuka, Honolulu, Honolulu
17. 31 Dec 80-22 Jan 81 USNS
DUTTON- Hydroplot Supervisor- NEPac (Gulf of Alaska), Port Hueneme, San
Francisco
18. 10-29 May 82 USNS KANE-
visiting scientist- Gulf of Mexico (Yucatan Straits), Gulfport, Port Everglades
19. 25 Jun-2 Sep 82 USNS
DUTTON- Senior Scientist- NPac (Surveyor, Mendocino, and Murray Fracture
Zones and Musicians Seamounts), Honolulu, Honolulu, Honolulu
20. 26 Sep-1 Dec 83 USNS
DUTTON- Senior Scientist- NWPac (Emperor Seamounts, Western extensions of
Surveyor and Mendocino Fracture Zones- Golden Dragon), Honolulu,
Yokosuka, Guam
21. 11 May-2 Jun 84 R/V
KANA KEOKI- visiting scientist- NWPac (Mariana Trough and Bonin Ridge),
Guam, Chichijima
22. 23 Nov-24 Dec 85 USNS
HESS- Senior Scientist- Lant (Romanche Fracture Zone and Mid-Atlantic
Ridge- Shellback), Curacao, Curacao
23. 25 May-31 Jul 87 USNS
HESS- Senior Scientist- NEPac (Murray Fracture Zone, Fieberling and Erben
Seamounts), San Diego, San Diego, Portland
24. 12 Jun-18 Aug 88 USNS
HESS- Senior Scientist- SLant (Romanche, Charcot, and Ascension Fracture
Zones, Mid-Atlantic Ridge, and exploratory lines- Shellback), Curacao,
Roosevelt Roads, Rio de Janiero, Rio de Janiero
25. 29-30 Mar 96 USS WEST
VIRGINIA- Tiger cruise- NWLant- King's Bay
26. 25 Aug-24 Oct 97 USNS
SUMNER- grunt- WPac (SChinaSea, Straits of Johor and Luzon), Singapore,
Singapore, Yokohama
Fun-in-the-Sun
Things: worked on the JOIDES/USSAC Seamount Working Group for the Ocean
Drilling Program; reviewed many NSF and ONR proposals during the 1980s and
1990s; was selected to get classified SASS bathymetry published in the 1970s,
my part initially being guyots; moved into subduction zones and fracture zones
by the mid-1980s; discovered orthogonally intersecting fracture zones in 1990,
lack of deep earthquakes at subduction zones in 1991; adopted surge tectonic
hypothesis for all writing in 1994; kept publishing after retirement, including
the two books on ocean floor geomorphology; other papers published on
anthropology
Honors: Who’s Who in Science and Engineering,
4th Edition (Marquis; 1998)
Who’s Who in Science and Engineering, 5th
Edition (Marquis; 2000)
Outstanding People of the
Twentieth Century (International Biographical
Centre; 2000)
PAPERS:
1. Smoot, N.C., 1980. Interpretation of Deep Sea Sounding Data,
Technical Papers of the American Congress of Surveying and Mapping, Fall Tech.
Meeting, pp. MS‑2‑D‑1‑10.
2. Smoot, N.C., 1981. Multi‑beam sonar surveys of guyots of
the Gulf of Alaska, Marine Geology, Vol. 43, N. 3-4, pp. M87‑M94,
(also translated into Chinese and published in Haiyang Dizhi Yu Disiji Dizhi
Qingdao).
3.
Smoot, N.C., 1982. Guyots of the Mid‑Emperor
chain: swath mapped with multi‑ beam sonar, Marine Geology, Vol.
47, pp. 153‑163.
4.
Smoot, N.C., 1982. Northern Hess Rise
extended by multi‑beam sonar, Tectonophysics, Vol. 89, pp. T27‑T32.
5.
Smoot, N.C., 1983. Guyots of the Dutton
Ridge at the Bonin/ Mariana trench juncture as shown by multi‑beam
surveys, Journal of Geology, Vol. 91, pp. 211‑220.
6.
Smoot, N.C., 1983. Ogasawara Plateau:
multi‑beam sonar bathymetry and possible tectonic implications, Journal
of Geology, Vol. 92, pp. 591‑598.
