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Around the world with Professor Vening Meinesz onboard the submarine K-XVIII: The Origin of Flexure Modelling

Around the world with Professor Vening Meinesz onboard the submarine K-XVIII: The Origin of Flexure Modelling

In my previous blog post, I wrote about the famous voyage of Professor Vening Meinesz aboard the submarine K-XVIII. At 30 meters underneath the surface, Vening Meinesz would observe the gravity field of Earth with a pendulum apparatus called the Golden Calf. In this post, I would like to discuss a different voyage the professor took part in. Normally the Dutch submarines took the Suez Canal to sai ...[Read More]