Animated illustration of earth's crust and plate tectonics. it shows drift from the consolidated "Pangea" continent into the separate continents of the present and the way they would fit back together again. Pressure ridges in the ocean floor is shown between the American and African continents. Animation shows the Glomar Challenger towing instrumentation and mapping the details of the deep ocean floor. Illustration shows distortion of earth's magnetic field and potential for change in magnetic poles. Shown are illustrated cores bored, by the Glomar Challenger, from the deep ocean floor to gain information about the changes occuring over millions of years.
Scenes aboard the research ship "Glomar Challenger," as it commences drilling core samples from the deep ocean floor. View of the drill point being lowered from the ship's drill rig. Sections of drill pipe are connected to one another. Drilling proceeds and then the drill is retrieved. Crew extracts a drilling core which is registered, labeled, and weighed. It is examined by means of instruments. Drilling crew continues to retrieve and extract drilling cores, which are examined in detail in the shipboard laboratories.
Core samples from deep ocean floor are placed in laboratory oven on board the research vessel, Glomar Challenger. Brief view of the ship at sea. Ocean floor core samples being examined by a woman with various analytical tools. Microscopic Views of numerous biological entities seen in the cores.The woman prints a photograph of one.
Animation shows ridges under water surface. Deep sea research and scientific drilling vessel, The Glomar Challenger. Instruments aboard the ship. Technicians draw diagram on paper. Animation shows frequency in depth of water, under the ship. Technician lowers instrument. Pipes on the vessel. Technicians tie rope around a pipe. They operate controls and check instruments. Man looks at earth sample through microscope. Sigsbee knolls at the Gulf of Mexico.
Film 'Discovery in the Deep' shows excavations by deep sea research and scientific drilling vessel, The Glomar Challenger. Ship sails on water surface. Hot molten lava flows, rough seas. Animation of world map shows distribution of continents. North America and Africa as one land mass. Snow covered peaks. Doctor M N A Peterson, Scripps Institution of Oceanography talks about the research. Animation shows ridges under water surface.
Demonstration of exchange of pilots in air in Lancaster, California. Aircraft in flight. Man comes down with parachute. A group of people assists the pilot. Pilot climbs through a ladder onto an aircraft in flight named "Little Bear", boarding from a car in motion. Pilot climbs into the cockpit and aircraft flies overhead.
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