7.
Smoot, N.C., 1983. Ninigi and Godaigo
Seamounts: Twins of the Emperor chain
by multi‑beam sonar, Tectonophysics, Vol. 98, pp. T1‑T5.
8.
Smoot, N.C., 1983. Detailed bathymetry
of guyot summits in the North Pacific by multi‑beam sonar, Surveying
and Mapping, Vol. 43, No. 1, pp. 53‑60.
9.
Smoot, N.C., 1984. Multi‑beam
surveys of the Michelson Ridge guyots: subduction or obduction, In: Convergence and Subduction, T.W.C. Hilde and
S. Uyeda, eds., Tectonophysics, Vol. 99, pp. 363‑380.
10.
Smoot, N.C., 1984. Guyots and tectonics
of the Mid‑Emperor chain, In: Proceedings of the 27th International
Geological Congress, Vol. 6, Geology of Ocean Basins (VNU Science Press,
Utrecht), pp. 135‑152.
11. Stern, R.J., Smoot, N.C.,
and Rubin, M., 1984. Unzipping of the
volcano arc: implications for the evolution of back‑arc basins, In: R.L.
Carlson and K. Kobayashi (eds), Geodynamics of backarc regions, Tectonophysics,
Vol. 102, pp. 153‑174.
12.
Vogt, P.R. and Smoot, N.C., 1984. The
Geisha Guyots: multi‑beam bathymetry and morphometric interpretation, Journal
of Geophysical Research, Vol. 89, No. B13, pp. 11,085‑11,107.
13.
Fryer, P. and Smoot, N.C., 1985.
Processes of seamount subduction in the Mariana and Izu‑Bonin
trenches, Marine Geology, Vol. 64, pp. 77‑90.
14.
Smoot, N.C., 1985. Guyots and seamount
morphology and tectonics of the Hawaiian‑Emperor elbow, Marine Geology,
Vol. 64, pp. 203‑215.
15.
Smoot, N.C., and Lowrie, A., 1985.
Emperor Fracture Zone morphology by multi‑ beam sonar, Journal
of Geology, Vol. 93, pp. 196‑204.
16. Smoot,
N.C., 1985. Observations on Gulf of
Alaska seamount chains by multi‑beam sonar, Tectonophysics, Vol.
115, pp. 235‑246.
17.
Smoot, N.C., and Sharman, G.F., 1985.
Charlie‑Gibbs: a fracture zone ridge, In: G.F. Sharman, III and J.
Francheteau (eds), Oceanic Lithosphere, Tectonophysics, Vol. 116, pp.
137‑142.
18. Smoot, N.C., Delaine, K.,
and Gregory, R.L., 1985. A 3‑D
model of Nintoku Guyot to predict paleo‑island morphology, ACSM
Bulletin, pp. 23‑27.
19. Lowrie, A., Smoot, N.C.,
and Batiza, R., 1986. Are oceanic
fracture zones locked and strong or weak ?:
New evidence for volcanic activity and weakness, Geology, Vol.
14, pp. 242‑245.
20.
Smoot, N.C. and Heffner, K.J., 1986.
Bathymetry and possible tectonic interaction of the Uyeda Ridge with its
environment, Tectonophysics, Vol. 124, pp. 23‑36.
21.
Smoot, N.C., 1986. Seamounts by SASS‑chains
through forearc seamounts, In: Proceedings MDS '86, Gulf Coast Marine
Technology Society, pp. 470‑477.
22.
Smoot, N.C. and Richardson, D.B., 1988.
Multi‑beam based 3D geomorphology of the Ogasawara Plateau region,
Marine Geology, Vol. 79, pp. 141‑147.
23.
Smoot, N.C., 1988. The growth rate of
submarine volcanoes on the South Honshu and East Mariana ridges, Journal of
Volcanology and Geothermal Research, Vol. 35, pp. 1‑15.
24.
Epp, D. and Smoot, N.C., 1989.
Distribution of seamounts in the North Atlantic, Nature, Vol.
337, pp. 254‑257.
25.
Stern, R.J., Bloomer, S.H., Lin, P‑N., and Smoot, N.C. 1989. Submarine arc volcanism in the southern
Mariana arc as an ophiolite analogue, Tectonophysics, Vol. 168, pp. 151‑170.
