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- Title
Research Notes.
- Authors
Muraoka, James S.
- Abstract
The article reports on the long-term research program of the U.S. Naval Civil Engineering Laboratory. The long-term research program aims to determine the effects of deep-ocean environment on materials and to detect presence of deep-sea fouling and boring organisms. It lowers a Submersible Test Unit (STU) that contained 1324 specimens of 492 materials like pine and fir test panels to the ocean floor of Port Hueneme, California. It recovers the STU in the ocean floor after 4 months of exposure. It discovers teredo-like boring mollusks of the genus Xylophaga on the STU which were responsible to the wood boring activity on the STU's wood panels.
- Subjects
PORT Hueneme (Calif.); CALIFORNIA; DEEP-sea biology; OCEAN bottom; AQUATIC habitats; MARINE organisms; SEMANOTUS litigiosus; WOOD borers; MOLLUSKS
- Publication
BioScience, 1965, Vol 15, Issue 3, p191
- ISSN
0006-3568
- Publication type
Article