26.
Smoot, N.C., 1989. The Marcus‑Wake
seamounts and guyots as paleofracture indicators and their relation to the
Dutton Ridge, Marine Geology, Vol. 88, pp. 117‑131.
27. Smoot, N.C., 1989. North Atlantic fracture-zone distribution
and patterns shown by multibeam sonar, Geology, Vol. 17, pp. 1119‑1122.
28.
Bloomer, S.H., Stern, R.J., and Smoot, N.C., 1989. Physical volcanology of the submarine Mariana and Volcano arcs, Bulletin
of Volcanology, Vol. 51, pp. 210‑224.
29.
Smoot, N.C., 1990. Mariana Trough
morphology by multi‑beam sonar, Geo‑Marine Letters, Vol. 10,
pp. 137‑144.
30.
Smoot, N.C., 1990. North Atlantic
fracture-zone distribution and patterns shown by multibeam sonar (Reply), Geology,
Vol. 18, pp. 912‑914.
31.
Smoot, N.C., 1991. The growth rate of
submarine volcanoes on the South Honshu and East Mariana Ridges (Reply), Journal
of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, Vol. 45, pp. 341‑345.
32.
Smoot, N.C., 1991. The Mariana Trench
convergent margin at the Magellan Seamounts: tectonics and geomorphology, Marine
Technology Society '91 Proceedings, Vol. 1, pp. 85‑91.
33.
Smoot, N.C., and King, R.E., 1992.
Three‑dimensional surface geomorphology of submarine landslides on
NW Pacific plate guyots, Geomorphology, Vol. 6, pp. 151‑174.
34.
Smoot, N.C. and Meyerhoff, A.A., 1995.
Tectonic fabric of the North Atlantic Ocean floor: speculation vs.
reality, Journal of Petroleum Geology, Vol. 18, No. 2, pp. 207-222.
35.
Smoot, N.C., 1995. Mass wasting and
subaerial weathering in guyot formation: the Hawaiian and Canary Ridges as
examples, Geomorphology, Vol. 14, pp. 29-41.
36.
Smoot, N.C., 1995. The Chinook Trough:
a trans-Pacific fracture zone, in: Proceedings of the Third Thematic
Conference on Remote Sensing for Marine and Coastal Environments, Vol. II,
pp. 539-550.
37.
Smoot, N.C., 1997. Seafloor fabric and
surge tectonics, Proceedings of the Fourth
Thematic Conference for Remote Sensing in Marine and Coastal
Environments, Vol. II, pp. 518-527.
38.
Smoot, N.C., 1997. Aligned aseismic
buoyant highs, across-trench deformation, clustered volcanoes, and deep
earthquakes are not aligned with the current plate-tectonic theory, Geomorphology,
Vol. 18, Nos. 3/4, pp. 199-222.
39.
Smoot, N.C. and King, R.E., 1997. The
Darwin Rise demise: The western Pacific guyot heights trace the trans-Pacific
Mendocino Fracture Zone, Geomorphology, Vol. 18, Nos. 3/4, pp. 223-236.
40.
Smoot, N.C., 1997. Earthquakes at
convergent margins, New Concepts in Global Tectonics Newsletter,
No. 4, pp. 10-12.
41. Smoot, N.C. and
Leybourne, B.A., 1997. Vortex
structures on the world-encircling vortex street: Case study of the South
Adriatic basin, Marine Technology Society Journal, Vol. 31, No. 2, pp.
21-35.
42.
Smoot, N.C., 1997. Magma floods,
microplates, and orthogonal intersections, New Concepts in Global Tectonics
Newsletter, No. 5, pp. 8-13.
43.
Leybourne, B.A. and Smoot, N.C., 1997.
Ocean basin structural trends based on GEOSAT altimetry data, in: Ocean
Technology at Stennis Space Center: Proceedings of the Gulf Coast Chapter
Marine Technology Society, pp. 135-140.
44.
Smoot, N.C. and Murchison, R.R., 1998.
Deep-ocean technology, bathymetry, and tectonics, Proceedings of the
International Symposium on New Concepts in Global Tectonics, pp. 178-183.
45.
Smoot, N.C. and Leybourne, B.A., 1998. Remotely sensed data contribute to the
paradigm shift of ocean basin tectonics: the Banda Sea vortex structure as an
example, Proceedings of the International Symposium on New Concepts in Global
Tectonics, pp. 262-267.
46.
Smoot, N.C., 1998. The trans-Pacific Chinook Trough megatrend, Geomorphology,
Vol. 24, No. 4, pp. 333-351.
47.
Stern, R.J. and Smoot, N.C., 1998. A
bathymetric overview of the Mariana forearc. In: R.J. Stern and M. Arima (eds),
Special Issue: Geophysical and Geochemical Studies of the Izu-Bonin-Mariana Arc
System, The Island Arc, Vol. 7, No. 3, pp. 525-540.
48.
Smoot, N.C., 1998. Multibeam bathymetry and the public, New Concepts in
Global Tectonics Newsletter, No. 8, pp. 4-8.
49.
Smoot, N.C., 1998. WNW-ESE Pacific lineations, New Concepts in Global
Tectonics Newsletter, No. 9, pp. 7-11.
50. Smoot, N.C., 1999. An appeal for using some sense, New Concepts in Global
Tectonics Newsletter, No. 13, pp. 23-25.
51.
Smoot, N.C., 1999. Orthogonal
intersections of megatrends in the Mesozoic Pacific Ocean basin: a case study
of the Mid-Pacific Mountains, Geomorphology, Vol. 30, pp. 323-356.
52.
Smoot, N.C., 2000. The Darwin phoenix rises yet again. New Concepts in
Global Tectonics Newsletter, Vol. 14, pp. 2-4.
53.
Smoot, N.C., 2001. Ocean Survey Program (OSP) bathymetry history: Jousting with
tectonic windmills. In: J.M. Dickins, A.K. Dubey, D.R. Choi, and Y. Fujita
(eds) Special Volume on New Concepts in Global Tectonics, Himalayan Geology,
Vol. 22, No. 1, pp. 65-80.
54. Leybourne, B.A. and
Smoot, N.C., 2001. Surge hypothesis
implies gravitational teleconnection of tectonics to climate: El Nino and the
central Pacific geostream/jet-stream. In: J.M. Dickins, A.K. Dubey, D.R. Choi,
and Y. Fujita (eds) Special Volume on New Concepts in Global Tectonics, Himalayan
Geology, Vol. 22, No. 1, pp. 139-152.
55.
Smoot, N.C. and Leybourne, B.A., 2001. The Central Pacific Megatrend. International
Geology Review, Vol. 43, No. 4, pp. 341-365.
56.
Smoot, N.C., 2001. Earth geodynamics hypotheses updated. Journal of
Scientific Exploration, Vol. 15, No. 4, pp. 465-494.
57.
Smoot, N.C., 2001. Fingernails, GPS, and Pacific basin closure. New Concepts
in Global Tectonics Newsletter, No. 21, pp. 24-25. This one was also reprinted in The
Australian Geologist, No. 123, June 2002.
58.
Smoot, N.C. and Choi, D.R., 2003. The North Pacific Megatrend, International
Geology Review. Vol. 45, No. 4, pp. 346-370.
ABSTRACTS
AND PRESENTATIONS(*):
1.
Smoot, N.C.*, 1980. Interpretation of
Deep Sea Sounding Data, Niagara Falls, 8 October.
2.
Smoot, N.C.*, 1981. Subduction or
obduction of the Michelson Ridge, Symposium on Convergence and Subduction,
Texas A&M University, 23 April.
3.
Smoot, N.C.*, 1981. One pulse of the
Mid‑Emperor chain volcanic episodicity as swath mapped by multi‑beam
sonar, Eos, Transactions, American Geophysical Union, Vol. 62, No. 45,
p. 1068, San Francisco, 8 December.
4.
Vogt, P.R.*, and Smoot, N.C., 1982.
Morphometric studies of guyots and other seamounts based on multi‑beam
bathymetry, Eos, Transactions, American Geophysical Union, Vol. 63, No.
45, p. 1108.
5.
Smoot, N.C.*, 1982. Mariana back‑arc
region, Proceedings of Symposium on Geodynamics of Back‑Arc Regions,
Texas A & M University, 30 April.
6.
Smoot, N.C.*, 1982. History of
evolution of seamounts, Seamount Symposium‑The Origin and Evolution of
Seamounts, pp. 1‑2, Lamont‑Doherty Laboratory of Columbia
University, 17 November.
7.
Smoot, N.C.*, 1983. North Pacific
fracture zones, Proceedings of Symposium on Geodynamics of Ocean Lithosphere,
Texas A & M University, 29 April.
8.
Smoot, N.C., 1983. Guyot definition
altered by multi‑beam sonar‑ an updating of paleo‑bathymetry,
Science, Abstracts of 149th Meeting, p. 150.
9.
Taylor, B., and Smoot, N.C., 1983. Mass
wasting of the Bonin forearc, Eos, Transactions, American Geophysical Union,
Vol. 64, No. 45, p. 829.
10.
Smoot, N.C., 1983. Guyots and tectonics
of the Mid-Emperor Chain, Tezisy, 27-y Mezhdunarodnyy Geologicheskiy
Kongress, Vol 27, No. 3, N.A. Bogdanov (ed), p. 410 (participation canceled
due to Russia's downing of the Korean airliner over the Sea of Okhotsk).
11. Smoot, N.C.*, Delaine,
K., and Gregory, R.L., 1984. A 3‑D
model of Nintoku Guyot to predict paleo‑island morphology, SEG/USN
Symposium on 3‑D Marine Interpretation and Presentation, National Space
Technology Laboratories, 13 March.
12.
Vogt, P.R., and Smoot, N.C., 1984.
Morphometry of Pacific guyots, Eos, Transactions, American
Geophysical Union, Vol. 65, No. 16, p. 301.
13.
Vogt, P.R. and Smoot, N.C., 1984.
Morphology of flank rift zones of guyots and seamounts in the Pacific, Eos,
Transactions, American Geophysical Union, Vol. 65, No. 43.
14.
Vogt, P.R. and Smoot, N.C., 1984. The
Geisha Guyots: multi‑beam bathymetry and morphometric interpretation, Eos,
Transactions, American Geophysical Union, Vol. 65, No. 43.
15.
Smoot, N.C.*, 1984. Guyots, seamounts,
and tectonics of the Hawaiian Emperor elbow by multi‑beam sonar, Proceedings
Pacific Conference on Marine Technology, OSTS/15.
16.
Smoot, N.C.*, 1985. JOIDES/USSAC
Workshop on carbonate banks and guyots, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La
Jolla, California, 6‑8 August.
17.
Vogt, P.R. and Smoot, N.C., 1985.
Mesoscale multi‑beam morphometry of guyots and large seamounts,
Eos, Transactions, American Geophysical Union, Vol. 66, No. 46, p. 1080.
18.
Stern, R.J., Bloomer, S., and Smoot, N.C., 1986. Submarine volcanoes in the Mariana Arc, Eos, Transactions,
American Geophysical Union, Vol. 67, No. 16, p.411.
19.
Smoot, N.C.*, 1986. Seamounts by SASS‑chains
through forearc seamounts, Marine Technology Society, New Orleans.
20.
Smoot, N.C.*, 1986, JOIDES/USSAC Workshop on Seamounts, Lamont‑Doherty of
Columbia University, 4‑5 June.
21.
Smoot, N.C.* and Tucholke, B., 1986.
Multi‑beam sonar evidence for evolution of Corner Rise and Cruiser
Seamount Groups, Eos, Transactions, American Geophysical Union, Vol. 67,
No. 44, p. 1221, San Francisco, December.
22.
Epp, D. and Smoot, N.C., 1988.
Distribution of seamounts in the North Atlantic, Eos, Transactions,
American Geophysical Union, Vol. 69, No. 16, p. 462.
23.
Smoot, N.C.*, 1988. North Atlantic
fracture valley distribution and patterns, Eos, Transactions, American
Geophysical Union, Vol. 69, No. 16, p. 462, Baltimore, May.
24.
Bloomer, S.H., Stern, R.J., and Smoot, N.C., 1988. Size and spacing relations in submarine volcanoes in the Mariana
and southern Volcano arcs: implications for the development of intraoceanic
arcs, Eos, Transactions, American Geophysical Union, Vol. 69, No. 16, p.
506.
25. Smoot, N.C.*, 1990. Surface morphology of submarine landslides
on Pacific plate seamounts. Eos, Transactions, American Geophysical Union,
Vol. 71, p. 1578, San Francisco, 3 December.
26.
Smoot, N.C.*, 1991. The Mariana Trench
convergent margin at the Magellan Sea-mounts: tectonics and geomorphology,
Marine Technology Society, New Orleans, 11 November.
27.
Smoot, N.C.*, 1993. Geomorphic effects
of seamounts in NW Pacific subduction zones, Geological Society of America
Abstracts with Programs, Vol. 25, p. A‑379, Boston, 28 October.
28.
Smoot, N.C. and King, R.E., 1993. The
Darwin Rise demise, Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs,
Vol. 25, p. A‑379.
29.
Smoot, N.C.*, 1994. Plate-wide Pacific
trends--orthogonal fracture intersections, Eos, Transactions, American
Geophysical Union, Vol. 75, No. 25, p. 69, Hong Kong, 29 July.
30.
Smoot, N.C.*, 1994. The relation of
seamounts to interplate deformation in the North Pacific, Eos, Transactions,
American Geophysical Union, Vol. 75, No. 44, p. 582, San Francisco, 5
December.
31.
Kim, J., Sager, W.W., Klaus, A., Smoot, N.C., Nakanishi, M., Khankishieva, L.,
and Brown, G.R., 1995. New bathymetry
chart of Shatsky Rise, NW Pacific Ocean, Eos, Transactions, American
Geophysical Union, Vol. 76, p. F329.
32.
Smoot, N.C.*, 1995. The Chinook Trough:
a trans-Pacific fracture zone, Seattle, 20 September.
33.
Smoot, N.C.*, 1996. Real data calls for
alternate tectonic hypotheses, Gulf Coast Marine Technology Society Meeting,
Slidell, Louisiana, 28 February.
34.
Smoot, N.C.*, 1996. Bathymetry of the
Mid-Pacific Mountains: Orthogonal fracture zone intersections and vortex
structures, Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, Vol.
28, No. 7, p. A-55, Denver, 28 October.
35. Smoot,
N.C.*, 1997. Seafloor fabric and surge
tectonics, Orlando, Florida, 20 March.
36.
Smoot, N.C.*, 1997. Ocean basin
structural trends based on GEOSAT altimetry data, Stennis Space Center,
Mississippi, 24 April.
37.
Smoot, N.C.* and Murchison, R.R., 1998.
Deep-ocean technology, bathymetry, and tectonics, Tsukuba, Japan, 23
November.
38.
Smoot, N.C.* and Leybourne, B.A., 1998. Remotely sensed data contribute to the
paradigm shift of ocean basin tectonics: the Banda Sea vortex structure as an
example, Tsukuba, Japan, 23 November.
39.
Smoot, N.C., 2001. Fracture zones, megatrends, and intersections in the
Pacific. Proceedings of the
International Workshop on Global Wrench Tectonics, pp. 1-38, Oslo, Norway,
9-11 May (also published on Internet by earthevolution.org).
40. Smoot, N.C.*, 2002. Ubiquitous megatrends
obfuscate seafloor spreading concept, La Junta, Colorado, 6 May.
41. Bhat, M.I., Smoot, N.C. and Choi, D.R., 2002. Indian earthquakes
shake Earth’s geodynamic foundations, Proceedings of New Concepts in Global
Tectonics, pp. 287-288, La Junta, Colorado, 8 May.
LONGER
TREATISES
1.
Smoot, N.C., 1986. Bathymetric Atlas of North Pacific Guyots. (Masters
Thesis, University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg), 129 p.
2.
Smoot, N.C. and Jones, C.E., 1990. Pearl
River County Veterans (Delta Printing Co., Bogalusa, Louisiana), 218 p.
3.
Smoot, N.C., 1991. North Pacific
Guyots, Naval Oceanographic Office Technical Note TN 01‑91, 101 p.
4.
Smoot, N.C., 1992. Pearl River
County Veterans II: War Stories and Sea Tales (Rivercross Publishing Co.,
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